Mac?

Blimey, I 100% agree Mr. Stockton.

PC rules for sure IMO, though my Mac Mini is a nice little extra play thing whilst it's working.

PCs have a clear lead on mac in one respect (imo) and thats games.

No use making out otherwise games on mac don't exist.

So I have windows on my mac for that and also for VBA for excel, although apparently they are bringing that back with Office 2011 for mac. So that was nice.

Other than that I find PC interfaces difficult to look at and the mouse does not feel right, I know that sounds silly but there you go. I have Adobe creative suite for the PC at work bought for me byt he client and I cannot use it on PC, it just does not 'Feel' right so I bought it for mac.

Most odd and I suppose just what you are used to.

I'll never forget as a 13 year old kid walking in to the school IT department after summer holiday and 20 mac pluses and a laser printer were sat there. It was amazing, there were kids using adlus pagemaker and creating stuff! There was nothing like it at the time, and I have never considered anything else since.

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PCs have a clear lead on mac in one respect (imo) and thats games.

And viruses - they are pretty good at spreading those around - DLLs who thought of those: Dr Solomon?

Not having a GUI eliminates a lot of rubbish from the system and lets the processor concentrate on the job at hand - do we really need a ton of junk and all this multitasking nonsense on a player that sould just play music - if a GUI is essential then System 7 would be good. However, a BBC would be my ideal.

I think in words not pictures - I can remember the titles of thousands of songs, but not their cover art.

Move on eh ---- I don't think so. My Amiga, which has a GUI, runs faster than my Mac or any PC and it has a mickey mouse processor - great software. The Amiga OS runs in around 100K not 1GB - it is pre-emptive multi-tasking and would make a great way to stream music, but it never will because of the Microsoft millstone - of course, CBM were rubbish at customer support which is probably why technical excellence does not always win the day. I tend to use the CLI on my Amiga and just run one program at a time.

I think I get passoniate about this because I see so many people buy PCs and always think they could do much better, but I'll try to get over it and just accept that they'll continue to be ripped off - nothing I can do about it.

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Originally posted by garyi:
and the mouse does not feel right, I know that sounds silly but there you go.

Then use the Magic Mouse and Bluetooth Apple Keyboard...... I do.

Seems like a strange reason to disparage windows and PCs in general, considering they have nothing at all to do with keyboards and mice.

Buy one you like and use it with a PC????

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Originally posted by garyi:


Genuine question BTW, how the hell do you do that?

Really? Insert disc and reboot. Not that hard.

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Originally posted by munch:
Pat there is a Zappa thread in the music room.

Woohooooo! Understood Munch, in like 7 different ways....

heading over...

Patrick I don't mean the physical mouse, I mean how it renders on screen, I said I could not explain it.

Working in illustrator etc one would usually use a wacom but when a mouse is all you have it feels really odd on PC.

I know what garyi means - the pointer on the Mac feels a lot more solid, and more directly connected to the movement of the mouse than on Windows. It is hard to describe, and probably only something you notice if you work on both.

Mostly it's the software and the OS that makes the difference though… Safari is a far better browser than Internet Explorer (or Firefox for that matter, but that's probably a more contentious view), iPhoto makes managing my photos easy, iTunes is my entertainment hub, plus there's all the integration between Mail, Calendar, Address Book and the iPhone.

Macs aren't for everyone, but they match me perfectly.

Simon