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considering switching from PC to a Mac
est:
I think that the whole thing comes down to whether you're gonna be playing games on this machine or not. At the moment you've basically only got three choices in the Mac range if you want to get onto the Intel mac bandwagon: Mac Mini, iMac & MacBook Pro.
The Mac Mini isn't really a gaming machine, but unless you're doing some heavy graphic design or 3d work or something it should do just fine. Apparently the most recent releases in the Mini range are a bit more powerful than the first release ones, but they still only have passable video cards. Mind you, I've played plenty of games (including things like Warcraft 3) on a 3 or 4 year old Intel IGP motherboard with a 667mhz CPU and 256mb ram, so I guess that it also depends on the games you're likely to be playing.
Anyways, if you are thinking that you'll be playing some recent 3d-accelerated games you might want to spring for one of the new iMacs. as has been alluded to already up above, the Penny Arcade guys are getting onto the Mac bandwagon at the moment, and apparently World of Warcraft plays pretty well on the iMac (if that is any indication for you).
Of course, if you wanted to go the whole hog and wanted portability + power for games you could go for the MacBook Pro. It's cute, it's powerful, and I want to have its children it's portable.
edscoble:
--- Quote from: the tree ---Why buy a new system when there is a billion and a half free operating systems around. Ubuntu is awesome, it's damn easy to use and it's faster than a drunk twelve year old girl in rural essex.
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linux is not worth the hassle if you just want an easy system to run like Windows or OS X.
I'm thinking more of a drunk twelve years old girl in Loughborough.
edscoble:
right let see, it's varies on your choice and what you do, especially for a living.
I used a Macintosh because I prefer it for everyday stuff such as music (iTunes), internet (Safari), word processing (Word), presentation (Keynote), making music (Garageband), etc.
I also used it every now and then for Photoshop because frankly speaking, using Photoshop in a Macintosh felt more comfortable and more creative than on the PC, however a PC do tend to have a faster operational speed, the Macintosh will felt fast, but in reality the operational speed is not as fast as Windows (until now when Apple switch to Intel).
However, I used my PC for work, and a bit of everyday stuff, I don't have an anti-virus in it, sound insane didn't it? it's not if you know how to set up a good firewall, you can be completely virus-free and spy/adware-free too, anti-virus software are there to find and destroy viruses, not to stop them going into the computer.
my Windows machine (A Dell Dimension 3.40GHz) is bloody fast and perfect for rendering and encoding, but for everyday stuff, if you don't want the hassle of setting up firewall/anti-viruses and rather just get down to web browsing and such, a Macintosh is perfect.
Linux being user friendly is a myth, sure it's free and very customisable, it's the 'customisable' the problem.
My Linux box run flawless if you don't touch the CD-ROM
My new Linux is brilliant, just don't click on the log-out button
you need to know what you're doing, unlearn what you remember from Windows/Mac and relearn everything again with Linux, and not everyone want to do that.[/i]
edscoble:
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Of course, if you wanted to go the whole hog and wanted portability + power for games you could go for the MacBook Pro. It's cute, it's powerful, and I want to have its children it's portable.
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first revision model is not worth the hassle, remember the first 12inch PowerBook? poor spec, very hot, limited RAM and such, the first titanium PowerBook? poor spec again, lower screen resolution, problematic, expensive.
Catfish_Man:
--- Quote from: edscoble ---
--- Quote from: est ---
Of course, if you wanted to go the whole hog and wanted portability + power for games you could go for the MacBook Pro. It's cute, it's powerful, and I want to have its children it's portable.
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first revision model is not worth the hassle, remember the first 12inch PowerBook? poor spec, very hot, limited RAM and such, the first titanium PowerBook? poor spec again, lower screen resolution, problematic, expensive.
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The whole "buy the first model after a big change" vs. "wait for the next revision" debate is an interesting one. On the one hand, you get the snazzy new machine (3-4x perf boost is fine by me...), on the other you take any early problems with the new design in the teeth.
The main issue with the MBP seems to be some persistent problems with the right speaker. Irrelevant to me (I use headphones), but I can see how it would bother some people.
My goal right now is to stretch my 1GHz aluminum powerbook out to at least 4 years, and then get whatever's current. Reports of compile times on the new chips are making it hard to resist though... (Adium takes 15 minutes to compile on my system. A new iMac takes 2m49s)
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