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sanjef
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Ya know, I'm not even a Mac owner yet - well, that's not entirely true. A few years ago, a friend of mine gave me her supposedly broken Mac SE. She told me if I could get it to work, I could keep it. I did 2 minutes worth or research on the startup error it was producing and fixed it. The darn thing runs fine today - and it was built in 1984!
I've owned, built and upgraded PCs since Windows 3.11 and have come "this close" to buying a Mac every time I needed to upgrade. Problem is, the software I'd been accumulating all this time makes it difficult to justify switching. I know the Mac comes with practically everything I could want to run - and I could install Open Office to handle "those" needs, but there's still a good deal of money separating me from becoming a switcher. I also know that my desire to move my wedding VHS tape to DVD will be practically pain-free on a Mac.
You see, I've assembled a nice little package of reasons to get a Mac. Not that XP has been a nightmare - it's actually doing quite well - although it *is* in need of a reformat to bring back that original spunk it once had when I first installed it.
Question: do Macs require a reformat every year or so to keep them running fast?
Anyway, the last thing that keeps me chained to Windows (and the cheaper hardware it runs on) is I seem to keep waiting for Apple to create "my machine." I fell in love with the iMac but I would want to see a G5 under the hood. I know they're eventually coming out with a laptop G5 so it might not be that far off. I love the versatility and expandibility of the Power G5 but not the price tag. I like the idea of having a portable solution like the iBook or the PowerBook - but can I run my VHS-to-DVD conversion through such a small machine? What would I sacrifice (in the way of time and overall experience) if I were to "settle" for an iMac or an Apple laptop as opposed to getting a G5 tower?
This site rocks!
I've owned, built and upgraded PCs since Windows 3.11 and have come "this close" to buying a Mac every time I needed to upgrade. Problem is, the software I'd been accumulating all this time makes it difficult to justify switching. I know the Mac comes with practically everything I could want to run - and I could install Open Office to handle "those" needs, but there's still a good deal of money separating me from becoming a switcher. I also know that my desire to move my wedding VHS tape to DVD will be practically pain-free on a Mac.
You see, I've assembled a nice little package of reasons to get a Mac. Not that XP has been a nightmare - it's actually doing quite well - although it *is* in need of a reformat to bring back that original spunk it once had when I first installed it.
Question: do Macs require a reformat every year or so to keep them running fast?
Anyway, the last thing that keeps me chained to Windows (and the cheaper hardware it runs on) is I seem to keep waiting for Apple to create "my machine." I fell in love with the iMac but I would want to see a G5 under the hood. I know they're eventually coming out with a laptop G5 so it might not be that far off. I love the versatility and expandibility of the Power G5 but not the price tag. I like the idea of having a portable solution like the iBook or the PowerBook - but can I run my VHS-to-DVD conversion through such a small machine? What would I sacrifice (in the way of time and overall experience) if I were to "settle" for an iMac or an Apple laptop as opposed to getting a G5 tower?
This site rocks!
It's a night and day improvement! BTW Welcome to the forums! I love it here!
