Thinking of switching, thoughts?

wrathlon · Jun 29, 2007

howdet50 said:
ok thanks. the only thing I'm very interested in would be the ease of reinstalling windows, would it be a pain?i imagine it wouldn't take long, but thats me.
as we speak i'm getting lots of pop ups saying "zomg unused icons on your desktop, go to this website to find out why!"
or "midget asian virgin porn, click in or miss out!"
due to me eventually giving up on checking my msn mails for spam, also, is mac msn still compatible with windows msn,(e.g can i talk to someone thats using a windows msn from my mac msn?)

Yes you can , as mentioned above I use adium which is one awesome program that allows you to access yahoo messenger, msn messenger,aim ect. Very similiar to trillian for windows. You can talk to any one using most of the messenger programs.

howdet50 · Jun 29, 2007

ok thats good, and i was considering the deletion and reinstalling of windows just incase i got a major virus, not somthing i'd do daily

planetfiber · Jun 29, 2007

the only thing is that mac msn doesn't support webcams. I think adium does, though.

shahvikram123 · Jun 29, 2007

Yh you can get msn for mac, but its not that good. I would recommend adium, its much better.

smurfy · Jun 29, 2007

Adium and aMSN will both connect to your normal MSN network.

aMSN does video.

baggss · Jun 29, 2007

shahvikram123 said:
Yh you can get msn for mac

Yep, I just looked at my Office 2004 Install disc/booklet and it is there.

physco827 · Jul 1, 2007

Same thing i posted on another thread:
I'm in the same situation as you. But I am going into engineering and will need to use the graphical power of the Macbook Pro for autodesk applications in bootcamp. To me it depends on the major your going into. If you are doing business or accounting you know something like that then the macbook will be MORE than you need. If your a pc user 2gb of ram on vista is NOT the same as 2gb of ram in os x. In os x its rediculous, in vista it makes you want more memory.

So if your major doesn't require graphical applications go with the Macbook because it will be great for you. But if you need the graphics for heavy apps in graphical use then go with the Macbook Pro.

If you want to game the Macbook Pro can handle basically anything you throw at it in bootcamp. I got the graphics juiced at 1440x900 in source on boot camp and it runs like a dream.

Gaming is my thing, i have been thinking about posting videos on youtube about gaming quality on bootcamp considering i have already filled up the 32gb partition for windows with my games in 2 days.

Oh and if your worried about viruses on the bootcamp area, just don't surf the internet in windows. Takes you about 20 seconds to switch over to os x after you restart. So its wait 20 seconds or run the possiblity of getting spyware in windows. (The answer is obvious)

Hope that helps.

yogi · Jul 1, 2007

To append to what bagss said: Macs are computers that run Mac OS X, and they are computers for people who want to work in Mac OS X for the most part. (Personal note: I haven't touched Windows in two years). So if you're so intent on running Windows, buy a machine that's suited for it. There's no point in trying to be a switcher when you really don't even want to switch.

The fact that Macs run Windows is just added flexibility, and - as bagss pointed out - not the purpose of a Mac.

Title27GT · Jul 1, 2007

howdet50 said:
Hello, I'm thinking about switching to mac, I've heard alot of hype about it and how it is superior to windows for "life stuff".
I'm 15 years old and heading to college in september, I have been using windows for about..3, 4 years now, and i feel at home with it.
But recently my anti virus software keeps picking up cookies from websites and basically "scraping my face off" thinking its a virus. I'm talking 20-40 messages per morning. I've tried to put in personal preferances to tell it that i know they arn't viruses,etc. but it just isn't working.
I play counter strike:source on my windows, I'm not sure if mac runs it, but this isn't a concern(i can just switch to windows for gaming, I've heard mac aren't the best for gaming). But since i scanned my computer, let my computer auto-cleanup my computer, its made my computer worse, it aparantly free'd about 50% more space, but now my computer runs very slow, and annoying(realised I've gone totally off topic).
The course I'm doing is digital media, but the college I'm going to doesn't use macs. Should i make the change, and keep my windows for things i need it for, and get an ibook?or should i stay with windows and put up with the skits anti virus, slow internet time, horible download limitations, and viruses?
Or should i throw out my old computer, and switch totally to mac?
I'm working on a budget of roughly £1,000 (Yes, I'm british, not sure if there are many british people on the forum that can give me advice) give or take.

Also a few questions:
1: can macs support mozilla firefox and plugins?
2:what kind of gaming is it limited to, such as counter strike source, client games,etc.
3:does it have its own download managers that help downloads come along,etc

I've looked at many posts about switching but still feel it would be better to get an opinion in my current situation.

I've already decided on matte vs glossy(matte won) but i haven't decided on what model. any sugestions or setups that i can upgrade would be helpful.
also, if leopard(forgot the exact name, sorry if I'm wrong) comes out, i guess i could upgrade since it was labelled around $129 which should be fine.

thanks for reading and please suggest =) thank you

howdet50

At a $1,000 budget...
You won't have to worry about Matte vs. Glossy

Brown Study · Jul 1, 2007

Title27GT said:
At a $1,000 budget...
You won't have to worry about Matte vs. Glossy

The budget is £1,000, not a $1,000. Look up the difference.

Title27GT · Jul 1, 2007

Brown Study said:
The budget is £1,000, not a $1,000. Look up the difference.

Woops.
Misread.
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