-- Posted by Whitelighter at 3:07 pm on April 27, 2008 I'm a Windows user thinking about moving over to a MacBook. Can someone tell me what the MacBooks are like - what you think of them? Does it come with anything already installed on it? Give me a crash course in Macs if you can =P -- Posted by MusicX at 3:09 pm on April 27, 2008 OMFG greatest things ever! and yes they come with iTunes, Photobooth, iPhoto, preview, safari, some movie thing, and all kinds of stuff the new mac books have cameras at the top which are convenient =D and they run like u wouldnt believe =] have fun with it! -- Posted by warcrack at 3:11 pm on April 27, 2008 It's not much of a learning curve and pretty simplistic. More user friendly than XP IMO. But then again I don't like user-friendly :P -- Posted by ampamp at 3:12 pm on April 27, 2008 well first, don't waste your money an underpowered, overpriced, poorly supported piece of shit frrom apple, just because of their flashy advertisiing, and all the faggot drones that buy into it. there's nothing a mac can do, that windows or linux can't do (much) better. just dual-boot windows & some linux distro (like ubuntu), and spare yourself. if you play games, then forget macs. you can get a much better laptop, with more power, for less money, from just about any respectable manufacturers website, or somewhere like newegg. personally, I got my desktop from avadirect, and I would go for a laptop from there if I ever wanted one. -- Posted by MusicX at 3:14 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from ampamp at 3:12 pm on April 27, 2008 well first, don't waste your money an underpowered, overpriced, poorly supported piece of shit frrom apple, just because of their flashy advertisiing, and all the faggot drones that buy into it. there's nothing a mac can do, that windows or linux can't do (much) better. just dual-boot windows & some linux distro (like ubuntu), and spare yourself. if you play games, then forget macs. you can get a much better laptop, with more power, for less money, from just about any respectable manufacturers website, or somewhere like newegg. personally, I got my desktop from avadirect, and I would go for a laptop from there if I ever wanted one. you can download windows XP so u can play games and u dont have to get all kinds of shit spyware everytime that my family has had any other computer than a mac, it broke so ya know what, macs are worth it -- Posted by marshmellowman at 3:17 pm on April 27, 2008 Don't listen to ampamp. I've been a converted user for nearly three years. Safe to say I'll never go back. It's so much easier to use, and the OS itself rarely ever crashes. There are tons of good free software out for it, it comes with loads aswell. iTunes for Music, iPhoto for organising your photos, Safari for internet, Mail.app for your email, Garageband for creative music making, iMovie for movie making (100x better than windows movie maker, iDVD for DVD creations, iWeb for easy website, and loads more. It really is fantastic. There's also iChat for AIM and Photobooth for mucking around with your camera =]! -- Posted by warcrack at 3:17 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from ampamp at 6:12 pm on April 27, 2008 well first, don't waste your money an underpowered, overpriced, poorly supported piece of shit frrom apple, just because of their flashy advertisiing, and all the faggot drones that buy into it. there's nothing a mac can do, that windows or linux can't do (much) better. just dual-boot windows & some linux distro (like ubuntu), and spare yourself. if you play games, then forget macs. you can get a much better laptop, with more power, for less money, from just about any respectable manufacturers website, or somewhere like newegg. personally, I got my desktop from avadirect, and I would go for a laptop from there if I ever wanted one. Indeed, they are fairly over-priced but their machines are pretty decent. From a Gentoo user since I was 10(I grew up using it), the only main reason why i'd rather get a Mac than a standard PC is for OSX. Really, their hardware is actually good, I own a Macbook Pro. Other than the OS itself, I also like the fact that I am too lazy to sit their and find drivers for a PC when I can just reinstall OSX and have it pretty mcuh run off the bat. I'm not saying they're horrible and I'm not saying they're the best thing in the world, but they're nice systems. Overpriced yes, but worth it, yes. they'll last you a while. -- Posted by ampamp at 3:18 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from musicxmaniac at 3:14 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from ampamp at 3:12 pm on April 27, 2008 well first, don't waste your money an underpowered, overpriced, poorly supported piece of shit frrom apple, just because of their flashy advertisiing, and all the faggot drones that buy into it.    there's nothing a mac can do, that windows or linux can't do (much) better. just dual-boot windows & some linux distro (like ubuntu), and spare yourself. if you play games, then forget macs.    you can get a much better laptop, with more power, for less money, from just about any respectable manufacturers website, or somewhere like newegg. personally, I got my desktop from avadirect, and I would go for a laptop from there if I ever wanted one. you can download windows XP so u can play games and u dont have to get all kinds of shit spyware   everytime that my family has had any other computer than a mac, it broke so ya know what, macs are worth it if you're not some dumb fuck, then you'll never ever get a virus, spyware, or other shit. it's not like viruses don't exist for osx, either.  maybe your family just needs a crash course in "how-to-not-fucking-fail-at-the-internet" -- Posted by MusicX at 3:20 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from ampamp at 3:18 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from musicxmaniac at 3:14 pm on April 27, 2008 Quote: from ampamp at 3:12 pm on April 27, 2008 well first, don't waste your money an underpowered, overpriced, poorly supported piece of shit frrom apple, just because of their flashy advertisiing, and all the faggot drones that buy into it.   there's nothing a mac can do, that windows or linux can't do (much) better. just dual-boot windows & some linux distro (like ubuntu), and spare yourself. if you play games, then forget macs.   you can get a much better laptop, with more power, for less money, from just about any respectable manufacturers website, or somewhere like newegg. personally, I got my desktop from avadirect, and I would go for a laptop from there if I ever wanted one.    you can download windows XP so u can play games and u dont have to get all kinds of shit spyware  everytime that my family has had any other computer than a mac, it broke so ya know what, macs are worth it if you're not some dumb fuck, then you'll never ever get a virus, spyware, or other shit. it's not like viruses don't exist for osx, either. maybe your family just needs a crash course in "how-to-not-fucking-fail-at-the-internet" actually it was me who broke it anywho my brother is a fucking genius when it comes to computers, along with his geek of a friend, and my geek of a neighbor so... -- Posted by jamescoleman at 6:35 pm on May 7, 2008 i would suggest a laptop where you have xp and linux... isn't osx a unix based os? then what is the difference from osx and linux?? i also think they are over priced for the little a person gets -- Posted by Cingular Wireless at 7:54 pm on May 7, 2008 I have a MacBook, and a MacPro. And they are amazing. It comes with iLife which is great for movie and photo editing. And Leopard is quick and responsive. There is a huge difference between OS X and Unix. -- Posted by jamescoleman at 9:56 pm on May 7, 2008 and what difference would that be? -- Posted by hpgirly at 11:56 am on May 26, 2008 ive just moved from a pc to a mac and i wouldnt go back! i love the mac and the way its soo much faster than a pc and it just all works so well.... -- Posted by ElfQrin at 11:53 am on May 27, 2008 Quote: from marshmellowman at 6:17 pm on April 27, 2008 Don't listen to ampamp. I've been a converted user for nearly three years. Safe to say I'll never go back. It's so much easier to use, and the OS itself rarely ever crashes. There are tons of good free software out for it, it comes with loads aswell. iTunes for Music, iPhoto for organising your photos, Safari for internet, Mail.app for your email, Garageband for creative music making, iMovie for movie making (100x better than windows movie maker, iDVD for DVD creations, iWeb for easy website, and loads more. It really is fantastic. There's also iChat for AIM and Photobooth for mucking around with your camera =]! QFT -- Posted by climber783 at 2:09 pm on May 28, 2008 Quote: from jamescoleman at 8:35 pm on May 7, 2008 i would suggest a laptop where you have xp and linux... isn't osx a unix based os?   then what is the difference from osx and linux??   i also think they are over priced for the little a person gets Yeah, OSX is a UNIX based OS, but it is fully proprietary.  Apple owns all the rights to the operating system.  So unlike most linux distros, you're not allowed to change things around in the operating system, or revamp it and redistribute it as your own distro.   That being said, since it is a UNIX based system, you can get plenty of linux things to work on an Apple machine.  As long as you know enough about working through the terminal, you can extract tarballs, and get linux programs working in OSX.  It just takes a bit more effort than most apple users are willing to go through.   And I'll definitely agree about the price problem.  For a few hundred less, I can get a fairly decent PC that will suit my needs just as well.  Apples are kinda cool, but I'm on a student budget, so they're very much out of my range.  Anyways, a few of my friends have mac laptops that I've messed with a few times, and I really don't like them.  Maybe it's just that I grew up with PC's, and I'm more used to them.  But I really didn't see much special in them.   -- Posted by King Kong at 2:30 am on June 12, 2008 Quote: from marshmellowman at 11:17 pm on April 27, 2008 better than windows movie maker, i anything's better than windown movie maker -- Posted by TheWeatherGirl at 2:09 pm on June 28, 2008 Here's the basics in my opinion: If you're a serious gamer, a mac isn't for you If you're a casual gamer and can survive without digital entertainment, then a macs for you If you can't stand the constant security updates needed for Windows-A mac's for you If you believe that Bill Gates is an honest opportunist-then a mac isn't for you =] -- Posted by ultima171 at 10:49 am on June 29, 2008 i just got a macbook, one of the newer ones and the OS is so much better than Xp in my opinion (never used vista) plus the sales person at BestBuy (who now sells both Macs and Pc's) said that i would have more trouble using Vista than OS X. OS X is simply beautiful and so easy to use. you will have to get used to certain things (that are very easy to overcome) like no right-clicking and minimizing things is quite different. but it is very nice that you can leave all your programs running in the background. there are so many thing that are just so much better. it is cleaner and things like uninstalling programs (just to name a few) are so easy. to give an example it took me an hour to learn how to uninstall a program when in all actuality all you have to do is delete it...i was to used to living a complicated PC lifestlye. wow i could go on forever, if you have any more specific questions PM me, i will answer all you need.