yeah, i have that same trouble here. I use a Wacom Cintiq 21ux as my primary display, and keep the MBP lid closed, but the wacom is lower resolution than the MBP screen, so if I disconnect, everything shifts to the main MBP display and gets wacked because of the resolution difference.

but, when i'm hooked up here in the studio, i only run the wacom and keep the lid closed, so it's perfectly fine i'd say 95% of the time.

Really the window thing is my only complaint.
I've had zero problems that are software related.. 100% pure stability and OSX is truely the best thing that's ever happened to my workflow.

THe hardware is what gets me, Apple likes to make things sexy and they most certainly succeed... at the cost of some people ending up with a huge mess to fix over stupid ports or something small causing a headache.

Imagine if it wasn't my display port that's fucked, but something as basic as the USBs ? can you imagine having to replace a motherboard cause of a USB ? that's just retarded... sure it sounds justifiable to fix it for a display issue, but replacing the whole motherboard over something like a USB port, and you start to see the issues that an Imac can have..

Honestly if I could built a hackintosh and not fear that it might shut off at any moment, or if I update I probably would.

laptops are the same way though. Whether Mac or PC, most laptops are not intended to be serviced by the end user. i don't know... i guess it's never really been a big concern of mine.... i usually buy new gear every year anyway.

true enough I guess...

oddly I've never owned a laptop, and have no desire.
I also have never owned a cellphone, I'm kinda strange I guess.

I just like a nice desktop :)

if u think windows is boring try linux

Go with any of the new iMac's, loving mine :thumbsup

Have it, Love it.:thumbsup

I am a hardcore windows fan. I bought my 27inch Imac about 3 months ago and never looked back. It was one of the best investments I have ever made. Good Luck.

no drama, just sorta think I run my box is my decision not mac's... just like if I decide to open an app twice... BTW how is AOL treating you?

Thanks everyone. Think I need to play around with the OS before really buying one, but seems like good feedback.

I was a PC Guy forever... until I got my first Mac latop last summer. Then last December, I bought myself an iMac 27" for Christmas. I LOVE IT.

It of course does everything my PC's ever did, but it is so much nicer. It's fast, the screen is stunning, and the design is great too.

The mouse that comes with it takes some getting used to. It has no buttons at all. Instead it has 2 left and right "virtual" buttons. The top of the mouse is also multi-touch sensitive, so you swipe your fingers across it to do different things. It's surprisingly natural and reacts exactly how you expect.

Get an iMac27" (forget the 24"). You'll be really happy.

What's "nicer" about it?

I have a iMac27" a PC wireless mouse, a Verbatim backlit keyboard, and Bose Companion 3 Series II multimedia speaker system.

I never understood why people buy Bose.

very true... you might like the mac or you might not... either way you'll still be productive...

personally I don't have the time to incorporate a new OS and new apps into my work flow. not to mention the cash flow... cost me like 15K+ to change my systems over.

I do have 2-30 inch cinema displays I love the heck out of :thumbsup

thanks G-D you didn't get a blow job in a gay bar :1orglaugh

came stock in my car

I have a Mac pro tower and a Macbook pro, I have not looked back since moving from Windows.....the iMac would do fine and these days are more upgradable.

You people do know there is a difference between Windows vs. MBP, MB, iMac, etc.?

Windows is an operating system.

Apples to oranges, folks.

LOL - only reason I'd ever buy anything Bose beyond noise canceling headphones. Though it pains me to admit it, the Bose system in my ride is pretty damn excellent.

good for you! :thumbsup

I've got the 27" imac and a Vaio laptop. The imac is gorgeous, for farting around it is by far my favorite machine, but most to the time I'm on a computer its for business and even though the mac may be better there is a bit of a learning curve and that always throws me back to the Vaio. I can work much faster with fewer frustrations.

I've said it before last time this came up, I feel if I didn't have the Vaio to go back to and I was left with only the mac I would probably get used to it pretty quickly. I worked for a client back when I was doing consulting that had an all mac office and I didn't have a huge problem adjusting or getting things done there, but there are subtle differences between the two and when you have both mac and pc side by side it's kinda hard not to just fall back on what you know.

My new Vaio is pretty decent, it's maybe a year old. It's more of a "looker" than a machine though, sadly. 98% of the time it's golden but the 2% of the time when it fucking crashes for no reason I want to smash the thing. My first Vaio never crashed. It ran w/o error or issue for 5 plus years. I loved that thing. If my new Vaio had been my frist Vaio I don't know if I would buy again.

Damnit people, "PCs" can run OS X just like Macs can run Windows.

I have one (iMac 27") and run widows 7 64 bit on it (macOs is still behind imho). Sweet machine, almost silent, fast and the display, being LED backlit, is second to none.

cant run starcraft 2 on highest graphic settings on my new iMac 24 3.2G :( works normally on medium settings only, that sucks

Professional webmasters should use Mac Pros, not iMacs.

Always been a mac person, but mainly used laptops. My MBP is pissing me off because it seems it spends more time in the repair shop than not, but last December, we decided to splash out and get the core i7 iMac. This thing is a thing of beauty - lovely sharp, bright display (auto-sensing brightness), silent (the passive air convection is enough so that the fans rarely kick in), and has not once crashed on me. Only reboots are for software updates where they are forced.

I think Shelly is right though, you've got to plunge in at the deep end to understand and appreciate OS X... no "ah fuck it, I'm going back to the PC for that"...

The only thing that bugs me in my setup, is if someone users their account, and then I go back into my account, for some reason, the USB bus driving the scanner has powered down so the one-touch buttons on the scanner don't work forcing me to fire up the canonscan software, which sends power back to that USB bus. Oddly it's fine on the macbook if I do the same, which tends to suggest it's an imac problem.
my setup:
http://www.borkedcoder.com/images/gfy/imac.jpg

I love my macs! When I have to use a pc I have it set up with an apple cinema display.