Hi guys,

I going down the same bout and considering buy a mac, but I am concerned that I will be forgetting something on PC that I normally take for granted. Has anyone else experienced any problems with withdrawals from windows?

Cheers, Cameron Singe www.camocarzi.com

I expect I’ll be running a Windows box on the side for a good long time to come – some things like 10 years accounting history in QuickBooks aren’t worth the bother of migrating. But getting the 90% of day-to-day desktop operations migrated over was pretty simple. 3 months was enough to make the Mac my primary desktop.

Don’t forget that you can still run Windows on your Mac under Parallels or Bootcamp. I know people using both with no problems.

I switched back to the Mac last year, and to be perfectly honest the transition was pretty seamless. The saving grace for me was RDP for Mac. I miss some keyboard commands, but overall, it was a cinch.

I bought a mac a Christmas time, and I’ve got to say I’m a convert! I’ve been a .NET developer for the last 5 years and I got a mac because I was doing some messing about with Rails. Bootcamp lets you use programs that just don’t exist for the mac (like visual studio, if you still really must use it), but apart from that there’s nothing you can’t do in OSX. :)

I bought a Mac a few months ago since my old laptop and desktop machine were both rather aging… I ended up picking up a HP laptop about six weeks later, though I still have the MacBook.

I think I’m gonna set them up side by side on the desk using synergy. :)

I definitely had a hard time adjusting, though; there are some things I really like about the Mac and also some things (like QuickTime) that drive me crazy.

i switched to Mac (at home but not at work) and not one single thing has bothered me, except possibly trying to set up permissions for my basic home network, i’m still slightly befuddled by that one. “OS X – The Missing Manual” is a bloody marvelous book, although not necessarily essential.

i can honestly say, without hyperbole, that chucking out WinXP and using OS X every day instead has made me measurably happier.