There is always some great content on our S2M Forum and sometimes it warrants being placed front and center. This post from a more recent member - sirdaniel about his experiences over the first coupled of months on a Mac may help other potential Switchers jump in with both feet!

“Late last year as my aging Gateway PC began to show sings of it’s impending demise I started research on purchasing my first Mac.  I joined this and a couple of other forums and did countless hours of research online, at at local libraries, and during a couple of visits to the local Apple Store where I took some of Apple’s consumer classes.  This research ended with the purchase of my new 24″ iMac, 2.4gH 59 days ago.

What follows are some thoughts as I enter my third month of the Mac experience.  Experienced Switchers perhaps will not gain much here but for those of you still straddling the Mac/PC fence……here are my experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

So you’ve got 1000 or more ponies to spend and your walking into a brick and mortar store to buy a computer, so what’s it going to be??? Well two thirds of you are getting a Mac, at least that’s what the NPD Group says about the first quarter data they have collected. Apple has actually increased their sales growth by 50-60% while PC manufacturers are lucky to be staying neutral. It seems people are looking for a computer that can give them an “experience” and I am assuming this experience is meant to be a good one!

“What Apple drives home: This is a product that we own from factory to finger,” Stephen explained. “We exert some control so that you get the best experience. When you get in the store, we get you what you want.”

Read more about it on eWeek

Walter Mossberge writes a short but to the point Article about how Macs really don’t require much if not any housekeeping, stuff like defragmenting, spyware/adware removal and other system maintenance.

I often get asked about defragmentation on the Mac and if it is necessary, he answers the question well:

“However, the operating system has some under-the-covers features that generally obviate the need to run a defragmentation utility. In fact, Apple, which calls defragmenting a disk “optimizing” it, flatly claims, “You probably won’t need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X.”

The only problem I have with the Article is the last question…

“Q - I have updated to a new PC. My data are on a floppy disk. There is no floppy disk drive on this new computer. How can I transfer my data?”

That’s like going into a BMW dealership and asking the salesman how you’re going to play your Tape Cassettes without a tape player?

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