[looktothesky]

Macs are so pretty! They look really carefully designed, and they seem to have good multimedia editing programs as well.  I hope to become more familiar with that OS since I really know nothing about it.

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There isn't that much to learning the OS. But once you do, it makes it so much easier. And yes, very carefully designed. (!)

[Dr Lecter]

I might get a mac as a second computer, but I couldn't use it as my main computer until it can play all the games that Windows can. Basically the only reason why most people have Windows (because Macs are funkier), is because they have no choice if they want to play the latest games instead of waiting for the port assuming there will be one.

[Despondent]

If you want a mac for $500, it's out now.

and it's tiny

on the ipod page, they sport new ipod models for $99 and $149.


play games on your old pc. embrace i-life with a mac.

[rock_dash]

My only real experience with a Mac has not been a good one. I have a friend who's family computer is an old Mac powerpc that, by all right, should have shorted out and died years ago. Seriously, this thing is like Gollum. There's some evil source of power keeping it alive, but as it grows older, it gets uglier and more insane...
Everytime I go over to his house, I become more and more tempted to introce Mr. PowerPC to Mr. Aluminum Baseball Bat.

[Despondent]

Then in all fairness, you should use a ten year old baseball bat.

after that you could visit an Apple store and be blown away yourself.

I like antiques. they never go out of style. (except in this case, perhaps. Bear in mind, everybody copies apple's designs. Ten years ago Windows 95 wasn't out yet. I don't suppose you're keen on ten year old pcs either.)

but thanks for posting

[rock_dash]

Then in all fairness, you should use a ten year old baseball bat.
after that you could visit an Apple store and be blown away yourself.

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I never said I had anything against the new macs, just that I don't have any experience with them. Aside from the AppleIIes we used in elementary school, that PowerPC is the only Mac I've really used (And it's not just bad because it's slow and freezes every 10 minutes and the monitor is turning a putrid shade of yellow. Wait, yes it is!) . But I'm sure the new Macs are great. I love how small and compact the iPod is (sorta like a Gamecube). So I wasn't dissing on Macs in general, just that one crappy one.

(...I don't suppose you're keen on ten year old pcs either.) 

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Actually, I do kind of like old PCs, cause nobody usually minds if I open them up and fool around with them.

[Despondent]

Fair enough. My boss still laughs about how ANY time I'd process something (with my old dual processor power mac) I'd get up from my chair and pace around, waiting for the computation.

Not too much later I got a state-of-the-art system, and a resource room to call my office, with a door and everything! (Well, no windows)

I'm still needing a new upgrade, but I can do most of what I need to.

---

Now at home, that machine smokes. Saturday I was scanning/printing automatically WHILE importing/burning some cds AND converting an i-movie to Quick time file for email.
And it's just an "emac."

(my old IIVX waits downstairs for your ballbat assault.)

[Dr Lecter]

I'm just in the middle of downloading RedHat for my laptop...

This post has been edited by Dr Lecter: 05 February 2005 - 12:53 PM

[SimeSublime]

My experience with macs isn't great. At uni we have a bunch of old imacs. Oh how I hate them. They run OS9, which seems to me to be completely counter-intuitive. I can understand how it works, it just seems to be designed to make things difficult. And the machine itself was terrible. Sure, it looked nice, but the arrow keys were too small to be used, and the mouse was such a strange shape that I can't hold it.

Last year they got some new emacs with OSX. Much better. The mice are now long and useable(the old ones were circular. Circular I say!)They still only have one button and no scroll wheel though. A mouse with no scroll wheel is no mouse at all. OSX is a lot better though. And quicker, though that may be the machines themselves. I understand that macs are supposed to be better for editing movies and music and stuff, but that seems too much like work to me. I use a computer for fun. Which brings me to the point of games. Macs and games just don't work. All we have at uni are really old games(well, and Tony Hawk 4, but thats a load of pants). The one time we tried to set up a multiplayer game, all of the macs crashed.

In short, I'm sure they have their advantages, but they're not designed for what I want to do. But I do want an ipod, sadly I don't want to spend $500.

[Despondent]

Ahh yes, the hockey puck mouse. Everybody hated that one. Get an aftermarket scroll mouse, or what I prefer, the track ball (turbo mouse by kensington.)

I was using my imac mouse as a ceiling fan pull for awhile.

They have new ipods between $99 and $160. I'm sure the price on the U2 model will be heavily discounted on ebay soon.

[looktothesky]

Sorry to bump this dying thread, but I found about this little doozy a few days ago: here.

A cheap Mac? I'm interested. Sure, it doesn't come with a monitor, speakers, or some peripherals... but it's still pretty handy!!

[Dr Lecter]

*Pukes* That looks disgusting, I wouldn'y buy one

[Despondent]

The Tiger OS has "widgets" which appear on you DT with a function key. They're pretty cool. One shows what part of the planet is in darkness or light.

For instance, right now Barend and I could both go outside and look at the same sun.

Sunlit Earth

[Chyld]

My brother got some Apple laptop for his birthday (a Powerbook of some variety) and being a born-and-bred Windows boy, the whole damned OS makes no sense whatsoever. Trying to get the thing on the Internet reminds me of being in Holland the other week, where I was drugged up 24/7, didn't know a word of the language, and was expected to work out how the bus system worked. Only this time, I hadn't got a Dutchman giving me prompts, and there isn't a right mouse button.

[LiocModnar]

Both MacOS X and Windows XP are based off of Unix. MacOS especially has a more Unix-like organisation than Windows does but both of them are pretty similar in terms of useability. I went to the dark side about 2 months ago and have been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to cross platforms and transfer data between the iBook and my PC.

I feel your pain on the right-clicking. Either attach an external mouse or hold ctrl when you click to bring up the context menu.

Connecting to the internet was pretty straightforward for me, very much like doing it in Windows; only without dealing with the obnoxious wizards. I've been able to set up connection profiles for 3 locations and set up wireless access without incident. Due to no fault of Windows, getting my router to talk to my modem and PC was a pain in the ass, however. Anything in particular you're trying to do?

This post has been edited by LiocModnar: 01 July 2005 - 08:31 PM