Hello all,
I'm sorry about the title I put on this thread, but I couldn't find something more explicit...
Three month ago, my motherboard of my pc burnt... I don't know why, but the southbridge just burnt... Since then, I was planning to build myself another pc, which I should buy after my vacations (this is short now...)... So it might be beginning january. I wanted to build a monster pc (über pc) for my games (yeap, I'm a hardcore player
).
But I wanted to make sure about the pc I was going to build, and asked myself what I'd really like to do with the PC, instead of thinking of doing a monster for... we will see later...
After having this answer found (if you want to know, it's movie making (nothing big, just family holidays), sorting pictures, and use a lot of pictures modification, web creation and such)... I then remembered that Mac was best for everything about graphics design, and creation.
Now it is decided, I will go buy a new iMac 27" when I come back from vacation. Maybe it is nice to tell that I'm not a Windows dependant person... I was under windows for my videogames, but I like also different OS (I'm used to use Linux in many distros). So, the switch to Mac is not very difficult to me...
But I still have some questions in my mind. So, here it is :
- When I searched for what programs I didn't wanted to lose when going to Mac, I discovered some solutions for nearly every project. For my aquarium, I can use myaquariumdb in place of aquariogest. For my movies, I still can use video collectors as it has been also created for the mac.
But I'm still missing one application : a program to manage all my video games. Until now, the program I use (game collector) is not beeing developed for the mac. I have a database of nearly 1000 videos games (and more to come...)... I wouldn't like to lose all the data I have now... I can export to different format from the program itself. The only thing I'm missing is the program in itself... I couldn't find any solution yet on the web concerning a manager of video games. Do you know by any chance a program doing this (free or commercial).
- I own a Samsung Omnia, and I would like to still be able to synchronize the data betweem the desktop and the phone. Knowing the Omnia is running under Windows Mobile 6.1, is there any possibility for me to synchronize the datas ?
- I have a backup hard drive (320Gb external usb), in which I store all the data I need to backup before switching. Do you know a good tutorial or article describing the way to transfer my music, photos, and other stuff i've backed up, knowing that I would like after that empty that usb hard drive and use it for the time machine ?
- On the apple website, it is mentionned of a mini mac. What is the mini mac, and what can I do with that ? Is that like a light desktop, a big backup harddrive, or more like a server ?
Oh, I think I forgot to mention the fact that when I'll switch, I'd like to make the switch to make with no windows installed in bootcamp. I buy a mac, and I want to use it as such at 100% and not installing windows on it.
Thanks for your help
Vampyre
I'm sorry about the title I put on this thread, but I couldn't find something more explicit...
Three month ago, my motherboard of my pc burnt... I don't know why, but the southbridge just burnt... Since then, I was planning to build myself another pc, which I should buy after my vacations (this is short now...)... So it might be beginning january. I wanted to build a monster pc (über pc) for my games (yeap, I'm a hardcore player
). But I wanted to make sure about the pc I was going to build, and asked myself what I'd really like to do with the PC, instead of thinking of doing a monster for... we will see later...
After having this answer found (if you want to know, it's movie making (nothing big, just family holidays), sorting pictures, and use a lot of pictures modification, web creation and such)... I then remembered that Mac was best for everything about graphics design, and creation.
Now it is decided, I will go buy a new iMac 27" when I come back from vacation. Maybe it is nice to tell that I'm not a Windows dependant person... I was under windows for my videogames, but I like also different OS (I'm used to use Linux in many distros). So, the switch to Mac is not very difficult to me...
But I still have some questions in my mind. So, here it is :
- When I searched for what programs I didn't wanted to lose when going to Mac, I discovered some solutions for nearly every project. For my aquarium, I can use myaquariumdb in place of aquariogest. For my movies, I still can use video collectors as it has been also created for the mac.
But I'm still missing one application : a program to manage all my video games. Until now, the program I use (game collector) is not beeing developed for the mac. I have a database of nearly 1000 videos games (and more to come...)... I wouldn't like to lose all the data I have now... I can export to different format from the program itself. The only thing I'm missing is the program in itself... I couldn't find any solution yet on the web concerning a manager of video games. Do you know by any chance a program doing this (free or commercial).
- I own a Samsung Omnia, and I would like to still be able to synchronize the data betweem the desktop and the phone. Knowing the Omnia is running under Windows Mobile 6.1, is there any possibility for me to synchronize the datas ?
- I have a backup hard drive (320Gb external usb), in which I store all the data I need to backup before switching. Do you know a good tutorial or article describing the way to transfer my music, photos, and other stuff i've backed up, knowing that I would like after that empty that usb hard drive and use it for the time machine ?
- On the apple website, it is mentionned of a mini mac. What is the mini mac, and what can I do with that ? Is that like a light desktop, a big backup harddrive, or more like a server ?
Oh, I think I forgot to mention the fact that when I'll switch, I'd like to make the switch to make with no windows installed in bootcamp. I buy a mac, and I want to use it as such at 100% and not installing windows on it.
Thanks for your help
Vampyre
