DISQUS

Karen Swim · 1 year ago

Ah, I too hear the call of the Mac. I have been wrestling with the decision and your post has me wanting to run right down and buy now. Hmm, macbook pro or the new Mac air.

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Hey Karen,

I know! If I was smart I'd go today! But I figure switching is going to really slow down my production on videos and regular work. Can't do it right now. But I want to!

Kurt · 1 year ago

I thought the clever commercials would have been your main reason for switching. Congratulations on your switch, you won't be disappointed. I made the switch during my senior year in college (way back in '03) and haven't looked back.

Stormy · 1 year ago

Oh, you brought back some memories w/ the "laptop". I had the next generation, with the color screen! Cost about the price of a car too. Ohhh yeah. Microsplat could never tempt me over to the dark side though - I just kept slogging through the "Macs are gonna die any time now" years and emerged into the "All the cool kids have 'em" days we are enjoying now.

Hope to see you over on the Mac side soon. We can trade Final Cut Express tips.

john fischer · 1 year ago

I am fighting with this decision as well, I actually have driven to the mac store and stood there drooling and left twice. I am in the position that I feel like know ahead of time if the change will actually make me more more productive, happier with work etc

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

@Kurt, the commercials are good, I've give them that. Not why I want to switch though. They just seem more fun, as my video says.

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Stormy, wow, you had one with a color screen? They were expensive weren't they? I played a lot of dumb video games on that expensive care, hehe. I only switched because I was forced to when I took a real job.

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Hey John, I've never actually been in a mac store. Probably because I know I'll whip out the card and succumb to the pressure. Did you drool on any of the demos?

Wess Stewart · 1 year ago

I would like to switch to a mac as well. Currently I have two machines, one (my main box, desktop in the garage) is a P2-700 or something. My laptop is a Pentium 133.

The sad thing is, this time I'm not joking. That's really what I have.

I so need a mac.

Todd · 1 year ago

I grew up on a Mac, then went to PC land for far too long, now I'm back on a Mac and it is SO much better. I put all the specs of my new Mac recently on my blog if you're curious which one I chose.

Question for you, Jim: did you transcribe that video yourself or did you use some sort of software tool to transcribe that text for you? I'd love to find a tool to transcribe videos automatically...

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Wess, a pentium 133? Man, you need an intervention! I think my mac laptop, the old one, might outprocess that thing?

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

Todd, I write every show in a script format first, then record it. So there's nothing to transcribe, that's how I wrote it to begin with :) I just paste the scripts here in the blog entry for Google, etc...

Leather Sectionals · 1 year ago

Can't say i am even tempted to shift to Mac. I love my PC. But i did enjoy your little lament/paean of envy or whatever :)

Todd · 1 year ago

ahhh you write a script first, got it ;) i know there are some podcasting transcription tools...maybe they would work for video. i have actually considered setting fire to my old PC just for the pure satisfaction i would get out of it. my new Mac boots up about three times as fast, and that alone makes it worth it - let alone all the million other reasons. :)

Bernard Griffiths · 1 year ago

Jim I could have sworn I saw some mac displays behind you in some of your videos. Do you just use the displays and not the machines?

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

That's just a Dell monitor Bernard. The only Mac I have is that old one in the video. :(

John Herrington · 1 year ago

Hi Jim,
After working on a PC for nearly all of my life (outside of when I used a Mac in 4th-6th grade) I made the switch to a Mac. What I was most concerned with was being as productive on a mac as I was on my PC since I didn't really know my way around a Mac and OSX. I'd have to say that I truly love my mac but the biggest pain was the transition from Outlook to Entourage. If you want to export your .pst file to Entourage 2004 you're basically out of luck. After transferring all of my local emails to our email server and then manually moving them folder by folder into Entourage I'm finally all set. Good luck if you make the switch!

John Vehlewald · 1 year ago

Do it. Do it now :) I switched a few months ago, hands down one of the best things I have ever done. Haven't had any need for a PC since, and have no intention to ever own another one again. With all this video stuff you're doing you owe it to yourself to just make the switch already. I had a similar issue with Entourage as John above, but they actually just released a new version of the office suite for the Mac that I think solved that issue (as well as the other weird hang-ups office 2004 for mac had). See ya at Summit (with my MacBook).

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

John H. Thanks for the inspiration. You're right, outlook will be the biggest transition. I have so many archived emails.

Jim Kukral · 1 year ago

John V. So you're saying I can import my outlook files now? See you in Vegas, let me drool over that mac!

Looks like your pic is messed up. Your gravatar is putting Greg's pic in, weird.

John Vehlewald · 1 year ago

looks like I may be mistaken on the outlook stuff, i use an exchange server so that obviously makes things simpler. There still are ways to make it happen, everything else was super easy :) Time machine alone makes it worth it. We'll catch up in Vegas though for sure and I will continue to shamelessly promote this thing.

nickygreen · 1 year ago

hmm... interesting

Joe F. · 1 year ago

I just made the switch this week. Not entirely, mind you, I will still need Windows for my day job, however I plan on using my Mac for everything else. You can't beat the amount of thought that Apple has put into every aspect of their computer: from the OS design all the way down to the power cable for the MacBook Pro. It's awesome.

ImJustCreative · 1 year ago

I am utterly biased. Had a Mac since the Mac Classic, and since then have more or less kept up with each major machine release.

It certainly was all those years back a totally prestigious machine to have. I had to get mine as a non working 2nd Mac, buy several more non workings and mash em together. Didn't work.

So moved to the Mac LC with color monitor.

Up and till my 24inch iMac and my MacBook pro. Fundamentally they are my tools, they are what I am used to and it's what enables me to do my job, so at least for me I have a reason that I can justify to myself. So I say to myself regularly.

I have worked on PC's also most of my career, so I have a healthy balance of both machines in the same design/commercial printing environments. Infact my first advertising job in my early 20's was using PageMaker on a PC, which I put up with for a year. Didn't like it one bit.

For me Mac's are machine and a tool but a very cool and stylish one at that. Fulfills all my needs, mostly, and when I need a PC, I just boot up the emulator. Wonderful.

I know some friends who run there own Web development company, and last year made the significant switch to Mac's, and they are loving it.

Certainly worth seriously thinking about. Just don't get the new 'Air'.


Graham
ImJustCreative
Blog & Web Ramblings from 'my' Gutter.

Peter · 1 year ago

I am also considering a Mac. I am a PC technician and completely frustrated with Vista. I also want to start Videos and I think the Mac is the way to go.

fan · 1 year ago

i like mas as well,really glad to get such useful infor from you !