Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic I would switch to mac except.... Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post OzX Posted at 11:12 pm on Oct. 13, 2003 $$$!!!!! anyone with me? 90 day call in is standard 1 year parts UPGRADE warranty costs like 300? most basic ibook costs 999 most basic imac costs 1299 WINDOWS: most basic laptop: 750 (toshiba/dell/compaq) most basic desktop: 550 or less? (dell/gateway)

Replies BostonDave Posted at 5:56 pm on Feb. 27, 2005 Pretty sure that's a Yes. Actually, very much so... i do it all the time. sriehl Posted at 11:40 pm on Feb. 26, 2005 Can you mount (and write to) a NTFS drive? BostonDave Posted at 10:15 pm on Feb. 25, 2005 Quote: from Olopoo at 10:42 am on Oct. 28, 2004 First of all! I like macs, beacuse there faster and the FACT that you hardly have to worry about getting a virus or a hidden trojan horse! Sure macs may not have very good compatibiltiy, but thats why they have the virtual pc software, so that you can use lousy WINDOWS programs on your mac! (iT'S not like we want Windows programs anyway!) I can't believe that you said that macs don't have good compatablitity!!!! That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard. With my Mac I can mount almost any volume that I run across. Windows disks mount fine, linux disks mount fine, mac disks mount fine. I can run windows programs, linux programs, most any operating system that I want to via Virtual PC. I can recompile alot of programs to run natively on the processors. It works with a ton of hardware too! Can your windows box mount Mac HFS drives without additiona tools? No Can your windows box run linux apps without rebooting into linux? No Does your windows box have the standard set of commandline GNU tools? No Can you choose what windowmanger to run easily on windows (xFree86?) No Can you run Mac OS in a window (at a decent speed?)? No Wow, it seems instead that windows boxes are lacking for compatability. sexy frosh Posted at 6:44 pm on Feb. 25, 2005 u gotta go through all that but they don't have viruses yet hello world Posted at 4:52 am on Feb. 21, 2005 Why don't you get a macmini? They're £340. That's cheap for a mac. And they're good to. FireStiZzLe Posted at 9:45 pm on Jan. 1, 2005 get an eMac i recently switched 2  apple-no freezing, no blue screen of death mozzar01 Posted at 2:43 am on Dec. 30, 2004 I would switch to mac if they had all the same games without using another program to run them and if most companies with servers ran a mac type server capible of running mac through the server. Flammenmeer Posted at 10:04 pm on Dec. 11, 2004 Quote: from Olopoo at 9:42 am on Oct. 28, 2004 First of all! I like macs, beacuse there faster and the FACT that you hardly have to worry about getting a virus or a hidden trojan horse! Sure macs may not have very good compatibiltiy, but thats why they have the virtual pc software, so that you can use lousy WINDOWS programs on your mac! (iT'S not like we want Windows programs anyway!) 1) No one likes Macs enough to want to write a virus for it. 2) Because no one likes/uses 3ds max, a Windows-only program.  Not to mention all those other high-end programs that are only for Windows, and sometimes Unix as well. sakurag Posted at 12:40 am on Dec. 9, 2004 Quote: from JeremyM at 2:23 pm on Nov. 3, 2004 First off - Apple has started almost, if not all, everything in the computer world. First off, you're just wrong.  That's like saying Starbucks invented coffee.. really now.  You aren't serious in that.. It didn't go from vacuum tube to mac overnight.. ReeprFlame Posted at 3:44 pm on Nov. 30, 2004 Quote: from Olopoo at 10:42 am on Oct. 28, 2004 First of all! I like macs, beacuse there faster and the FACT that you hardly have to worry about getting a virus or a hidden trojan horse! Sure macs may not have very good compatibiltiy, but thats why they have the virtual pc software, so that you can use lousy WINDOWS programs on your mac! (iT'S not like we want Windows programs anyway!) No one wants windowze apps. They have leaks upon leaks of memory in their code. But PCs can also be linux, do not forget that. Virtual PC is not an ideal choice either because since mac is an x11 architecture and PC is x86, most processor power is devoted to converting the program to Mac's native architecture in order to process it. Where as you can run something like WINE in Linux [also available in MAC, but you need to compile it] which will run the native architecture support so thath it is marginally slower but optimized speed compared to windows. Ugg windows. Why did Billy G have to be a salesman? ReeprFlame Posted at 3:41 pm on Nov. 30, 2004 Quote: from squirellplayingtag at 2:50 pm on July 5, 2004 Quote: from sergio965 at 2:46 pm on July 5, 2004 heh....i also have an hp laptop...lol..but mac is more for looks than for performance Oh prepare to be flamed by Mac lovers! I know most OSs inside and out on their performance and best features. Macs do nto have a good architecture. I like the advance into UNIX based systems [OS X] but they are more graphics oriented. That is it. Period. If you want intense processing power build a clutser which is only available on the x86 platform. [MAC is x11 if you were wondering]. That is a powerful supercomputer. Or get dual processors or an OS that works: Linux. The deal with Apple is they limit the hardware to their selection. IBM develops the CPUs which are powerful but limited. AMD has a better horizon on this and that is also why Intel should be catchign up. The limit on Mac and some OS X features are what divert some people, like me, away. I have suggested they port it to x86 platform because then I would consider installing it on my PC. ONly problem is then they need to develop driver wizards for the various arrays of hardware EVERYWHERE... type your post here JeremyM Posted at 6:51 am on Nov. 23, 2004 Yeah, the GUI is called Aqua. It's the equivilant to Gnome or KDE. Just a desktop runtime enviornment. However, OS X and its kernal is a lot more user friendly. It's just as customizable as any other distro. Granted, it isn't open source, however I think it's worth the money for such an amazing OS. BostonDave Posted at 8:20 am on Nov. 8, 2004 The OS/X emulators are terribly slow ( like 2% normal speed) and pretty useless. You don't have to run the aqua interface, you can boot straight into BSD, and run X windows if you want.. It's still osx mephisto mortis Posted at 3:24 pm on Nov. 4, 2004 Indeed, each OS has its advantages over the others.... squirellplayingtag Posted at 2:40 pm on Nov. 4, 2004 Linux can be supior to OSX simply because it it open source. You can customize it exacly to your needs which increases performance. I personally don't like the OSX interface. **Shrugs** On a side note there are OSX software emulator. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,65323,00.html EDIT: spelling. (Edited by squirellplayingtag at 5:41 pm on Nov. 4, 2004) Most recent 15 of 47 previous replies displayed.