Using a Mac as a work laptop?

Zascar

I'm getting a new job where I have a choice of a standard Dell laptop, or a Mac - and I'm having difficulty deciding what I should go for. I've always been a real Windows man and I'm kinda anti - apple in some ways - but maybe I think I should really give it a proper go and see what everyone else raves about. I do already have a Macbook for occasional home use - I dj a little and you pretty much have to have a mac as when it comes to music & audio setups 'everything just works' - whereas you are guaranteed to have driver issues etc when using xp etc. So for that, general web surfing / watching movies etc and a few other things like the multi touch scrolling etc, I do really like it.

The thing is that I'm not crazy about many other things on Macs like how much different they are to XP etc for general file management. Drives me bloody nuts how much more laborious it is. Windows is just so much easier with right click options and menus etc - I think Apple try to oversimplify. Moving files around and using directory tree navigation etc - I'm so so much faster on xp. Now this job is for a Cloud based SAAS vendor so hopefully that won't be as big a deal, but I'm worried that if I do go the Mac route it will frustrate me. There are other things as well like even though I'm a huge Android fan they only support iPhone so I'll have to go back to that as well. I'm hoping with all the latest software updates its a lot nicer than I remember.

I'm wondering if anyone here has done the same recently and how they found it? I know I could go to the Maac forum but I want a less biased and more balanced view.
Thanks

fionny

Just get a windows machine... You know it in you heart Macs are fashion boxes. Its true I occasionally wish I had a Mac and then i stop and think... why? Then I realise its advertising working on em and the desire to own any apple product is totally irrational.

Amalgam

Zascar wrote: »

I'm getting a new job where I have a choice of a standard Dell laptop, or a Mac - and I'm having difficulty deciding what I should go for.

Aren't most\all Mac laptops shipped with at least the main drivers for Windows now? It is mainly Windows certified hardware now, no?

Why not do the dirty deed and get the Mac, then install Windows on it? Dual boot or whatever set up suits.

I'll never knowingly use iTunes again, but I wouldn't refuse a Mac myself, in the same situation.

fionny

You should ask can you get a windows system to the same value of the Mac that would be nice.