Just got the MacBook aluminum chassis for Xmas. 2GB RAM, DDR3, 160 GB HD, 2.0 GHz, 1GB FSB. The interface is taking some getting used to but it's sexy so far. It does run pretty smoothly but I haven't totally forsaken PCs yet.
The touchpad is pretty cool. You can zoom and rotate pics as on an iPhone. Sweeping through menus is neat. It even is correcting my typos on this entry (just noticed that). The built-in webcam also acts as a sensor that adjusts the screen brightness based on the light in the room. Haven't seen that before. Having fun with iTunes also. I've d/l a lot of freebies and purchased a few songs and TV shows. Scrubs Season 7 is $.99 per episode. Love that.
You couldn't pay me .99 a minute to watch Scrubs. Congrats on the Macbook. I have no idea what one is. I'm assuming it's a laptop that Apple makes.
All pretty cool features I guess except I seem to have lost interest in downloading music anymore. I'd go mac for a try if I did not have to work in a PC world and I get easily confused.
I had similar concerns being in the Guard and interfacing with all my PC peers but there is a MS Office pack for Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) home edition for less than $150. Also, iWorks can import and export Office files. iWorks version of PowerPoint (Keynote) is much cooler. I haven't messed with the other apps enough to know about them yet. I am scamming a copy of Office from a friend. Also, the Mac can run Windows XP or Vista. You can reboot into the Windows OS and run those apps or buy Fusion or Parallels (ca. $70) to be able to run them and the Mac OS simultaneously. And Garage Band (music studio) is the bomb. It came standard with the iLife '08 installed on the MacBook. I could go on but phatboy quit reading this post midway thru the first paragraph anyway.
Ha ha I read the whole thing! Im not against Mac, I just dont have a need for them. I live in a Windows world, so I am stuck in it. You should have seen their faces when I proposed all new PCs be loaded with Fedora Core and Open office, which would save us about 400.00+ per PC w/200+ PCs. But they are scared cuz of the learning curve, and so and so has been using windows for soooo long.....
I have to keep checking back to this thread. I've wanted to switch for years now but it's always been postponed. Please keep us posted about how smoothly the transition goes. Ps. You all get nice stuff. I got one of those flat, aluminum grill tops that you place over two burners on the stove, two porterhouse steaks and a voucher for a plane ticket. I'm not sure what the message was supposed to be.
"You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" So far I like it. I was hesitant to make the jump but they say "once you go Mac, you never go back." It was pricey but, hopefully, it'll live up to the hype. It does boot up in less than a minute and shuts down in less than 10 seconds (haven't timed it officially.) I got the Office for Mac today. It has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, and Messenger. I haven't played with them enough to find any shortfalls but I plan to stretch it out next weekend. The backlit display is only 13.3" but is a very nice picture. The screen and touchpad are glass and the chassis is one piece of aluminum making it rugged, yet thin and light (think Nursey in convenient laptop form.) I first thought that the Mac aficionados were an arrogant elitist cult and they shunned PCs to justify their lofty purchases. That may well be but, if you watch any "Making of" documentaries on DVD of guys that create music or animation; they use Macs. I guess it is because they are powerful. Bottom line: it is a cool computer. Is it worth the money vs a more muscle-bound PC? They jury is still out.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!?" Can you believe a friend of mine and I got sent to the drunk tank one night because of those two sentences?
Had to jump in on this one! I have been a Mac user since the first fruity colored iMacs came out(my first comp since DOS3. At times I have hung my head in shame and was embarassed to tell anyone I was a Mac user ("oh I havn't seen a mac since highschool") Then this past year I bought my very first laptop PC and the first conclusion I came to was that the ENTIRE PC world is operating with a SERIOUS handi-cap. I am not computer literate (nor can I spell) and I find Windows the hardest to use, clunkiest, most seriously fucked up OS I have ever seen. Nothing is easy with that computer, nothing seems to quite happen the way you expect it to (counter-intuitive is the phrase that comes to mind.) Everything seems to involve about 12 steps to accomplish. MY vote: GO MAC, you will NEVER go back. Also the compatibilty issues are no longer so noticble (I can surf all the porn I like) and the vids always play! One thing to keep in mind: Windows is a cheap knock off of the ORIGINAL Mac OS, and a bad one at that.
