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Originally Posted by MarchHare
At a former job, I also had to support both PCs and Macs, having previously been a 100% Windows user. I bought a Mac (G4 CPU, prior to the switch to Intel) for home and made it my primary box for a few weeks, which taught me 90% of what I needed to know to do my job. Google supplied the remaining 10%.
I use a self-assembled PC clone running Vista as my primary computer at home now, but if Apple made a headless desktop with hardware specs somewhere between an iMac and a PowerMac and sold it for under $2000, I'd buy one in a second. The ability to run both OS X and Windows on a single box without suffering the performance hit of virtualization is dreamy.
My biggest annoyance when using Macs, though, is the absence of a "maximize window" button a la Windows. I hate with the intensity of a thousand suns the stupid "zoom" function in MacOS; I want the option to have my window fill the entire screen with the push of a single button, not just what Apple dictates is the best use of screen space.
As to the "which is easier to use" argument, the definitive answer is whichever you learned how to use first. I suspect if someone had never used a computer before, they'd probably become more comfortable using a Mac sooner than using Windows, but someone who has been using Windows for 15+ years is going to find using Vista much easier than using OS X.
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Bumping this thread because my son just brought home a Mac that he got for a good price and set it up at home as our main home computer. It looks really good! I haven't had much chance to use it yet, but I definitely agree so far with the maximize window feature. Even after about an hour of playing around on it, that drove me crazy. I'm not fond of the mouse either, I always use the little scroll button on the mouse, and I am having a hard time getting used to the mouse. Other than that, I'm still undecided really. Hopefully it works out. Our other computer was certainly near the end of it's useful life. The screen on this Mac is something like 24 inches, as I mentioned, it does look pretty impressive.