apple computer

[SF236268]

Well I am not going to get in on the Mac / Wintel debate. I use
both at work but have Mac's at home.

As for the Price, Apple controls the price so your not going to get
a big discount anywhere.

BUT....You can do what I did, Apple sells referb machines through
the on line apple store. That is how I bought my lastest laptop.
It comes with the full warranty.

Go to Apple.com, Click on the store, scroll down and click on red
tag labeled SAVE.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/73104/wo/of63ZpNfGjBo3FfNBVtOBL85daD/0.0.15.1.0.6.63.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.1.1.0?85,53

The other way is to find a student or teacher that will get you the
education discount.

Two notes: 1) You will need at least a Gig of ram. 2) On

A great mail order source for computer memory is Data Memory Systems (www.datamem.com).

They are great for camera memory too. Much cheaper than discount camera stores (e.g. a 1GB SanDisk Ultra II Secure Digital Card is $96.50 at Data Memory Systems and $125 at Buydig).

powerbooks, I would $300 and get Apple care, it extends your
warranty to 3 years it is worth the money, though you may never
need to use it.

Greg

 

[TIMartin]

The Mac market is not a niche market inasmuch as the Windows market
is not a niche market. Perhaps the Mac market used to be niche.
It is true that the Mac market is a quickly re-emerging market.

Perhaps you need to get around a bit more.

Perhaps we all do; perhaps not.

In the 17 years I've
been in the business I have dealt with IBM, Apple, Mac, Microsoft,
Sun (all the way back to Sun 3 series) Linux, Prime (anybody
remember them), among other off the wall Operating Systems. The
one constant you will see when you walk into almost any workplace
is that there will be Microsoft based PC's. At the server level it
is a different story. Many ISP's are using Linux solutions. Many
server applications are Unix based. I think Apple is trying to
break into this market. But on the desktop, M$ rules. It is not
a niche, it is a standard. Mac is still and most likely will
always be a niche desktop computer.

Don't forget that that Mac OS is essentially a UNIX, BSD-based machine.

I have worked on all and continue to work on some of the platforms that you mentioned,

take away Prime and add a bunch of others...including your Sun 360s, Solbornes, SGI, etc.
I guess that I simply disagree with your application of the word "niche."
Mac OS is just no longer the loan
domain of graphics designers and Sociology professors. I did my thesis on
a Linux machine over 10 years ago...I still like Linux and there are things that

I like about Windows. Still, I mostly use Macs as a rapidly increasing number of people.

One could purchase a Mac mini for around $400. This makes the Mac a more
accessible purchase for many. My original involvement in this thread was to
give a response to what I thought was a dangerous implication that the Mac
is an ancient technology. An undecided reader coming across this thread might

have been misinformed about the viability of Mac. I feel like I have made my point.

Yet it almost sounds that you are trying to emulate a Windows
computer with your MAC. Why not save some money and go with a high
end Windows PC. Now if you were arguing open source vs. M$ that
would be a whole different story.

Actually, no, these are all native Mac OS applications, excepting for Visio
and when I'm doing .Net programming.

...signing off of this thread.

 

[morris]

Photoshop works the same on both platforms. I see you are looking for a laptop so be warned that he the slow hard drives found in laptops do drag down the performance. Get as much memory as you can afford to avoid this and do not get less than 1-GB.

If you have an investment is windows software you are throwing that away to change platforms. Once apple was the way to go for graphics. Today most main stream graphics programs are available for both Windows XP and OS X. In general there is more available on the XP side but this may not matter for your applications. Apple makes very reliable computers.

Morris

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