Has your Mac ever saved or made your day?

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs
It hasn't really saved my day, but it lets me do things that pc notebooks couldn't fathom.

Like with my wireless modem, checking my email anywhere, surfing the web at coffee shops (Macrumors.com.. very cool ) making presentations on Keynote on the go, writing, etc.

And as I said before.. chicks dig 'em! (if I had a dime everytime I heard "it's so cute!" while looking at my lap)

what kind of comp do you have 5300CS? because if they called your ol' 5300 'cute' they have incredibly low standards. lol.

 

[5300cs]

Sorry! -- I'm always with my iBook on the train. Had a girl last week on Friday with big hooters tell me it was real cute

Side note: I saw an auction the other day for a brand new battery for the 5300cs and almost got it, but decided against it. I'd love to play Specter on the subway, but $90 was a little too expensive for me. I'm a fan of the 5300cs case and style, and it was the first classic machine I bought. The passive matrix screen drives me nuts after a while, but have never had a detonating-battery problem so far .. hope it never happens: usually use it on my lap

 

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs
Sorry! -- I'm always with my iBook on the train. Had a girl last week on Friday with big hooters tell me it was real cute

Side note: I saw an auction the other day for a brand new battery for the 5300cs and almost got it, but decided against it. I'd love to play Specter on the subway, but $90 was a little too expensive for me. I'm a fan of the 5300cs case and style, and it was the first classic machine I bought. The passive matrix screen drives me nuts after a while, but have never had a detonating-battery problem so far .. hope it never happens: usually use it on my lap

thats what I thought, since the powerbook and laptops before it were not umm very cute.

 

[mactastic]

My TiBook makes my day, but hasn't saved it yet 'cuz its so damn reliable. However, I have saved several other peoples day with it in my classes. We do alot of presentations with computer projectors, powerpoint, flash, director, etc. For some reason the PC laptops have terrible trouble connecting to the external projector, but my TiBook had no problems. Oh and the guy who brought his presentation in on a usb flash disk, and the instructors laptop was running NT which was not compatible. Plus people's jaws hit the floor the first time I used keynote. Oh what fun it is, even though they all refer to it as the "fruit computer" I get the last laugh. Plus I just open the case and boom, wakes up and ready to go. Are they just ignorant or do windows laptops not just go to sleep if you colse them? I'm always waiting for people to boot up their laptops. Strange.

 

[5300cs]

My stupid VAIO does that. I close the lid and it takes like 10sec+ to sleep. Or if I flick the power switch, xp comes in and takes over "saving your settings", which takes forever.

stupid thing... my iBook goes to sleep & wakes in no time. wish I could do that.

external monitor support is flawless too. even had it not work once, hit "detect displays" and it found the monitor in no time. I have serious doubts that windows could do that with a reboot

 

[ilben77]

Originally posted by 5300cs
It hasn't really saved my day, but it lets me do things that pc notebooks couldn't fathom.

Like with my wireless modem, checking my email anywhere, surfing the web at coffee shops (Macrumors.com.. very cool ) making presentations on Keynote on the go, writing, etc.

And as I said before.. chicks dig 'em! (if I had a dime everytime I heard "it's so cute!" while looking at my lap)

But did you also get the chicks?
Trying to impress girls with a computer....

 

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs

external monitor support is flawless too. even had it not work once, hit "detect displays" and it found the monitor in no time. I have serious doubts that windows could do that with a reboot

don't be a zealot. I plugged a 17'' CRT into my dad's Compaq EVO, with the same graphics card as the ibook, and it worked without rebooting, just plugged it in, hooked it up, and it turned on and mirrored the LCD display.

 

[billyboy]

Originally posted by tazo
don't be a zealot. I plugged a 17'' CRT into my dad's Compaq EVO, with the same graphics card as the ibook, and it worked without rebooting, just plugged it in, hooked it up, and it turned on and mirrored the LCD display.

Yeah I have been following a thread elsewhere about the 1600x1200 Sony 15@ screens - they are showing the good old Powerbook a clean pair of heels in the pixels department, and you just have to admit, in the computer game the Mac just cant be and isnt streets ahead of PCs in everything. A Mac fan was getting quite upset (unnecessarily) in his losing battle to win a failed argument

But the format of the PB is more DVD friendly!!!!! and quite a few nights I have been the bright eyed boy setting up a film on a bad TV night, and my PC head mates have been heard to murmur approval.

 

[JEdiBeavis]

I saved Christmas!


oh, wait, that was someone else.

 

[mim]

A few times Mac have saved the day for me by doing thigs that the PC's couldn't. For a couple of competitions at work, as a last resort I've turned to our older macs to import EPS's, or format & print a quark document - and had them work flawlessly and quickly where the higher spec PC's have just fallen over.

If you've ever worked on a huge competition, the you know that everything happens at the last minute, so you can't afford for anything to go wrong (not the least because no-one's had any sleep ).

So yeah - for me Macs have literally saved the day, and help win 100 million pound competitions

 

[billyboy]

Originally posted by mim
A few times Mac have saved the day for me by doing thigs that the PC's couldn't. For a couple of competitions at work, as a last resort I've turned to our older macs to import EPS's, or format & print a quark document - and had them work flawlessly and quickly where the higher spec PC's have just fallen over.



So yeah - for me Macs have literally saved the day, and help win 100 million pound competitions

If you have won such big competitions cant you afford a newer Mac?

 

[mim]

Originally posted by billyboy
If you have won such big competitions cant you afford a newer Mac?

It's an argument that I've tried on my bosses a number of time

We did actually get some nice shiny new Mirror Doors. But the office IT guy wants to become a "PC" only office. Needless to say there's a bit of resistence to this....

Sometimes I just hate it when people don't understand

 

[billyboy]

Originally posted by mim
It's an argument that I've tried on my bosses a number of time

We did actually get some nice shiny new Mirror Doors. But the office IT guy wants to become a "PC" only office. Needless to say there's a bit of resistence to this....

Sometimes I just hate it when people don't understand

F*** the IT guy's day and make your boss' day. show him this http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4795

cheers

 

[Schiffi]

This is more of an iPod story, but since it is still an Apple product I will tell it anyhow.

One day I decided to make OS9 and OSX seperate partitions. First I made a copy of OS9 on my iPod (for no particular reason) and backed up my files. After using this 3rd party app, I found out that the partions were not readable by OS9. I booted OS9 from my iPod and tried to fix the problem. However I somehow made OSX unable to boot. I was left then to reformat my machine. Luckily iPod was there to restore all my old settings/files/apps. We then celebrated with ice cream.

 

[Bengt77]

Yes, it's made my day once...

It was with a bit of foul playing for school, though. I was working in AutoCAD (for a project; had to design a mini autoped) and had just saved all my data. I copied it to my ZIP and deleted the files from the computer (a Compaq P3). What the f**k? The PC crashed! Hoped everything was okay and went to the plot service but it turned out my ZIP had become unreadable. And that with the deadline being that very day and me having just erased all my data from the PC. Stupid, of course.

So I blamed it on my 'perception' that I would never give in to normalities of the Windows world of saving my data every minute and keeping at least three backups in as much different places. I said (explained in the evaluation included in my paper) that I was used to using a Mac and just would not belief that that (saving and backing up all the time) was the way it should be. Even went so far as saying I didn't use a PC that often (not true; I maybe even use them more often than my iMac at home, but who gives) and didn't know they could crash that easily. (What was I doing? I was copying, for Christ's sake!)

Luckily the tutor had a Mac at home too, and could see my point (and humor, hopefully). So my Mac didn't have to do anything with all this, but in the end it did save my day, since I got a 7 for the whole project. And that with the technical drawings usually percieved (by all the tutors at my study) as the most important of any (design) project.



Can't remember any time my Mac directly saved my day, though.

 

[5300cs]

Originally posted by ilben77
But did you also get the chicks?
Trying to impress girls with a computer....

I'm married, so I didn't "get" any of the chicks. And I don't actively go around with my iBook trying to score. I just use it on the train (Keynote or Illustrator) and some chicks notice. Lucky I guess

I'd never use a laptop in the train back home; I'm sure someone would try to swipe it.