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chesb
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Newbee, thinking of buying a Mac Pro - 2007/12/12 16:49 Ok guys, I need a little help.

I am thinking about buying a Mac Pro or maybe an iMac.

I have been using MS products since DOS 6.?. It has been my experiance that when I start to use a windows machine (98, XP, Vista), it works great for a while (maybe 4 or 5 months) and then it starts to get flakey. It will lock up, slow down, lockup apps, etc. At that point the only thing that will fix it is the reload the OS and reinstall all the apps. Which is a pain.

Now I am pretty hard on a system. I tend to run a lot of apps and have a lot of different apps open at the same time. I also install and uninstall a lot of apps just to test them out for my company.

Here is my question. Is the Mac going to be any different? Will I have to constantly be reinstalling or does it just work better?

Thanks
Chesb

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Cacicedo
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Re:Newbee, thinking of buying a Mac Pro - 2007/12/12 18:15 The Mac is very different. I leave almost all my apps running on my dual 2 gig G5, as many as 20 open at a time, and I never but never reboot unless I install something that requires me to do so. No problems. None at all. No slowing, no futzing, no nothing. Mac OS X runs self-maintenance routines at a given time in the morning, so I also don't let the machine go to sleep overnight, but if I were to let it go to sleep, there are plenty of other ways of running those routines.

Let me add that I also have plenty of RAM, and that's essential to run all those apps at the same time.

Post edited by: Cacicedo, at: 2007/12/12 18:16

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krowmagnum
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Re:Newbee, thinking of buying a Mac Pro - 2007/12/12 19:26 You won't have the same kinds of problems at all. I am pretty hard on my Macs and run them like you run your PC and since I have been running OS X (few years) I rarely have any problems. Mac OS 9 was a different story....

I've had at least a dozen Macs running OS X and I don't think I have ever had to do a re-install of the OS before. Of course my PeeCee is a different story too..

I think the Mac OS handles multitasking better the MS OS too. And OS X does not load all kinds of hidden files everywhere in the system like Windows does. Usually installing or un-installing an application is as easy as drag and drop to the Applications folder(install) or the Trash(un-install).

Windows has a lot of things running in the background (good & bad)and after adding ant-spyware, anti-adware, anti-virus software it eats up some CPU power to keep all that stuff running and with the Mac you can avoid anything like that almost completely. That's just one advantage well worht switching.

XP and Vista have come a long way from Win98/DOS but it's still not in the same league as Mac OS X in my opinion. And no one I know that has switched from MS to Apple has ever regretted it. It sounds like you are/have been fed up with Windows and there is a very good alternative in the Mac OS.

And the only reason I have a Windows computer is to play games on. I could do without it completely and use a Mac as my only computer. In fact I never owned a PeeCee until a couple of years ago and it reminds me far too often why I like Macs so much better.

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