Help. I've been forced into a Mac
Any PC users considering buying a Mac, don't. just fucking don't. the video card and sound card are lovely. the keyboard was apparently designed for someone with hands the size of a 2-year-old midget with advanced muscular dystrophy, and the mouse should get thrown under a bus.
oh, and if anyone has any suggestions on how to make a mac palatable for a pc user (other than crushing it with a large rock), i'm all ears.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 6:44, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

As a user of both PCs and Macs:
1) The Mac keyboard is better than any PC keyboard I've ever used. Except the Sony Vaio, but that's only because they've now copied the Mac keyboard.
2) The Mac mouse (the mighty mouse, not that strange new one) is better than any PC mouse I've ever used.
3) How have you been 'forced' into using a Mac? If the answer's 'for work', then that's what happens at work. So man up.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 9:11, Reply)

I agree MTFU
I've been a Mac user for about 10 years now and have to use a PC at work.
Using a pc is like a constant fight.

I know this is going to turn into a Mac vs PC thread so all you are going to learn is that people dissagree a lot.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 9 Jan 2010, 9:26, Reply)

I think I'd get confused switching from one to another
I'm bad enough going from mouse to pad thing when switching from work pc to netbook...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Are you high?
1) He's right, the "Scrabble Tiles" keyboard is an abomination. The first thing I'd do if forced to use a Mac is get a proper keyboard. I implore you to go and find someone with a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad and sit and type a page on that to find out what a real keyboard should feel like.

2) I know for a long time Apple hated the idea of multi button mice but both the Mighty/Apple Mouse and the new Magic Mouse make you lift the opposite finger to do a secondary click. For a company who are supposed to be design geniuses this unergonimic idiocy is inexcuseable. As for the scroll ball on the MM don't even get me started on the gammy piece of shit that that idea was, "I Know, we've finally moved on from a ball under the mouse to get clogged up with dirt, why don't we put one on top instead?" Muppets!
(bill, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 14:16, Reply)

I'll concede on the point about the scroll wheel
Mine hasn't broken yet, but I think it will soon. And you can right click without lifting left finger on the MM, but not the Magic Mouse.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 14:19, Reply)

buy a usb pc keyboard and mouse
plug them in
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 9:36, Reply)

I don't understand how the only thing you are finding annoying
Is the keyboard and mouse.
The change in os not causing an issue.

As the man says MTFU and buy a USB keyboard and mouse.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 9 Jan 2010, 11:03, Reply)

or maybe just mtfu fullstop?
kids these days etc.
*sucks air through teath*
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 9 Jan 2010, 11:40, Reply)

mac OS is very similar to windows these days, except not shit

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 13:24, Reply)

You could
install Windows on it.

Then it's just like any other PC. Only more expensive.

Alternatively, stick with it, learn the system and get used to it, thus increasing your skills and knowledge instead of sitting moaning about it.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 13:03, Reply)

true
download bootcamp and have the 'best' of both worlds. like some sort of computery ladyboy
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 13:24, Reply)

Does it not come installed as standard these days?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 14:18, Reply)

No, You need a programme like boot camp or parallels.
Then the hard drive is partitioned into two parts. One side has the Mac OS on it and the other has Windows. However you have to buy or steal a copy of windows.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I meant does boot camp not come as standard these days?
I'm pretty sure I have boot camp installed, but use parallels instead. Interestingly though, if you install windows on boot camp, you can use it in boot camp or parallels, but if you install it in parallels, you can only use it in parallels.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 17:20, Reply)

thanks
thanks muchly for the suggestions, including the ever popular mtfu. i was ``forced'' by the incessant whining, er, pleasant suggestions of my wife. i see many attractions to the mac. it seems like a fairly elegant OS, the video and sound cards are great, the fact there's no tower is wonderful. but none of these things are why i need a computer. i work as a writer and sub editor. so the main reason i use a computer is for writing and sub editing, which are both fairly keyboard-heavy tasks. i can't afford to have a typo in every other word. if i had time to learn a new keyboard, it would be ok, but i'm in the middle of 3 major projects, which is why this is so goddamn frustrating. i think i'll probably take the suggestion of getting a usb keyboard and mouse for a pc, and seeing how that works. and yes, i shall mtfu.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 20:34, Reply)

this might be of interest
www.worknowsleeplater.com/?p=70
(knackerz is skinning up, Sun 10 Jan 2010, 0:36, Reply)