Bought my first Mac yesterday.

[The Question]

'hahahahahahahahahah !'

(translated, that means, "I'm not going to bother thinking before I post." In this case, the drivel I'd be responding to as sufficiently asinine as to warrant just such a response.)

 

[Ishcabittle]

well i'm pleased as punch. if there was any Mac OS you'd want to jump in on to see what Macs are all about, it's Leopard. I have a seven year old PowerMac Cube running 10.5.2 and it is honestly faster than 10.4.11 - even as the OS gets more and more stuffed into it, it keeps getting faster and faster. You can expect that mini to run the latest and greatest OS from Apple for the next five to ten years, provided you don't have hardware problems.

If you haven't already bought the HP, Bad Dog, think of it this way - you can always just dual boot right out of the box. Open up the box, start the OS, create your user, go to Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app and load up XP. Learn Leopard on your downtime, no rush.

 

[The Question]

I actually haven't even played with Boot Camp yet -- don't have a copy of XP ready to hand, for one thing, and for another, moving my media over from the external left me with only about 30Gb free. Now if I can't, um... "acquire" a copy of Montage or Final Draft for the Mac, I may just go the Boot Camp route for that reason alone.

 

[The Question]

I am looking for a powerhouse of a box, quad core , dual monitors, kick ass video card, 4 gigs of ram or more and a tetrabyte of hard drive or more.

I only have money to get a new box every 5 years so I want to go all out and be good to go for 5 more years.

Here's the thing... my Mac Mini runs hardcore apps smoother on its hardware than a PC with twice as much firepower does on Windows. The difference is the Unix basis of the OS. I do my homework on shit like this, and from firsthand experience, my finding is that OS X and consequently apps developed for it are way tighter and cleaner than Windows and equivalent apps.

So in the Mac realm, a 24" iMac is the same powerhouse you'd shell out twice as much cash for in a Windows-based machine. But like I said, take yourself down to a place that carries them and get your hands on one, play around with it a bit. Is there a learning curve involved in making the jump from Windows to OS X? Of course. But I'll tell you this, too -- I was as proficient on Leopard after 2 days as I was on Windows after 2 years.

 

[Friday]

I read all sorts of bad things about Leopard when it was originally released. Have they debugged it?

 

[The Question]

I read those same things, I think, and they basically all boiled down to: It was rushed. The first thing I did, as I do with any new computer, was retrieve and install all available updates to the OS and bundled software.

As of 10.5.2, Leopard hasn't shown me one single instance of any of its post-launch reputation.