Switching to Mac from PC

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nikopolidis

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Hello everybody! Sure you can help me...
I've been a PC user for 8 years. And now I am going to try Mac. But I am sure that still I couldn't dismiss some of my favourite Windows apps. Can I keep the opportunity to use them working in OS X? :confused:
 
If you plan on buying the an intel macs (all macs are now intel), you have 2 options:

1) Install windows using boot camp. Then at startup you would have the option to boot into Windows or OS X

2) There are programs that allow windows to run within OS X.
 
The main problem (or task) for me Is to get used to Mac's apps. While I'm getting used I still need Windows. And I'm sure I will need it further... I've heard that most of Windows games won't run in OS X...
To clarify, I work with popular Windows apps, not peculiar or specific ones.
 
For daily tasks, there is often a mac app comparable that works just as well if not better than a windows app (may take some getting use to though).

For creative stuff (video/photo/audio production), i woluld recommend a mac due to imo the same if not a better selection of available software to choose from.

For games, youre outta luck. Mac gaming has always been behind (quite a bit) and its still like that. Although, its starting to turn around (EA is releasing many games for os x) it could be a very long time until macs comparable to PCs gaming wise.

Also, dont buy ram from apple (anything more than stock). Its overpriced. Buy your own ram from newegg or somewhere else and install it yourself. Easy to do, saves quite a bit of money.
 
you can run your windows software with this, actually codewavers works better on mac and is stable, it actually is better than when running on linux but software is limited, as for games Epidemik pretty much summed it up.
But you have CIDER for games, i got Vice city working, actually a vice city installed on a win machine, but it's very difficult to use.
 
epidemik said:
For daily tasks, there is often a mac app comparable that works just as well if not better than a windows app (may take some getting use to though)...
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Well, let me list a number of apps I'm going to use on my Mac:
1) Outlook
2) Internet Explorer
Probably I can easily switch to Mac's analogues of this 2 apps if there are some. I'm sure there are.
3) Auto Cad
4) Corel Draw, Photoshop
5) Microsoft Office apps (PPoint, Access, Project, OneNote Word, Excel). I'm not sure that I could dismiss this apps and use some another similar Mac's ones.
 
1) Mail (Free with os x) or you can get Office for mac
2) Safari (Free with os x) imo better than IE. You can also get firefox.
3) Never heard of this...Looks like modeling? Sorry can't help there.
4) Photoshop is availible on mac. I think Corel is too but not sure
5) M$ Office apps are availible for mac. Open office is a free alternative.

I think you'll love your mac.
Have fun. Hope all goes well.
 
Now I just trying to find out which software that runs Windows in Mac is better.. Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion or Bootcamp. Are there are any obvious advantages or disadvantages of each piece of software? Does anybody have some ideas?
 
Well bootcamp is a little different because it doesnt run inside OS X, you boot directly into windows and its almost exactly like anyother iwndows pc.

Not sure if you can access your mac files when in windows and viceversa.
 
Well, let me list a number of apps I'm going to use on my Mac:
1) Outlook
2) Internet Explorer
Probably I can easily switch to Mac's analogues of this 2 apps if there are some. I'm sure there are.
3) Auto Cad
4) Corel Draw, Photoshop
5) Microsoft Office apps (PPoint, Access, Project, OneNote Word, Excel). I'm not sure that I could dismiss this apps and use some another similar Mac's ones.
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Most of these are replaced with apps built into OS X.

1) Mail or thunderbird
2) IE sucks, never use it, safari, firefox, camino are all great alternatives, and of course there is also Opera
3) This will be the hardest because Autodesk sucks as a company and will probably never make Mac versions. However, some of their 3D products like Maya and 3DsMax which have CAD like features are available. You may have to look into an alternative.
4) There is a free open source paint program, and of course the gimp which is comparable to photoshop.
5) Open office is good, but I would recommend running Neo Office, which is based off of Open Office but written in Cocoa so it runs natively on the Mac with out having to run X11.

As for Virtual machines, I would recommend running VMware fusion. If you absolutely need Auto CAD, install windows on your Mac, voila you are done.
 
I suggest dont go to mac they are rubbish most stuff does not work why are you switching bored of windows???
Dont go to mac watse of money you'll come back running to windows??
 
windowsvista said:
I suggest dont go to mac they are rubbish most stuff does not work why are you switching bored of windows???
Dont go to mac watse of money you'll come back running to windows??
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First off you don't state any facts, secondly its not your decision, and third how does this help the OP with their questions?

I manage over 5,000 mac laptops, several thousand mac desktops and over 20 xserves at work. I would say the Mac platform is far from rubbish.
 
Well, I thing the debates about what is better Mac or Windows will never stop! :) But I think they should be in another thread...

A lot of you say that there are much Mac's apps that can replace Windows' ones. I believe there are, but still I think that at the very beginning of your new Mac's era :D every former Windows' user must have Parallels Desktop or Fusion just to adopt evolutionary to new OS.
 
nikopolidis said:
Well, I thing the debates about what is better Mac or Windows will never stop! :) But I think they should be in another thread...

A lot of you say that there are much Mac's apps that can replace Windows' ones. I believe there are, but still I think that at the very beginning of your new Mac's era :D every former Windows' user must have Parallels Desktop or Fusion just to adopt evolutionary to new OS.
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No, this is not totally true. Most Mac adopters have to use windows still because they need IE, and active X for whatever web sites they use at work. Or they have that one application barrier like Auto CAD.

Otherwise, web surfing and office productivity is pretty much the exact same thing on both platforms. Also, yes there is nothing a PC can do that a Mac can't. The only time people put windows on Mac is for that one application barrier, IE support, or they want to run video games. There are alternatives to even Auto CAD on the Mac, but you would have to learn a whole new application.

I don't have windows on really any of my macs at work because I don't need to use it at all.
 
windowsvista said:
I suggest dont go to mac they are rubbish most stuff does not work why are you switching bored of windows???
Dont go to mac watse of money you'll come back running to windows??
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dude get a life.
Try helping the OP for once
Macs has ups and downs, so does windows, so does linux, so please try helping next time
 
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