One Month with an Apple
I have remained reletaively quiet over the past month. It has been a month that will have a far reaching impact on my computer use for a good time to come. I think I can now definately be classed as a Mac Switcher. I am now using OS X 99% of the time. I will outline later a few areas where I must revert to Windows. In fairness i must say that currently in a lot of cases I am less productive on OS X when compared to Windows, this is mainly due to adapting to new ways of working. However, the difference is I just seem to enjoy using OS X more; whether this is because it is better than Windows or that it is new, I cannot say at the moment. An area that was slowing my conversion to OS X was the fact that I had a high-end notebook that was only 6 months old and could not justify upgrading this. But, I have made a temporary solution by installing OS X on the notebook. It did take a bit of work to get all the components working but now it runs like a dream. Just for people out there that think I may become a Mac Fanboy, that aint gonna happen. OS X is good and in lot of areas better than Windows but anyone who says it is perfect is deluding themsleves. It has it’s share of bugs and annoyances.
The following areas are forcing me to run Windows:
1. MS Office – The current verion for Mac is terrible and I need MS Office for work so other solutions just do not cut it for me. Although Pages is OK for the average users for anyone with more demanding needs it is far too lacking in features. This situation should be rectified after Christmas with the release of Office 2008 fior Mac.
2. Disk Copying/Mastering – Although Toast for Mac is OK for normal tasks. Nero and CloneCD under windows are far more powerful at doing specialised burning, eg Specifying layer breaks on DVDs.
3. Disk Printing – My Epson printer is on a Windows network and none of the CD printing software will only seem to work if the printer is local or connected to an Airport Extreme.
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