punkaccountant
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I was a Windows PC user for many, many years. Converted to Mac in 2009 and never looked back. Best (technology) decision of my life. When I did this, someone gave me an analogy with cars. A PC is like a manual car that always breaks down and requires constant maintenance. An Apple is an automatic car that never breaks down nor does it require a lot of maintenance...you just can't drive on the same roads. It was true about 5 years ago but the Mac has closed the gap quite a bit and there is a lot more hardware and software that can run on a Mac. Have fun with it.
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Happytraveler
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This is a great app from the App Store you might want to try. Tutor for Lion
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magicbus
LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA
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punkaccountant wrote:... An Apple is an automatic car that never breaks down nor does it require a lot of maintenance...you just can't drive on the same roads. Bet you can't wait for that Google car that drives (on certain roads) by itself! 
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Chris Bryant
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I see 2 different questions- one about hardware, one about the OS. As far as the hardware goes- far better battery life, solid state hard drive (much tougher), cool apple logo on the back  . The Windows world has decided that this type of laptop is the "next big thing", so look for Windows ultrabooks.
Running Windows as a virtual machine is a great idea- you can back up and restore the entire Windows installation in minutes, if not seconds, or I believe you can use Bootcamp to run Windows on the "bare metal", and have one of the best Windows laptops out there.
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az99
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Chris Bryant wrote: cool apple logo on the back . I believe you said that in jest but the only 2 people I know with Apples have them for that reason. Neither one does anything except surf the web but they tell everyone how great an Apple is and that they have one.
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Michael in MN
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After ignoring Apple products for a couple decades I'm on my second Mac Air. The first was an original Air right after they came out, the second is a year old 11" air. I also have a handful of Windows/Intel notebooks, and I've used just about every OS since DOS 1.0 (Windows 1.0, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris....). Between work and home, I switch back & forth between Windows 7 and OS/X several times per day.
I find the mechanical construction, the form factor, screen and keyboard to be the compelling reasons for keeping the Air. Apple has simply done a beautiful job of engineering on the Airs - I cannot find anything else that comes close. My 11" Air is small and light enough that I have no reason to mess with tablet computers or iPads, and unlike a tablet/iPad, it's a fully capable computer.
I don't see OS/X as an operating system that is vastly superior to Windows 7, provided that I strip out all the 'crapware' that Windows PC manufacturers bundle with their new PC's, and provided that I use *only* Microsoft Security Essentials for my AV/Malware package and no other AV/Malware packages. I do find that managing older or less popular peripherals sometimes is easier with Windows (driver availability). I don't see a difference in 'stability'. I have a 3 year old Windows 7 laptop that has never blue screened, and I have a Mac Air that has crashed more than once in the last year.
I also do not see a significant difference in 'usability'. There are many cases where MS's UI is superior to OS/X (in my opinion) and there are many places where it is not. I have a long list of 'OS/X Annoyances', starting with Finder.....
In your case, if you need peripherals that are not well supported on a Mac, you'll have a hard time justifying its existence.
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The main adavantage I see with Lion over Windows 7 or 8 is you don't need AV software that slows web browsing. I have Norton (free from Comcast) on my PCs,laptop and Mac Mini but not on my new Core i7 MacBook Air.
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LittleBill
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Michael in MN wrote:After ignoring Apple products for a couple decades I'm on my second Mac Air. The first was an original Air right after they came out, the second is a year old 11" air. I also have a handful of Windows/Intel notebooks, and I've used just about every OS since DOS 1.0 (Windows 1.0, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris....). Between work and home, I switch back & forth between Windows 7 and OS/X several times per day.
I find the mechanical construction, the form factor, screen and keyboard to be the compelling reasons for keeping the Air. Apple has simply done a beautiful job of engineering on the Airs - I cannot find anything else that comes close. My 11" Air is small and light enough that I have no reason to mess with tablet computers or iPads, and unlike a tablet/iPad, it's a fully capable computer.
I don't see OS/X as an operating system that is vastly superior to Windows 7, provided that I strip out all the 'crapware' that Windows PC manufacturers bundle with their new PC's, and provided that I use *only* Microsoft Security Essentials for my AV/Malware package and no other AV/Malware packages. I do find that managing older or less popular peripherals sometimes is easier with Windows (driver availability). I don't see a difference in 'stability'. I have a 3 year old Windows 7 laptop that has never blue screened, and I have a Mac Air that has crashed more than once in the last year.
I also do not see a significant difference in 'usability'. There are many cases where MS's UI is superior to OS/X (in my opinion) and there are many places where it is not. I have a long list of 'OS/X Annoyances', starting with Finder.....
In your case, if you need peripherals that are not well supported on a Mac, you'll have a hard time justifying its existence.
Totally agree. rare to find that with a mac user...
props dude very few admit to what you said
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az99
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Thank You very much for all the info. That answers my questions and as I thought, you have to really want a Mac to invest the time and money to use it to it's fullest. For our basis uses a Win7 PC or the free Mac will do the trick.
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