Comments on: Switching to a Macintosh – a mixed feeling

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:18:53 +0000

Switching to MAC wasn’t all about the speed, in fact I noticed that given the same specs, a Windows based computer against a Mac will process about the same time. My main issue has always been virus, so unless Windows 7 is not succeptible to virus, it’s not much better than the older Windows in my situation.

By: Patrick Escondo

Patrick Escondo — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:05:38 +0000

Y dont you get windows 7? this is more faster than older windows.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:54:17 +0000

I agree that the Mac OS is much simpler and easier to use, given everything works fine. My biggest gripe is fixing problems when it occurs. My Windows system maybe prone to more errors, but solutions and fixes are easy, which is the complete opposite in my experience with Mac OS.

Ken

By: Kyle Stanley

Kyle Stanley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:07:37 +0000

Hi Ken,

I do not have the Macbook Pro, I do however have the 24′ iMac. I find that working with the Mac system to be much more comfortable then Windows as everyday passes. I too was a “windows” guy since my first 386sx with 2MB of Ram and a 150MB hard drive.

I still have both a Windows machine and my iMac. Although the big question for me last summer was when I Purchased CS3.. the decision was a hard one as its an expensive program and I had to choose between the too systems. It happen to be that I was looking around for a good LCD screen that I ran across an article stating that the 24′ iMac had the NEC 24 Ippsis LCD screen built in it. The choice was then made and I am happy with my Mac.

I don’t use the Time Machine feature, what I do is back up only my files that I need using a program called NTI Shadow and my Fantom 1TB NAS Drive. I also tend to back up the Fantom drive with another one from time to time. Perhaps if you just focus on the files you need to protect and not the whole operating system it will keep your Mac running well.

Kyle

By: Lester Callanta

Lester Callanta — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:57:41 +0000

Hi Ken, sorry to hear about your bad experience. When I migrated to Leopard, I also wanted to try out Time Machine. It’s really great! The only problem was I didn’t have enough space on my hard drives: 250GB, 40GB, 20GB mainly because my MB had an internal 320GB. I had Time Machine switched off now until I get Time Capsule. However I didn’t delete any spotlight database, I didn’t touch any part of OS X, not even deleting some system preferences.

Now it’s true that having a plugged FireWire external hard drive will take a bit of time starting up your Mac, especially after a system update, it later on works normally since the OS is rescanning the FW bus.

Having a powered USB bus helps with all your USB peripherals. I own an old LaCie 250GB mini hard drive and hub and it’s still great after over two years of daily use.

Ever since I took out Time Machine, I use additional external drives for my workflow. The aforementioned LaCie is where all my daily files would go. My new LaCie Little Big Disk 320GB with Raid 0 handles all my DNG/PSD/TIF files. And another Western Digital MyBook Studio 500GB as backup.

What I actually need now is a FireWire 800 hub, cause 3 of my peripherals have FW800 ports in them, like the Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader, which coincidentally is mentioned here: http://www.ncarandang.com

Also, if you will be needing your partition as a boot drive that you need Disk Utility to partition it as GUID because Intel-based Macs are using that structure. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

Hope this helps, and am pretty sure your last option will definitely work.