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considering switching from PC to a Mac

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SailorPunk:
my first computer was a mac and i loved it. it was fab for everything (except gaming of course...though i could still play diablo). the only reason i did not get a mac laptop was that i could not afford it.

i find macs to be way more intuitive than pcs, but that may be just me. :)

nescience:
Apple smartly positioned this MacBook Pro release just as an important service offer expired on the wildly popular iBook G3 Firewire.  The Logic Board Extended Service Plan ran out in mid-January this year, meaning that a number of people who had been able to send their iBooks in for free to replace fuzzed-out logic boards (the product of an obscure but wide-reaching design flaw) now had to either pay up when their machine inevitably bit it again or try to upgrade.  Then comes MacWorld in early February to tell us that Intel Macs have been bumped up by six months!  How convenient!

Hell, it got me to buy a MacBook Pro.

Matteh99:

--- Quote from: nescience ---The Logic Board Extended Service Plan ran out in mid-January this year.
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Not really according to apple's site you get a 3 year warrenty on your g3 iBook logic board.  Since the G4 ibooks came out in around Oct of 2003 there are still a few g3's that are covered untill Oct 2006

Eric

nescience:
Oh dear.  It seems that they have extended it since last I actually looked at the plan.  No matter, my machine finally failed for a different reason.  

When my machine was first fucking up, the hard end-date for the repair plan was January 20th, 2006 or something.  Well, good for those folks who still have the old G3 clunkers.

torg:

--- Quote from: est ---also: if anyone turns this into a Mac vs PC flamewar instead of being helpful i'm just gonna delete their posts or something.  every time this topic comes up people try to start shit.  it gets old quickly.
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--- Quote from: edscoble ---
linux is not worth the hassle if you just want an easy system to run like Windows or OS X.
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

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I don't know what distrubition you are using, but I am pretty sure, that you, sir, dont have a clue, what you are talking about.
There is no problem if you know what you are doing, but that also applies to Windows and any other OS on this planet.

I haven't seen much of Mac OS X, but what I've seen makes it certainly a better choice than Windows (except for the gaming).

Personally I am using Gentoo Linux for everything except gaming and I just love it. I'd like to try a Mac at some point because of Mac OS X (preferably on a Laptop), because you get a system that's easy to use and secure but also has a decent command shell. From what I've heard so far the Intel Macs seem to be the better choice.

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