BTW, Macs are Awesome.

[thorfinn]

Oh hi. I forgot to mention. Macs are awesome. Your next computer should be a Mac, assuming you just want a computer where you can do general average day to day stuff and Get Things Done.

If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.

However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.

Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.

See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html

He says it better than I do.

Comments

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

Jesus H - it's becoming like Hillsong with you people!

[pir.livejournal.com]

I just wish the consumer grade UI wasn't so annoying and the real UNIX underneath so quirky and kinda buggy.

I'm typing this on my macbook pro, I'm a convert, but the UI being so application based rather than window based drives me crazy sometimes... I end up doing most things under X11 (xterms all the way!) where at least I can get focus follows mouse that mostly works. The OS doesn't do co-operative multitasking anymore, there's no need for that crap.

There are still bugs like screensaver/screenlock randomly stopping working until you log out and log back in again in 10.5 (great when you want to stop random people messing with your machine), etc. Trying to run them at an enterprise level is a nightmare.

Still using it but... they could be so much better!

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Yup. I have slightly special needs, but even I would be buying an iMac if I hadn't just bought a PC.

Actually, I'm thinking of buying one anyway instead of a TV/DVD player.

jai.
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[gths.livejournal.com]

Sad thing is, as a WASD addict but yet not someone so weird that they want to play Crysis at 50fps, (though I have other specific weird things as well) the PC's kind of going backwards as a gaming platform, since a lot of the neat stuff is coming out on consoles first.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I'm shopping for a laptop right now. I wish I could get a Mac, but unfortunately they don't make one with sufficient capabilities for me. In particular, I need 1920x1200 resolution in a 15" screen.

The advantage of non-Mac is that no one vendor controls the market, so you can shop around for the features you want.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

Heh. The only thing that bugs me about the Mac is the Apple fan culture - it feels like 90% of Mac users feel the need to browbeat everyone into joining the cult.

I have an couple of iMacs, but I wouldn't consider them a panacea. They're a great general purpose desktop, but the problems start crawling in too often.

Need to connect to a Contivity VPN? Bwa, ha, not likely without some very serious expenditure. Apple's Java seems deliberately crippled and broken, and this is a killer when you need certain Java applications to be functional to get work done. The X implementation is less than stellar. The platform cuts you out of a lot of cheap USB toys (TV tuners, USB audio, blah) that would irritate some. The terminal is wierd and requires a lot of configuration to behave in a manner similar to an xterm (and still doesn't support some xterm features).

Still, it makes a great general purpose desktop. It makes an even better generic "home" desktop, and most of the annoyances I have with MacOS stem from being a UNIX bigot rather than someone looking for general desktop. But that's okay; I have a Sun desktop and my Sunray thin clients - I use the Mac for most things and Solaris for anything UNIX-themed.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Gamers who are happy with something less than the absolute-latest high-end cards in a dual-card configuration will probably be pretty happy with the 24" iMac configured with the GF8800GS.

The only problem is that Apple (or nvidia) broke the drivers in 10.5.3 and still haven't released a fix, so WoW at least performs... well, when it's working you're seeing a lovely smooth world with the knobs turned to 11, when it's not it crawls, and I've yet to figure out what triggers that...

[elissande.livejournal.com]

Who am I to disagree when I just got myself a 24" iMac. :) As well as all the things you mentioned, this screen is just stunning. Not to mention the funky screensavers. And on a 24" screen you can get lots of windows all side by side and still have them big enough to be useful.

Special needs - gaming - is on my PC. But the iMac is for work and just a little bit of play.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Macs are perhaps awesome as long as you don't have a job that requires you to do tech support or QA. If you have to support software on a PC or have to test such software, Macs are not even a little bit awesome.

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

Every time I use a Mac (even new ones) I'm sitting there tapping my fingers waiting for it to do what I asked it to do. I do that with PCs, too, but the tapping lasts less long. :)

[kowari.livejournal.com]

Everyone here is quoting special needs... which really wasn't the point of the post.

Macs are GREAT for general purpose web 2.0 style computer usage. Seamless(ish) integration to your multimedia gadgets (iPods, cameras, TV tuners blah blah) and Teh Intertubes. It does most other stuff passing well (plays most games, runs windows if you need to) BUT I wouldnt recommend it for business office use, nor any other special needs (high end twitch gaming, supporting other kinds of operating systems - which I actully do on a mac but meh, you know specialist situations)

Macs.are.good. :)

[zey.livejournal.com]

Nice enough OS, unless your machine's a PPC Mac, you want to attach three largish USB fat32 drives to it and have them all appear at once. Or maybe you want your DNS resolver issues patched quickly.

Dunno why, but, to me Mac OS X has the feeling of having been put on development life support while they develop other money trees like their iPod, iTunes and iPhone ranges.