OK....my laptop at home is dying a slow painful death. It is your average run of the mill Windows XP system. I have always admired the OS X interface (I condier it what Linux can only ever dream of being), and I am seriously considering the new Mac Book Pro.
Questions:
Thanks guys! And if you could please attempt to keep any political bias out of this, I am really looking for rational, educated reasons.
Questions:
- I currently run Quicken for my personal and small business accounting. Is there an equivalent package?
- I use Tax Cut software for personal and small business taxes. Is there and equivalant package? Possibly not a big deal as I should be considering a professional for taxes anyway.
- Web browser. Is Safari as good/better than Firefox? Is Firefox avilable for OS X? How do pages render in Safari? Banks? Credit cards? Yahoo!? ForumsForums?
- Email. I currently use Thunderbird. It could be better. What are the alternatives in OS X?
- DVD/CD for Data & Video. I think this is a no-brainer. The built in tools seem very good.
- Image editing. See #5
- ITunes/IPod. Duh!
- Very Important I connect to my office with OpenVPN software. It looks to be available for OS X. Anyone have experience with it?
- What else am I not thinking about that I should consider?
Thanks guys! And if you could please attempt to keep any political bias out of this, I am really looking for rational, educated reasons.