Making 'the swtich'

Let us know what your impressions are. If I had the $$$ I'd pick up an Apple - just to check them out.

Well, I haven't boughten one yet. I need to find someone to unload my HP on. But you seem to get alot of bang for your buck. From what I gather, this is a prety good deal for a mac.

I'd be willing to let go of my HP for $700. It gets about 3 hours of battery life, has a 60 gig hard drive, 400 some megs of ram, integrated wireless, DVD/CDRW, 64 meg ati card...

boughten, eh?

anyway, IFF i where to buy an apple, it would only be a powerbook g4. I doubt they will ever make a g5, the heatsinks necessary for the thing are huge.

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Original post by capn_midnight boughten, eh? anyway, IFF i where to buy an apple, it would only be a powerbook g4. I doubt they will ever make a g5, the heatsinks necessary for the thing are huge.

Anyway...
Looks pretty neat; you should be able to find the software you need. I'd recommend Connectix Virtual PC - I hear it's very good on Mac. I have the Windows version, and it works a treat! That should help any quick Windows-only tasks.

I have, and it's definitly worth it! It almost never crashes, and quite a few free programs run on it(basically, any open source program made for linux or another unix can run on it, with a few exceptions), also there are a few popular games that work on it, such as UT2k3, UT2k4, World of Warcraft, Warcraft III, WarCraftIII: Frozen Throne, StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War. And one final thing: my favorite C++ IDE has to be Xcode, which only works on Mac.

I work with both PCs and Macs, both have advantages and disadvantages. Macs I have found to be a little bit more stable, have a nicer interface, and more "realistic colors" (not sure how to discribe it but Colors just look better on a Mac V.S PC, that's the reason why Web Developers, and video editors use them more than PCs) than a PC.

Obvoiusly, the Macs suffer from lack of software, and that you can't just go down to Best Buy and WallMart to buy accessories for it (such as a new video card).

If it was me - and I had the cash. I would get one. I always like Macs and they always seemed to be more on the cutting edge.

Roach

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Original post by Roach ...and more "realistic colors"...

I'd heard that too, but when working on a Mac at a video editing expo (G5 with one of those big flat glass-bordered panels) I found the interface to be terribly drab and that my cheapo 17" CRT, with a little gamma tweaking, yields much better colour. Maybe I was just working on a crap monitor, I don't know how good they are. It was very big, that's all I can remember...

and i just found out that it has enough juice to play halo on it. woo hoo! So going to get one now.

Cool! So what version of Windows does it run? XP Home?

It runs darwin.
ha ha

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Original post by PnP Bios It runs darwin. ha ha

And I'm sure Microsoft ported a DirectX-only game to *nix.. :P

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Original post by falkone Quote: Original post by PnP Bios It runs darwin. ha ha And I'm sure Microsoft ported a DirectX-only game to *nix.. :P

I'm pretty sure I missed something... If this is about the halo, then you should look here

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Original post by falkone Quote: Original post by PnP Bios It runs darwin. ha ha And I'm sure Microsoft ported a DirectX-only game to *nix.. :P

Do you happen to have any concept of where Bungie came from? :)

You should consider one of the smaller Sony Vaios. Those are pretty slick too.

For less than $1000? Where?

Heh heh heh, Looks like going to college is good for something after all.
$949 with combo drive and built in airport. 1.2ghz instead of just 1.0ghz with my student discount.

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Original post by PnP Bios Quote: Original post by falkone Quote: Original post by PnP Bios It runs darwin. ha ha And I'm sure Microsoft ported a DirectX-only game to *nix.. :P I'm pretty sure I missed something... If this is about the halo, then you should look here

Holy shit... that was unexpected. I stand corrected.