Comments on: Moving to Macs for Productivity (and Prettiness)

By: Kath Blair

Kath Blair — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:25:08 +0000

I’m still on a PC — all of my design-savvy friends are on Macs and my brother in law (in visual communications at ACAD) has to buy a mac for next semester. For me, my PC is working. I have a pretty nice big monitor, and of course I’m not doing design work full time on it. And I can get most of my devices to work with relatively little hassle, and generall have 2 keyboards and 1–2 mouses and a tablet plugged in with a minimal amount of compu-confusion.

I would actually be tempted to have switched to linux when I bought this computer in the spring except for photoshop etc … there are a few open source programs for linux that don’t exist for windows that sound great, and I’m already using OpenOffice.

When I need to buy a new copy of Creative Suite, however, I might end up switching to a mac. But I really like the customization options of PCs as far as hardware goes. My husband built this computer and really I can just switch out parts as I want to / need to and never have to take the entire hit of a new computer at once ever again.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:58:06 +0000

Eric: Yes, we use Quickbooks, and no, it doesn’t run on a Mac — but because you can run Windows from within the Mac OS, we’ve kept QB running on Windows-within-a-Mac, if that makes sense.

No new printers required as yet, but our fileserver is a PC and we haven’t switched that over yet — and our printer is connected to the fileserver. So the printer issue is a bridge that remains to be crossed.

As for changing multiple machines, we have simply purchased a new Mac whenever it’s time to replace an old PC. There are five of us and at this point we’ve only got one PC left, aside from the fileserver. When you do it gradually it’s less painful, financially speaking, since you’d be spending money on a new computer anyway.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:45:55 +0000

Do you guys use Quickbooks? Does it run on a Mac? Did you have to buy new printers for your Mac’s? Can you use HP printers?

I hate the antivirus windows crap. I hate updating drivers!

If we were to change over to Macs I would have to change 10 machines.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:58:18 +0000

Okay, I am one your site for the first time. I found you through your wonderful book,“The Boss of You”, which I happened upon in the library and am now off to purchase!! I loved it! I would like to get permission to do a review on my blog, a lot of my readers could benefit from it as well.

I am a MAC girl too! After having three pcs die in a short span of time, I finally gave up and went to a MAC, and now I would never own a PC again. It really is true, you open the box and even if you’ve never seen a MAC before, you are up and running in 10 mins.

Thanks for a terrific book, I am loving the site so far and I look forward to reading more from you both.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:35:38 +0000

Annemarie: No, we aren’t working with Raymond, but there are plenty of good Mac support people around — I can recommend one if you like.

Sara: You betcha, OmniFocus evangelizing is up next. So glad you like it too! I can’t stop talking about it.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:06:18 +0000

I feel privileged to say that I have been a Mac user for years. I made the error of going over to PC for one computer purchase…and forever rued the day! I returned to Macdom immediately upon my next computer purchase. Never — may I repeat — NEVER will I go back to PC-land.

So, do we have a discourse on the selling points of OmniFocus to look forward to? I started using that because of your posts, and LOVE IT.

By: Annemarie

Annemarie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:00:36 +0000

I must say I’ve been doing some serious flirting and you guys are going a long way to convincing me. But can you still get support from Raymond?