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considering switching from PC to a Mac

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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.

minignome:
well my current comp is about as useful as a paperweight at the moment.  I'm able to check this out at work, but being able to do anything on a comp at home would be nice.  Seems like a pretty good reason for a new computer.

Catfish_Man:
Any specific questions you've got about Macs? I do Cocoa programming and Mac tech support, so I can probably answer :)

Re: Intel v. PPC

I'd definitely not bother with a non-Intel one. They're nice enough machines (<3 my powerbook), but they can't compare for speed in most cases. The mini is not going to be good for gaming (integrated graphics) but is otherwise a damn nice machine. The higher end ones actually have real graphics cards, but it sounds like that doesn't matter so much to you.

The other consideration is the new chips Intel has been hyping up; the initial benchmark numbers look very promising, and they're due out later this year.

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.

Matteh99:
The new intel imac's are pretty decent gaming machines.  http://www.barefeats.com/imcd2.html

They arn't going blow your mind or any thing but if you can find a game you want it will run well on one.

The mac mini on the other hand sucks for gaming.  Intel integrated graphics suck.  Yeah they are the high end intel graphics but that means that they just suck slightly less.

Why mac not windows?  For me I love the easy to use apps like iMovie and iPhoto.  I like that I can play with open source software.  I like that if I do manage to mess up OS X I can run an archive and install keeping my user data and replaceing the system files.  I like that there are very few viruses for the mac.  (there was one the infected like 40 people and it require that you type in your administrator password to spread)

Gaming on a mac can be rough because there arn't as many titles out there and they tend to cost more..  However, I am not much of a gamer so that doesn't bother me.

Another interesting thing is with the intel chipset macs should be able to take advantage of linux software like wine letting them run windows games the same way linux users do.  http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

I use windows because I have to.  I use a Mac because I want to.

Eric

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