what has possesed me to buy a macbook pro

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what has possesed me to buy a macbook pro

Just bought a macbook pro got it cheap in all fairness. But i really do hate the apple interface. However the core audio drivers piss all over the windows ones and no registry to worry about.

In all fairness I really need an understanding of all OS’s for my future jobs. But that being said is it worth the money. My laptop is being fixed atm but waiting for a part. (angry mum plus glass of vimto = broken laptop).

I just feel id like an apple laptop and it is better for audio and dont need one but i could not live without windows or linux for servers.

PEOPLE DO NOT TURN THIS INTO A MAC VS WINDOWS THREAD ELSE THE MODS WILL SJUST SHUT IT DOWN

my question is, is how many people that have a mac also use a pc on a daily basis whether that be for work or personal use.

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I used a mac for ages for video/3d design and then windows for everything else, now with windows 7 being a lot more stable do it all on windows due to I like to be able to mess with settings as I please and ive been on windows most of my life.

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I use both Windows and OS X daily.

I came from a heavy windows background and originally found OS X cumbersome and more difficult to use in some respects (mostly system administrative stuff), but over time got used to it.

Both have their own shortcuts for fast browsing, folder actions, etc. all that you have to do is learn each. You will get used to the Mac OS, and may even start to like it over time. I honestly don’t have a huge preference in win7 or OS X (I don’t really like lion tbh).

If you don’t want to go completely without windows on the laptop, the best part is you can create a small bootcamp partition to fulfill your windows needs. The biggest daily issue I find is that I frequently hit the Apple key when I need to hit ctrl on windows and vice versa. But this is just a shortcut/keyboard thing, and easily dealt with.

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I don’t think asking other people about their usage will really help you understand your own position on this. I use a PC daily at work but my home PC has been in a box for months because I don’t need it for anything at the moment.

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I have my Macbook Pro with OSX. I completely changed over when my PC died and it wasn’t worth fixing. It took me a little bit of time to learn some of the differences, but overall I’ve been quite happy with the change. OSX is pretty straightforward. I have basically come to understand that anything I wanted to do on the PC, I can pretty much do on the Mac, I just don’t always know the commands or places to look by heart like I used to on the PC.

Gaming I’ve found to be a bit of an issue, but that’s to be expected. I tried using VMware to run Windows basically as an app, but the graphics drivers are bunk for that. Thinking about bootcamping… but I don’t really want to dedicate so much space to something I honestly don’t do that often.

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I have a PC and my wife has a Mac - both for personal use at home. I love her Mac - its slick, sexy and fast, but I feel like a retard on it. She works better on my PC than me on her Mac. I don’t use it well enough to fully appreciate it.

Personally I prefer my PC - not because its better - because I feel at home on it.

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I originally bought my mac for audio driver support. The Xone 4D ran like shit with all versions of windows and traktor, worked perfect on the mac. Since then I don’t regret it at all and I was always a windows fanboy.

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I use Windows M-F at work and when helping other people with their computers. I’ve administered servers on OS X, several flavors of Linux, OpenSolaris, Win 2k3 and newer, and IIS.

But, I switched from Windows to Linux years ago for personal use and never looked back. When I decided I needed to run real audio apps, I bought a Mac after realizing that it was at least based on unix and shipped with versions of GNU tools and a full shell. Everything “advanced” that I do is just easier in a shell (CLI/Terminal; specifically, I use zsh) than any other way I’ve tried doing it. Between what OS X comes with, Apple Developer Tools, and MacPorts, I can get just about everything done on it that I could do on Linux and more than I believe is possible on Windows without spending a lot of money.

My Dell at work hardly sees any use other than the interface to an ERP system that doesn’t have an OS X client and MS Office (just word and excel) because I’m not willing to pay for it myself and the docx export for TextEdit causes formatting issues when opened in the latest version of MS Office…and people outside of geekdom and academia don’t like PDFs for reasons that continue to baffle me.

If you’re coming from the Windows world and were/are a Windows power user/sysadmin, I’d imagine that the change is weird.

But, you mention Linux servers.

If you can use Linux, you can use OS X. That may not hold if you’ve only used Ubuntu. (I’m a Gentoo fanboy and scorn Ubuntu users)

Install quicksilver (it’s free…basically it’s like gnome-do that runs on OS X natively instead of running on X with a really ugly plugin interface. Pick your shell (it’s under the advanced settings in the accounts pref pane…unlock and right-click on your username). And install MacPorts.

Done.

There are a few quicks, it doesn’t follow all of the linux folder structure, and a lot of stuff is /dev is named differently. It’s also not technically POSIX-compliant because of some bitchy little things to do with what actually happens when you move files around, that I think someone mentioned were due to OS X’s heavy reliance on metadata. But, a lot of scripts just work. It installs with Apple builds of most GNU tools and a lot of other stuff. And it installs with sh, zsh, ksh, tcsh, and bash and will also run every other shell I’ve even heard about people trying…one of my friends uses fish on Lion just because it’s funny.

The biggest different I’ve found that actually affects my life is that the Apple build of ls doesn’t respond to --classify, which means the colors I was used to just aren’t there. I haven’t bothered to figure out if I can build the GNU version or if it’s in MacPorts because I just don’t care that much. And getting used to en1 instead of eth1 for wifi.

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My laptop is a black macbook, but all my school’s computers happen to be windows. I grew up using windows and can still know more about it than most of my peers who use windows everyday. My favorite part about my macbook has to be expose and spaces though. Both expose and spaces make navigating my computer one fluid motion almost.

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Yes there’s this misconception that a OSX is a closed system but open up the terminal window and you could get access to any Berkeley Unix APIs and other constructs. Or install as much public domain code you ever wish. It’s just that a majority of users purchase a Mac just to avoid doing this by default.

I don’t mind being paid to configure and write code for complex systems. But in the studio I rather make music.

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im fedora/red hat all the way(same thing but u know). Do have ubuntu running on a netbook though. Im prety sure correct me if im wrong that osx which is unix has pretty much all the same command line commands as linux. where as since ms got rid of real dos there is fuck all in windows.(why couldnt they get rid of the registry at the same time)

To digital devil I didnt start to to shape my own opinion I wanted to see what every1 else’s opinion was. Was considering an i5 hp probook instead but for the price I paid there wasnt too much differnce. No point in getting an i7 they aint all that usefull yet.

One thing tho that is annoying only 2 usb ports and the thunderbolt port is useless atm. Dont see why they dont release an adapter to two usb ports it would make sence. It would be easy to do aswell as thunderbolt is based on pciE.

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got a mbp for private use and a lenovo thinkpad for work related stuff. The lenovo came with a customized Windows Vista, its no real pleasure to work with but somehow everyone manages :smiley:. And i have a gaming PC, nothing beats gaming with the flatmates and shouting through the flat :smiley:, it runs win 7. win 7 was on par with snow leopard, but lion made a big leap forward, but thats just my feeling.

i really miss the mbps trackpad(+the swipes :smiley:) and keyboard on that lenovo, both build-ins are hideous to use. after one year with osx i still prefer the explorer from windows aaaaaand is fkn miss the keys around Pos1 and End on the mpb keyboard!

got love and hate for both os, but if i had to choose; i’d go for osx on custom hardware :smiley:

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yeah…kinda.

The actual programs are not always the same, so there are some small issues. But you can–mostly–install the GNU versions of them if you want. It does come with bash (and other shells that are better anyway), so even the shell is basically identical.

If you can use Linux well, there’s no reason you can’t use OS X just as well.