Northern California Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Mac vs PC?
So I have pretty much decided that if I cannot yell loud enough for HP to fix my laptop for free (since it is their fault) then I need to get a new laptop. BIL works for Apple and said he can get me a 15% discount on a Macbook if I want it or I could stay with a PC. I had a mac desktop in college and it was nice. My HP I got through Costco and got a really good deal on it plus I got the Costco warranty which gave me an extra year of free service on it.
What are your thoughts? I am interested to hear from both PC and Mac users.
Re: Mac vs PC?
I use both. My personal computer is a Mac and my work computers are PCs. While the Macs are pretty, I began to get annoyed when stuff didn't work on the Mac. And there are always the compatibilty issues. So I almost always use my work laptop.
For example, when the new Mac OS came out, some of my old software wouldn't work on the update. But I guess Mac users aren't a big enough group for certain software producers to care and Apple isn't big enough to test all major software on their new OS updates like Microsoft does.
And then little things don't work on Macs -- like certain email syncing stuff, IKEA's kitchen planner, McKinsey's online internship application, some statistical software packages, etc.
And I give a fair number of talks, and they always seem to be set up with a PC and there are always little compatibility issues with the Mac PowerPoint to Windows PowerPoint, so then I always make sure I use my PC to make PowerPoints (or have to bring my computer but sometimes they don't like having to switch the computer attached to the projector).
So, a bunch of annoying things have led me to give up my pretty Mac and just go with the PC...
For me, hands down, MAC all the way! Just know, that this is coming from a gal who has grown up with every version of a Mac since the Apple 2E so I am a bit biased!!
{and, fwiw, I switch between my Mac and PC all the time (word, excel, powerpoint, etc) and do not have any additional formatting issues than are the norm when you switch from one computer to the next using the same operating system (ie, PC to PC).}
I love all things Apple, but my office is primarily PC based. So sometimes capability issues occur. (IE our calendar program is PC only...)
Office isn't fantastic on Apple. (Still trying to figure out the quirks.) But I love everything else about them.
agreed. It's always really nice to still have some PC access. More and more is being built Mac compatible though. after some frustration, I've learned what the PC compatibility issues are
Mac. We have a macpro (desktop) and it's got Windows on it so Husband can work remotely...but I NEVER switch over to it. Mac is intuitive and I have never had an issue.
For customer service: they have the geniuses at the store. When my sister did something to her laptop that erased her ilife (iphoto, itunes, imovie, garage band, etc) she took it in and they couldn't restore it so they upgraded it for free. It's not a "Free with computer" purchase, so they basically gave her a $100(ish) upgrade for *** up her computer.
Also - if you're a student or teacher you can get discounts on your hard/software.
I have issues with Mail Merged docs going all wonky. And MacOffice seems to keep things well hidden, where I'll easily spend 10 minutes looking for something. Though - I do the same thing on the PC version.
I'm just happy that it's working now. For a while there, I couldn't get Office 08 to even LOAD on my Macbook.
Worst case scenario - get a core duo laptop, fire up Bootcamp, and install a copy of Windows on your Mac. That's what I did.
I use a PC at work, but all of our personal use computer devises are Mac, and they will never not be. I truly believe mac computers, software, and customer service is superior.
We do have Office for our Macs, but only b/c it was offered for $20 through my work. I wouldn't pay the $200+ for the package though unless I absolutely had to use my home computer for work documents and needed the continuity of Office from one to the other, reason being that the spreadsheet and word processing programs that come standard on Macs is just as good (arguabley better) than Office products anyway. Because I'm so familiar with Office, and b/c it was so cheap for us to have, I do tend to use it on my mac, but it's not a necessity for someone who doesn't need to do a lot of back and forth between mac & pc, IMHO.
Like PP's have said, I've never met an unhappy mac user.
And Apple customer service is second to NONE.
I think you might be in the minority even off the board...;-)
Ahhh.. Yet another thing we are soul sisters on. I knew I liked you for some reason.
Tea Time for Lulu
Is it the mac made one or is there another one? I've heard bad reviews about it (that the right click stopped working pretty quickly).
Tea Time for Lulu