Windows 10

What is the word.  I am being asked to upgrade my windows 8....which is a total piece of crap......Microsoft will just stop supporting anything even if you have purchased a software license which you thought could last at least as long as a car.

Get a MacBook Air.

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-air

I had used frontpage 2003 for three business websites.  It had plenty of intuitive tools for a web editor, and yes it was limited, but I am not going to be coding html, nor when I have fooled around with the same did it make any sense, rather it was an effective tool for maintaining business websites......Boom, they pull the plug last year on supporting frontpage and I lose access to my host server which is a windows platform.....fricking nightmare, a simple we will not support frontpage would have sufficed, but they claimed some of the frontpage extensions would compromise server security......total chit, so after a month I get a copy of visual express by microsoft which is a total pc. of chit, and makes websites look like they were designed by your seventh grade nephew in 1998.  Microsoft has lost my trust.

boards of FL wrote:Get a MacBook Air.

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-air

MacBook! We agree!!!!

Love Pro.

I have always found that Apple users are very loyal.  I will at some point need to seriously consider the switch to Apple, but I fear they could go all Microsoft at some point in the future....and then I am right back at square one.

Linux Ubuntu

2seaoat wrote:I have always found that Apple users are very loyal.  I will at some point need to seriously consider the switch to Apple, but I fear they could go all Microsoft at some point in the future....and then I am right back at square one.

I still use PCs at work, though I switched to Mac at home a little over 2 years ago. It's like night and day. Now I hate using my PCs at work and would like to switch to Mac there as well. Every now and then I work from home and only use my Macbook Air. At work I have a PC with dual monitors. I'm probably more productive on the Air due to the gesture control on the touch pad, which is something I think many Windows users aren't aware of. The gesture controls on Mac laptops are over-the-top efficient once you get used to using them. I actually prefer a magic track pad now over a mouse in any setting, simply due to the gesture control.

I also switched my parents over to a Mac a little over a year ago. They used to call me fairly often in need of help with their PC. Getting photos from their camera to their PC. Figuring out why it crashes. Updating drivers. Figuring out how to make it work. Etc. etc. I convinced them to switch to an iMac and they hardly ever call anymore in need of help. Everything always works fine for them and the OS is so intuitive that they never need to ask me about anything.

I highly highly recommend switching to a Mac. I used to judge a computer by the numbers on the packing slip tag. Which has more memory? Which has the larger hard drive? Etc. All the while I was ignoring the OS that would orchestrate all of that. That is where many balk when they see Mac specs and prices. "How can they charge that much for that much RAM, and that hard drive?". I used to say the same thing. Trust me, that's not the correct way of looking at it. It's all about the OS and how this piece of technology is going to be incorporated into your daily life and what you need it to do. That sounds cliche, but it's the truth. I'll probably be using this 2012 Macbook Air for another 4 years. And when I upgrade, it won't be due to this thing failing. It will be because Apple will eventually release an Air with a retina display and I'll upgrade simply because of that.

boards of FL wrote:

2seaoat wrote:I have always found that Apple users are very loyal.  I will at some point need to seriously consider the switch to Apple, but I fear they could go all Microsoft at some point in the future....and then I am right back at square one.

I still use PCs at work, though I switched to Mac at home a little over 2 years ago.  It's like night and day.  Now I hate using my PCs at work and would like to switch to Mac there as well.  Every now and then I work from home and only use my Macbook Air.  At work I have a PC with dual monitors.  I'm probably more productive on the Air due to the gesture control on the touch pad, which is something I think many Windows users aren't aware of.  The gesture controls on Mac laptops are over-the-top efficient once you get used to using them.  I actually prefer a magic track pad now over a mouse in any setting, simply due to the gesture control.

I also switched my parents over to a Mac a little over a year ago.  They used to call me fairly often in need of help with their PC.  Getting photos from their camera to their PC.  Figuring out why it crashes.  Updating drivers.  Figuring out how to make it work.  Etc. etc.  I convinced them to switch to an iMac and they hardly ever call anymore in need of help.  Everything always works fine for them and the OS is so intuitive that they never need to ask me about anything.  

I highly highly recommend switching to a Mac.  I used to judge a computer by the numbers on the packing slip tag.  Which has more memory?  Which has the larger hard drive?   Etc.  All the while I was ignoring the OS that would orchestrate all of that.  That is where many balk when they see Mac specs and prices.  "How can they charge that much for that much RAM, and that hard drive?".  I used to say the same thing.  Trust me, that's not the correct way of looking at it.  It's all about the OS and how this piece of technology is going to be incorporated into your daily life and what you need it to do.  That sounds cliche, but it's the truth.  I'll probably be using this 2012 Macbook Air for another 4 years.  And when I upgrade, it won't be due to this thing failing.  It will be because Apple will eventually release an Air with a retina display and I'll upgrade simply because of that.