11/08/09 - Excusing me, this, my first experience using a Macintosh MacBook and this web design program RapidWeaver which I know has great potential is baffling my ‘mind’ which yearns to be no mind. And because all my web design experience has been with a PC it is being difficult for me to see things simply rather than difficult. However after a little time spent getting deep into this program I am loving it.
04/11/10 - I tried a mac 10 years ago and was not prepared to make the switch for several reasons, money being one, and all the free software I was getting for my PC. But times have changed and all that I have spent on extra software for the Mac is less than $200. (RapidWeaver & Pixelmator - soon I’ll get Cute FTP macPro $40.) This Mac has all that I need. I do web sites, word processing with Word for Mac, iTunes, Garage Band, E mail, photo work. All that I’m missing is Photo Shop for Mac, although Pixelmator is like a mini Photo Shop for hundreds less, meaning that I’m not rushing out to get PS. This Mac is loaded with everything that fits my needs and my creative tool box is complete.
07/16/10 - I do not mean no mind needed. Of course a mind is needed. It is how much the mind is stressed twisted impatient anxious frustrated and in need of a pleasant experience with a Mac Book Pro. This is ones man’s opinion.
My thoughts on the transition from more than 15 years of Gateway and Dell PC’s to Macintosh Mac Book Pro:
PC = Mind Work
Mac = No Mind Work
I’ll be back with a no mind attitude soon and... Maybe come up with more on the ‘nomind’ thing... Something more educational...
Months pass and I feel a love for my Mac... I turn on my 1 year old Dell and click a few clicks and it fails to thrill me so off it goes and back into the bag until next time. I’m getting into Rapidweaver and love it. My Mac is more fun than my Dell PC (Both are laptops).
As soon as I move all my web site files over to the mac I’ll give my wife my Dell laptop as her old Dell is dying, we are unable to get it running properly and it is only 3 years old. My Dell is only one year old. But wait! Now my spouse is thinking Mac! Her son a long time PC user, 2 college degrees, one in mathematics, and one in business, where he uses his new Mac Book Pro. We had no idea that either of us were considering switching from PC to Mac, his words last month after owning a mac for three months: I’ll never go back!
Gary
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No, I am not a mac ‘snob’ and never will be, just a regular computer user who discovered Mac’s after 15 years of PC’s. My son, an IT manager went Mac several years ago, uses PC at work and Mac for everything else. He had been talking Mac for over a year before I finally made the switch. I do not own an iPhone!
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