pc broke going mac any ideas?
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Here is an idea... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHYYYYYY!
Everyone that I know that bought a Mac are now wishing they hadent. The only thing that macs are good for are for the graphical programs such as Photo Shop and design and lay out. That is why most companys that do magazine layout and newspapers use Mac. If you like to play games get a PC. But who's to say your going to play games.
Everyone that I know that bought a Mac are now wishing they hadent. The only thing that macs are good for are for the graphical programs such as Photo Shop and design and lay out. That is why most companys that do magazine layout and newspapers use Mac. If you like to play games get a PC. But who's to say your going to play games.
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If you can spend a little more, go with the true iMac, the flatpanel screen makes a big difference... or, as was said, go for an iBook. The eMac is ok, but it is big, clunky, and ugly 
I've got a few at work, and honestly I can't stand CRTs anymore... still, for the money they are a good deal.
Go lamp though, the displays are so nice... I am actually getting a 12 inch PowerBook in a week or so... I've needed a new Mac for a long time, my G3 tower is crying on Panther.
-Nick
I've got a few at work, and honestly I can't stand CRTs anymore... still, for the money they are a good deal.Go lamp though, the displays are so nice... I am actually getting a 12 inch PowerBook in a week or so... I've needed a new Mac for a long time, my G3 tower is crying on Panther.
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kc said:
Oh, and I believe you are in school, so don't forget you qualify for the apple educational discount... that should save you a few hundred... for example it makes the 15 inch iMac $1199.00, and the eMac is $749
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The only thing wrong with flat panel monitors (pc/mac) are they are too bright and don't show a correct representation of color. But it depends on what you are using it for, internet, games, you'll be fine, but if you are laying out something for print or even web, you might have to calibrate it more often than not, just my $.02 
Syxx573
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WHAT! There are plenty of good games on the mac.
There's Warcraft 3, Breakout, Super Breakout, Zork, Zork 2..........photoshop
And you never have to worry about upgrading. When you need to upgrade, you just through the old one out, and buy a new one.
There's Warcraft 3, Breakout, Super Breakout, Zork, Zork 2..........photoshop
And you never have to worry about upgrading. When you need to upgrade, you just through the old one out, and buy a new one.
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I'd like to say that I just restarted my crap-ass Dell here at work for the 2nd time today. It's a 14-month old Dimension 4150 laptop and it sucks massive ass. I was running Netscape 7.1, Word, and ChemDraw (I'm a chemist). And the damn thing freaks out.
The 4-5 year old Pismo Powerbook I have about 2 feet from it? Hasn't been restarted since last year.
You want a computer you can do all the word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, etc, get a Mac. You want to browse the internet? Get a Mac.
You want to play games? Buy a Neo-Geo. Or a PS2. Or a GameCube. Or god forbid, an XBox. As it turns out those things are made for games. A PC is made as a means to pay Microsoft money.
Seriously, other than the "games", there is very little reason to buy a Wintel PC.
Buy a PowerBook. You'll be glad you did.
The 4-5 year old Pismo Powerbook I have about 2 feet from it? Hasn't been restarted since last year.
You want a computer you can do all the word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, etc, get a Mac. You want to browse the internet? Get a Mac.
You want to play games? Buy a Neo-Geo. Or a PS2. Or a GameCube. Or god forbid, an XBox. As it turns out those things are made for games. A PC is made as a means to pay Microsoft money.
Seriously, other than the "games", there is very little reason to buy a Wintel PC.
Buy a PowerBook. You'll be glad you did.
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I worked for apple recently and although I signed some contract not to talk about them in any unfavourable way for one year, I'm gonna tell you something...Apples are shit...
If you get that eMac there's like a 25% chance the CRT display will be suffering from a vertical raster shift...usually denoted by a large *POP*...this will likely occur JUST after the three year warranty (assuming you got the AppleCare protection plan)
Their marketing startegy touts the apple as a more aggressive machine in terms graphical processing power...not the case...a co-worker who won a 17-inch iMac flat panel in some raffle ran warcraft 3 on his 1gHz iMac along with his 800mHz PC...
The PC verison ran smoothly the Apple version was choppy as shit...prolly due to the copious amounts of ram OS X 10.2 was sucking away.....
Bottom line...though very innovative/creative Apple is incompetent when it comes to giving you a product that can even compete with, let alone surpass what a PC can do...
PS...I wonder if you could mod an iMac flat panel by pulling out it's guts and putting some arcade MOBO in it....that would be it;s only use AFAIC
If you get that eMac there's like a 25% chance the CRT display will be suffering from a vertical raster shift...usually denoted by a large *POP*...this will likely occur JUST after the three year warranty (assuming you got the AppleCare protection plan)
Their marketing startegy touts the apple as a more aggressive machine in terms graphical processing power...not the case...a co-worker who won a 17-inch iMac flat panel in some raffle ran warcraft 3 on his 1gHz iMac along with his 800mHz PC...
The PC verison ran smoothly the Apple version was choppy as shit...prolly due to the copious amounts of ram OS X 10.2 was sucking away.....
Bottom line...though very innovative/creative Apple is incompetent when it comes to giving you a product that can even compete with, let alone surpass what a PC can do...
PS...I wonder if you could mod an iMac flat panel by pulling out it's guts and putting some arcade MOBO in it....that would be it;s only use AFAIC
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i'm planning on getting a souped up emac (512 mb ram, superdrive, 160 GB HD) and use it as my little burn station. only because a G5 powerbook isnt out yet (rumored to be out late in the year) and they most likely will still have only a 2x DVD burn capabilities of the current notebooks.
any way you look at it, it'll still be a major upgrade over my current setup: a 7500 with a 133 mhz G3 card with 128 mb of ram, an old 15" apple display, a separate 9 gb scsi drive, and an 8x burner. most of this stuff dates all the way back to 1996. with no upgrades since 2000.
any way you look at it, it'll still be a major upgrade over my current setup: a 7500 with a 133 mhz G3 card with 128 mb of ram, an old 15" apple display, a separate 9 gb scsi drive, and an 8x burner. most of this stuff dates all the way back to 1996. with no upgrades since 2000.
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I just built a non-Bill Gates machine. It's an Athlon 64 based box with SuSe 9.0 Linux for X86_64.
Just choose the motherboard carefully so all the components are Linux friendly (MSI works well) and use an Nvidia card. Grab the OS from the SuSe website or buy the boxed versoin with great docs.
Nice daily use machine and it will run circles around an eMac.
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Just choose the motherboard carefully so all the components are Linux friendly (MSI works well) and use an Nvidia card. Grab the OS from the SuSe website or buy the boxed versoin with great docs.
Nice daily use machine and it will run circles around an eMac.
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Question is this, PowerBook or iBook 12 inch owners... does the machine feel to cramped. I am looking to upgrade my Pismo, but don't know if I should go with the 12 inch.
I want portability, and the 12 inch seems to have everything I want, but I hope it doesn't feel too small after the Pismo. I know they all share the same keyboard (12, 15, and 17)... but... anyone have a complaint on the 12s?
-Nick
I want portability, and the 12 inch seems to have everything I want, but I hope it doesn't feel too small after the Pismo. I know they all share the same keyboard (12, 15, and 17)... but... anyone have a complaint on the 12s?
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The 12" PB feels fine to me. Nice and compact. Been using one since late summer.
If I want more room (or longer reach), I just hook-up an external keyboard. But I feel that it has enough room for me.
If I want more room (or longer reach), I just hook-up an external keyboard. But I feel that it has enough room for me.