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MrMorrill
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 Posted: January 24, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: Taking the Mac plunge! |
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So as of next week i will be a Mac owner and windows will be a thing of the past! The comp will be a Photo editing/Home theater hybrid. Specs below...
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Apple Mini Mac-1.83ghz,80g hd,1gig memory
Monitor-Acer 19inch widescreen lcd
External Hard drive- Lacie Porsche 250gb
Keyboard/mouse- Macnally desktop kit
Tv tuner- Elgato eye tv
Its going to come out to 1000bucks, and its totally worth every penny! Windows is fun and all but Leopard is the fastest OS on the market and to me the best looking. Any other mac users in here?!
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DarMonkey
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Sounds like you will really enjoy that system. Nice choice!
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Alastor Moody
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| Posted: January 25, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Nice system you got there, I am no fan of Macs but what you have there is nice!
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tshaw07
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I got a macbook but i still use windows half the time. I dual boot windows xp professional and mac os 10.4. If you ask me, which no one did, they both are not very good at all. Even leopard and vista both have problems, no matter what those stupid commercials say. mac is better for video editing and stuff like that where windows is better for gaming.
If you want to rip dvds onto your mac get handbrake and mac the ripper. thats what i use but i still only have 10.4 so youll proly use something different.
have fum with your new mac. im going to go back to trying to figure out how to triple boot mac os 10, windows and linux.
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MrMorrill
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| Posted: January 26, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Vista has alot more problems then Leopard. Leopard is the fastest OS out there when it comes to the Vista/mac ish. Plus for many internships im looking into require me to use Mac.
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dont get me wrong, leopard is a good system. im just saying its not as lop sided as alot of people say it is. my room mate has vista and he doesn't have any problems. i also know people who use leopard that dont have any problems.
just make sure your external hard drive has fire wire. it will be alot faster that usb 2.0
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| Posted: January 27, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: Re: Taking the Mac plunge! |
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| MrMorrill wrote: |
So as of next week i will be a Mac owner and windows will be a thing of the past! The comp will be a Photo editing/Home theater hybrid. Specs below...
Computer:
Apple Mini Mac-1.83ghz,80g hd,1gig memory
Monitor-Acer 19inch widescreen lcd
External Hard drive- Lacie Porsche 250gb
Keyboard/mouse- Macnally desktop kit
Tv tuner- Elgato eye tv
Its going to come out to 1000bucks, and its totally worth every penny! Windows is fun and all but Leopard is the fastest OS on the market and to me the best looking. Any other mac users in here?! |
Are those the new real small laptops?
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Alastor Moody
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| Posted: January 27, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: |
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NOTE: Do not get a Mac book Air or as we call them in wyldryde Mac Book Dares.
They cost to much, the hard drive is slow, and just yuck!!!
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MrMorrill
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| Posted: January 27, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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My next laptop will be an Air. I dont really game anymore so all i need is someting for business/editing.
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Alastor Moody
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then be ready to throw away $3,000 for it
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| Posted: January 28, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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3000 is with all the bells and whistles like the solid state hard drive which is a plus. Id drop 2000 or so on it. No need for the 1.8g core 2duo for me.
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