Who has a mac?

[Drake]

I am about to get a macbook for my 21st birthday. I have to pay half lol just wondering how many others have a mac?


edit. 7-10-07

I finally got a mac. Macbook 2ghz core 2 duo. 2 gigs ram. I love it.!

[JDArt]

Too expensive for me!

[jfrancho]

I've used and supported Macs at work. I'd love to get a high end workstation, but the I basically have the equivalent in a Wintel box, but at 2/3 the price. As far as the "Mac experience" and Macs reportedly "working better" claims by Macophiles, I don't get it. A computer is a tool, and my criteria is that they do what I want for them. Macs and PCs are both different and desirable for different reasons. I would prefer a Mac as a digital imaging workstation. No way would I want to use one for application development. So, my answer is, maybe, someday.

[Drake]

I didn't want this to be a pc vs mac I'm just trying to see the numbers of members on this forum that own or use a mac. We can go all day on pc vs. mac

[jfrancho]

I guess that was my point - in a long winded, roundabout way.

[harryd]

Drake, I use a Mac G5 for all my computing. I have never owned a pc, nothing against them, just never owned one.

[Waleed]

Happy Birthday, Drake..

I've recently purchased a 17" MacBook Pro, after having a PowerBook G4/667 since Nov/2001.. For the family, we're using an eMac in the living room.. I also use a 20" iMac G5 at the studio.

I need Windows to access my bank's website and do transactions. So on the MacBook Pro, I bought Parallels, which allows me to run Windows natively on the Intel Duo Core 2 processor.. It's pretty fast..

[Paul Shields]

I mainly use a 24" imac at home, and a 20" at work. Funnily enough though, I'm typing this on the 24" running Vista and it's a very nice experience. Clean, fast and so far everything works well. Parallels is good as Waleed says - gives you an excellent way of running Windows on the Mac.

Also - check out the new VMWare Fusion Beta Program. It has the ability of using native graphics hardware so can emulate some games at decent speed. Quite impressive.

Video Player

[Waleed]

Originally Posted by Paul Shields

Also - check out the new VMWare Fusion Beta Program. It has the ability of using native graphics hardware so can emulate some games at decent speed. Quite impressive.

Hey Paul, I just downloaded VMware to try it out, and I was given a serial number that will keep it alive until May. However, after a bit of testing, I found it to be a bit slower than Parallels (yes, I installed the VMware Tools). Not to mention, the display acceleration option was not available in the settings.. Could it be because I'm using an integrated display?! Who knows

[Paul Shields]

Waleed - I think you've nailed the reasons. The VMware Fusion uses the graphics card to a greater extent than Parallels, and an integrated card may have a big impact. I've not seen any comparison benchmarks between the two but I've found the VMware beta to be pretty quick, though Parallels is certainly no slouch. A bigger benefit for me is that Fusion is supposed to support USB2. Last time I used Parallels it was USB1 and was very slow reading CF cards for example.

[Waleed]

The only USB device I connect to Parallels is my GPS, and it connects via RS-232 at 9600bps (DB9-USB Keyspan adapter). So, it's difficult to notice the difference

Thanks again

[atomic]

Originally Posted by Drake

I didn't want this to be a pc vs mac I'm just trying to see the numbers of members on this forum that own or use a mac. We can go all day on pc vs. mac

You are right. There is no need for a pc vs mac thread. Mac lost that one 15 or 20 years ago. Can you say 95% t0 3%

[Paul Shields]

Well looking at the site traffic stats here we average around 8% accessing via a Mac, so we probably buck the trend, but I agree - no need for a PC is better than Mac debate. One thing I will say though. I use lots of different OS's, Linux/Solaris for work, Windows for games and watching TV, and Mac for everything else. I tried Vista via bootcamp on my iMac, and was happy to get back to OSX. The eye candy was rotting my retinas .

[cwfilms]

i have an Apple G5 dual 2.5g with 4.5 gigs of ram..
when your working with Canon 1DS MK2 raw files you gotta go BIG and you gotta go FAST..

I LOVE IT !!

cw
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[JDArt]

Originally Posted by Paul Shields

Well looking at the site traffic stats here we average around 8% accessing via a Mac, so we probably buck the trend

Camels are strange creatures....

[tomrock]

Originally Posted by JDArt

Too expensive for me!

This used to be true but it really isn't any more.

Having used for Macs and PCs my take is that they're both the same and both should be better than they are.

[mbanstendig]

I've had top-of-the-line Macs since the Apple II ca. 1981-82. Many logical things about computing can't be used on the PC because Mac had them first (like the upper menu bar, for example, instead of that illogical "start" menu at the bottom of the screen, where no one naturally tends to look).

I also have PCs, because some high end venerable Astrology Aps only run on PCs. Don't enjoy using them, except for using those aps. And I have good high end CPIs.

Currently using a Mac Pro Quad 3G super computer, w 4G RAM (will eventually add more) and 4 internal drives (1 500GB and 3 750GB, 2 of them Raided) as well as my somewhat older Dual 2.5GB G5 Quicksilver, w 4.5G RAM (that RAM was cheaper), which I use for batch scanning with a second scanner.

I do prefer the better PC keyboards though, especially the IBMs....not for the layout, but for the feel. There are no great keyboards for the Mac, except for a SIIG, which has too dark a key-color for my eyes....I need white).

It really doesn't matter much anymore as far as usage is concerned. Aps for both computers do it, including the adobe Aps. But the upkeep and configuring is simply easier on the Mac. And, for me, it is more intuitive and logical in general.

Mark

[rnyholm]

Originally Posted by JDArt

Too expensive for me!

This is true. I have an iMac 20" intel Core Duo 2 gb sdram with 500 Gb harddisk and ATY Radeon X1600 grapichs. This beauty cost 2500 €. With that I could have got two good PC:s

[azrussell132]

Currently 1 Macbook CD2 and one Emac PPC.

[philcozz]

One original MacBook (white), but soon to get a new MacBook Pro (waiting for the next update).