Originally posted by wolfiegirl I use a mac for work, and have found it logical enough to keep using it for everything else (it's a laptop). Compared to my cheapy win 7 laptop it's faster and has less issues despite having no dvd drive and having slightly less features in some programs like word. Wolfieboy is due to get a new computer soonm he is eyeing a ssd one with win 10 installed, so I'll be interested in seeing how he goes. But he has never been a mac person. I always thought i was the same, but so far the smooth integration between adobe and mac has made me reconsider.
That said, I'll stick to my samsung phone. The lack of a back button on the iPhones drive me crazy
I was Microsoft from MS-DOS 1.1 way back in the dark ages. Like Wolfieboy, I was a really not Mac person. I am now really not a Microsoft person. If your (non) operating system kills your machine every week so that you cannot work on Monday except to put your computer back together, you can get a bit ticked off.
It was a combination of the nightmare that Microsoft introduced with Win 10, the biggest combination of arrogance and incompetence I ever met, and the high blood pressure induced every Monday with the updates that sent me to the dark side. Although working hard with computers since a very long time ago, I had never, ever, had to use RegEdit until Windows 10 Pro Build 1511. Then I had to go into that mess and turn off specific updates. KB3185614 downloaded (3 hours) then tried to update (2 hours) every day for 10 days in a row, and failed every time. I had to go into the registry and turn it off.
I don't have a big income. At 52 years old my employer went bankrupt and 50+ year old cost accountants aren't in high demand, particularly when they have worked in one industry for 11 years. People don't understand that a well rounded cost accountant can go from a newspaper chain to a coal mine as I did in 1981 and it's all deja vu all over again. I went to the computer side and survived and the house is paid for, but I drive a 2002 truck. On vacation I pull a 1981 trailer. I have owned exactly six Pentax bodies including the one I bought used in 1961.
I did not need M$ to kill a two year old laptop. My son phoned last night and said that the ASUS was working so well for him under Unix (with no hardware changes) he was going to install a virtual machine to run Windows on it instead of the Toshiba he is using now.
Best wishes to Wolfieboy. I sincerely hope that he has one of the good combinations of hardware and Win 10. There are millions of them; more than the millions of us who were badly bitten.