Mac vs PC among CCR Divers

Which do you prefer Mac or PC

  • I use a Mac Computer (As Primary Computer)

    Votes: 81 55.1%

  • I use an iPhone

    Votes: 75 51.0%

  • I use an iPad

    Votes: 69 46.9%

  • I use a PC Computer (As Primary Computer)

    Votes: 64 43.5%

  • I use a driod phone

    Votes: 34 23.1%

  • I use a droid Tablet

    Votes: 19 12.9%

  • I wish Manufacturers software would run on Apple products

    Votes: 55 37.4%

  • I am fine with software only working on PCs

    Votes: 26 17.7%
  • Total voters
    147
We have 3 I pads in the house and they are excelent at checking Emails, looking at photoes and SKYPE.

Appart from that they are just toys.

I cant upload my Go Pro on to an Ipad which is a PITA and i cant use my buisness software on Apple nor can i find a program or an app that will allow me to transfer my 20+ years of files and Access database info on to it. So its useless.

Id like to go Apple (it gets less virus issues) but they dont make it easy.


I phones are like Ipads but much much worse. They are totaly fantastic at everything EXCEPT internet acces on the move and makeing phone calls.

And i work mainly in London not the Outer Hebrades

I got used to telling people Id be dropping theri calls as i drove past Clacket Lane services on the M25. It was so predictable I could tell them within 5-10 seconds of loosing the conection.

The Iphone didnt work at all in my office (In the last 16 years of living here i have I have never owend a phone which wouldent work in my office.)

My wife and kids were on the same network and they had no problems on their Blackberys and LGs.

My Iphon 4 (which i baught because I thaught it MUST be better than my old Iphone3.... but it was worse) is now just an IPod in my car. I run a buisness and an Iphone is a toy not a buisness phone.

I use a Samsung Galexy SIII now which is crap in comparison as a toy or Ipod but as a internet access tool and phone, its a country mile better than the I-phone


ATB

Mark
 
Mark Chase said:
I cant upload my Go Pro on to an Ipad which is a PITA
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Why not ? I am uploading my Go Pro to my iPad. I use a $4 Micro SD card reader that plugs into the iPad connector.

Mark Chase said:
and i cant use my busness software on Apple nor can i find a program or an app that will allow me to transfer my 20+ years of files
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What format are your files, maybe I can make some suggestions. E.g. my ability to read office docs on the iPad when travelling improved immeasurably once I realised winzip was available for iPad.

Tb.
 
dmainou said:
Btw, for those with predators and OSTC'S you can install Subsurface and run it in any OS you like.

Subsurface | An open source divelog

The late Jan Schubert helped a lot with this project.

D

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I tried that but it won't recognize my Petrel for download (Win XP).
Not a big deal since I already have the Vision SW and the SW SW :xeye: so the need for a third log isn't too big. :)

/nils
 
Coming from a System V and variants back ground and long time user of BSD and Linux for personal use, I've just moved over to a MacBook Air for work and travel and swish iMac for the home and I love it. I don't miss patching and recompiling kernels just get a USB device to work at all.

I feel right at home with it and it is easy to use and I can get right in there elbow deep with a terminal and shell commands and have been surprised at the array of standard unix tools in there.

Slick GUI, up there with KDE and Gnome.

As far as MDB files in MacOSX, try connecting to them using ODBC or JDBC. Open Office or Lbre Office (Base) is really good at this, heaps of tutorials on the net and I've had success following them, beats loading DarWine and Access in to MacOS X. Better still, find a parser that will read your Access file and generate a SQL file for loading into SQLite (standard in Mac) or MySQL, Oracle etc.

GoPro HD editing on the iMac and iPad 3 (Apple camera connection kit and SD card no greater then 32GB << very important with the Hero 3) is a dream with iMovie so simple to use and powerful, I was surprised especially on the iPad.

If only I could get my old UWATEC Sol dive logs of my wife's laptop into a Mac App then go native from there I would be stoked. Very happy that I download my Shearwater data.

I stuck one the big apple stickers on my KISS head and my O2 cells are now more stable and respond better. I stuck another one on my 4wd and it now crashes less, even with windows open.
 
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Baron015 said:
Why not ? I am uploading my Go Pro to my iPad. I use a $4 Micro SD card reader that plugs into the iPad connector.



What format are your files, maybe I can make some suggestions. E.g. my ability to read office docs on the iPad when travelling improved immeasurably once I realised winzip was available for iPad.

Tb.
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My I pad wont accept the files. I searched on the internet for a way to resolve the problem and most sugested uploading on to a PC, reformating the files and sending it to cloud. By the time i have done that i may as well just work on my PC i pluged in to a USB adaptor i use to upload my camera but it wont even reckognise the files :(

Can I save the files in a diferent format on the Go Pro its self that will work?


I am using Coreldraw .CDR files for my drawings but i can save them in another format. (mind you there are nearly 6000 drawings) I use Word as a data base, Exell as a spreadsheet, Sage Payrole for wages and most importantly Access Database

ATB

Mark
 
Hello Mark,

My brother has a wifly card. A memory card that also has wifi. It crrates a wifi network and you connect to that from your ipad and it uploads the pictures. Pretty convenient.
 
YobazEfendi said:
Hello Mark,

My brother has a wifly card. A memory card that also has wifi. It crrates a wifi network and you connect to that from your ipad and it uploads the pictures. Pretty convenient.
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Does it work with video as well?

I thaught it was a file format issue rather than a conection one but i am a computer dunce who quit trying to lern after DOS 5

ATB

Mark
 
MikeWebb said:
If only I could get my old UWATEC Sol dive logs of my wife's laptop into a Mac App then go native from there I would be stoked. Very happy that I download my Shearwater.
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Try sub surface.

A different alternative is j dive log or diving log. With diving log you can use the trial version to do your import out of the original software then use subsurface to import that file.

D


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Macs always seemed like 3x the price for the same hardware and loads of issues with stuff like Solidworks on macs and any other "proper" software you care to mention.

Maybe they were good years ago but these days I think they're just shiny shite for people who need the latest gadgets.

Maybe a lot of rebreather divers are the same character?
 
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