Any regrets from moving to PC to Mac?

Stealthy Ninja wrote:

TimGuyKing wrote: I didn't say Macs never crash. I said that mine has never crashed. I'm currently on a Macbook Pro which I've had for about 3 years, and during that time I have never had one complete system failure. Sure I've had to force-quit the occasional app, but never once has my system done the equivalent of a blue screen. It speaks volumes about PCs that their users find it so hard to believe a computer can be crash free! 

I use both. I got plenty of grey screens on death with Macs (kernel panics). This is with a mac pro and mac book pro. Very few blue screen of death with windows 7 and 8 (if fact I can't remember ever getting one since moving from Windows vista).

And my comment wasn't directed at you in particular.

Microsoft needs to get rid of registry to be honest.

I've always been a PC guy.... Mac's were always too spendy... I have had very  few crashes on the PC's I've owned over the many years I've had them... But I'm a stickler for keeping my anti-virus & anti-malware programs up to date... Never had to take any PC in for repairs, always able to do any repairs or upgrades myself... Kinda like the old Triumph Spitfires & Austin Healy cars... They were great as long as you were the one making repairs to them...

Screamin Scott wrote: I've always been a PC guy.... Mac's were always too spendy... I have had very  few crashes on the PC's I've owned over the many years I've had them... But I'm a stickler for keeping my anti-virus & anti-malware programs up to date... Never had to take any PC in for repairs, always able to do any repairs or upgrades myself... Kinda like the old Triumph Spitfires & Austin Healy cars... They were great as long as you were the one making repairs to them...

I have no virus protection on my pc, haven't in 10 years and haven't had a virus.

Scotty wrote:

Screamin Scott wrote: I've always been a PC guy.... Mac's were always too spendy... I have had very  few crashes on the PC's I've owned over the many years I've had them... But I'm a stickler for keeping my anti-virus & anti-malware programs up to date... Never had to take any PC in for repairs, always able to do any repairs or upgrades myself... Kinda like the old Triumph Spitfires & Austin Healy cars... They were great as long as you were the one making repairs to them...

I have no virus protection on my pc, haven't in 10 years and haven't had a virus.

How do you manage this?

Scooter wrote:

Scotty wrote: I have no virus protection on my pc, haven't in 10 years and haven't had a virus.

How do you manage this?

I do not use antivirus software either. It's called "safe computing" and involves not wandering all over the interwebs going places you don't need to go.

The handful of mistakes I've made (getting unwanted malware) were due to (a) foolishly not reading the dang screen, or (b) foolishly letting my teenagers use my computer. Hijack This was helpful, as was having a dual boot system.

We run both Mac's and Windows based PC's. By far our staff loves their Mac's for so many reasons. Like the advertisement says "They just Work".

garyrhook wrote:

Scooter wrote:

Scotty wrote: I have no virus protection on my pc, haven't in 10 years and haven't had a virus.

How do you manage this?

I do not use antivirus software either. It's called "safe computing" and involves not wandering all over the interwebs going places you don't need to go.

The handful of mistakes I've made (getting unwanted malware) were due to (a) foolishly not reading the dang screen, or (b) foolishly letting my teenagers use my computer. Hijack This was helpful, as was having a dual boot system.

I just got an email with an attached rar file from someone I don't know.  SHould I forward it to you?

Beware that some of the older peripherals will not work on the Mac Lion. Unless you plan of buying new printers/scanners/ etc. check out the compatibility. Tried to help a new Mac Lion used with her Canon 3200F last night and it was a complete fail. Apple does not care if peripherals are  compatible. They expect all manufacturers to keep up to date with them even if Apple does not let the manufacturers see their code. Prepare to but new stuff with the Mac.

Baydream wrote: Beware that some of the older peripherals will not work on the Mac Lion. Unless you plan of buying new printers/scanners/ etc. check out the compatibility. Tried to help a new Mac Lion used with her Canon 3200F last night and it was a complete fail. Apple does not care if peripherals are  compatible. They expect all manufacturers to keep up to date with them even if Apple does not let the manufacturers see their code. Prepare to but new stuff with the Mac.

It is usually the device manufacturer's responsibility to develop drivers. In the case of an older printer, there's not much incentive to add support on a new OS if the printer isn't still available for purchase. That device was released on 2009; that's a long time ago in the hardware business. I wouldn't provide drivers for it, either. And it hardly seems valid to claim that Apple doesn't let anyone see their code. They have to publish specs if they want to play well with others.

This is just an obsolescence issue.  I use a dual-boot system for precisely this reason, and still use XP.

garyrhook wrote:

Baydream wrote: Beware that some of the older peripherals will not work on the Mac Lion. Unless you plan of buying new printers/scanners/ etc. check out the compatibility. Tried to help a new Mac Lion used with her Canon 3200F last night and it was a complete fail. Apple does not care if peripherals are  compatible. They expect all manufacturers to keep up to date with them even if Apple does not let the manufacturers see their code. Prepare to but new stuff with the Mac.

It is usually the device manufacturer's responsibility to develop drivers. In the case of an older printer, there's not much incentive to add support on a new OS if the printer isn't still available for purchase. That device was released on 2009; that's a long time ago in the hardware business. I wouldn't provide drivers for it, either. And it hardly seems valid to claim that Apple doesn't let anyone see their code. They have to publish specs if they want to play well with others.

This is just an obsolescence issue.  I use a dual-boot system for precisely this reason, and still use XP.

 
Well and Windows allows for rolling back to use the older peripherals in the compatibility for older drivers. Something that I believe that Apphole does not allow.
As to the subject of the thread itself. I went from Mac to Windows way back in the day. I liked the Windows OS over the Mac having had a Macintosh. I have used one since then when my dad bought a Mac, and I do not like it either in its new form.  And I have also not had any problems with my Win machine as far as crashes even in XP. The only time I got a virus was when the MSN servers got affected, and I logged in. They were the only network I could get in the area I was living at the time, well there was AOHell, but I would not use them myself.  

garyrhook wrote:

Scooter wrote:

Scotty wrote: I have no virus protection on my pc, haven't in 10 years and haven't had a virus.

How do you manage this?

I do not use antivirus software either. It's called "safe computing" and involves not wandering all over the interwebs going places you don't need to go.

The handful of mistakes I've made (getting unwanted malware) were due to (a) foolishly not reading the dang screen, or (b) foolishly letting my teenagers use my computer. Hijack This was helpful, as was having a dual boot system.

Spot on.  Also never download files under 2000 kb.  Most viruses are small.  Always download from reputable sites.  If a site has a comment section such as torrents (torrenting can be used legally, microsoft has used torrents for massive updates, and all illegal downloads are forbidden in discussion), read the comments.  They will talk about if the file is safe or not.