Re: Considering a Mac, what are the positives and negatives?

2011-08-21 Thread Keith Watson
Hi, LET me just say that You can do everything you want and more with a Mac. Except the Winblows stuff that you mentioned. Office natively on the Mac is not accessible. The solution to that is to purchase Fusion from VMWare and run an instance of Winblows and Office in a virtual machine on

Re: Considering a Mac, what are the positives and negatives?

2011-08-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
Transferring things between computers should not be a problem. One of the main positives of the mac is that the accessibility is built in, and it works out of the box. Of course, the mac does cost a bit more than a windows laptop, but you get what you pay for, the quality of macs is much

Re: Considering a Mac, what are the positives and negatives?

2011-08-21 Thread Georges Zaynoun
I appreciate even windows on the mac rather than pc. At least I can partition the hard drive on my own and format bootcamp partition using another windows machine and a firewire cable and putting the mac in target mode, once this is done I can easily install windows7 alone the normal way,

Considering a Mac, what are the positives and negatives?

2011-08-20 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, I am seriously considering the move from a Windows (7) machine onto a Mac. I have an IPhone so I know how VO works. I visited an Apple retailer today and know that the Mac Book Pro is probably the one I want (the tracker pad was a new concept but I like the idea) . I have been on the Apple

Re: Considering a Mac, what are the positives and negatives?

2011-08-20 Thread ShamelessFanGirl
Good evening, Having made the switch myself a few months ago, I'll weigh in on some of your questions, and hope this assists you somewhat at least. I too came to the Mac because of my iPhone experience. I had friends who were Mac users, and after playing with their machines here and there,