I have serious compatibility issues with my mac

Just recently my computer was stolen so it was time to get a new one. I went into best buy to start shopping around and came across the mac station. I have always had a pc but I instantly fell in love with this 15" sleek notebook that i have now. The employee there reassured me that i would have no problem with compatibility issues........ boy was that ever a joke! This world is not compatible with mac computers. I cant access any software that i was using for work,..... hell i cant even check my bank statement online. Seriously, come on. Thats just basic everyday computing. Don't even think about getting a mac if your in the real estate business. You wont be able to access MLS. I had to get special software to download my pictures from my camera and its only a few years old. Your going to have to buy more special software if you want to download your itunes from you ipod. Unless you bought every single song from itunes and we all know that thats not the case. Take a good hard look at what your computing needs are before you spend money to buy a mac. Visit your web sites log on, etc..... There is no way i can keep this mac and have any use for it unless i buy the windows version for it. All i all, its a nice computer but its way expensive. Not to mention that yes, if you have a real job or lets say a bank account that you need to check, you are going to be getting windows installed as well. It ends up costing much more money than you think.

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PC VS MAC AT WORK

I have been a mac user since day one . When it comes to comparing apples and bananas I always pick apples . but in a perfect world i would need a computer that works and that could run OS 10 and Windows and guess what my IMAC can do just that . What i am not sure of is if a PC could run OS 10 ...Would i have bought one ?

By the way one of my good friends works for a big advertising agency in NYC and told me they actually designed the Thinkpad campain on a Mac. So I guess its just a matter of taste .

Im a videomaker, and work

Im a videomaker, and work with 2 iMacs and a MacBook pro (for presentations with clients and "On fly" mastering). I dont know other way to make my proyects. Its affordable, its professional, its ok. With the rights plugins, and 3rd party software I'm ready to the real world. Really. I would like to have a mac pro too. Soon guys, soon. The mac values every dollar that they cost.
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My Client's Comment Summarizes it Nicely

I can't think of a better way to answer this question than one of my clients. I work at a computer services consulting firm, where we provide service to clients on pretty much any platform. One of our best clients is a die-hard Mac user; it's the only platform he's ever used, and as far as he's concerned, it's all he'll ever need. But his last Mac Book Pro was getting along in years, so he decided to buy something a little newer and flashier (actually, it looked pretty much the same to me, evidently they haven't changed much in the past 6 years or so). He bought a brand new 17" with a Core 2 Duo, and our next meeting, he was all excited and told us,

"This is the best Mac I've ever owned! I can run Windows on it!"

After all these years, he's finally found a way to be able to access all the non-Mac accessible content he's been without, such as the advanced statistical analysis software he had been accessing through Terminal Services for the past 15 years.

So, for some fields, a Mac may be fine, and for other people, maybe they can afford to pay double for the same hardware and to maintain 2 operating systems. But, for most of the "Real Jobs" and "Real People" out there, I would say the highest productivity for the cost is definitely sticking with Windows, since you'll probably end up running it anyways.

You need look no further

You need look no further than the Java enterprise development community. Attend any conference such as JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, The Spring Experiance....nearly 50% of all the laptops you see are MacBook's and MacBook Pro's ...and those presenting...the best and the brightest of the community...I'd venture to say that more than 75% are Mac users and do their presentations with their Mac laptops.

I can do my work perfectly

I can do my work perfectly with my macbook pro and the .mac agenda sharing with my collegeas. ichat is also a good alternative for skype and I really like the remote screen sharing functionality in leopard.

I only lack openworkbench as a suitable project planning tool, the finder is slow compared to the raw power of the file explorer and the microsoft tooling on a mac is really slow

Real Jobs

I find it to be quite annoying to hear a quote that would insinuate that persons who use macs are not "real people" and are without "real jobs." It is now commonplace for major universities, doctors of all disciplines, and other very specialized professions to not only use macs, but live by them. Some of these careers are far more demanding and advanced than those "real" positions in life. The reality is that for a computer to allow any type of lifestyle, profession, and generation or age to conveniently use its native os and incorporate any other os is simply amazing. I think the average real person could appreciate that, and the resentment is quite real on both sides of the fence. Mac users resent all the things that seem to drool from the mouths of the naive, yet we love to be the center of attention that revolves around all the products us non-real people use. I guess someone has to man the helm of the flagship so that everyone else has an idea of what they could be doing themselves. Macs are for leaders, thinkers, lovers of life, and real people! They just may not be for you!

Do what you like

I'm certainly a Mac addict - but if you like Windows, hey, stick with it. It keeps folks like me happy with less spyware, virus problems, etc. LOL!

I love my Mac, especially now that I can have both a Mac and Windoze on one laptop. I have the best of both worlds at my fingertips. We need both platforms though - competition is good for both of them.

So - do what you like!

I am working on macs since

I am working on macs since 1984, and I have to admit I rarely worked on pcs. So I can't really compare. The few times I had to use pcs I didn't really like them.

For almost one year now I am working with a friend in his real estate business. His company is based on a pc network (with linux servers). I told him I'wouldn't switch and continue using my mac. Networking is no problem at all, file servers and printers are easy to access, except for 2 weeks after installing OS X 10.5.0. Samba server could not be accessed until the problem was fixed with 10.5.1.

People at the office liked the design of my mac and after a couple of month all the pcs where replaced by...imacs but booted under XP. The boss told me it was for design reasons only, but it was out of question to skip the OS too.

I installed parallels on the conference mac mini in order to make the usual powerpoint presentations under XP as well as open up original CAD drawings with Vectorworks. People played arround with it during of times and last week the boss decided to switch to ....

...Leopard.