I much prefer my old Mac - and no matter WHAT people say, the two just AREN'T compatible in everything - but since Grandma bought the kids a PC - we're constantly at odds as to which works better for what... I'd love to be an integrated household!!
My house is maxed out with Macs. Seriously, it's iPods galore. I use an iBook G4, downstairs is the old Centris, the G3, and the prettiful G5. We even have an old Powerbook around here somewhere. You can't walk around the house witch out tripping over one of our million white cords.
Well, I use IE on Austin's mac, but I still can't do a lot of things on my blog when I'm using it....
Friendster doesn't have features you can't use, but the format is way ****ed up on a mac. Actually, I haven't tried it in Safari, so maybe it would work better then.
I'm a Linux based PC guy, no windows dual boot. Mac's are still too proprietary (I will never own an iPod for this reason) and I love to build my own computers.
My house is maxed out with Macs. Seriously, it's iPods galore. I use an iBook G4, downstairs is the old Centris, the G3, and the prettiful G5. We even have an old Powerbook around here somewhere. You can't walk around the house witch out tripping over one of our million white cords.
Heh. It was like that when I lived with my parents for a bit after college, and my sis was still there too. Two Performas, a G4, two iMacs, three or four laptops of various models, a CX (I think)...and a partridge in a pear tree. (not to mention an old Apple II)
GNU/Linux, I don't see how anyone could want to support that evil monopoly. Besides their products are crap. I'll never use proprietary software, I like to be in control of the things that I own. Windows is horrible, & well OSX is just Unix with a fancy interfacy, but I can get much nicer interfaces for GNU/Linux.
I am a bit ticked off at the fact that Apple is switching to intel processors. I personally don't like them, but I'll have to live with them now. I wanted to buy an iMac g5, and squeeze as much out of it as I did my g3; but I don't think it will last me as long now, with the switch. I'll just wait until 2006 or 2007.
There are still many non-Mac sites and obviously software. I deal with it, but it was a pain that I could only use a music gift card from my birthday on my work PC, then had to burn it to CD and bring it home to rip into my Mac.
I've got no problem whatsoever with the Mactel switch.
At the moment, I'm running Linux and Windows. If I had the funds to satisfy my hardware lust, I'd probably pick up a Mac because my EPIA 900 is starting to show its age crunching some datasets. It's hard because there is not really anything headless between the mini and the dual g5 right now.
I've been a Mac user for years and years. Back when I started college they had just gotten a lab full of the original Mac 128's. I was hooked from the start. Before that, I had an Apple ][+, complete with a 300 baud modem and a Compu$erve account. What a geek.
I did a short course on Dreamweaver a few years a go and the college that offered it had Macs. They had the standart Apple one-button mouse and it drove me completely NUTS. I hadn't used Mac OS in a very long time. So if anyone asks me about using Macs, I always joke that I prefer PC because it has two mouse buttons.
I have to use a Mac at school (which, btw, has only one mouse button -- grr), but my home computer is a PC.
I want to get a laptop and I HATE Macs, but I really like the Final Cut software and I'd like to make some movies with my Creative Writing students, so I'm torn... I need to do some more research on movie-making/editing software for PCs.
Full free GPL'd video editting software, http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 but it's probably much too advanced for use in a school enviroment & I don't think it runs on Windows or Mac OSX.
If you're looking at not so cheap film editing software for PC Adobe premiere is good. I've always found it pretty easy to get on with and its possible with a little thinking outside the box to do anything with it.
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