Mac Computers

[hearts on fire]

I recently bought an imac computer and i think it is really great and i much prefer it than the normal Microsoft Computer.

has anyone else got a mac and what do you think of them and have you had any problems with them and are there any good programs to download on to it?

[Psyber]

The debate is all here:

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/feature.aspx?CIaFID=3887

[zipzap]

They look wonderful. Unfortunately for half the price you can get a twice-as-powerful PC which will end up lasting you longer as you can upgrade it much more easily.

Still, they do look nice.

[TroyGFC]

I was tossing up* to get a Mac notebook when I brought mine but price being almost $1k more and having to pay extra to get in black deterred me. They are meant to be much better for editing photos and I think most graphic designers use them (Macs).

[rod_rooster]

I was tossing up* to get a Mac notebook when I brought mine but price being almost $1k more and having to pay extra to get in black deterred me. They are meant to be much better for editing photos and I think most graphic designers use them (Macs).

They are not better for editing photos but they are marketed as such. Historically they were hence why they are commonplace within the design industry today. Having said that the movie editing functionality with Final Cut Pro is outstanding if you have the enourmous amount of money required to get the machine then the software as well that is.

[Wedgie]

When Macs get as much software for them as what PCs have I'll consider them. ie never
No use in getting a new car if it can only drive on 25% of the roads.

[firstblood]

When Macs get as much software for them as what PCs have I'll consider them. ie never
No use in getting a new car if it can only drive on 25% of the roads.

It sort of reminds you of the days when VHS V BETA in video recorders...
BETA was known to be the better machine but some one said Hey! go VHS and they did and finally wiped out BETA. Similar story today but Macs are still hanging in there after almost being sent to oblivion like the Beta recorder. Like someone said, if they were cheaper, easier to upgrade and have tons of software available, perhaps they might be winning the pc war.

[firstblood]

PS...And yes i was one that bought a BETA....3 months later the BETA hire movies started disappearing of the shelves.
Still made a good clock on the old telly though.

[Psyber]

Back when personal and business computing was beginning to take off and move out of the hobbyist zone in the late 1980s and early 1990s Apple shot themselves in the foot by really trying to milk the suckers with machines and software that were very expensive, and locked you out of upgrading them yourselves.

Bill Gates on the other hand let everyone who wanted to steal DOS and early Windows products up to and including Windows 3.11, and then when nearly everyone else had gone to the wall, starting tightening up the security - a shrewd business plan - cheaper wins - just like VHS did over Beta.

I don't think I actually paid for software at all until until Windows 95, although I didn't know at first that the dealer who "threw it in" was being naughty....

So the only people who went for Macs were in places like schools and tertiary institutions and other government situations where somebody else was paying for it. They did very cleverly give some computers to schools so kids were familiar with Macs not PCs, but eventually the price of buying more to go with the free ones turned even those places toward PCs.

Then there were people like me who wanted to build there own to their own specs by the early to mid 90s, and you could get components for PCs easily but not Macs.

In 1987 I bought an Aquarius XT Turbo for $2200. An equivalent IBM was $5000, and a Mac considerably more - and that was real money back then. A Maserati was only about $100,000 then.