Making the switch to mac

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Hardware
hehehe, i know how much you guys are gonna love this.

At my office, my desktop computer is a piece of crap. It's slow, and I hate it. I've been needing a replacement for a while. Especially at the end of the month when I do all my invoicing, the speed of my computer really holds me back.

Now, I could replace it for a few hundred bucks. Problem is, I don't have that kind of petty cash laying around.

I need to finance a computer for my office, and I've always loved OS X and liked macs in general, so.....

I bought a mac today ;D

Ready, set, FLAME! :thumbsup:
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  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Sick man :(
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2005
    Woop-de-****ing-doo!

    Swapped a slow Win-blows machine for an equally slow(or slower) Mac crap. :rolleyes:

    Oeverpriced and underperforming. ;D;D

    I guess your bad day yesterday really affected you badly, huh?


    OSX sounds nice, but not at the expense of having to buy my core hardware from a sole-source supplier.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    different strokes for different folks. If the mac does everything you need it to, who cares.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited January 2005
    shwaip wrote:
    different strokes for different folks. If the mac does everything you need it to, who cares.

    I agree, they are pretty much the same now... My folks use Mac and having messed around with their machines I would have to say while Mac does do things a little different but when you get right down to it I think that both OSX and XP are just about the same. They do things a bit differently but they both seem to run about the same speed and macs can crash just as eaisly as XP. You can even get Luna's for XP now that make windows look like and operate simular to OSX....

    Seems to me like computers have hit a wall. Technology is advancing but the general public just dosen't seem to feel the need to go out and buy.

    Even if we don't REALLY have the need for the power of 64 bit computing I think to help get the economy going again the whole industry should make the jump from 32 to 64 to force people to buy. Add that to a reduction in price for broadband services I think would jump start a sluggish economy...

    Sorry if I strayed off topic abit... Congrats on the new Mac Prime. :)

    "g"
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    ...I just stumbled across the real reason prime switched.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Be warned that your fruity Mac monitor is gonna be filled with hate based labels next time I'm in your office. Infact, I'm gonna buy some rainbow sticker print paper labeler thingy for it :ninja:


    ;D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    You dont have several hundred bucks to upgrade your current computer but you have enough to buy an entire Mac? I dont get it.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2005
    Is there a bug going around? Is that it? First Geeky1 and now Prime....that must be it.

    That said I hope you don't let your PC building customers into wherever the mac is, that's a heck of a messege to send them..."We build you PC's but I use a mac" ;D
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    mmonnin wrote:
    You dont have several hundred bucks to upgrade your current computer but you have enough to buy an entire Mac? I dont get it.
    I may be wrong, but I believe he's paying monthly for the mac.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Yeah, read closer, marky :)

    I don't have a chunk of cash on me. Therefore, I have to finance. So, I'm not gonna finance a PC because I would just not feel right about financing something I can build myself cheaper than I can buy it for.

    So, why not go mac?

    And, I hate to say it to the naysayers, but macs are just as fast as PCs for what we do. I mean seriously. :rolleyes: Everyone knows I am a hardcore PC guy, Windows shop, all the way, etc... I just happen to really like OSX and I have to buy a Mac to use it. :)
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited January 2005
    The only use for a mac in an office is if the roof leaks.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2005
    'sok Prime... I just <a href="http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26066">bought one</a> too... :-/
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited January 2005
    Doesn't VmWare run OSX? Hmm, maybe not....

    Macs are weird.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited January 2005
    A MAC EWwwww! :D

    You could've just asked for donations Prime! ;D I could've sent you a NF2 Mobo & a XP-M :D

    Seriously though Congrats & Put up some pics. The Mac Widescreen LCD Monitor is awesome. :respect:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Well I couldn't afford the high end stuff. I am getting a G5 imac.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2005
    Bah. My mac is bettar than yours. Or it will be when I get done with it. :p;D:D

    Oh, do us a favor and take that sucker apart... I wanna see how they're cooling the PPC970 in that case... :D
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I wish I had a mac here at work. Quark is better on the mac. To compensate I run yzDock and pretend I have OS X.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Nice. Macs used to be lamer IMO, but they're decent now. Not trouble-free, but what is?
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited January 2005
    Congratulations!!!


    How are you liking it? Do we get a review? M<ight be an interesting read... a MAC review in the words of a seasoned PC vetran.

    I am jealous. But confused. You could not afford a new PC so you bought a Mac? Aren't Macs just a tad more expensive?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    You guys aren't getting it:

    I have no cash. I needed to finance it.

    If I'm going to finance, it's either going to be a DELL or a MAC.

    I chose mac this time around. To summarize the reasons:

    1) I need a new office computer - mine is a piece of crap. I have the worst computer in the company and I am the damned CEO!

    2) We support several mac clients. They all exist on homogenous networks (mac + windows). We have no mac in-house to experiment/learn with, especially in the realm of mac/windows internetworking. We've always played it by ear, it's time to learn this stuff for real. If I have a mac, I can do this.

    3) I am in the hole too much with Dell, and their interest rates should be illegal.

    4) I bought a low-end iMac G5 - the cheapest mac I could get.

    5) I do not have it yet, when I do, I'll be sure to let everyone know.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    <font size=7 color=red face=impact><b><i>I HATE YOU</b></i></font>
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited January 2005
    primesuspect wrote:
    I bought a mac today ;D

    ....I KNEW I should have come to work today, even if it meant riding my bike 30 miles!

    I take responsibility for not stopping this before it started. :shakehead

    1) I need a new office computer - mine is a piece of crap. I have the worst computer in the company and I am the damned CEO!
    Not true. Have you even looked at mine?
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited January 2005
    Oh I get it. You needed to FINANCE it. Not just BUY it. My bad, sorry for the confusion.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Oh, I'll add this: OS X having Unix is really great. It thoroughly beats cygwin in every respect; if you know Unix but Linux is tough or not compatible enough, OS X is a good compromise.

    (One day at school I discovered a command to bench the hard disk! Unix = good. Ah, and between it and AppleScript you can write some very useful stuff, whereas Windows programming just hurts...)
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Buddy Jesus wrote:
    I wish I had a mac here at work. Quark is better on the mac. To compensate I run yzDock and pretend I have OS X.

    You use Quark? I hope you have no choice in the matter. When I had to use Quark in school for my digital publishing class I almost went insane until my teacher let us use In Design, then everything went a'ok ;)
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited January 2005
    Just a thought: some time ago, in the UK, 'Using a Mac' was a polite way of saying you were going to use a condom.

    Like I said, just a thought....
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    You could buy one part at a time. You just wont have it as quickly.

    And didnt you game on your work machine at the Lan?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    After the LAN I realized that I had a POS computer at home and a hot ass gaming rig at work... Yet, I never play games at work (what kind of job would that be!), and I do have time to play games at home... So the logical thing for me to do was to bring my good gaming computer home and take my POS to work.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited January 2005
    primesuspect wrote:
    After the LAN I realized that I had a POS computer at home and a hot ass gaming rig at work... Yet, I never play games at work (what kind of job would that be!), and I do have time to play games at home... So the logical thing for me to do was to bring my good gaming computer home and take my POS to work.


    I HATE YOU ALSO


    [SIZE=-3]ok no i dont, but I am disappointed..[/SIZE]

    :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::D:D:D:D:D
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited January 2005
    1) I need a new office computer - mine is a piece of crap. I have the worst computer in the company and I am the damned CEO!
    Start docking pay and giving yourself a bigger bonus ;D

    Or skip lunch for a month (eat a PBJ) and use the money you save to a new PC. If you're doing non graphic work on it, you probably wouldn't even need a high end chip or vid card...onboard video and Sempron or Celeron.

    Or you could just increase your rates and blame it on inflation :-) Corporate america loves to do that.
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