Macbooks so why do I want one ?

[djbombscare]

Its gonna be more to do with making sure I'm familiar with OSX.

I think the macbooks although very nice, shiny, sort of just seem a bit overpriced. If I could run OSX on my PC than thats a cheaper solution.

Its just an idea


I'll have a look down in the new fruit shop on saturday in town.

 

[editor]

Its gonna be more to do with making sure I'm familiar with OSX.

I think the macbooks although very nice, shiny, sort of just seem a bit overpriced. If I could run OSX on my PC than thats a cheaper solution.

If you can afford to pay extra, get a Mac. If you can't, get yourself a PC. Both will be perfectly up to whatever you ask of them.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I would be curious to see the OS that would arise from Apple attempts to create one that'd run on near any hardware.

 

[tarannau]

Pretty sure it'd be pretty much the same fwiw, albeit with a few compatibility issues. It's not going to turn into something as clunky as Vista

I'm still running OSX on a near 8 year old computer - still plays DVD and records from a TV tuner, acting as the (wireless) music server and spare tv for my house. If it can cope with old half g processors and superannuated graphics cards then the potential's surely there for compatability with a whole host of components.

 

[Jonti]

Quite. A lot of OSX's reputation for stability and ease of use comes from the tight integration with the hardware. Start messing with the hardware and you start having trouble.

Absolutely!

This is why firms like IBM and Sun, noted for their super-stable big iron, make the hardware and software both. If you know *exactly* the metal you're writing for, a host of problems can be avoided.

PC hardware can vary enormously, and that makes life tough for software writers. If you want the most stable possible system, look at something like Yellow Dog linux (which targets PowerPC hardware). Not that the hardware is necessarily higher quality as such -- but it is all the same!

 

[Jonti]

Possible, yes.
Legal, almost certainly no.

If you believe Apple.

Psystar disagrees.

NOTABLE MERCHANT of Mac clones, Psystar, added another argument to its countersuit against Apple, yesterday.

Reports have surfaced that the company is accusing Apple of burying code in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that blocks anything that doesn't faintly resemble a Core 2 Duo, further extending Apple's grip on who and what runs their operating system.

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[djbombscare]

If you can afford to pay extra, get a Mac. If you can't, get yourself a PC. Both will be perfectly up to whatever you ask of them.

I'm already running stuff an a pc and I really ought to learn to us a mac. It will be a long term thing and again stuff for work really.

Look like I may have to bite that bullet again

 

[editor]

I'm already running stuff an a pc and I really ought to learn to us a mac. It will be a long term thing and again stuff for work really.

Specifically, what would you need to learn for work?

I have no problem switching to a Mac on jobs.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Psystar disagrees.
"accusing Apple of burying code in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that blocks anything that doesn't faintly resemble a Core 2 Duo"

They're not trying very hard are they - http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2#AMD

And apparently it runs on something called a PowerPC chip too

 

[djbombscare]

Specifically, what would you need to learn for work?

I have no problem switching to a Mac on jobs.

We do encryption, network and data.

Increasingely we're finding macs as part of the network and need them to integrate seemlessly.

I can happily talk people through all the PC stuff but fall flat on my arse when it comes to mac stuff. Thats the first reason.

Second reason, is I do all the tutorials and I do them in the form of video. form powerpoints, screenrecs grabs etc. Videos make em easy to understand.

Third reason, I've just started doing some stuff on our website too, and have found the odd thing screws up in opera and safari, when it works fine in IE.
Soooooo I just think in order to get a better understanding it might be better to be a user.

Workwise I got some pants old lenovo that is on its last legs, and they've said go and get a new latop. Now I could go out and some dell thing, or I could get a macbook.

I'm also thinking that it could be useful at home. Fizz is also beggining to do a fair bit with macs as well.

So I'm sort of feeling there's a few reasons why it would be worth us having a fair bit of experience with OSX.

And work are offering to contribute....

But I just dunno. Gonna pop down tomorrow and check em out