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Post by nm on Jan 25, 2010 23:01:19 GMT 1
i'd get a dell, as no problems with them, my favorite is ACER, but i feel the modern acers have gone down hill in quality! I guess everyone has their own experiences, personally i'd never touch a HP or Mac (as it would take me 5 years to be able to use it lol) Remember, you can run Windows on your Mac. Many do, to ease the transition which is easy anyway. It's said that Windows is a back-to-front upside-down copy of the Mac (an inadequate exaggeration), so get things the right way round and there you are! nm
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Post by Mark on Jan 26, 2010 0:49:27 GMT 1
My nice shiney new Dell is on order and should arrive soon
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Post by Achtung!! on Jan 26, 2010 9:01:27 GMT 1
OOOO shiny new pc
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Post by nm on Jan 27, 2010 18:55:12 GMT 1
My nice shiney new Dell is on order and should arrive soon US News: This evening, President Obama gives his State of the Union address, CEO Steve Jobs launches a new Apple product. nm
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Post by Achtung!! on Jan 28, 2010 10:09:12 GMT 1
Steve Jobs for President.
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Post by Mark on Jan 28, 2010 12:04:58 GMT 1
Bill Gates for the Manual Relocation Operative of the Acme Manure Pile Removal Company !
Half my damned peripherals aren't compatible with Windows 7. Anybody want to buy a network card or scanner ?
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Post by nm on Jan 28, 2010 13:34:32 GMT 1
Bill Gates for the Manual Relocation Operative of the Acme Manure Pile Removal Company ! Half my damned peripherals aren't compatible with Windows 7. Anybody want to buy a network card or scanner ? Just remembered, you didn't get a Mac! nm
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Post by Achtung!! on Jan 28, 2010 16:31:11 GMT 1
Thought he was getting a computer not a sowester for the bad weather?!
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Post by nm on Feb 2, 2010 19:49:32 GMT 1
Seen on http://www.macdailynews.com:
"It's now the two year mark for my switch from Windows to Mac. Over the last two years I've gone from a Windows developer exploring the Mac as a compliment to my Windows and Linux machines to a full time Mac user that spends the vast majority of my time in OS X," David Alison blogs.
"I didn't wake up one day and say 'Wow, I hate Windows. I'm going to switch to Mac,'" Alison explains. "I bought a little white MacBook, put it on the desk next to my primary Windows machine and started playing with it. Though technically underpowered compared to the dual screen, custom built PC I spent all of my time on, I found myself constantly reaching over to the MacBook to use it. The environment was fresh and new to me and I began to really enjoy the user interface consistency that OS X and the vast majority of Mac applications shared."
"For such a small device the performance was excellent too; though it was the least expensive of the MacBook line of computers it didn't feel like a compromised machine," Alison reports. "Applications loaded quickly and I could run several large applications at once and see very little performance impact. In the past when I purchased the least expensive Windows based laptops the machine was barely usable out of the box; it needed to be cleaned of all the "extra" applications and within a month of using it the performance would start to deteriorate. Not so with the Mac."
"In relatively short order I went from having a MacBook to purchasing a Mac Pro, which replaced my primary Windows desktop," Alison reports. "Whereas the MacBook was quick, the Mac Pro was—and still is—remarkably fast. With dual 2.8Ghz quad core Xeons and 12GB of RAM, I was suddenly able to run a huge number of applications seamlessly."
Alison writes, "The bottom line is I'm really happy I decided to 'try out' that MacBook two years ago. Computing—as a software developer the place I spent a huge number of my waking hours—became fun and exciting again."
nm
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Post by Mark on Feb 2, 2010 21:54:28 GMT 1
Of course, the Mac News wouldn't be biased ? Would it ?
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Post by nm on Feb 3, 2010 18:31:42 GMT 1
Of course, the Mac News wouldn't be biased ? Would it ? Almost rabid at times, fair most of the time, and here they were quoting someone else (a PC guy). nm
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Post by Mark on Apr 3, 2010 23:38:55 GMT 1
I hope Mike is sitting down, coz I've just updated the web site again ! Up to week 80 now, with a few gaps filled in. I was lucky, I managed to get my antique web authoring software to work with Windows 7
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