Comments | waffledog: It's *always* a good time to buy a Mac

waffledog

It's always a good time to buy a Mac

Feb 17, 2007 16:32

Well, I have caved. My birthday is coming up, and I'm in the new computer market... and I am seriously considering a Macintosh. I'm just not so sure I can afford it, though. Switching platforms is not as easy as it looks on the commericals I'm finding ( Read more... )

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waffledog February 17 2007, 23:11:47 UTC

There ARE alternate ways. And if I was working for a company where nobody cared where my work came from, that would be great!!

Thanks for the help, figured you had some ideas :D

physicsrandi February 18 2007, 19:24:30 UTC

Just a comment on the laptop, too. I have a new MacBook and I haven't had any problems with it dying on me, except every now and then when I'm watching dvds. Which I'm guessing you wouldn't be too worried about, because most likely you won't be watching movies and working at the same time.

As someone who works on Windows, Macs, and Linux machines regularly, I think the greatest 2 advantages for a Mac are the startup time. From pushing the button to functional is like 30 seconds. Not the 5 minutes that the XP takes. Secondly, Macs make it very easy to interface between your machine and a Linux machine.

If you don't really care about either of those issues, then I'd say you don't have a huge advantage with a Mac.

waffledog February 18 2007, 20:04:15 UTC

XP takes you five minutes to boot up?!

There are some nifty startup cleaning tools that can cut that down to the 30-second level. But you're still right, Windows gums up startup too easilly.

phoenixsamurai February 19 2007, 18:13:06 UTC

DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!!
It's worth the price, ion my opinion. Will work pay for software for you, if you work from home at all or anything?

waffledog February 19 2007, 23:55:23 UTC

Just checked, no reimbursment from work :(

Again, I don't think running out now is a good idea... Mac Pros are next on the line to be replaced, Adobe doesn't run at full speed yet, and Leopard is on the way.

You're also actually one of the reasons I'm hesitating. To be honest, every time I've talked to you in the past three years you've been complaining how your computer can't open this or that anymore without crashing. $2500+ is a lot of money for me to drop, so I want something long-lasting for the price. My rig is from 2001, but it can still open Quicktime 7 and surf YouTube no problem. If your experience is any gauge, I don't want my machine to depreciate as spectacularly.

I could be very wrong, of course!