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n
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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dougal
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 06 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Next Question. Changing to a mac from a pc. |
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n wrote: |
I will only be using the machine for the buiness, no games, DVD's etc. Website, photos, email, accounts.
What do I need to know? |
Accounts.
Work out how you intend to run your accounts.
Moving the datafile is the easy bit.
Learning a new program and transferring all the existing data into the new program is unlikely to be an entirely trivial exercise.
Many people time their change for the end of a financial year...
Do you have a printer, scanner, etc that you'd like to keep? Make certain that there are Mac drivers.
Apple's 'home' machines used to come with a bundled bit of software called AppleWorks. Its a really simple WP, spreadsheet & drawing program. It runs on the Intel machines through the magic of Rosetta. But it wasn't re-written to be Intel native. Its easy to recompile a modern app as a universal binary. Not so for something with roots as deep as AppleWorks'. So, presumably for developer relations politics reasons, Apple simply dropped it. An iLife try-out is not an adequate replacement.
You also ought to know about Leopard being released in a matter of weeks. It is (as usual) unknown what hardware revisions Apple may announce at the same time. My guesses would be for a lot of action around the iPod and "iPhone", and revision of the Mac Pro line rather than significant changes to the iMacs or laptops. The Quad Core processors just drop straight in to the Pro... https://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/desktops/0,1000000968,39284700,00.htm
I have heard a suggestion of a high-performance super-small laptop... but rumours are just rumours. Things will be rather clearer in three weeks time.
I'd say that Macs have "lower support costs" - which matters bigtime if you are spreading those costs over one machine. Its less important spread over a dozen, and a fairly insignificant advantage spread over a few thousand corporate machines.
But its very important when its your own machine, and you are the IT support dept. |
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Forager
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