At 1:13 PM -0500 12/26/08, Michael Wosnick wrote: [snippage]
In short, if I bit the bullet and went Mac, what will be the advantages and what will be the hurdles I will face in needing to stay fully compatible and connected to my PC-based world out there? And, while I am pretty technically savvy, I am not really in the mood for a long learning curve either - how truly "intuitive" and easy will it be to re-transfer what I do with proficiency on my PCs and learn to do it on a Mac instead?
As has already been mentioned, the files produced by the Microsoft products are pretty much interchangeable between Mac and PC. If you stick with those programs for producing cross-platform products, you should be safe.
Where you may hit a snag is the deceptively simple case of a text file. Should you produce a text file with one of the Mac-native apps (such as TextEdit), then attempt to read it on a Windows machine, you will discover one of the primary differences between Macs and Windows: line ending characters. And just to further confuse things, Linux uses yet another, different scheme.
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