Mac OS: Experiences and Impressions of Users

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The discussion centers on user experiences with Mac OS, specifically OS X and OS 9.1, on an iMac G3-600MHz. Users express a preference for the clean and user-friendly interface of Mac OS, although some acknowledge that it does not fully replace Windows functionalities. The mention of VirtualPC highlights its capability to run Windows applications on Mac, albeit with performance limitations. Overall, users find that many essential applications are available for Mac, making the transition feasible.

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  • Familiarity with Mac OS X and its interface
  • Basic understanding of virtualization software, specifically VirtualPC
  • Knowledge of web design tools compatible with Mac OS
  • Awareness of application availability across operating systems
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This discussion is beneficial for web designers, Mac users considering a transition from Windows, and anyone interested in the capabilities of Mac OS compared to Windows environments.

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Anyone here use/own a mac? I just bought an iMac off my company, G3-600mhz, 384 meg of ram (or so), installed with OS 9.1 and OS X (early, crappy version).

I like the Mac OS, seems clean, easy to use. I was just wondering, what impressions others might have had with it? Can you really replace windows and all (or most) of it's functions with it?
 
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I started my summer work as a web designer two weeks ago and have been using a Mac with OSX exclusively and I've really grown to like it. It doesn't replace Windows for me, but OSX is really slick.
 
I've got a mac on order now...15" powerbook Ti, 1ghz, 512ram.

Supposedly you can get a program called VirtualPC for the mac that allows you to run windows within OS-X. If that's the case, I won't be losing anything.

But since now I've sold off my PCs (just one older one left) to get this mac, I'll figure out how to do without windows one way or the other
 
VirtualPC is nice for small utilities and applications, but for anything more it's really slow.
 
That's what I heard...so I guess I'm slated to find out. However, it seems like most of the big time programs I use match something that's out for the mac.

Or so I hope
 

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