New computer

[Jeff in Dallas]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Macs.

I use Fusion when I have to run Vista... oh sorry... "Windows" is how they are referring to it now, I guess (no more "V" word). "Windows" runs faster on my Mac than on the PC. Of course, even then it's slower than Leopard...

 

[Arachnid]

I have been using Apple since my graphic art days. 15-20 years now I guess.
PC has some advantages as far as application available goes. But the Mac just smokes em. Especially in PhotoShopCS etc.
I think you will enjoy it.
Mike:thumbup:

 

[Lamonster]

Meh.

You're probably running Windows on your Mac anyway (50% of Mac owners do).

Congrats though. I'm sure it's pretty.

I get the message :2thumbs:

 

[Sopher]

yeah, yeah yeah. Now you're in my territory.
21 years of IT management and Systems Engineering. (Servers, networks, security and applications.)
Here's the scoop. If you use a MAC stand alone or in a MAC only network, then you wont see much issues. And YES corporate users do usually have Parrallels running Windows XP on their MAC.

But here's the rub... If you use a MAC in a Windows based corporate network... then life really sucks. We spend more time on supporting MAC users than PC's when used in a Windows network. Active Directory security, GPO's, login scripts, etc etc that make a Windows Network run oh so smooth, royally suck or wont work with MACs.

Biggest reason why Windows has it's popularity... It's what Corporate America uses. (Sarbanes-Oxley etc). So the employees want to use it at home.

Ok. I'l step off my soap box.
Oh, btw my wife just got a MACbook from her school. It too had Windows loaded in Parrallels. She never uses the MAC. I use it mainly for iMovie because I suck at editing movies.
:2thumbs:

 

[bone crusher]

This is a funny thread!

I have 2 PC laptops, and like Lamonster, just added an imac...to compare. I have parallels on it and haven't used it once.

Most of what I do involves Word, Excel, Powerpoint...so guess what? I'm going to get Office for mac and see how it goes...if all converts perfectly (if that's possible), I'd go with a mac laptop next time through...if not, I'll stick with PC. I do have some occasional problems with PC graphics when using a projector and I'm not sure if it's because it's a Dell, a pc based laptop, or I'm simply running out of video memory (I have a dedicated card in there!)

I also have several ipods and an iphone and from experience, they STINK on the PC...had problems all the time...never a problem when syncing on the imac...the imac is a pretty machine that is becoming more and more functional the more I work on it...just have to see how that office thing goes!

 

[Lamonster]

Try this first
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

This is a funny thread!

I have 2 PC laptops, and like Lamonster, just added an imac...to compare. I have parallels on it and haven't used it once.

Most of what I do involves Word, Excel, Powerpoint...so guess what? I'm going to get Office for mac and see how it goes...if all converts perfectly (if that's possible), I'd go with a mac laptop next time through...if not, I'll stick with PC. I do have some occasional problems with PC graphics when using a projector and I'm not sure if it's because it's a Dell, a pc based laptop, or I'm simply running out of video memory (I have a dedicated card in there!)

I also have several ipods and an iphone and from experience, they STINK on the PC...had problems all the time...never a problem when syncing on the imac...the imac is a pretty machine that is becoming more and more functional the more I work on it...just have to see how that office thing goes!

 

[jeuchler]

This is a funny thread!...

It definitely is, because all of us are just sharing anecdotes, it's not religion nor politics...

I will add a couple more, however, that have not been mentioned yet.

Brief background: I've worked with computers since 1977 when I first learned BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN. (Remember paper tape and punchcards, anyone?!) Taught Computer Science in NY City in the 1980's. Now I just run a school district website using a Mac, and I must do 3D modeling and 3D printing on Windows machines for the engineering course I teach.

Let me tell you none of it matters when you have a laptop bag slung over your shoulder and you reach to open your truck door and the laptop falls out of the (unzipped) bag to the asphalt f a r below.

(Yes. unzipped. I am an idiot. Yes. I gasped and got teary-eyed when it happened.)

I think the more time you spend around certain things can make one respect them more at the same time take them for granted 'cause you know what they can handle.

I dropped this same laptop (to hard ground from high heights three more times--I have already stated that I am an idiot-- the point being this thing still works.

Short of me owning one of those military laptops that can survive a gunshot, my clumsiness is my reason for brand loyalty to Apple, and I know that's just one person's story.

I do still like my lovely bride's response to when people give her a hard time about her Mac use since 1984, often stating how Mac's "can't be tweaked" to improve performance:

"To me, it's a toaster." She says. "I don't want to have to tweak my toaster everytime I want to use it. I want to turn it on, stick in the bread, and make toast."

Good luck with your new toaster, Lamont.

 

[NancysToy]

Brief background: I've worked with computers since 1977 when I first learned BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN. (Remember paper tape and punchcards, anyone?!)

Oh yeah! The countless hours in the middle of the night in the computer lab are wasted forever. I'm sure we had those counted double against our life totals. Just when I thought I was over the trauma...back to the shrink. :joke: Thanks (I guess) for the memories. Now where did I put those punchcards...
-Scotty

 

[Spydroe]

Did you get the 24" display Lamont?

 

[jeuchler]

Oh yeah! The countless hours in the middle of the night in the computer lab are wasted forever. I'm sure we had those counted double against our life totals. Just when I thought I was over the trauma...back to the shrink. :joke: Thanks (I guess) for the memories. Now where did I put those punchcards...
-Scotty

Ha!

Well, Scotty, I guess we just put that in the "old & decrepit" file cabinet in the folder marked "walked to school five miles uphill both ways..."

(I really know this is a Spyder board, but you have to check out this online Flash Mac "emulator" from about 1989. The author did a really nice job...)

 

[bjt]

Cool link jeuchler. That brings back some memories.

 

[docdoru]

Unless MAC can do this (as of 2005...) http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9272421886.html
and not charge for new hardware every time they change the OS, I'll stay with Linux. (IMO)

 

[docdoru]

And this is for daddydarko and sopher :doorag: http://www.analog.com/en/embedded-processing-dsp/tigersharc/content/index.html

 

[retread]

The last 15 years or so I was with GM, I repaired things like PCs, Macs, Seiko graphics stations, DEC PDP-11s, CNCs, Heidenhain controllers, Allen Bradley controllers, and on and on. The thing I remember about the Apple training; they were the ONLY computer company who would not certify you on their equipment just for taking the class. You had to take a test, and pass, before you got you papers.
Personally, I miss Unix, and CPM-86, which could run six separate programs at one time without slowing things down too much. Neither one was a memory hog, or a storage hog. 'Course this was in a time frame when a 20 meg HDU was considered state of the art, and a FAST processor was a 386.

 

[Sopher]

I used the Atari 800 (and a the 400) in college to connect to the university mainframe and I used the DEC PDP 11 in high school.
The Atari 800 allowed me to use a modem to effectively telnet to the mainframe. Those were the days of BBS's (Bullitin Board Systems) that have grown into forums like ours.

A walk down memory lane: Atari 800

Dec PDP 11 comes to life!

Even back in high school I was hacking... for good not evil... The term Dumpster diving was used when you went into the deleted bins and grabbed code from others that terminated their programs.

Today I have 3 desktop computers in the house, 1 beefed up server and we have about 4 laptops. BTW, my server is running the same stuff my clients run. And you can buy a Seagate 1 TB drive for about $100 or so from Newegg. I think they also have the 1.5tb. :2thumbs:

 

[Lamonster]

 

[mike3069]

:dontknow::hun: I couldn't find a single Spyder referance in the last several posts! :joke:

 

[Lamonster]

:dontknow::hun: I couldn't find a single Spyder referance in the last several posts! :joke:

pps::trike:

 

[NancysToy]

:trike:

Love the Smilie, looks just like me. What happened to they motor, though?
-Scotty

 

[dltang]

Love the Smilie, looks just like me. What happened to they motor, though?
-Scotty

:trike: Nah, I think that is bjt, remember when he crashed, wish I had video of that. For those of you that haven't seen it though, here is Scotty on his trike. Sorry for the poor quality, cell phone video.