I got a Mac
 

Fuck Yeah, It replaces my old computer.

Congrats, Tiger!

i am jealous.

i use Macs in my multimedia class to edit film; i totally love them.

Yeah I'll be paying this for a while. But I am happy.

Congrats. Which one did you get?

Just a macbook 13" 2.0

wise decision, and you can dual boot so you can run linux if you want, windoze bites except for 3d animation which macs arent really up to scratch yet

awesome!!! make sure you eventually get applecare, too.

Yay another Mac user, ive got an old Mac G3 like this


its runs of all the newest material though. im currently using Mac OS X 10.3.9
whatever that means???, they are the best computers in the world once you get used to them.

Mac rocks.
Don't have one though haha.

how are the prices these days?

im thinking of getting one next-- maybe a headless imac just for writing.

still i could not do without windows-- but i think xp is the end of the line for me.

as for linux, all very nice, but its a pain in the ass every time you wanna install anything.

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObje...OSA30000023936

check it out. I'm lucky i got mine second hand for £100 in mint condition, all i had to do is buy the new (very expensive) software for it. and this was over 2 years ago and its been fine ever since.
Except photoshop, i can't run photoshop for some reason.

:eek:

no photoshop?

hm maybe it's the lack of memory, i think 256megs (for the basic old ones) is too little.

now see this is the thing-- i like the mac OS buy paying $600 for the hardware of an imac mini and then having to upgrade memory etc reeks of ripoff to my builder's instincts.

the day i can put together my own machine & then slap mac OS on it as if it were linux, im switching on the spot.

aghagh agh... im hungry, i gotta get breakfast.

sorry thats the uk website, here ya go - http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...cts/AppleStore

you are probably right about the memory.

my wife bought an ibook from her friend. it was 3 years old when she got it (she got a good deal) and I laugh like a maniac everytime it breaks!

she's had to have it repaired twice now!

I :mad: macs.

PC 4 LIFE!

by a second hand 3 yr old pc and see how that stands up. my powerbook is 2 1/2 years old and is solis as

if you were to buy my 8-year old pc you'd have one of the finest machines ever built on this planet. ok, not "one of the" in the fingers of a hand, but certainly i can claim to be near the top 5% of the population or something. ha ha. not sure. the motherboard is 3 years old though and it fucking rocks.

of course my computer has gone through plenty of transmogrifications, to the point that (i think) not a single original component remains, like heraclitus's river, but that's not the point.

the point is that, whereas all macs are macs, not all pcs are created equal. sure it's easy to take potshots at $300 pcs from walmart, but i've built mine with great love & care & i can tell you it for the price my box kicks any mac in its arctic white ass. for the price, that is.

now, i would instal OsX if in it if i could, but i can't. osX is a great little operating system, i do enjoy it in spite of its limitations, and i am tempted to buy a mac, and i think i want to, but i do feel ripped off by mac's prices and limited hardware choices. which is the reason why i quit having a mac in the 90s, in the first place. if mac allowed me to put their software on any hardware, just like win-doze, i would do it in a new york minute. i think the day may be near after they had the good business sense to switch to intel processors.

my 2003 ibm x30 still kicks fucking ass, by the way, better than any 4-year old mac laptop i've seen.

my PC is at least 6 years old. I've added parts and taken some out and it's still rolling. I have to vacuum cat hair out of the inside every few months, but other than that it's as good as ever!

I can fix just about anything that goes wrong with this machine (software and hardware), but the mac has to be "sent off".



.....damn I hope that I didn't just jinx myself! :mad:

you mean "AppleCare", which adds even more to the price?? :eek:

Yeah, my PC is 9 years old, but I add and change often, so it's a different machine than I started with, just like !@#$%'s. The current motherboard/processor is about 4 years old. I've changed RAM and graphics cards since then though. I've never encountered a problem that wasn't simple to solve.

I plan on doing a massive overhaul this summer. New mobo, processor, RAM, graphics card. I have Vista (my school has it for free), but I'm going to wait to install it until then.

I would never ever allow any Apple product in my apartment or on my person, but I'd rather just stay out of the old argument. Different strokes.

but OSX is just a delicious form of linux. linux is great but a pain in the ass. the fuckers in apple should ditch the obsession with dumbfucked hardware, and undercut win-doze just like microsoft did with ibm back in the day. a lot more people would use the mac os if they didn't have to buy into the whole fucking cult of saint jobs.

I guess. I just don't really spend much time comparing operating systems. As long as it runs my games. I guess ignorance is bliss, as I've never used OSX or Linux. I have zero complaints about XP though.

osx is very dumb but very user-friendly. it also looks pretty. if all you wanna do is a simple task, it will do the work. i recently edited a video project in final cut pro and it was extremely easy--which i can't always say about avid (what i have).

i keep thinking of getting a mac as a typewriter (just for writing) because a) my old shit is in mac and won't open in windows b) the interface is cleaner therefore less distracting than xp. and madame !@#$%! will eventually need her own editing bay, probably with FCP (we might try premiere though. keeps improving).

anyway, computer fights are silly, eh? ha ha. i laughed at myself today.

These assholes from the "National Society of Collegiate Scholars" keep trying to get me to join them. It costs $75. My fat ass I'm going to join that shit. They sent me a sticker for my car today. It's just a scam to take money from morons who happen to make good grades. Like those Who's Who books.

i don't need to change hardware in my mac constantly, and i can get 56 channels of recorded audio running simultaneously and it is a strong live machine as well, i have used pcs with good hardware and windows and they have never been as solid as the macs ive had.

a-fucking-men!

fact: my bio teachers name is mak. shes gay

It would be a different story if you had a mac. > Virtual Pc.
If you're looking for a machine purely for writing, the old coloured iMacs are sufficient.

I bought my Quicksilver G4 five years ago, and have never had to reinstall the operating system, or any of my hardware/software.

Tip 1: OS X has a built in function to run so called cron scripts that fix your file system and hard disk in general. It's scheduled to run automatically during the night if the computer is idle. Some essential operations run every night, others only once every week or every month. So if you want your Mac to be healthy the most important thing you can do is to leave it running overnight, especially if you have worked on it all day and moved around big files. Also, it automatically does defragmenting for you.

Tip 2: You can also put your mac to sleep from a different location by sending yourself an e-mail.

oh cron jobs are common to linux machines, windows also has a scheduler and you can ask it to do this & that & the other. i update my virus definitions every morning for example (thats actually separate from windows), and i run maintenance programs regularly, but i turn off the machine at night because i have it in a battery backup unit & those suck a lot of power and $$.

about the typewriter thing:

i actually DO have an old colo(u)red imac, a G3 from 199...7?-- that i traded-- but it's a trash heap, and i fear that the hard disk might drive might die & fuck me up. sure i could make backups (i have several firewire/usb hard drives floating around), but the thing runs OS9 and finding software for it is a pain in the ass. i attempted to buy her memory about a year ago but it was a) ridiculously overpriced b) i forget what-- so i didn't.

don't know what im going to do about this. but sure it's fun to think outloud on the internet. :D

haha it broke the second time 1 week AFTER AppleCare ran out. they still fixed it for free, but DAMN what a piece of shit.

don't get me wrong, apples are better than pc's at some stuff (and I love my ipod with every fiber of my being), but for me pc is the only thing I need.

then again, I only use it for surfing the net and online games. my friend plays the same game on a mac, but macs are like stepchildren every time a patch comes around.

I like changing the hardware in my PC. It's a hobby of mine. It's just a different view of computers. Mine is the sweetest lego set ever. That's basically what it is. After I got too old for legos, I started building computers. Macs are magic. You plug them in and they work - no maintenence, no grease on your hands. I'm not interested in this. I want to have to replace my power supply because I got a new graphics card. I like doing this. I like buying new motherboards and spending days figuring out which one I want. Reading about latency in my RAM and shit.

oh, oh, i hear you. picking the right chipset is like hunting for truffles. and then the customization is such a pleasure-- i installed my OS on a raid 1 array-- if one disk happened to crash due to cosmic rays, its twin would carry on without loss of data. thinking about that makes me all tingly inside.

as a matter of fact, i'm already considering my next behemoth-- maybe a file server for the house/office where i can store every goddamn file.

I miss the old days sometimes. A block of paper and ink rollers was enough to get the job done...*sigh*

damn, we posted on the same second!

yeah i love typewriters. you can really PUNCH those keys.

heeeey me too!
like 2 months ago.
a white macbook.
it's such a confortable piece of shit.
i record with garageband
and have wi-fi to chat from the fucking kitchen, or bedrooms, living room, bathroom, wherever.