What's wrong with Apple Macs?

Download the trial :)

. . . unless that wasnt what you really meant. ;)
 
bwana said:
Download the trial :)

. . . unless that wasnt what you really meant. ;)
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What do you think bwana? :)

Would actually test drive the trial if someone would be interested in the results under parallels, but currently parallels is chugging away at 118% CPU power to fix my zip file :eek:
 
I'd love to but toast is using 186% on mine :)
 
kilps said:
Ok listen hear - what have you argued against Apples? HEY!?!? I would also like to ask you this? Have you ever used a Apple? Your only VALID argument against Apples is the price (I am about to address that) and Gameing (but you still get Games for Mac). But even R10 000 for a simple Apple isn't that much (one of your Hp's will cost more than that - I think) and if you can't let go of those little games then you ARE SAD.

By the way - is it just me or are wasting forum space with your pointless one lined posts - maby thats as far as you can type...
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I bought a Mac Pro 5 months ago. I never used a Mac until now.
I did use a PC (Windoze XP, 2GB RAM, Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, 1.5TB of HD space,
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro and a dedicated Video Editing and FX board - Matrox
RTX100 Extreme with Premiere Pro.) Anyway that system would crash
on me about 2-3 times per day (if lucky) if I ever did something a little
more complicated in Premiere. If I dragged the slider too quickly either
Premiere would die or the system would just BSOD or stop responding.
If I was careful and stuck to basic (cut, paste, colour correct, transition)
sure it would work - SO SO. Windoze would sometimes crash so
unexpectedly that I would loose my savefiles (even the darn backups
but that's Adobe's fault).

Anyway I now use the Mac Pro. Sure still use the old rig for some stuff,
like capture off VHS and for real time effects rendering but the Mac Pro
has not crashed ONCE. Not once. Final Cut Pro is a breeze on it.

BTW FInal Cut Studio is cheaper than the Adobe Premiere package.

Anyway installing a new HD was so easy. I opened the Mac Pro, removed
a slider, inserted the drive, put the slider back and closed the lid.
No wires. There are NO wires inside the Mac. My MAC is quiet.
Two Xeon processors, an Ati X1900XT and QUIET. My Wintel machine
sounds like a taxing 747. It's so darn loud.

Oh yes I used only premium components in my Intel Windoze PC. Kingston RAM,
ATI hardware, mobo's certified with Matrox.

I don't really care that the Mac is all silvery and pretty. But I do love
the fact that the interface is clean, it doesn't STEAL ATTENTION from
you (you don't type away and find that Windoze has stuck a message box about some setting in some applet which is not set properly),
the messages are kept to the minimum and the graphics really look
good for an OS - Aqua looks very pretty - but I don't NEED that.
The most important thing is ... it's stable. It's rock solid. It doesn't
crash. You can work and work and work and you don't even need
to save all the time (although it's always prudent to do so).

As for games. Well you can buy Native Intel versions of most
of the popular PC games out there. Heck in Japan they're
even releasing PS2 emulators for the Mac for some
of these PS2 dating sims. BUt if you want to play a game
you can't get for MAC, you can use the FREE BOOTCAMP
and buy a DSP Windoze XP (even Vista) and run it
on the MAC thaaat way. You can play any game for
Widows under the MAC.

I don't play that many games anyway. So even if you're
a gamer, you can't argue and say that MAC has no games
for it. An Apple computer allows you to run the plethora
of malware and games for the WinTel platform as well
as dedicated Mac OSX apps, including OpenOffice.
 
@PeterCH - much has changed since klips wrote that in 2004 :)
 
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