Any Apple Mac users out there?

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Just pondering about switching from a PC to a Mac and wanted to hear from anyone who has made the switch in the past.

Any suggestions as to what model you would go for to suit basic needs of web and email access, plus web design and coding. I don't really use a computer for much else.

[daisy]

hi i`m not much help but will ask other half for you see if he can help.

John, we have quite a few Apples, we have the 17' imac computer, 15 inch Powerbook, 12 inch Powerbook and 2 ibooks in addtion to our 2 PC's and 2 Toshiba laptops.

I would not hesitate to switch they are so reliable and not prone to viruses etc. Even the most basic mac woud suit your needs. If you want to know anything more specific let us know [msnsmile2]

[Ruth]

My brother is a graphic designer and loves his Apple laptop. He dabbles in websites too so let me know if you would like his contact details John.

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

I was looking at the 20" iMac G3. How do they perform compared to the equivalent PC. I see the processors are a lot slower than PC processoers and they do not seem to have anywhere near the same amount of RAM. Is it just a case of Windows being very resource hungry compared to OS X?

[Snapper]

I can't find the original of this anywhere but it made me laugh at the time and I hope I can preserve the humor. I think it was written by a Mac fan ...

Linux: You don't expect it ever to work, but after a bit of fiddling it works forever
Mac: You don't expect it to work, but it does
Windows: You expect it to work forever, but it doesn't

[Cruella DeVilla]

I don't own one but have just written a thesis for my degree on Apple and all research is positive.

[harrinp1]

I think you are correct about the clock sepeed on Mac vs PC.
I think memory usage is also lighter.

I nearly made the switch from PC to Mac when I bought my last system
but in the end found that I really couldn't live with out a couple of
windows apps, and at the time the Virtual PC software didn't work on the
G5 processors - not sure if this is still the case.

There is some good info on the apple sight about migrating from Windows
to PC.

I might pick myself up a Mini Mac to have a play with.

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

The only Windows specific software I use is MS Money and some SE checking software but could happily run them on my laptop I guess and access this from my main PC / Mac. I'll have to check if there is an easy way of remote controlling a PC over the network from a Mac.

[Snapper]

I run VNC for remote access John. I think it has both a client and a server component available for OS X, so you could access your laptop from the Mac and also vice versa.