Apple vs. Windows 7 - I'm leaning toward an Apple, but...

[superjohn]

I've not had any issues with it. I wondered why I got a firmware update to solve a flicker issue that I've never seen.
Maybe I got lucky for once.

[ab]

My home machine is a macbook pro 2.33 Intel Core 2 Duo with 3 Gig Ram.  I am running both snow leopard and win 7 premium (via vm-ware) (got to love MSDN membership).  I give 2 gig to win7 when running it and use visual studio 2008 and sql server 2008 and its been very good.  As for microsoft office , i have office 2007 running on my win7 and office 2008 on my mac.  No issues there.  I am running the complimentary macafee on win7 that came with vm-ware.

Why not have the best of both worlds  :-)

[mitt]

Why not have the best of both worlds  :-)

I am always surprised how many mac owners use windows also. 

mitt

[derby]

I am always surprised how many mac owners use windows also. 

mitt

1) have to use windows for my job...

2) the only reason i use windows at home is to run quicken.

[erkishhorde]

Mitt, are both your computers running Win7 new boxes or old stuff? I put together a new box for 7 and am getting BSD. Think it's my old video card.

As for MS Office, I still use 2003. The new Office is a PITA. I can't find half the stuff I need w/o searching for it in the help whereas in 2003 I can whiz through things and actually find stuff in the menus.

If it means anything, big business is still using XP. By big business, I mean AT&T. They don't have any plans to fully move to Win7 for another 3 years at least.

[derby]

If it means anything, big business is still using XP. By big business, I mean AT&T. They don't have any plans to fully move to Win7 for another 3 years at least.

extended support for xp sp3 ends april 2014. we're rolling office 2007 in the next 6 months and we're testing deployment of win7 now. we'll likely roll that in the next 12 months.

[hihhs]

1) have to use windows for my job...

Same story. I really prefer Mac.
I run VM Fusion (superior to Parallels IMHO) because I need to run MS Projects. I also prefer MS Excel.

My Macs really just seem to be a superior product & I am willing to spend more $ to get a superior product.

[TiNi]

i'm lucky... i get to use a mac @ work and @ home 

we have one of the 27" imacs with the flicker issue at work

[Desmostro]

I'm in stuck in a spot where I have to use both MAC & Windows because of high performance software at work I use. I also use xp and 7.

MAC rules windows drools. 

The MAC hardware and software is always magically stable an high performing. 
I just put together another PC with the IT team using the best components we could find. The old midrange MAC still out shines the PC in almost every measurable way for my uses in image heavy, 3D, video etc. 

The MACs we have NEVER crash. The brand new PC crashes or freezes or gets slow constantly so do everyone's PCs in the office. It's just part of life people think.

I sent one top of the line Dell (oxymoron) back after testing it had failures got another, and this one crashes too though it's hardware tests pass. Windows sucks on a really basic level from my experience. Our IT guy loves Windows because he looooves to fix things. There is no IT guy who services the MACs. We have full time employees who just fix PCs all day. We don't need anyone for the MACs.   Hello? What does that tell you? Does anyone want to say PCs are less expensive? Include the IT guy, down time and recalculate. 

Neither is perfect both make mistakes, neither do everything, but there is no comparison between the basic experience usuing Windows or Apple from my pov.
  
Windows is like work, APPLE is like play. 
        

[ab]

i'm lucky... i get to use a mac @ work and @ home 

we have one of the 27" imacs with the flicker issue at work

You sure are lucky to use mac at work as well as home. 

[corey]

[MendoDave]

I think I'm going to be satisfied for a while with The Dell Laptop that I have running Vista. Now that I cleaned some things up and started running Microsoft security essentials, there are no issues other than, I tunes won't connect to the I tunes store. (Maybe a reeboot will solve that.) But when this thing gets old I'm definitely going to give Mac a serious look. Now that I found a Survey/CAD program that will run on apple, I only have 1 program that needs windows and I don't use it all the time.

It's always been the programs or lack of programs for the Mac that have kept me away, but that seems to be changing.

[bluemoco]

Thanks for the great responses, everybody!  This discussion has been extremely helpful.

One final question for those of you who use the 27iMac- any regrets on choosing the 27 over the 21?  Seems like the 21 is immune to the display issues.

[derby]

Thanks for the great responses, everybody!  This discussion has been extremely helpful.

One final question for those of you who use the 27iMac- any regrets on choosing the 27 over the 21?  Seems like the 21 is immune to the display issues.

none at all... then again, the specs i got (quad core i7)  aren't available in the 21in.

[bluemoco]

Well, I pulled the big trigger this afternoon.  This is my first DMF post from my new 27iMac.