Skywalker-MC Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 i thinking of ending my 12 year relationship with windows, and turning to Mac. i currently use my PC really for jack, apart from MSN and school work. But apple have recently caught my Eye with there sleek design, and brilliant gadgets such as the iPod and iPhone. i love the fact that the detail apple puts into graphics is a hundred and ten percent. so if i get a mac what do you all recomend, just remember i am a beginner, and my only experience of apple is the iPod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) Dude, I have had an OLD PowerPC once; it was $100 off ebay and wet my whistle but couldn't do what I needed. It was fun to play with for a while and it showed me the "mac" experience. Time went on, I did hackintosh and had SPEED and was loving it, but it was time to get mac that I had enough power to do what I needed, no hacking. I need a laptop. Over time, somewhere, I liked laptops better. I could be on the couch, in the bed or wherever and could do what I needed. I got a barely used iBook G4 1.33ghz. It was maxed to 1.5 gigs ram, has a ATI Radeon 9500 card in it, 40 gig hdd, dvd/cd-rw, airport extreme (802.11 g wireless), bluetooth 2.0 edr (enhanced data rate) and it has one firewire port, two usb 2.0, 10/100 lan, and modem. I have had it for about 2 weeks now and I am in heaven. No hack, no hoping you have your hackintosh right to make it work. It just works. I have OS X 10.4.8 and iLife 05 and alot of apps. I can get on the net, capture digital video (iMovie HD), I can capture analog video (found software to use the analog capture devices for windows), I can chat with aim or msn or whatever, I can use FTP clients to update a website, edit html, etc etc etc. I have no limits. My hobby is a Paranormal Investigator/Ghost Hunter. Yes, I am serious. I take digital pictures, video, and audio. I can do ALL I need in OS X. OS X is great, stable, beautiful, and not full of {censored} like Windows. I am a Computer Science major and System Administrator (not tooting my horn, but giving some background) and I manage 200 or so XP systems, and Windows 2003 Server/Active Directory network. I get my fill of Windows and I just love OS X. Yes Windows can game better, but only because companies have been making games for Windows more. Look at World of Warcraft. IF companies would just make OS X versions, the issue would be a mute point. Vista? Please. Tested it in house and it is a resource hog (many MS fans may jump me on that but I don't care, can always report them. ) and Vista copies so much from OS X and some from Linux. OS X is great, easy to use, but of course different. You might want to find a mac user, let them show you the ropes of normal computing. How to find your files, run apps, etc etc. When you get past that and still like it, then I think you would be ready for a Mac. I say this cause my wife wanted one and after using my iBook some, she changed her mind. She thinks Macs and OS X are great, but not for her. So you know, try it out. Also make sure you realize, OS X isn't perfect, but close to it. One big and kind of no so big fault is that it likes ram. OS X needs 1 gb to run nicely. I don't care if you are a casual user, you will most like listen to music, surf the net, and im/chat and that can take memory. Just make sure your Mac has 1 gb or more and OS X will run smooth as butter. OS X with 512 megs does run very nice, but you will see some hard drive swapping. Just to let you know. I hope you do switch cause if/when you do, you will be happy you did. Edited January 16, 2007 by sandmanfvrga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Seriously, I cant think of my world without Windows. OSX is awesome. I love using it, but some programs I just dont have on OSX. OSX is perfect for daily use, but it just doesnot have games like SCDA or Just Cause. For that I use windows. So in the end, I will end up buying an iMac, which is coming soon, and run Parallels on it. Best of both worlds, I guess, on OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Well Unstable, for those that don't game on the pc much, then Windows loses that great advantage. Just Cause is on the consoles and such. Now I know many still like pc gaming, that is cool and I respect that. Though on OS X and how useful it is and how much you can "really use it" depends on if want to keep the ball and chain of pc gaming. If you don't, OS X is more than enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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