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woo hoo! I'm getting a mac!
Heywood:
Well, its upgrade time for me again, and my budget was 1200 bucks. I racked my brain for nearly a month, and explored all options, and I landed on: A G4 1.25 ghz. I am getting a lot of crap for it at school, but this is what I've settled on.
My last mac was a Apple 2E I had in the 80s, but I have worked with them and tinkered here and there for the past couple years. I know enough to get around on one, and I have extensive BSD experience, which (I hope) will help with OSX.
My current PC is a 1.4ghz tbird with Slack and XP on it, and its fine for doing my work, but its seen better days. I figured since my work is graphic and webdesign, a MAC would do, and after weighing out all my options, my girlfreind says "you are always praising MACs. You should get one". I thought about it real hard, and decided I should. I am hearing nothing but reasons why I shouldn't from my friends, but I remain strong, and I am getting one.
Am I making the right decision?
[ August 01, 2003: Message edited by: Heywood ]
jasonlane:
Cool, congratulations....it's a MAC.
Remember MAC are not solely graphics machines anymore, there also hardcore development boxes now. I run my MAC as an application server / Dev box, it's great, only a 466Mhz (lot's of RAM though), I have a Pentium 1.2Ghz XP box which can't keep up.
Your friends obviously don't know what there talking about, have any of them ever actually used a MAC????
Lot's of RAM I hope.
Laukev7:
Congratulations, Heywood.
My turn should come soon, hopefully... Damn my dad and his passion for building PeeCees*.
If only I could convince my dad to build a Mac...
*Just kidding. I like my dad.
[ August 01, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by Heywood:
my girlfreind says "you are always praising MACs. You should get one".[ August 01, 2003: Message edited by: Heywood ]
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Wow.. someone on this site with a Girl Friend. You give all of us hope... or maybe I'm the only loser without a GF but wutever, you give me hope.
Yes BSD will help you a lot.
Wow, 1200 bucks for a 1.2. I used the exact same deal as you are. Right when the new Quicksilvers came out i got the Ed only 733 for 1200. It had a 40gb hard drive and a CD Burner. Now it has another 60GB hard drive and a SuperDrive. Yours is super cooler though cus it can hold 2 optical drives and has Line and Mic in which I deperately wish I had now because of iChat AV. I'm stuck on my Mom's iBook when I wanna audio chat. I should probably go out and buy an iMic.
Hopefully when Panther comes out Apple will give it to you free (with a 20 dollar shipping fee. You know, to get it off of their secret base on the moon overnight, they need 20 bucks.
You will not regret this decision. I guarantee it.
P.S. Like Zardoz said. Macs don't have to be used as Graphics machines (only). Mine is my own web server. With Apache and PHP (built in builds) and an installed MySQL server. it runs my site that is linked in my signature.
Heywood:
quote: Your friends obviously don't know what there talking about, have any of them ever actually used a MAC????
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its not so much that they don't know what they are talking about, they actually have some good points:
Expensive
expensive parts (upgrading)
less software
learning curve
etc., which are valid points, however, there is something really "smooth" about the whole mac experience, I dont know if its the better GUI, or faster hardware, but I can really cook on a mac, doing just about anything. Thats one of the reasons, aside from the higher quality parts.
I could buy a P4 or dual AMD for the same price, but I have a feeling the MAC will outlast them, you guys are talking about still using 733s and stuff, and being happy with them, that kind of assures me that I can still use this machine 3 or 4 years from now, or more. I still think its the smarter move. For "production" purposes, I can't help but notice companies are almost always using macs for high-demand production environments.
still gonna get a mac, if its a mistake, oh well. there's always next time.
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