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Tonight The fans take over the podcast and share something they might change about their mac, what they love about their mac or maybe why they switched.

Show Notes (if I missed any please write to me)
These might be a little long. I tried not to leave anything out.
1st caller – Blake who loves the stability of the Mac. He does a lot of hi end editing with massive files and has never had a kernel panic. He loves everything about his Mac and doesn’t want to leave. He has been using his Mac for just over a year. He switched when he got fed up with Premiere Pro crashing when he edited with it so a friend told him to get a Mac. The next day he bought a mac Book pro with Final Cut pro and has been happy every since. There is not a thing he would change about the Mac

2nd caller – Mike – He feels that there is nothing bad about the Mac, it is more stable than a Windows machine. He has been using a Mac for a long time. He has always used a Mac. His first Mac was an Apple 2C in 1984 and has been a user ever since.

3rd caller – Ron is a switcher to a Mac mini in December. He’s been using Windows since the 80′s and switched because of the stability. He mentions that when ever the Windows machine updates the machine gets slower and slower. He mentioned that he might be installing Parallels to be able to use a few programs that are not available on the Mac which are:
A health program that logs the information about when you and your family have been to the doctor and then it sync’s to his palm pilot.
Secondly he mentioned that he mises his scanning program. Blake Tucker joined the chat to talk about image capture built into the mac which will capture images from scanner or cameras and then can be saved in a variety of formats. Image Capture is located in your Applications folder.
Lastly he had a question about getting more memory for his Mac Mini and Blake was able to answer that as well. Ron wasn’t sure if he really needed to put the same size memory is each slot. Blake and a few people in the chat mentioned that though it will run better with the same size in each that you could still have different sizes and get a boost to do what you have to do. Ron was going to install Parallels to run Powerpoint and word but Blake reminded him that they were available for the Mac and that they looked better.

4th caller is Jeremy – He is between Mac and Windows. He has not switched over yet but he has noticed from going to the Mac Store that there are a lot of games available for the Mac. He is waiting for “Command and Concur 3”

I then shared my own experience on a Mac. That I came from a Dos environment and that my Husband got me my first Mac which was a G4 ibook which I loved the look of it. The fact that it never crashed. A few things I’ve had to get used to switching to a Mac were that the x doesn’t close the program you need to choose quit or clover leaf +q which I was then corrected and told it should be apple key + q. Thank you to Mike and to Amature Traveler for correcting me on that. I also mentioned that I miss Microsoft Access when I’m on the Mac and keep a Windows machine around the house just for that program. I would rather not use boot camp or parallels.

From the chat room GuitarHammer Dislikes that the Mac will start his external drive when he “gets info” I mentioned that I believe the Mac needs to do that in order to get the info he needs and that a Windows machine will do the same thing.

Ian refuses to discuss the fact that he doesn’t want to switch to the Mac.

5th caller Mike comes on again to discuss boot camp and that he has Vista loaded. But mentioned that he doesn’t get to use the eye candy using Vista on the Mac but doesn’t really care about that – he just needs it to run a few programs for his job that are only Windows based.

6th caller Ian joins the show Scotland. to correct us that he may just move over to a Mac. He doesn’t hate the Mac. He was trained on a Mac when he was in High School. But that it was about 10 years ago. He has not tried OSX but has heard all the great things about the Mac. He gets he windows machine to work but has problems. Ian mentioned that he didn’t want to have to buy all new programs for the Mac and I reminded him that a lot of programs he might need are already built into the Mac and that some company’s offer a cross-grade which is cheaper than buying a whole new product. Its like an upgrade but cross platform. I offered that if Ian wanted to list the programs he uses on his Mac that the Mac community might be able to help.

I then start to close the show and thank people when then there were a few people who piped up.

Ron came back on. He shared that one of the things that brought him over to the mac was a key note from Steve Jobs where he had 2 windows going with video. The quality of the performance really impressed him. About a month later his group was looking to to multi camera editing and a company came in and gave them a quote of forty nine thousand dollars. He did a little research and found out that they used final cut pro. When it priced out it was only three thousand. Which I’m sure is surprising to a lot of people who think that owning a Mac means you spend more money. He realized that he could do more with his Mac for cheaper. He then spoke about how he uses his .mac account to host his podcast.

Blake then came back on to share that he works for pixel core and that they were doing their work with windows and he was able to get more for the buck from apple. He mentioned that Adobe Premiere is coming back to the Mac.

Mike came back on to ask what everyones 1st Mac was. He himself has a cube and that his first Mac from 1984 still works. He mentioned that each time you upgrade on a Windows machine it slows the computer down. And that on a Mac is

7th caller is Mark Sheppard. Joked that he wants Mikes cube. He go his first mac mini in 2005. He changed the harddrive and upgraded the memory and that it still works great for him. He hasn’t gotten an Intel machine yet. One of the main reasons he went to the Mac was because upgrading virus programs was taking up so much of his time.

8th caller was the Amature Traveler Chris – his 1st mac was a mac plus in ’86. That it didn’t come with a harddrive. That it ran by floppies. Which was in interesting bit of info to me as well.

Thank you everyone for joining the show tonight.