Hard News: TV is social. Already
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Oh. And now I see that the rumour sites are promising a complete refreshed iMac line (new enclosures, chipsets and possibly other features) on August 7, so it'd be kind of silly to buy one now.
Sigh ... let's see if SuperDuper can make the bootable backup to one of my Firewire drives that Disk Utility won't.
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merc,
With Leopard?
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merc,
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Russell - I'd like to hear more about how you made your computer choice. Is there specific software that you prefer on the Mac? Do you like the Apple design aesthetics?
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I need an an OS X upgrade badly but I am holding on until Leopard arrives.
My answer to Lex Miller would be "I choose Macs because they work."
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I'd like to hear more about how you made your computer choice.
I'm guessing style over substance.
**Don runs...
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The substance of Windows being thousands of viruses.
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merc,
Mac for productivity, PC for solitaire.
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1 powerbook. 2 years. NO problems. None.
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You're one of the lucky ones - apparently they can be a bugger to get fixed.
Like any tech outfit, Apple have had their share of dodgy products, along with the market-leading ones. The director of one IT dept I worked for got so pissed off at the runaround he got over one shonky apple lappie that he packed it up in a rubbish bin & couriered it to the boss of the local reseller.
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Yeah that is true. Fingers crossed eh.
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Please no mac v pc war.
maybe a survey? "Do you use a Mac or PC ?"
And "If price were no object, would you use a Mac or PC?" -
And:
"What was it that made you switch?"
"How was your first month or so of using a Mac?" -
I bought a macbook expecting to run windows in parallels for a lot of things, or vista in bootcamp.
I've not installed bootcamp, and I almost never use parallels. Everythng else just works as I want it to.
It's fun to use a PC again....
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I predominantly use PCs, but I've used and supported Macs in the past. I have PCs at home, but the kids use Macs at school. I can swing both ways with a mental gear-shift, but the kids barely notice the difference - its just another computer to them. Every computer they use is set up slightly differently, its just a different set of differences on the Macs.
The Mac is becoming just another bit of hardware, with the OS as the main differentiator, and OSes are becoming less relevant with the rise of the interweb and platform agnostic apps like the Google family.
By the time my kids hit the workforce mac vs pc is probably going to be nearly as irrelevant as Sony vs Panasonic for TVs. (for the average user, standard conditions apply, YMMV, results not typical, best results combined with diet and exercise, may contain traces of nuts). -
Back to the other subject, I share online videos with friends. If I come across a funny kitton clip on YouTube, I will not hesitate to share it with my online amigos.
I'm also one of those people who ranks videos and leaves comments on YouTube.
Funny thing about YouTube comments - no matter what the content of the video is, there will always be at least one comment declaring it to be rubbish ("Sorry, I just don't see what's so great about that stupid kitten.") and/or fake ("It's clearly a lame attempt at viral marketing for Whiskas").
And I've had friends recommend stuff on YouTube and bittorrents that have turned me into massive fans of TV series, and resulting in a DVD purchase or two.
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Russell - I'd like to hear more about how you made your computer choice. Is there specific software that you prefer on the Mac? Do you like the Apple design aesthetics?
Actually, I was inducted in a bizarre cult ritual whose nature I cannot reveal to non-initiates, unless I kill them afterwards.
But not having to worry about viruses, adware, spyware or DLL conflicts helps.
I do like the industrial design, and the silence.
But mostly, it's the everything just works thing.
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Thanks Russell.
I'm coming from a Linux background, and considering a Mac for a second computer.
i.e. I haven't needed to worry about viruses, adware, spyware, DLL conflicts and the like. I was also involved in a cult ritual, although my memory of it has been mostly erased. And I'm able to choose a pretty good design for my hardware (currently Dell Latitude X1 - which has no fan - blessed silence, while a little warm).
The "everything just works" bit is probably not what a Linux user wants. In fact I suspect that more Linux users would move to the Mac if it wasn't already so damn finished. It's like presenting a pristine condition vintage car to a restorer hobbyist - It's great, but there's nothing left to do.
For a second computer though, I'm keen. One of those MacBooks might be a good start.
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I'd use a Mac if it would run Windows.
Actually, can't Intel-based macs boot Windows?
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Hey Lex, how's Japan?
I had an all-Ubuntu environment at home but bought a Mac mini for my partner. She loves it. Everything does indeed just work. Almost everything just worked with Ubuntu, and I still mostly use that environment myself, but it was too much to ask her to do her own research to resolve obscure issues with video codecs etc. I like having bash and friends on OSX, that's for sure.
There is quite a difference in GUI behaviour which could be annoying at first.
Biggest downside: any applications that were not installed at the outset are probably not free (as in freedom or as in cost). There is a lot of free (libre) software ported to OSX but it's often not very well integrated into the platform, thus losing you the "it just works" user experience that you bought it for in the first place. So if you are used to typing apt-get install superfoo every time you take a fancy to try something new you'll find the Mac rather sadly limited. The garden is beautiful but it is walled.
It is quite liberating in a bizarro sort of way to have a proprietary box in the house. When things go wrong in Linux land somehow it's always my fault, but if there's a problem at the Mac -- well, what would I know? Please contact the manufacturer :)
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Lex: Out of interest (non-geeks can stop reading now) what does happen if a piece of Linux software installs a shareable library under /usr/local somewhere and another one wants to do the same, but with a different, incompatible version. (which amounts to a DLL conflict)?
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merc,
DLL Hell.
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Rich - I'm not certain why Linux seems to have less problems in this area. I suspect:
1. The libraries tend to be in their own package - not part of the software you are installing. So you don't have software fighting with other software, each trying to get it's own version of the library installed.
2. Linux libraries tend to be backward compatible. You may have a software installation which triggers an upgrade of a library, but you won't often see an installation which demands you downgrade a library.
3. Most modern Linux distributions take care of the dependencies for you. I'm not sure if Windows provides the same level of governance on what are often 3rd party libraries. -
merc,
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This Musician Magazine story about the yoof and digital technology was interesting.
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