The Mac Pro Get’s ‘Em (Hail to the New Macs!)
My wife showed me this morning’s Houston Chronicle whose computer columnist is Dwight Silverman. If I’ve ever seen anyone who appears to be addicted to Windows, it’s Dwight. That said, his article this morning spotlighted the Mac Pro. He was admitting he was thinking about buying one even if it was to only run Windows, of course. He routinely uses and mentioned again his daughter, an artist, to fight the sterotype that artists and writers prefer Macs. She tried OS X and didn’t like it. Maybe so. But as a writer and someone who has spent too much time building, troubleshooting, and using PC’s, I definitely prefer Macs and OS X. To each his own; but I can’t help but wonder if her difficulty with OS X has more to do with daddy’s influence or her ability to accept change than the real merits of either OS.
The fact the Mac Pro is making such a splash only bodes well for Apple. It’s not just the Mac Pro doing it. I’ve commented in this blog what a great flight simulator my Intel iMac running Windows XP is. The bottom line is that all the Macs are presenting Windows in an extremely good light, considering.
The article caused me to reexamine, as I often do, where I am with Macs and OS X. Though I initially bitched about Apple’s switch to Intel processors, mainly because I had spent so much money following them onto OS X and the G5, I have to say I now feel the move was a great one. Apple is seeing performance levels and economies they could not have achieved if they had stayed with the PPC platform. So, once again, we’ll bite off the money it will take us to switch over. In the long run, I am convinced we will be happy we did.
Another way I reexamined where I am in ComputerLand was to look at how often I now get calls from family members to help fix their machines. Over the last few years, Connie and I have gradually transitioned many of our family members over to Macs, mainly by giving away and sometimes selling at a very reduced price our old machines. I only get occasional calls to pitch in to fix a Mac but get routine calls from the family members who are still running Windows to help them out. The ratio of trouble calls is on the order of 1 to 5, OS X vs Windows, respectively. And even though neither system is airtight from a security standpoint, I can state without contradiction that 90% of the time when a Windows PC in the family goes down, it’s due to spyware or mailware or viruses. In short, being on OS X has made it so I just don’t wind up fixing a machine all the time whether it’s due to security problems or just bad drivers. Macs aren’t up all the time, but the motto “It just works!” largely holds true.
Frankly, as I stated a day or so ago, I’m so impressed with the Mac Pro I’m tempted to get one now. I’m holding off mainly because Adobe software isn’t available for it and because I need some time to work on getting the money together to equip it like I need. I may still buy my wife an Intel iMac this year and get it ahead of the Mac Pro, but I’m feeling right now that any new notebooks will have to wait until after I have a Mac Pro in the house. We’re getting along just fine with our G4 PowerBooks. For now.
The only sad part about waiting to get a Mac Pro is that Dwight Silverman will probably wind up with one before me, and somehow that don’t seem right…
The fact the Mac Pro is making such a splash only bodes well for Apple. It’s not just the Mac Pro doing it. I’ve commented in this blog what a great flight simulator my Intel iMac running Windows XP is. The bottom line is that all the Macs are presenting Windows in an extremely good light, considering.
The article caused me to reexamine, as I often do, where I am with Macs and OS X. Though I initially bitched about Apple’s switch to Intel processors, mainly because I had spent so much money following them onto OS X and the G5, I have to say I now feel the move was a great one. Apple is seeing performance levels and economies they could not have achieved if they had stayed with the PPC platform. So, once again, we’ll bite off the money it will take us to switch over. In the long run, I am convinced we will be happy we did.
Another way I reexamined where I am in ComputerLand was to look at how often I now get calls from family members to help fix their machines. Over the last few years, Connie and I have gradually transitioned many of our family members over to Macs, mainly by giving away and sometimes selling at a very reduced price our old machines. I only get occasional calls to pitch in to fix a Mac but get routine calls from the family members who are still running Windows to help them out. The ratio of trouble calls is on the order of 1 to 5, OS X vs Windows, respectively. And even though neither system is airtight from a security standpoint, I can state without contradiction that 90% of the time when a Windows PC in the family goes down, it’s due to spyware or mailware or viruses. In short, being on OS X has made it so I just don’t wind up fixing a machine all the time whether it’s due to security problems or just bad drivers. Macs aren’t up all the time, but the motto “It just works!” largely holds true.
Frankly, as I stated a day or so ago, I’m so impressed with the Mac Pro I’m tempted to get one now. I’m holding off mainly because Adobe software isn’t available for it and because I need some time to work on getting the money together to equip it like I need. I may still buy my wife an Intel iMac this year and get it ahead of the Mac Pro, but I’m feeling right now that any new notebooks will have to wait until after I have a Mac Pro in the house. We’re getting along just fine with our G4 PowerBooks. For now.
The only sad part about waiting to get a Mac Pro is that Dwight Silverman will probably wind up with one before me, and somehow that don’t seem right…
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