Here goes...
I'm a total n00b to Macs. I've used Win 3.1 to XP (excluding Me, I heard it was horrid, I'm not falling over myself to try it out) operating systems for over 10 years and Ubuntu for at least 5 years.
I've used them once in a class (I wanna say it was a MacBook that had a 12 inch display, don't remember) and it was very frustrating. I wanted to create a text file and had to go into the console and do "$ touch someFile.txt" in order to create the darn thing -_- . You see, I'm a big fan of right-click
. Yes, I know that Mac OS has it and there's a way of doing it (which I don't know how... to be honest.) Right-click, "New Document" and enter the name of the new file, boom, you're done .
I was hoping to try out the Mac mini in the next 6 months . I'm reluctant to splurge on a new PC. I bought a System76 machine and regret it.
So here are my questions that I was hoping to ask someone that has already tried it and if it's a bad idea, perhaps get a recommendation for something else.
* Do most programs load quickly? I don't want to sit and wait for over 5 seconds for it to open a text file that's, say, 20KB+.
* Does Xcode come with every Mac OS? Without it being separate? I hate the idea of buying something like VS .NET 2008 for my Windows OS when I get all of the development goodies in my Ubuntu 7.10 just just by doing "$ sudo apt-get install g++".
* Has anyone had major problems with customer support? Say the machine doesn't boot or something else and you send it in while you still have your 3-year warranty, any major problems?
* Say I wanna install something like an ssh server on it, does Mac OS have something like Synaptic on it?
Thanks in advance for your answers and recommendations.
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I'm hoping to use a 17 inch monitor on it right now (which is hooked up to my HP at the moment.) I'd like to share it on a KVM switch. My question. Are there any KVM specific issues that I should be aware of? Do I need a mouse/KVM switch that explicitly supports PS/2 and USB? In Fedora Core 5, if you don't boot the machine with the keyboard and mouse plugged in and then plug it in, it does not respond smoothly, it skips around the screen instead. Any issues like that?
I'm a total n00b to Macs. I've used Win 3.1 to XP (excluding Me, I heard it was horrid, I'm not falling over myself to try it out) operating systems for over 10 years and Ubuntu for at least 5 years.
I've used them once in a class (I wanna say it was a MacBook that had a 12 inch display, don't remember) and it was very frustrating. I wanted to create a text file and had to go into the console and do "$ touch someFile.txt" in order to create the darn thing -_- . You see, I'm a big fan of right-click
. Yes, I know that Mac OS has it and there's a way of doing it (which I don't know how... to be honest.) Right-click, "New Document" and enter the name of the new file, boom, you're done .I was hoping to try out the Mac mini in the next 6 months . I'm reluctant to splurge on a new PC. I bought a System76 machine and regret it.
So here are my questions that I was hoping to ask someone that has already tried it and if it's a bad idea, perhaps get a recommendation for something else.
* Do most programs load quickly? I don't want to sit and wait for over 5 seconds for it to open a text file that's, say, 20KB+.
* Does Xcode come with every Mac OS? Without it being separate? I hate the idea of buying something like VS .NET 2008 for my Windows OS when I get all of the development goodies in my Ubuntu 7.10 just just by doing "$ sudo apt-get install g++".
* Has anyone had major problems with customer support? Say the machine doesn't boot or something else and you send it in while you still have your 3-year warranty, any major problems?
* Say I wanna install something like an ssh server on it, does Mac OS have something like Synaptic on it?
Thanks in advance for your answers and recommendations.
[edit]
I'm hoping to use a 17 inch monitor on it right now (which is hooked up to my HP at the moment.) I'd like to share it on a KVM switch. My question. Are there any KVM specific issues that I should be aware of? Do I need a mouse/KVM switch that explicitly supports PS/2 and USB? In Fedora Core 5, if you don't boot the machine with the keyboard and mouse plugged in and then plug it in, it does not respond smoothly, it skips around the screen instead. Any issues like that?
