I am facing a serious dilemma.

I need a new PC. I've been a "PC Man" since I bought my first 286/12 back in the 80's.

Since many of the companies I've worked for made PC software, I had never even TOUCHED a MAC.

Fast forward to this year. I joined a new company that mandated MAC Books. And like Spock in Star Trek eating meat, I find that although it has been abhorrent to me, I kind of like the MAC. If you have no idea what I am talking about, watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQFXt2pTog4

So fast forward to today. I've got a PC that has:
Outlook and Office 365.
Corel Draw with .CDR files
iTunes with over 30GB of data

So I'm curious what you think about just getting another PC, or paying 2=3x more for a MAC?

Thoughts?

I'm posting from a MacBook Pro right now. I was a PC guy from the early 90's until 2012.

Windows XP was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. Here was what my Saturday morning entailed - wake up, make coffee, cook bacon & eggs, turn on PC, install updates, reboot 30 bazillion times, run optimizers to get rid of trash from installers, browse 2 websites and check e-mail, run optimizers to get rid of bloat from browsing the web, shutdown, and eat lunch. The first weekend with my iMac, I was done with my browsing in 30 minutes (my coffee pot wasn't even empty) and neither rebooted nor ran any optimizers.

I'm a PC guy even considering 4 years of also using a mac.

I prefer iPhones over Samsung for my cell phones.

I have an iPad for a tablet.

I would go with sticking with another PC. I think Microsoft is learning about keeping the Win 10 OS more protected from third party changes.

I was in your shoes...

I made the switch for my photography business...iMac...then MacBook Pro...then iPads...

I never looked back nor have I had any issues...they just "work".

I can remember doing updates, scans, backups, bug fixes...etc. on my old PC that would waste many a Saturday.

I'm not a PC hater...just a Mac lover...that can clearly see a productive gain and less stress since I switched.

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Originally posted by Rolan_Kraps:
So fast forward to today. I've got a PC that has:
Outlook and Office 365.
Corel Draw with .CDR files
iTunes with over 30GB of data

Outlook is available for Mac. Office 365 is available for Mac, although Access is not. LibreOffice is a free office suite that should do everything that MicroSoft Office does for you.

I don't know about Corel Draw.

iTunes should work better on a Mac than on a Windows machine.

If you use a Mac and you need to run Windows programs (I have this situation with Intuit's QuickBooks), you can use a Virtual Machine program such as Parallels, VMware Fusion, or the free Virtual Box, to create a Windows environment on the Mac. This works just fine.

Has anyone moved iTunes from a PC to a Laptop?
Has anyone found a software package that will open Corel .CDR files?

I switched to a 21-inch iMac in 2011 and have never regretted that decision. Changing operating systems was an adjustment and takes a little time, however, it is worth it.

Just curious, but what kind of phone do you carry? If you carry an iPhone, that might lean the decision a bit more toward the MAC.

Since out home is virtually free of Apple stuff, and my wife and I carry Android phones, I stick with PC's.

Consider getting a refurb off apple's store site. Save some money and get the same warranty as new. Worth every penny. I'm thinking about selling a MacBook Pro I bought a little while back. My email in profile if interested.

https://www.apple.com/shop/bro...ome/specialdeals/mac

I think adobe illustrator can handle the Corel file. Corel has Painter and other things for macOS so that may also be an option.

Or export to something else before migration.

I went from 20 years of massive desktop PC's to a MacBook Air in 2013. I'd need a real compelling and specific reason to Ever buy a PC again.

Been a PC user since just after Lotus. Pretty handy with hardware and software. Software used to be the real difference between PC and MAC. For instance, I use Access quite a bit. There is no MAC Access, but MySql certainly fits the bill. So, Now, no. As my pc's die off I will be going full on MAC. Simply a better machine.

A basic PC with Win10 will do everything I want it to do in the background. And it runs everything I care about.

I limit some of what I will let it do because I like to think that I am in control.

And it costs a lot less than Apples. No choice for me.

I've been building custom computers for clients for 25 years.
The new Intel Gen 8 CPU's, SSD's will scream with Windows 10 Pro.
I also benchmark them and the new hardware today is amazing.
No MAC recommendation here.
It will do everything you want and more with no new learning curve or overprice.

I am one of those 'failed converts' who was PC since the 8088 days DOS 1.0....and not that I was great at any phase of the continual upgrades/crashes/etc.....by the time I fired the MS internet explorer/whatever mail program and loaded FireFox, along about XPPro time the platformed worked very well for me & my business.

During the phasing in to retirement I sought to convert to the Mac book as it seemed....tidier.

So I made the leap. I worked hard to learn to use their system....and there were some great ideas....along with some things that just didn't work well for me.

They had marketed the 30-day return/no questions asked/along with massive 'any answers you needed free' tech support.

Day 27 I gave it back to them. I doubt I'll ever try another.

Good luck with your next Silicon Life Form whatever it is.

My wife is a mac fangirl, so I have to support it. As in tech support.

The new Microsoft surface and higher end google chrome books outperform mac book for a cheaper (either by small or big margin depending on model).

Until apple goes back to making their own chips they are just PCs running a Linux OS with a custom user interface.

If you like it go for it, it's just money.