Switching to Mac How-To-Guide @ Futurelooks
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Now that you have decided to take the plunge and are "Switching to Mac" what are your next steps to getting your PC stuff over to your new Mac?
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2 - Durr....
You dirty rat, you beat me to it...
(Procedure written by QCH2002)
-drasnor
but he wont, because that OS is the only selling point for the hardware. If you could put the os on any computer, no one in their right mind would buy one from them, unless they actaully started something called "competive pricing" but I guess the apple freaks Think Different so they just jack the prices.
I would have to disagree. In my experience people tend to stick with what they know, so you would find that it would be alot less than that, I would say <5%. And I couldnt see any corporate networks changing over, too much hassle.
-drasnor
Source: Apple
Nor does it have the processing power that a "dull tower" does. Apple just makes stuff look pretty, and if you want to pay for pretty hardware, than that's fine, I will stick with hardware that is fast. And dont say that the mac processors, nad shoddy hardware are fast, why do you think they switched to intel processors, they were too slow. And they still arent the fastest.
Yes. It was decent I have to admit. But it just wasnt what I expected for that much money. I feel that a pc runs faster. The only thing I like about them in the first place is their os and some thier software. Other than that, its just overpriced hardware to be truthful, their really isnt any other way to put it, unless you are this apple fanboy that I ran accross that said Apple hardware was "special". I nodded my head.
Dont get me wrong, I know they arent slow, they are a moddern pc, so they will perform pretty good, but for bleeding edge performance, I have yet to see it out of a mac. I', sure it is there, but how much would it cost? $$$$$$$$
G3 and G4 chassis mount passive heatsinks that are prone to overheating. I'm going to be milling an active heatsink for my G3 soon but the combined height of heatsink and fancan't exceed 2cm because Apple thoughtfully placed the 5.25" drive bay directly over the processor. Most aftermarket heatsinks have offset fans with a hot plate over the processor and a HSF hanging off the side of the socket somewhere. Now that's what I call good design. To be fair, the G3 and G4 cases are easy to get into but an inordinate amount of guts have to be removed to install a new optical drive. Oh, and let's not forget that Apple machines won't work with just any old drive, only ones that have Apple-provided drive firmware or drives with revisions "close enough". Perusing the compatibility database over at xlr8yourmac is something I've never had to do on any other platform.
Did I mention why I was pulling the hard drive out of the G4 iBook? It was because the original hard drive had been replaced with a newer, larger, cheaper drive after the owner wanted more space but didn't want to pay the extortion fees the Apple store charges for hard drives and installation. Well, several months later the notebook suffered a logic board failure (that's motherboard for you PC folks). Upon recepit of the laptop, the Apple techs disassembled it only to find the non-Apple hard drive whereupon they sent it back nearly six weeks later, unrepaired. Additionally, there were missing screws when we cracked it open so the Apple techs had lost a few as well as they were putting it back together. Now that's quality service.
I could go on, but I won't. I suppose your mileage may vary is an apt description of Apple.
-drasnor
j/k, Brian.... I hate because I am scared to try a MAC... It's so different from a PC that is makes me feel like a noob.
Brian's going to be wearing a turtleneck and a beret when we show up to the LAN. It's the next logical step!
-drasnor
And like I said, they may be good, but for what you pay, they better sure as hell be at least adequate. I've used many macs, and in the year book room at my school, that is all we have except for one pc, we have all imac g3's (SLOOOOWWW) and then they try and get me to use photoshop on them hah hah hah, now thats an experience. But I love tiger and the way it runs, I wish I could run it on my pc. But
"pc hardware is so inferior to apple hardware that it cant run Mac OS,"
translation
"Mac OS is the only way we can force people to buy our POS hardware at exorbinate ammount of money$$$!!!"
[strike]finaly?[/strike] I mean, o good. That is nice to know [strike]that they finally woke up and smelled the two buttoned mouse[/strike]