Thread: I'm a Mac Man

Welcome to the club- I recently updated my old G4 to a 24"/3.06 Ghz/4Gb/500Gb.

Got a 1 Tb firewire drive hanging off it running time machine for hourly backups.

Makes the old 400 Mhz G4 look a bit like a dinosaur.

Originally Posted by dazzler

So, I am now a geek

You won't fit in with Mac owners with that attitude

PC users are the geeks, they are always talking about the new card they put in or the software they downloaded.

The beauty of a Mac is you don't need to do that, it comes with everything you need and is so easy to use it's almost like it's reading your mind

Great move and welcome to a trouble free world

You can only say you're a Mac geek if you know how to access the command line. Bonus geek cred if you know all the Unix commands that run on a Mac.

Terminal?

The old SEII was a dinosaur. First mac I owned was an LCII.

Welcome to real computing brawn with killer performance and looks Dazzler.

My Brother in law works for IBM as an internet securty designer and he reccomends MAC and uses the system at home. He reckons it runs better and next to none in the way of virus issues. He has me thinking that it might be worth looking at a MAC when we decide to upgrade.

Just don't get lulled into a false sense of security:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2917

(and yes, I did read the bit about other browsers being exploited, I'm just pointing out that a Macintosh is no more secure)

Oh, and my first Macintosh was actually a Lisa. Followed by a Fat Mac, an SE, an SE30, and a 6100 DOS Compatible, before I got tired of paying too much for too little, with too short a life.

Originally Posted by Waldo

The old SEII was a dinosaur. First mac I owned was an LCII.

Welcome to real computing brawn with killer performance and looks Dazzler.

I still have our original 512.......that's Kb..........in the storage shed.

SE30, 6100 DOS Compatible and a 7600.
Then I started teaching IT a secondary school and have been stuck with Wintel boxes ever since. I'd love to get a new Mac but I just can't convince the bean counters (at work or at home) that I need a Mac when I get a new Wintel Laptop each year from work.
Go figure.
Kevin

I do wish PC hardware manufacturers made pretty hardware like Apple. I'd love a machine that looked/worked/sounded like the iMac.

Tickering away here on a 7 year old Titanium G4 Powerbook...machine has paid for itself after a string of name brand PC laptops that lasted an average of 18 months each.

7 years with PC laptops at 4.7 x $1800 = $8400

7 years with the same Tibook (includes MS Office) which cost me $6000 all up

You work out if the Mac is expensive? And thats not factoring lost time mucking around with problems with the PC's.

Horses for courses of course but I hate PC's and I love Macs......Macs leave you with more time to spend in the workshop!!

Please don't let the world know the beauty of Mac! If it becomes too well known, someone is sure to stuff it up!

You know this insecurity that Mac users appear to experience is really quite sad.

BTW I think anyone who posts a thread about a computer, be it a Mac or a PC or whatever is a geek.

Well a coupla months in and all is well.

A few compatability issues with pc software but other than that very happy