How many of us are 'Mac people'?

[woodguy7]

feelgreat, welcome.  Given that list & so few problems i think it says it all about Macs.
Bought my eldest son a new Mac Mini for his Christmas so Just spent a substantial amount on accessories like keyboard, magic mouse, 2 x sphere ollies (couldn't resist) etc

Anyone have one of the new Samsung 32" curved monitors ?  They look amazing. 

 

[waho6o9]

Has anyone had issues with this set?
I know very little of the iMac world but love my iphone5.

This will be purchased brand new and shipped to
me and is there anything else I should request?

It's around $1450.00 USD.
TIA

21.5 inch iMac
Configuration
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    8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB
•

    1TB Fusion Drive
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    Apple Mouse
•

    Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) & User's Guide
•

    Accessory Kit
•

    2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
•

    Intel Iris Pro Graphics

 

[joraft]

... Overall though far less issues than the windows people complain about over the decades.

I've been working on the PC platform since 1984 (that's three decades), have no idea how many machines/devices I've had in that time period, has to be scores. Not once has it been necessary to take a machine in for repair or service of any kind.

You won't hear me complaining.  [smile]

 

[sae]

... Overall though far less issues than the windows people complain about over the decades.

I've been working on the PC platform since 1984 (that's three decades), have no idea how many machines/devices I've had in that time period, has to be scores. Not once has it been necessary to take a machine in for repair or service of any kind.

You won't hear me complaining.  [smile]

This is a thread for yes-men, please take your differing opinions and show yourself the door.

[tongue]

 

[joraft]

This is a thread for yes-men, please take your differing opinions and show yourself the door.

[tongue]

Now that I think about it, I did get a nasty virus on one of my machines about ten years ago (my own carelessness). Couldn't get rid of it, so I had to reformat the drive and reinstall the system.

I guess I could complain about that.  [smile]

 

[SittingElf]

Five words that make it all worthwile :

Festool - Tools
Apple - Electronics
Canon - Photography
Shimano - Fishing
Captain Crunch - Yummy! [big grin]

'nuff said! [tongue]

Cheers,

Frank

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Has anyone had issues with this set?
I know very little of the iMac world but love my iphone5.

This will be purchased brand new and shipped to
me and is there anything else I should request?

It's around $1450.00 USD.
TIA

21.5 inch iMac
Configuration
•

    8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB
•

    1TB Fusion Drive
•

    Apple Mouse
•

    Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) & User's Guide
•

    Accessory Kit
•

    2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
•

    Intel Iris Pro Graphics

I'm writing this on a system very similar to yours (different brand 1Tb drive, tho).  Mine is about 2 years old, so probably a slower processor.  I have had no problems at all.  I routinely work on Word documents in the 200-300 page range and it seems zippy.  Videos stream fine. Databases and spreadsheets are fast.  No complaints.

Two possible additional things:  1)You can upgrade to 16 GB memory, but I haven't needed that on mine - in any case its easy to do yourself if needed later.  2) You might want to get the wireless trackpad.  The Mac operating system now accepts many of the finger gestures used on your iPhone.  Can do same actions with keyboard shortcuts, but I really like the gestures, especially for enlarging text.

If you are near an Apple store, take the Mac course.  Its free and very helpful.

 

[fritter63]

Bummer, I'd just get rid of it (an anomaly ) and move on.

 

[waho6o9]

Thank you Jesse!

 

[GPowers]

Just got the 27" iMac core i7. Very nice machine but I still need windows. So I have Parallels virtual machine running Windows 7 on one of the desktops.

 

[VW mick]

Five words that make it all worthwile :

Festool - Tools
Apple - Electronics
Canon - Photography
Shimano - Fishing
Captain Crunch - Yummy! [big grin]

'nuff said! [tongue]

Cheers,

Frank

Frank you forgot Volkswagen cars  [big grin]

 

[teocaf]

well, since i last posted on this thread i've made some good progress toward staying all-mac.  this week i upgraded to yosemite from mavericks and although the icons are a bit goofy looking, it solved the printing issues i had with my massive hp 4600 laser printer that i'm not ready to give up just yet.  and i found out that stamps.com now has a web based app that can run straight from the mac without having to run a windows program.  and i got my wife to switch to an iPhone.  Now if I can just get that U2 album off of my iTunes account...

 

[Euclid]

My place is beginning to look as crowded with Macs and some folks' workshops seem to be with Systainers; well not quite…

I currently have:
iMac
Mac Pro
Mac Book Pro
Mac Book
G4
MacMini
iBook

all in use, except the last one just now, doing different jobs (some with older OS versions - one pre-OSX - for now unsupported old software and useful old devices).

Also two iPods, but no smart phone - haven't found the need as yet!

 

[Gary in Texas]

I received yet again one of those calls yesterday, informing me that my PC had a virus, and the nice gentleman would assist me in exorcising the demon.  I, well, played along.  We were doing well right up to the point he asked me to press the "windows" key, I kept replying I couldn't find it, even with his excellent tutorial.  Then in my uh-oh surprised voice, I shared my revelation that I couldn't find said key because I was on my MacBook Pro... [eek]  He went quite, and yes, I politely told him what he could do with his scam, and hung up. LOL.  I did the same a few months ago, and the guy got very, very abusive with his language, I guess I led him along too well, he didn't appreciate it at all.

It is sad though to think about him many of the elderly, or gullible, fall for this scam!  Just as soon as I receive the funds from one of 6-8 emails I've received recently from my new friends in Nigeria, I will put those millions of dollars to good use exterminating these varmints!!!!!

 

[teocaf]

well there's time you're never getting back.  i guess in the end he did scam you out of a precious resource.

yeah, just think how many FOG posts one could make in that time...

 

[Gary in Texas]

well there's time you're never getting back.  i guess in the end he did scam you out of a precious resource.

yeah, just think how many FOG posts one could make in that time...

Not at all, I had time to kill.  LOL, exactly how long do you think I spent getting scammed?

But.....addressing your comment did waste a minute of my day!

 

[ifit]

Now you have both wasted a minute of my day reading that [unsure]

 

[Len Kuffert]

Since 1988. Saved up for one (Mac Plus), just like I saved up for my first Festool purchase 25 years later.

 

[bmikiten]

Built an Apple I and II and been programming since 6502 assembly and Applesoft. Long Live Apple!

Brian

 

[ElCabong]

I started off with an Atari computer that had a cassette tape drive. Then upgraded to a Commodore 64 system before I bought a Macintosh in 1986. I think I paid about $3500 including the external 3.5" floppy drive and AppleWriter. It was a Mac Plus (a whopping 1MB RAM). I was king next to my fellow Mac users who had the measly 128k and 512K. I think about a year or two later I plunked down about $900 for a 21MB external HDD.

The Mac game that drove me nuts and nearly cost me my marriage was Dark Castle. It was one of the early games that when you died you had to start all over from the beginning. I forgot how many levels. I don't think Save or AutoSave wasn't invented yet or, at least it wasn't built into in this freakin' game. Awesome at the time.

After that was a Mac IIci - color! From then on, it was PC's because it was the business choice of the company I worked for. Fast forward to 2012, I retired and bought a MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone and they all sync up and work wonderfully. I won't ever go back to a PC again.