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Bahaha! I'm surprised that someone actually read it!!
I should totally make a time line. I have pictures that correspond to each event! (Even all the 6:34:09.3984 ones!)
Yesss... I have something to do now...
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Bahaha! I'm surprised that someone actually read it!!
I should totally make a time line. I have pictures that correspond to each event! (Even all the 6:34:09.3984 ones!)
Yesss... I have something to do now...
I switched and am happy
Just obtained a Mac Mini a month ago.
I used Macs at work a long time ago (early 90s) and then had to use PCs from
then on, which I did at home, too. Also, I thought Macs were grossly
overpriced and underpowered. But, over time, the Mac advancements
crept up to the PC and now has blown them away, except in a few areas:
1. PC offers many more games, though Xbox or Nitendo (dedicated game
box) is the way to go. If there were more Mac users, we would have
much better and more variety of games. I tried a friend's copy of Sim
City which he could not use on his emac and I figured out what was
wrong - the current version of Sim City for Mac is a memory and
processor hog. In fairness to the Mac, I experienced this on a PC with
Sim City 2000 a long time ago, but then as PCs got more powerful, Sim
City 2000 ran fine.
2. Linux on a PC set up properly with enough apps is almost as fun
as using a Mac. The problem is having the motivation to use Linux for
apps, since Linux is still not up to Mac's headstart on all the diverse apps
available for a Mac and the quality of the apps on a Mac is 1st rate.
Yeah, for a web server, Linux can't be beat.
3. For mundane business apps, PC is still much easier to use, in my
opinion, since you can get around the screen easier and quicker. You
don't have to wait for the stupid screen to refresh. There seems to
be a time lag when I am using a Mac. I think the beautiful screen
graphics of an Apple simply take more time to refresh than on a Windows
PC. Maybe Apple could make a mode where if you are doing business,
not graphic intensive apps, the computer would run faster?
Perhaps I am splitting hairs, since I admit I would use a MAC at work
in a second compared to being stuck with windows forever.
But outside of using Linux, doing simple
word processing, editor, or email, the Mac CRUSHES the pc. Most
Mac programs work flawlessly and are usually easy enough to use without
having to read endless help screens or looking at manuals.
My Mac Mini is 1.25 with 1 GB RAM.
It can run Garageband ok, though over several tracks, you risk
the processor starting to choke. If I had unlimited money, would have
gotten high end G5.
I have Mini Moog V emulator program with a keyboard hooked up to a
Presonus Firebox and I have turned the Mac into an analog synth.
I have some suggestions for Apple (what is best way to suggest something
to Apple?):
1. Put stock 1GB Ram, at least, in the Mac Mini. Anything less is not
up to snuff for multimedia apps.
2. Offer a 2nd model Mac Mini with somewhat bigger dimensions. This
would hold a REAL disk drive and not some krappy lap top drive. Also,
a second memory slot for boosting Ram up to, say, 2GB, would be worthwhile.
3. Offer a G5 processor option.
4. On the slightly larger Mac Mini, put more usb ports.
I don't know about you all, but I love the fact that if the Mac Mini breaks,
I can easily pick it up and bring it to an Apple store. It is a headache to
transport a normal PC, in comparison. Also, can move around from room to
room on a whim. You still have to disconnect everything, but it is so nice
to have a computer that is so quiet and takes up hardly any space at all.
I have a question for you all - what sites host garageband recorded music?
I saw one a while back, but want to listen to some other examples of
music recorded via garageband.
Entfred
Just obtained a Mac Mini a month ago.
I used Macs at work a long time ago (early 90s) and then had to use PCs from
then on, which I did at home, too. Also, I thought Macs were grossly
overpriced and underpowered. But, over time, the Mac advancements
crept up to the PC and now has blown them away, except in a few areas:
1. PC offers many more games, though Xbox or Nitendo (dedicated game
box) is the way to go. If there were more Mac users, we would have
much better and more variety of games. I tried a friend's copy of Sim
City which he could not use on his emac and I figured out what was
wrong - the current version of Sim City for Mac is a memory and
processor hog. In fairness to the Mac, I experienced this on a PC with
Sim City 2000 a long time ago, but then as PCs got more powerful, Sim
City 2000 ran fine.
2. Linux on a PC set up properly with enough apps is almost as fun
as using a Mac. The problem is having the motivation to use Linux for
apps, since Linux is still not up to Mac's headstart on all the diverse apps
available for a Mac and the quality of the apps on a Mac is 1st rate.
Yeah, for a web server, Linux can't be beat.
3. For mundane business apps, PC is still much easier to use, in my
opinion, since you can get around the screen easier and quicker. You
don't have to wait for the stupid screen to refresh. There seems to
be a time lag when I am using a Mac. I think the beautiful screen
graphics of an Apple simply take more time to refresh than on a Windows
PC. Maybe Apple could make a mode where if you are doing business,
not graphic intensive apps, the computer would run faster?
Perhaps I am splitting hairs, since I admit I would use a MAC at work
in a second compared to being stuck with windows forever.
But outside of using Linux, doing simple
word processing, editor, or email, the Mac CRUSHES the pc. Most
Mac programs work flawlessly and are usually easy enough to use without
having to read endless help screens or looking at manuals.
My Mac Mini is 1.25 with 1 GB RAM.
It can run Garageband ok, though over several tracks, you risk
the processor starting to choke. If I had unlimited money, would have
gotten high end G5.
I have Mini Moog V emulator program with a keyboard hooked up to a
Presonus Firebox and I have turned the Mac into an analog synth.
I have some suggestions for Apple (what is best way to suggest something
to Apple?):
1. Put stock 1GB Ram, at least, in the Mac Mini. Anything less is not
up to snuff for multimedia apps.
2. Offer a 2nd model Mac Mini with somewhat bigger dimensions. This
would hold a REAL disk drive and not some krappy lap top drive. Also,
a second memory slot for boosting Ram up to, say, 2GB, would be worthwhile.
3. Offer a G5 processor option.
4. On the slightly larger Mac Mini, put more usb ports.
I don't know about you all, but I love the fact that if the Mac Mini breaks,
I can easily pick it up and bring it to an Apple store. It is a headache to
transport a normal PC, in comparison. Also, can move around from room to
room on a whim. You still have to disconnect everything, but it is so nice
to have a computer that is so quiet and takes up hardly any space at all.
I have a question for you all - what sites host garageband recorded music?
I saw one a while back, but want to listen to some other examples of
music recorded via garageband.
Entfred
I guess my switch story happened this February and March...
I remember being fed up with Premier and rendering on my 3Ghz pc and I set out to see what other editors there were for video and ran across Final Cut Pro and stuff like Motion. I headed to the Apple web site and found videos of them presenting Motion and FCP and I was blown away I was in TEARS after I saw what they were doing with their software so for about a month after that (February of 2005) my dad asked me what I wanted for helping him out all winter snow shoveling from 6am ~ 9pm so I got him hooked on the Mac and showed him some of the videos and what they're doing with all of this software. I finally went to the city about 70+ miles away to the Apple store and saw all the Mac's there and literally I was jumping up and down on the floor trying not to cry and I saw the Power Mac dual 2.5 and a 30" ACD and I called up my dad and told him they have a 30" display and you HAVE TO SEE IT and he was telling me he would. Anyways after the trip I would NOT shut up about the Mac.. Mac this and Mac that I think I drove my parents crazy, my dad was giving me **** and telling me that ohh you'd have to wait till April or May before you could get one and I was telling him that NO I CANT and he laughed and shrugged it off. After I got my Mac I still give him crap about his Windows machine crashing and do strange things where as my Mac keeps on humming a little over a month uptime without an OS crash
Best switch I've ever had even if it doesnt sound like a good on this forum, I'm simply in LOVE with the Mac and I'm advocating it more then I ever did my Windows PC.
I also had a lady that had trouble with AOL and her Windows 98 pc so we ended up reformatting it and putting everything on.. we joked that if it crashes again she'd throw it out the window and I brought up the Mac and how its only 500 bucks for a Mini since all she does is check email on AOL and do light web searching + no viruses or Trojans etc so hopefully 98 takes a piss and she gets a Mac, I'm sure she'd love it.
Best machine I've ever had hands down Windows cant even come close, PERIOD!
I remember being fed up with Premier and rendering on my 3Ghz pc and I set out to see what other editors there were for video and ran across Final Cut Pro and stuff like Motion. I headed to the Apple web site and found videos of them presenting Motion and FCP and I was blown away I was in TEARS after I saw what they were doing with their software so for about a month after that (February of 2005) my dad asked me what I wanted for helping him out all winter snow shoveling from 6am ~ 9pm so I got him hooked on the Mac and showed him some of the videos and what they're doing with all of this software. I finally went to the city about 70+ miles away to the Apple store and saw all the Mac's there and literally I was jumping up and down on the floor trying not to cry and I saw the Power Mac dual 2.5 and a 30" ACD and I called up my dad and told him they have a 30" display and you HAVE TO SEE IT and he was telling me he would. Anyways after the trip I would NOT shut up about the Mac.. Mac this and Mac that I think I drove my parents crazy, my dad was giving me **** and telling me that ohh you'd have to wait till April or May before you could get one and I was telling him that NO I CANT and he laughed and shrugged it off. After I got my Mac I still give him crap about his Windows machine crashing and do strange things where as my Mac keeps on humming a little over a month uptime without an OS crash
Best switch I've ever had even if it doesnt sound like a good on this forum, I'm simply in LOVE with the Mac and I'm advocating it more then I ever did my Windows PC.
I also had a lady that had trouble with AOL and her Windows 98 pc so we ended up reformatting it and putting everything on.. we joked that if it crashes again she'd throw it out the window and I brought up the Mac and how its only 500 bucks for a Mini since all she does is check email on AOL and do light web searching + no viruses or Trojans etc so hopefully 98 takes a piss and she gets a Mac, I'm sure she'd love it.
Best machine I've ever had hands down Windows cant even come close, PERIOD!
I was sick and tired of M$ (having used DOS since I was 5 or 6), and I was getting into using Linux (I had a spare HDD with Red Hat 9 on it), but Linux has even worse software compat problems that OS X is supposed to at times. Also, I needed a machine for my music. It then turned out that I was allowed a laptop at school due to my illegible handwriting, and so we consulted the music tech guy at school. He then recommended a Mac instead of a PC, due to the fact that there is a lot more affordable music software for X (including the completely free Garageband) and that with a PC, there are so many combinations, and most of those combinations don't work, whereas with a Mac, there is 1 supplier, 1 combination. So, just before Christmas 04, we got a PowerBook 15" 1.5Ghz (the last one in stock - it was in fact the one in the window ). I was very happy with it, but it wasn't as expandable as a desktop. So we forked out on a 2nd hand G5 that was missing bits (it was still good value at a mere £650 for a DP 2Ghz), and fixed it with either cheap stuff, or with stuff we already had (like stacks and stacks of harddrives). However, long before I'd even gotten Mum to consider a Mac, I had seen the Cube, and had been enthralled. It took almost a year, but now I have my own, sitting on my desk, it's little 450Mhz 7400 chugging away.
The End
). I was very happy with it, but it wasn't as expandable as a desktop. So we forked out on a 2nd hand G5 that was missing bits (it was still good value at a mere £650 for a DP 2Ghz), and fixed it with either cheap stuff, or with stuff we already had (like stacks and stacks of harddrives). However, long before I'd even gotten Mum to consider a Mac, I had seen the Cube, and had been enthralled. It took almost a year, but now I have my own, sitting on my desk, it's little 450Mhz 7400 chugging away.The End
