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iMac 20" and its suitability to a former PC user?
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<blockquote data-quote="Logan" data-source="post: 211488"><p>Hey John, Hmm you may be mislead a bit. Having XP on a Mac system isn't going to fix the problems you may be trying to avoid. It isn't the hardware that is making your system not do what you want it to. (Unless you don't match the hardware requirements). It's the software.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, Windows XP is the problem. no matter what hardware you have, you ultimately will find the same problems when you run XP. (Slugginess after excessive usage, especially if you constantly install/uninstall items, flooded registries, other window-bugs). Probably the best solution to XP is format when it gets to be too much. It sucks, I know, but Windows XP does in the end suck even if everything is compatible with it.</p><p></p><p>So regardless if you use bootcamp or not, essentially you're buying the same machine both ways. Macintosh box may run WinXP faster or slower, but regardless it's going to probably going to do the downgrade jump as you've expected anyways. Plus ram sounds like its' more expensive, and also the mention of video card upgrading is more difficult.. makes it seem not as good of an option for a gaming machine and potentially your video editing needs.</p><p></p><p>So why buy a mac? for OSX. OSX is probably the easiest, most supported and most secure OS out there from what I see. I'd suggest buying a Mac and try to "convert" your day to day apps to run on OSX. Use OSX 90% of the time. Games are probably going to be your biggest incompatibility, so just run WinXP for games. Now that you're minimizing your XP use, the chances of slugginess decreases. </p><p></p><p>From how you speak of your problems, though, and many will probably disagree with me here (since this is a mac forum), the cheapest alternative would be to get a Unix or Linux distro (There's lots of free ones) and use that for everything you can muster. (ESPECIALLY web browsing, email, etc since these tend to be the biggest risk to your data when you're using XP). Then use XP just for gaming. Actually i do this and use cedega to get even my gaming needs done! Which is really cool in my opinion. You can use cheaper PC components, upgrade easier, and run XP in it's native architexture, and allow you to securely and safely do day to day tasks without as much failure as XP. Downside, of course, Linux and Unix has a larger tendancy for incompatibility with your components, and alternatives may not be as good as the OSX ones. Plus Linux/Unix learning curve is a lot higher. Talk to me if you are kind of interested in this alternative.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully my lengthy reply is informative to you, even if you don't agree with my words.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Logan, post: 211488"] Hey John, Hmm you may be mislead a bit. Having XP on a Mac system isn't going to fix the problems you may be trying to avoid. It isn't the hardware that is making your system not do what you want it to. (Unless you don't match the hardware requirements). It's the software. Yeah, Windows XP is the problem. no matter what hardware you have, you ultimately will find the same problems when you run XP. (Slugginess after excessive usage, especially if you constantly install/uninstall items, flooded registries, other window-bugs). Probably the best solution to XP is format when it gets to be too much. It sucks, I know, but Windows XP does in the end suck even if everything is compatible with it. So regardless if you use bootcamp or not, essentially you're buying the same machine both ways. Macintosh box may run WinXP faster or slower, but regardless it's going to probably going to do the downgrade jump as you've expected anyways. Plus ram sounds like its' more expensive, and also the mention of video card upgrading is more difficult.. makes it seem not as good of an option for a gaming machine and potentially your video editing needs. So why buy a mac? for OSX. OSX is probably the easiest, most supported and most secure OS out there from what I see. I'd suggest buying a Mac and try to "convert" your day to day apps to run on OSX. Use OSX 90% of the time. Games are probably going to be your biggest incompatibility, so just run WinXP for games. Now that you're minimizing your XP use, the chances of slugginess decreases. From how you speak of your problems, though, and many will probably disagree with me here (since this is a mac forum), the cheapest alternative would be to get a Unix or Linux distro (There's lots of free ones) and use that for everything you can muster. (ESPECIALLY web browsing, email, etc since these tend to be the biggest risk to your data when you're using XP). Then use XP just for gaming. Actually i do this and use cedega to get even my gaming needs done! Which is really cool in my opinion. You can use cheaper PC components, upgrade easier, and run XP in it's native architexture, and allow you to securely and safely do day to day tasks without as much failure as XP. Downside, of course, Linux and Unix has a larger tendancy for incompatibility with your components, and alternatives may not be as good as the OSX ones. Plus Linux/Unix learning curve is a lot higher. Talk to me if you are kind of interested in this alternative. Hopefully my lengthy reply is informative to you, even if you don't agree with my words. [/QUOTE]
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