New computer
Nov 5, 2015 19:04:56 #
My old Dell died, and my son recommended a Mac Pro, so that's what I went with. It has the Intel i7 with both a flash drive to boot up and a 256 gig ssd hard drive. I've also loaded Windows 10 onto it, which I prefer over OS. It's much quicker than the old Dell and I'm looking forward to getting all my old files and photos loaded onto it. I'd recommend it.
Nov 5, 2015 19:10:33 #
SteveR wrote:
My old Dell died, and my son recommended a Mac Pro, so that's what I went with. It has the Intel i7 with both a flash drive to boot up and a 256 gig ssd hard drive. I've also loaded Windows 10 onto it, which I prefer over OS. It's much quicker than the old Dell and I'm looking forward to getting all my old files and photos loaded onto it. I'd recommend it.
Congratulations on your new computer. Too bad you didn't give OS X a chance, you may have found that once you got used to it, it is better than Windows.
Nov 5, 2015 19:13:18 #
Mac wrote:
Congratulations on your new computer. Too bad you didn't give OS X a chance, you may have found that once you got used to it, it is better than Windows.
He also will now have to worry about window viruses locking up the MacBook.
Nov 5, 2015 19:14:51 #
jethro779 wrote:
He also will now have to worry about window viruses locking up the MacBook.
I assume he is dual booting in which case just the windows side
Nov 5, 2015 19:15:05 #
jethro779 wrote:
He also will now have to worry about window viruses locking up the MacBook.
That's right. All the Windows problems will be visited on his new MacBook Pro.
Nov 5, 2015 19:18:25 #
SteveR wrote:
A 256 gig hard drive is not very big for a photographer! But, it will be fast!!My old Dell died, and my son recommended a Mac Pro, so that's what I went with. It has the Intel i7 with both a flash drive to boot up and a 256 gig ssd hard drive. I've also loaded Windows 10 onto it, which I prefer over OS. It's much quicker than the old Dell and I'm looking forward to getting all my old files and photos loaded onto it. I'd recommend it.
Nov 5, 2015 19:19:04 #
jethro779 wrote:
He also will now have to worry about window viruses locking up the MacBook.
This kind of depends on if he is sandboxing the Windows install or Dual Booting it. Not sure why anyone would pay more for a MAC, then load and run Windows on it.
Nov 5, 2015 19:27:00 #
jethro779 wrote:
He also will now have to worry about window viruses locking up the MacBook.
I was told by the Apple people that the virus protection built into the Mac would also cover Windows. At least that's what I was told. As it is, BitDefender has been a very good virus protector and I will maintain my subscription. My son has had no virus problems.
As far as preferring Windows over OS, it may be because it's just what I'm used to. The little I worked on OS, there were some things that I didn't like about it.
Nov 5, 2015 19:29:23 #
SteveR wrote:
My old Dell died, and my son recommended a Mac Pro, so that's what I went with. It has the Intel i7 with both a flash drive to boot up and a 256 gig ssd hard drive. I've also loaded Windows 10 onto it, which I prefer over OS. It's much quicker than the old Dell and I'm looking forward to getting all my old files and photos loaded onto it. I'd recommend it.
what didn't you like about OSX i'm curious, to be fair i'm only in around a year and i'm still learning new tricks. Spotlight is handy at first i was launching programs via the applications folder, now i just type say li for lightroom instead.
there are lots of handy tricks like rename in finder i'd synced a lot of files with google drive with 2 computers which lead to a lot of dupes and after deleting dupes found on the mac some with (1) in the name i just used cmd A then rename and searched for (1) and replaced it with nothing sorted 17,000 files in seconds. little thing but nice.
I guess it comes easier having been using linux for years it isn't so foreign to me. A nice bonus, most of the open source software is on the mac too and still free :)
Nov 5, 2015 19:31:20 #
SteveR wrote:
I was told by the Apple people that the virus protection built into the Mac would also cover Windows. At least that's what I was told. As it is, BitDefender has been a very good virus protector and I will maintain my subscription. My son has had no virus problems.
As far as preferring Windows over OS, it may be because it's just what I'm used to. The little I worked on OS, there were some things that I didn't like about it.
As far as preferring Windows over OS, it may be because it's just what I'm used to. The little I worked on OS, there were some things that I didn't like about it.
I am a fairly new convert to iMac/MacBook Pro and started out on an old ms/dos computer with a 512 mb hard drive. I find OS 10 to be so much easier for me to use that I haven't turned on my PC except to see that it still works in 4 years. I find OS 10 to be more intuitive than Windows 7(the last iteration i used) was.
Nov 5, 2015 19:41:59 #
You did good Steve and you will love Windows 10, excellent operating
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Nov 5, 2015 19:42:20 #
SteveR wrote:
I was told by the Apple people that the virus protection built into the Mac would also cover Windows. At least that's what I was told. As it is, BitDefender has been a very good virus protector and I will maintain my subscription. My son has had no virus problems.
As far as preferring Windows over OS, it may be because it's just what I'm used to. The little I worked on OS, there were some things that I didn't like about it.
As far as preferring Windows over OS, it may be because it's just what I'm used to. The little I worked on OS, there were some things that I didn't like about it.
Many years ago MACs had the reputation of being more intuitive than Windows. I think that the MAC UI is better design than Windows, however I tend to agree with my wife who was then a MAC user and opinined, "Intuitive is what you know...."
Windows 10 is a good OS, but even though I'm a totally Windows-based user for many reasons, don't ignore MAC OS, give it a chance. Especially if you use things like Adobe Creative Cloud CC, you can switch between OS types fairly easily I believe....
As for malware, if you are running Windows, then you are vulnerable to Windows malware, even if in a VM, it just makes the recovery a little easier if you know what you are doing....
And finally, a 256GB SSD is pretty small. In a Windows world I started with an older Intel 80GB SSD, that was way too small, I ran out of space on a Samsung 256GB SSD, so now have a 500GB SSD as my primary drive, but still have the others and a total combination of SSD and spinning rust of 20TB including backups.
May want to think about some more external capacity....
Nov 5, 2015 19:55:50 #
SteveR wrote:
My old Dell died, and my son recommended a Mac Pro, so that's what I went with. It has the Intel i7 with both a flash drive to boot up and a 256 gig ssd hard drive. I've also loaded Windows 10 onto it, which I prefer over OS. It's much quicker than the old Dell and I'm looking forward to getting all my old files and photos loaded onto it. I'd recommend it.
SSDs are probably the best upgrade for a computer at this time.
Nov 5, 2015 20:11:31 #
SteveR wrote:
I was told by the Apple people that the virus protection built into the Mac would also cover Windows. At least that's what I was told. As it is, BitDefender has been a very good virus protector and I will maintain my subscription. My son has had no virus problems.
Well is you son running windows on OS? He is wrong there is no built in virus protection on a MAC. It's just not attacked like Windoes is. Also a MAC can pass along a virus even though it may not be affected by it. Most MAC people are sophisticated enough to not engage in high risk actions that can result in infections. If you run windows in a sandbox you can limit damage to your sandbox.
But I still have to ask why buy a MAC and run Windows on it. For what you paid for it you could have purchased a high end gaming PC with a ton more power.
Nov 5, 2015 20:17:24 #
Mac wrote:
Congratulations on your new computer. Too bad you didn't give OS X a chance, you may have found that once you got used to it, it is better than Windows.
Unfortunately reviews are showing MacBooks with Windows 10 are outperforming the MAC OS.
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