I switch to a mac about 6 weeks, ago. Here’s my thoughts about the pro’s and cons of my experience.
Pro’s
- Fast boot / reboot times - No more waiting 2-3 minutes to boot up!
- Better memory management - I run my firefox with 15 open tabs and zillon of applications and it handles it fine. (Memory usage for dashboard is a little scary)
- Front row - Brilliant when traveling
- iPhoto - nice integration with front row
- Keynote is awesome. Runs rings around powerpoint
- Parallels is great. Boots faster than my old laptop !
Con’s
- No being able to tab into application windows. eg If I am writing an email, if I tab away I can’t tab back to the open email.
- File copying. Copying files deletes directories then copies files rather than replacing the files. Got bitten by this big time.
- iPhoto not having real picture resizing built in
- Finder not having a thumbnail browse..
I’m really glad that I have switched. I’ll wait a bit before I install Leopard.
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