New Macbook Pro

[4Eyes]

experience of beauty

LOL
.... I guess it must be the 'walled' garden of Eden

[Rooftop]

My team and I have just completed 2 days of training where the tutor guy was using a Mac.  Twice I was made to think back to this thread:

1. I had my first ever "damn, wish you could do that on Windows" with a Mac in close to 20 yrs.
The 20 yrs is a bit of a guess, but that is about when I was more involved with Macs and they were doing some cool stuff. However the fact that Macs are now just intel mahines running linux opens up some interesting stuff. For me it was command line unix without running a virtual machine.  With the stuff we were looking at that made quite a time saving. 
As a result I now know exactly 1 good reason (from my position) to use a Mac over a windows machine. Those that know me will understand that is a big step

2. His Macbook air crashed twice.
Switching displays is hung and crashed. Something I do on my thinkpad continually and have never had an issue with. What can I say... my ThinkPad just works  
In fairness he said that it had never done it before, which I believe. However it happens. It did strike me though that he was having to use non Apple stuff with it and there probably is a big "just works" advantage if you don't push the kit by sticking to everything from one manufacturer.

[buckworks]

One of my desktops crashed once, but I don't remember my Air crashing, ever.

So believe him when he said "it had never done it before."

Many machines have a "critical need sensor" that causes them to malfunction at critical moments. If the machine can tell that you have an audience, or you're in a hurry, or the thing you're doing is Very Very Important, it will sense your critical need and start to do odd things for no reason except to amuse itself. Fax machines were the first to exhibit this behaviour, but the propensity has spread to other forms of digital organisms.

[hungrygoose]

Been using Win7 exclusively for around 3 months now.  There's no dodgy software, all updates are there etc etc but I've starting getting the BSD every other day or so

[jetboy]

When I built my current PC I had bluescreens every few days, and Windows 7 kept having to rebuild the RAID drives (4x1TB drives in RAID 10). It turned out to be the Intel RAID drivers. When they finally upgraded them, Windows was fine. Since then, recent ATI graphics drivers have caused problems, so I'm using ones from 2011 with no issues. I'd suggest opening up the PC (assuming you're using a desktop) and reseating memory, processor and cards as the first step towards fixing bluescreens. If that doesn't make and difference, try older graphics drivers.

[hungrygoose]

I can't be bothered. Trust me, I'm trying to give ms a chance, I want to see ms conquer the world as it would be the best story of the decade. I've been using bnig, I switched from a MacBook to a desktop pc, I have a Xbox. I think I might still stick to apple hardware.

[jcoronella]

I'm into week two with my Macbook Pro Retina.   Love it.

Fast.  Thin.  Light. 

Downsides:
- Can't use chrome (regularly) yet because it crashes occasionally due to a bug for Lion.
- I spilled coffee on the keyboard and the tab key is a bit touchy ATM.. should wear off.

When I power up a VM to run windows, XP thinks I have a 2880x1800 resolution and switches to it... damn that shit is small.

[Rumbas]

I hate Mac, but own some of their stuff anyway.

Welcome on board John! Good to have you around

[dogboy]

I'll be damned, it is John; good to see you!

I only use macs. I only type with one finger. I've tried pcs a few times and want nothing to do with them. I buy a new Mac every couple years, have no virus software, machine never crashes, apps never crash, I don't read manuals and don't have problems.  It's easy to figure out if I'm looking for something. Haven't spent an hour struggling since 96 when I got my first laptop and it had a hardware issue. After that never had an issue.

[dogboy]

Oh, and I read this thread because I'm ready for a new laptop to replace the one that is ancient but still works:)