I Mac, U Mac, They Mac, We Mac!

*Tripper*

Hi all!

Well I was just thinking today of the amount of people that I have got to come to the Mac side of life! I have easily influenced over twenty-ish people to buy Mac's! I got most of them to start with the Mac Mini and they haven't looked back sense! It was my old man who started using them and then passed it down to me and for him it was his brother, a photographer.

Now alot of them are moving onto iMacs, from the mini's, which is great!

But anyway who got you into using Mac's and have you done the same for many people?

440Hz

I grew up around Macs, my Dad is the biggest Mac-head I know so it was never going to be anything else for me. i have never owned a PC

I have lost count of the number of people I have brought to the brightside... 3 last week alone. I should be on commission.

triple h

I was using a dell windows 98 computer right up to november last year before i made the jump to mac.
I decided to do research before i bought my computer. I read windows and mac magazines, i came into boards and asked questions and read people's threads on mac and windows forums. Any info i could find on the net about windows and mac i read and carefully read it too. In the end i said " it has to be the imac for me". this research took 4 months. I wanted to be sure.

I have had no luck converting people. But i have got people interested. I also know a lot of people with windows computers that are 2 to 3 years old, so they do not want to buy yet. I am sure once i convert one person to the mac the rest will start converting too. It is so damn hard to get your first one. I was sure i could convert my brother a few months ago, but he went out and got a dell laptop. The shame i felt.
So far my hope is on two people i know. i am 95% sure they will jump to mac. They are my friend in spain who wants to get a mac now ( because of me), but i have no idea when he will buy his next computer and the other is a girl i know and she plans to buy one in the next few weeks, but there is a small chance she will stay with windows. One or two people have told her not to buy mac, i said ' ignore those people for they do not know waht they are talking about'

triple h

oh, it was the sad professor in here that nailed me to mac in the end. So sad professor can claim he converted me to mac.

Timans

I'm selling my PC on adverts at the moment and I hope to buy a MacBook with the money. Probably due to the guys on this forum.

Now, just for the god damn thing to sell!

*Tripper*

Why would anyone say don't buy a Mac!? I can't think of one person that has had a bad experience with them! And now it looks like i've almost converted a whole school to Mac! Only problem left is the god-dam Dept. of Education software is just for windows, ugh.

mikemac

triple h wrote:

oh, it was the sad professor in here that nailed me to mac in the end. So sad professor can claim he converted me to mac.

Me too.
Came here and at loads of questions and it Sad Professor who helps me out the most and convinced me to buy

Ham'nd'egger

One of my friends showed me her G4 Tower and Powerbook back in 2003 when I was looking to buy something computerish. At the time I wasn't really impressed with the Windows units at work and knew full well that they weren't really anything to write home about. After an hour of playing with the Tower and seeing just how darn cute the PB was (And her saying "Buy one Buy one") for ages, she told me I would not be disappointed. And 3 Macs later, here I am. I'm even using my MB for live DJ work now, which means that now I am a Mac Pro

So Janine, if your out there and reading this, THANK YOU!!!!

Creamy Goodness

i was converted to mac by myself, i used a lot of photoshop in windows and it was a pain, i then tried photoshop on a mates mac and loved it, he didn't sway the decision though.

since getting my macbook it seems that half my college year has bought one. i keep trying to say to myself that they are just copying me because i'm cool but then i look in the mirror

Timans

I want to get a MacBook. Is it worth it or is there no point unless I get a MacBook pro?

whiterebel

Timans wrote:

I want to get a MacBook. Is it worth it or is there no point unless I get a MacBook pro?

It really depends on what you want to use it for.

*Tripper*

Yea it depends what you want it for. I was always going for a MacBook Pro because I need it to run various music programs but if I didn't have them I would have bought a black MacBook.

Sad Professor

triple h wrote:

oh, it was the sad professor in here that nailed me to mac in the end. So sad professor can claim he converted me to mac.

micmclo wrote:

Me too.
Came here and at loads of questions and it Sad Professor who helps me out the most and convinced me to buy

*blushes* Thanks for the credit but to be fair both you guys were already on the path, I just made sure you didn't turn back, lol

Anyway my first computer was a mac, a Performa 5200 that my mam got me when I was about 12 or 13. It was a while before I got a dial-up modem so I spent most of my time messing around with demos and free apps from MacFormat cds and playing Escape Velocity. (My productivity hasn't improved much. )

Of course this was back in the (slightly crash-prone) System 7.5 days but even then Mac OS was far superior to windows (which has only become useable in recent years imo), everything was so easy to use and the tutorial system was brilliant.

I've probably converted quite a few people in recent years but it's a hell of lot easier than it used to be.

iUseVi

Cremo wrote:

i was converted to mac by myself, i used a lot of photoshop in windows and it was a pain, i then tried photoshop on a mates mac and loved it, he didn't sway the decision though.

since getting my macbook it seems that half my college year has bought one. i keep trying to say to myself that they are just copying me because i'm cool but then i look in the mirror

but, but, but my Dads a garda and I bought one first!

whiterebel

Sad Professor wrote:

*blushes* Thanks for the credit but to be fair both you guys were already on the path, I just made sure you didn't turn back, lol

Anyway my first computer was a mac, a Performa 5200 that my mam got me when I was about 12 or 13. It was a while before I got a dial-up modem so I spent most of my time messing around with demos and free apps from MacFormat cds and playing Escape Velocity. (My productivity hasn't improved much. )

Of course this was back in the (slightly crash-prone) System 7.5 days but even then Mac OS was far superior to windows (which has only become useable in recent years imo), everything was so easy to use and the tutorial system was brilliant.

I've probably converted quite a few people in recent years but it's a hell of lot easier than it used to be.

Ah, the memories. A 5300 starting on 7.5.1 - i thought computers were supposed to crash every 10 minutes:eek: Then thru equally as bad updates to 8 when it was like pouring oil on water. Couldn't fathom a PC at all when I saw it, but a friends 6300 made perfect sense. Got the £2200 5300 from Apple incl TV Card for £700 as Apple couldn't shift them and had way over produced. Lucky me.

I'm thinking about getting a black macbook between now and December, the only niggle is that I won't be able to use AutoCad on it.