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Permalink Reply by Joel D Canfield on September 1, 2010 at 8:06pm

And to start the ball rolling, Sue and I are both, plus.

I have two Macs: the world's oldest PowerMac (free to the first person willing to pick it up; it still works) and a 5-year-old iBook. I'm still converting to the world of Mac, but my next computer will be a brand new MacBook, because I love what I'm seeing.

Since having a Windows/Microsoft machine around helps with client interaction, and because Sue's not as good with speaking other languages (that was a joke) she'll be getting a brand new Dell laptop running Windows 7.

I have a Linux box (Red Hat Fedora) which I'm getting rid of, but I'd love to have a little netbook with some variant of UNIX on it (of course, Mac OSX is already UNIX which is why they named it that.)

Sue does most of our typing, Excel-ing, transcription, etc. I do most of the graphic work, and audio and video editing. It makes our OS split sensible, though I still have to learn more about iMovie and Mac audio editing tools.

I come from a command line background; worked with computers since before the days of graphics. So I'm comfortable typing code, mucking about with geek stuff. A UNIX/Linux box, a Mac, a PC; I don't care. A good fast machine with a nice monitor and keyboard make me happy.

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Permalink Reply by Terri Lowe on September 1, 2010 at 10:12pm

Hello Joel - I grew up on a PC and even worked for one of those large PC corporations where the mention of a Mac drew gasps and cold stares. About two years ago, I took a Photoshop course and was forced to use my first Mac. After about two weeks on the Mac, I was converted and am now the proud owner of two MACs: the iMac (21.5" display) and MacBook.

I still have a Sony VAIO that sits in the corner collecting dust, it's pretty (pink) but not as fun, efficient, or reliable as my Mac's. I think it was VISTA that started causing my PC headaches. The VAIO came preloaded with VISTA, just after it was released, and it was painfully slow.

Agree with you 100% though, a good fast machine with the right display and keyboard makes all the difference.

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Permalink Reply by Joel D Canfield on September 1, 2010 at 10:14pm

The only real pain I felt when I was unceremoniously thrust into the world of Mac a month ago (house sitting in Vancouver, BC and my Sony Vaio dumped so I was given [gift!] a G4 iBook) was that it didn't have Photoshop on it.

That's easily resolved ;)

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Permalink Reply by Melodee Patterson on September 2, 2010 at 3:56pm

My first computer was an Apple II, (yes, I'm that old) and had a few Apple machines over the years. I've used and enjoyed Linux for my bioinformatics work, but I switched to a PC in 2005 when I became a Virtual Assistant, since that's what my clients were using. A couple months ago, I couldn't stand it anymore and bought myself a MacBook Pro. (Eat your heart out, Joel!)

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Permalink Reply by Joel D Canfield on September 2, 2010 at 4:04pm

Ooh. Which size? Brag about the RAM and peripherals and stuff. I'm in sponge mode and wanna hear it all.

My first computer was a modified IBM Selectric typewriter connected to the mainframe at SDSU, in 1975. I'm that old. But the first machine I owned was a PC with no hard drive and a monochrome monitor, back in, um, 1983 or 1984.

My phone is 10 times the computer that was.

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Permalink Reply by Melodee Patterson on September 2, 2010 at 4:29pm

I didn't go wild - 17 inch, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB hard drive.

I used to turn on the Apple II, write a program to list prime numbers, turn the machine off, and have to rewrite the program the next day cuz there was no hard OR disk drive - LOL!

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