Quoting Michael Wosnick <[email protected]>:
Hi all, -----------8<--------------8<----------------- 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?
No one says you have to give up the PCs to get a Mac. A Mac will play perfectly well on your (otherwise PC) network. And you don't even have to spend a lot of money on a Mac you may not like. Get something used/refurbed, or a Mac Mini (if you have an extra monitor hanging around).
As others have said, Office/Mac should be pretty well compatible with Office/Win. If you're not sure about compatibility with work, you can take a Mac file to one of your own PCs to try it out. If you want to get off the MS bandwagon, there's always OpenOffice and Firefox/Thunderbird. All available on Mac and PC (and free). I'm not too sure about the OpenOffice compatibility with MS Office though.
As far as usability goes, there certainly are differences. It'll take time to figure out the OSX way of doing things. I'm more of a keyboard short cut kind of user, and I still haven't found my way around Mac shortcuts. It took me the longest time to figure out that the symbol in the menu lists for the Option key was actually supposed to be the Option key. It looks sort of like 3/4 of an "X" and the key doesn't have that symbol on it.
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