Here I was thinking I have 'switched' but then I have 2 PC's at home (a laptop and a desktop) and I use a PC at work (although they did relend and bought me a mini so I can properly support Macs).

I have a 12" powerbook G4 now but I don't think I have switched. The reason is that I still rely on my PC. It has all my stuff on it (300gb worth) that just won't fit on the powerbook. I don't think I will truely switch until I can either afford to but a powermac (or mac pro...whatever they will be called) or Apple lets me build my own.

So does just owning a Mac qualify as being a switcher or do you need to sever all reliance on PC's?

Bartron

If you prefer Mac OS X, or use it as your primary OS at home, you're a switcher.
I consider myself a Mac user even though I'm forced to use a PC at work and probably spend more of my time overall in Windows.
This also skews web stats. Macs only account for 3% of computers connected to the Internet, but that includes all the corporate PC boxes. The percentage of home users is probably a lot higher.

Hmmmm I considered myself to have 'switched' the very first time I saw a Mac (I fell head over heels in love with the Flower Power casing :lol:, and OMG the interface!!!) I had just inherited a clunky Windows 3.1 pc from my dad so you can sorta imagine my frame of reference at that time. Of course I was not able to switch until many, many years later when I finally had the moolah to buy myself a Mac.

i think i have 'switched'...yes i still own and run a windows PC, but it isn't my main machine and most of the time it is switched off (hasn't been turned on in almost 3 weeks) the only time i use it is when i play games, but when i need to be productive i use my mac (like most mac users who own a mac and a windows box) and as Johnny said, if you prefer Mac OS X over windows (isn't hard) then you have essentially 'switched'.

Its coming up to my 1 year since I switched over and got my powerbook, granted I still fix pc's at work, and I have a pc sitting in the corner at home w/ an unformatted drive doing nothing but collect dust.

Personally? I consider a switcher as someone that is confident and extremely happy with an apple computer, and not needing any reliance of a windows computer for any general computing work, i.e. multimedia.

of course there's still a need for a pc, but my need for windows is very minor, in fact i'd be tempted to chuck on virtual pc again :\

going off track..

As soon as I prefered Mac over PC, and owned a mac, I consider myself switched

Yup, if you use a mac at home and prefer mac then clearly you are switched!

You are switched when your mac takes over. I had my powerboook for about 3 months before I had truly switched. Once I realised that my PC hadn't been turned on for over a month and there was no real need to turn it on then i considered myself switched.

I think the last time I booted my PC was when I had a unix assignment due and I had to check that my script worked under linux as well as solaris and OS X.

A small questionaire should sort it out...

1. Do you have a look at 'appletalk' many mornings, or is it 'beige box review'?

2. Are you saving up your pennies to buy the latest alienware box you've been drooling over, or is it the upcoming macpro?

3. Do you feel all fuzzy inside when you learn that keyboard shortcut for the windows media centre, or is it 'ctrl-cmd-D' for an OSX dictionary meaning that makes your morning?

4. Do you wish OSX had a 'Start' menu?


I think you'll find your answer in there somewhere...

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I consider myself switched when I bought a Mac mini. The old PC at home remained for a few weeks and finally it got powered off completely.

Now I even have a Mac at work.

Why not just spend a couple hundred dollars on a 300Gb external firewire drive? :P

Once I'm over my reliance on a PC at home I think I will have switched...Probably a good poll question though...are you considered switched becasue you bought a mac or becasue you 'use' a mac? (interesting to see which one Apple use in their marketing.

I've had Macs before but always went back to PC for some reason or another (anyone remember when bidorbuy.com.au launched in 2000 and they were plugging "buy this iMac" on the front page and in their adds....well, I was the one that bought it....sold it about 5 months later). The problem was not only porting data but being able to use it. Projects in premiere that I couldn't migrate..photos etc...it's a lot easier now but back then it was nigh on impossible (strangely enough my DV camera worked fine under OS 9 but OS X won't have a bar of it).

If the Mac Pro's (or whatever) are decently priced I'll probably make the leap ad ditch the PC for good...in the meantime I'm using the powerbook for pretty much everything I can and the Pc is getting used less and less.

I'd say it's when you'd prefer to use a Mac over a PC - I have both at home, and whilst my PC is a 2.8 P4 with a gig of RAM with a 256MB 6600GT video card and a 17" LCD monitor - I tend to stick to my 12" iBook g4 (:

While I do love some apps on Windows eg Soundforge, Paint Shop Pro, Eudora etc - I've been able to find Mac versions or equivalent software.

The big spinner is also games - while I largely play one game (one day I'll shake the WoW habit), which is PC and Mac, I do like other games some as Dawn of War etc, which is not on Mac - mind, a lot I play are ie UT2004, MOH, etc etc.

I'd never like to get rid of my PC, due to the large investment into it, and it also makes a nice file server - which is it's other function these days. I got so sick of the maintainence required for Windows that I moved all my 'daily business' ie email/web/graphic/sound/etc work to it, wiped the Windows machine for the last time and put a fresh XP install on it, with games, and thats it. I don't want to use it for online activities anymore.

When I get some money saved aside, I'm going to buy a big flashy iMac, or maybe a Powermac (or whatever they'll be called), and should Uncle Steve include a decent support of Windows in Leopard, then I'll probably partition the Mac, install my Windows games on that, and then maybe even switch the PC off. More computers the merrier, but it would be nice to have one system for it all.

Windows still has it's place, and I support Mac, Windows and Linux at work but the Mac is what makes my life so much easier at home and work - issues have been reduced from "oh no a virus" to "how do i use this software", and thus giving me more time to sit in the background in admin mode - I'm loving it.

Hmm I've gone off on quite a tangent, haven't I?

I only considered myself switched when I got rid of my PCs and went all out Mac.

I now own Macs only - iBook, Powermac, Mac Mini