Do you use a Mac?

[Paulz0r]

If you own a Mac and need to use PC-only applications, bootcamping Windows is definitely a viable solution.

I'm actually typing this post on a Mac Mini, running the RTM build of Windows 7 fresh from TechNet. To answer the question in the topic title, I do use the Mac in the house, though my personal machine is a PC. I review hardware products, game, and am a PC enthusiast, so a Mac isn't just for me, though I have nothing against them.

[ppcpimp]

I am a Mac and a PC.

[WareTime]

Originally Posted by XFactor

I am probably going to buy dreamweaver and take a couple of
months to learn it, maybe a class or two.

It's been a goal of mine forever so now it is my opportunity to
actually "learn" how to build sites

- John

Not a bad idea. Of the sites I've done with your method the hand built are currently doing better then the XSP ones. I also enjoy using php includes in them then I can rotate ads, header content, menu content quickly site wide without having to touch each page. XSP can do some of that, but the adsense ads themselves have to be changed per page if you just used the XSP method.

Of course DW will not be as fast as XSP, initially or maybe ever, there is more power there. That and I keep thinking XSP is a strike against me in the eyes of the SE's simply because it is used in so many low quality sites. (not the fault of the tool at all) I just don't want to be the baby thrown out with the bath water.

Oh, and I do use XP on Fusion and have the Windows7 demo. I just end up liking Windows less and less and at work I have had a Mac for 6 + months as my primary computer, it's becoming home more and more and Windows seems like Bizzaro world from the Superman series.

[Ryan700]

Originally Posted by James Lancaster

I don't understand what people find in them.

I don't sit up till 3 in the morning anymore trying to figure out what my son and his friends downloaded that made my PC bog down. I also don't have to wait for that pesky little operating system that has to update almost every day because of some new hack or worm that windows has to be protected against.
Mac computer to me means low maintenance computer.
I bet if I googled that keyword phrase the first result would be Mac. I'm gonna try it right now.

[Ryan700]

The first thing that crashed on my Mac computer was Microsoft Office for Mac. Unlike a PC all I had to do was force quit the program, not reboot my computer.

[XFactor]

Originally Posted by Ryan700

The first thing that crashed on my Mac computer was Microsoft Office for Mac. Unlike a PC all I had to do was force quit the program, not reboot my computer.

I prefer openoffice.org - have been using it for PC for years instead of Office, and now that I have a Mac, I'm still using it.

I could easily fork over the money to buy Office, but I've just gotten so comfortable that I highly recommend it to anyone instead of Office.

- John

[XFactor]

Originally Posted by WareTime

Oh, and I do use XP on Fusion and have the Windows7 demo. I just end up liking Windows less and less and at work I have had a Mac for 6 + months as my primary computer, it's becoming home more and more and Windows seems like Bizzaro world from the Superman series.

So... so true!

I actually hate opening up windows now that I have bonded with my Mac.

I'm going to move everything over and soon quit any programs that need
windows.

Unfortunately some business will be lost for tools I've used for a while
now (keyword tools, Xsitepro) but it's evolution and I want to use my
Mac exclusively instead of booting up windows in it.

Hard to explain this to non-Mac users, but you know what I mean.

- John