Apple Pro Exams

[mrt2]

I've been a windows guy all my life and have hated on and bashed Apple for years until I understood them. My job got me a macbook one day and the rest is history. I fell in love with Apple products SO MUCH to where I purchased the machine you see in my sig and I"m apple only in my house. I have this machine and a Mac min with no complaints (other than this weird bug I'm having in Photo Shop) ANYHOW I say all that to say that I fell in love with Mac's so much as to want switch my career path totally and start support Mac's... I want to quit the windows environment all together and become and all Mac support guy. Only problem is at my level of Windows support it seems that I would have to take a significant pay cut (40k+ cut) to switch over to Apple because at that point even though I have all this experience in general in the tech world (8+ years) once I become Apple Certified I will still be just that... a fresh NEW certified Apple tech. :( Kinda sucks because I'm REALLY fed up and tired of what I do and would love to switch over to the Apple side of things. :|

[ccuk]

I've been a windows guy all my life and have hated on and bashed Apple for years until I understood them. My job got me a macbook one day and the rest is history. I fell in love with Apple products SO MUCH to where I purchased the machine you see in my sig and I"m apple only in my house. I have this machine and a Mac min with no complaints (other than this weird bug I'm having in Photo Shop) ANYHOW I say all that to say that I fell in love with Mac's so much as to want switch my career path totally and start support Mac's... I want to quit the windows environment all together and become and all Mac support guy. Only problem is at my level of Windows support it seems that I would have to take a significant pay cut (40k+ cut) to switch over to Apple because at that point even though I have all this experience in general in the tech world (8+ years) once I become Apple Certified I will still be just that... a fresh NEW certified Apple tech. :( Kinda sucks because I'm REALLY fed up and tired of what I do and would love to switch over to the Apple side of things. :|

Money isn't everything... however it counts for a lot. Ultimately you have to be happy with your life.

Whichever way you go I wish you the best (Y).

[Virtual Epiphany]

I found the Apple exams to be very straight forward and easy to take. They do not try to deceive you like Microsoft exams.

[se7en.hu]

Here in England the Apple Staff really dont know what they're doing, +1 for the Genius Bar. Had a issue with Leopard after upgrading (too complicated to go into) and they suggested sending my MacBook in for repair, I declined and my issue was fixed in 10.5.1.

I guess Apple really concentrate on giving a good impression in the US but in Europe they're just another company that makes PCs. I remember going into an Apple Store in Spain and all the iMacs were bootcamped into Windows, I asked the manager why and he said "windows is better" I told him I hope he loses his job and he didnt take that well :D

Regardless, Exams booked :D wish me luck

+ 1 - Down here in Aussieland they are the most clueless bunch of zealots i've ever seen, although I know this is because they are not 'real' -Center's, it kinda sucks for us .. So i hear they are opening their first -Store in Aus but, ITS IN SYDNEY!! :(

Still, when I took my laptop for service I was trying to convince them to let me into their service area and fix it myself, solely because they just don't know wtf their doing. (took it there like 3 times, told em what's wrong, what needs fixing and they changed parts completely irrelevant to the issues) :/