Comments on: Where to Begin… My 1 Week Journey Owning a Mac

By: Jennifer Liebmann

Jennifer Liebmann — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:36:20 +0000

Winning would be a sign from God that moving forward is His Will <3 <3 <3

By: Casey hayes

Casey hayes — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:26:08 +0000

Btw you can get parallels and if you,d rather use the windows you can. It works the same on a Mac as it does on a pc. That way you can run all of your pc software and have the best of both worlds. I agree with previous posters, as long as it’s man made there will be problems that pop up occasionally. Just stay on the apple store manager and usually the problems will be resolved. Our apple store is the bomb and every time we go we always end up with something cool and a bunch of free stuff. We are self employed and after our company pc computer crashed with all of our business files my husband made the plunge for the Mac computer and we do not regret it. Good luck!

By: Casey hayes

Casey hayes — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:03:14 +0000

Don’t lose hope! I promise in the end you will be glad you switched. My husband and I switched after our pc crashed several times and I lost most of my photos:( it takes a little while to get accustomed to the difference but it works seamlessly with the iPhone and so many other things. We are in LOVE. So chin up and plough through, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:47:43 +0000

Hmmm … somewhat entertaining that before in the other thread about ‘should i get a mac?’ everyone was saying ‘join our camp because we have no problems and it is so good and what pro graphic artists/movie/photographers use … etc’.

Now you are getting posts in this thread ‘ya … i’ve had problems at some point as well’.

The grass is not greener on the other side.

By: Kylie

Kylie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:22:44 +0000

Golly Jodi – what a nightmare. I hope it all turns out super for you, and you get to enjoy your MAC:)

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:51:05 +0000

I’m so sorry Jodi! It’s all going to be fixed. I’m certain you’re already on this, but I would be keeping VERY close contact with the on-line store you ordered it from. In fact, nicely breathing down their necks at all times would be order. A brand new one is required…anything less wouldn’t be sufficient (IMO). I have all MAC (Macbook Pro, screens, etc, which I bought at the store, not on line) and I’ve been very happy with their products and service. Never had problems so far (knock wood – tap on head LOL).

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:51:23 +0000

So sorry to hear this, Jodi. Computer issues can be a nightmare ESPECIALLY to photographers since we depend so heavily on them for our lively hood. I have 3 external hard drives connected to my hp for my photos and biz documents. No matter what brand you have, it seems like they all have problems at one time or another.
I hope that this is all resolved quickly for you.

I also wanted to say that maybe that one particular Apple store was a problem, and hopefully a call to the company’s customer service will solve the issue.

Good luck.

By: Bettie

Bettie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:17:02 +0000

What a horrible experience. I have been a mac user for three years and have had my MAD moments with Apple, but I have no desire to go back to a pc. The MP is my powerhorse too! I would recommend getting your biz images in Aperture or Lightroom – well suited to workflow for professionals. ….hang in there!!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:31:56 +0000

Good Luck! I hope the rest is smoothe.

By: Scott Smith

Scott Smith — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:19:15 +0000

Jodi, we had the same experience with jamie’s. She had so many thousands of photos, and since iPhoto was the default photo viewer, it tried to index them all. It can’t handle it.

Instead of showing a warning about this being an issue, the machine failed to boot. We had to re-install the OS, and disable iPhoto.

Since then we’ve had numerous glitches here and there, software that won’t run.

I also have a G4 at the office. Nothing new will run on it. All the Safari, MSN IM, Opera, etc., all require OSX 10.5 or higher – and it only has 10.39 or something. The company won’t buy an upgrade so I’m stuck with a very old version of Safari.

I personally spend hours a day in CS3, both on a Mac and on a high end Dell PC. I see virtual no performance difference between the two (both have 4GB RAM and 10KRPM hard drives). The keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, to me, are clumsy, compared to the PC. Maybe it’s because I’ve been using PC Photoshop since version 2 came out (on 7 3.5″ floppy discs), but for production work, I’ll put myself up against anyone using a Mac.