I also think alot of people that have Macs like to keep them as fasionable items, like chihuhuas in handbags
Lol! I know two people in my class who use Macs, and they're both spoiled upper-middle-class brats, who bring them to school just so they can show them off to everyone. Tch.
Once software support for things I actually want to use gets better, I'll think about getting a mac. You may be able to Dual Boot, but from what I've seen, two closely configured systems, one mac and one PC, both running windows XP; the PC runs noticeably better. This could also be the crap windows driver support though.
Originally Posted by Knudde (Shab) Once software support for things I actually want to use gets better, I'll think about getting a mac. You may be able to Dual Boot, but from what I've seen, two closely configured systems, one mac and one PC, both running windows XP; the PC runs noticeably better. This could also be the crap windows driver support though.
Really? I'm running and dual booting into both and Mac programs run faster (significantly in H.264 rendering processes). Even before Photoshop wasn't an Intel binary on OSX, it was running 4% slower than XP through emulation.
Originally Posted by Johnny Look It's standard pc without viruses and prettier and twice the price.
Sorry, you're wrong. As I posted earlier you get a C2D blah blah computer with 20¨ widescreen LCD and all the bells and whistles for £630. Students on my old course bought Macs because they were cheaper. Of course the big ones are expensinve but spec for spec the Mac Pro is cheaper than Dell systems. Laptops are very pricey but their desktops aren't.
Either way, I bought a £999 PC laptop for portable video editing and graphics work. It was a bit rubbish and pushed me into buying my first mac (PowerBook), for £930 which did a much better job, was smaller and had a better battery life.
Originally Posted by Dr. James Really? I'm running and dual booting into both and Mac programs run faster (significantly in H.264 rendering processes). Even before Photoshop wasn't an Intel binary on OSX, it was running 4% slower than XP through emulation.
I was talking about running windows programs on the Mac, not Mac programs. I can count the number of Mac programs I'd actually use on 1 hand. Though I should clarify that I was referring to games mostly (One of my main uses for the comp.). Like I said though, it could just be the crappy driver support for the Mac equip on windows. (I think the test machine was using a Radeon 9800 or something, I dont have the article in front of me ATM)
I don't know how Parallels works (emu or whatever), but yea it isn't as fast as Bootcamp since you're running 2 OS's simultaneously. That said MMF2 runs fine and I can play Tormishire with effects on full and have no drop in fps. Half Life 2 ran, albeit 5-10 frames slower. Which isn't too bad considering the whole virtualisation process, but I can't see them frames increasing.
Anyroad, pros n cons and all that;
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Super fast load times.
No whole system crashes (unless you've destroyed your system), apps can be ¨forced quit¨ which closes anything down immediately.
¨Core¨ technology for better video/audio/image manipulation. Full 64bit support, all systems and configurations supported.
Better support for USB, Firewire and multiple monitors.
Pro apps.
Cross application support
OS memory usage is very low.
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Portable prices.
No hard eject button.
Have to eject portable drives before removal.
Yeah, I almost fell off my chair when I saw how much memory Vista was hijacking on my friends comp. 748 Megs, straight from boot, minimal programs running.
Originally Posted by Ricky Garces If you don't mind, not being able to buy every game that comes out, not getting to run .exe files etc... Macs are pretty cool
Or you could just run things natively rather than using a My First Computer that needs an arseload of duct tape to be compatible with things worth computerising.
Best system will continue to be a dual boot win/linux box. Why would you need or want a Mac for anything?
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