Re: [MLUG] apple?? mac?? Opinions please???

[liz <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

THANKS
I was truly in the dark about it all and now I have an idea what to look 
for.
Back to ebay!  I haven't checked out apple yet but I will, best buy  has 
had the great foresight to give me credit so I may actually get 
something new?!!  I may get an older one first just to feel it all out.
How much of a student do I have to be @ MU, I was going to take 
psychology courses or get started at least??
Thanks,
Teresa
(liz) middle name



Jonathan King wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, liz wrote:
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>>Last night I'm cruising ebay and bought a thinkpad for another
>>kid.  I saw a snow white apple imac and fell in love.  I looked @
>>the processors etc and said hey this is goooooooooooood.  I didn't
>>get the imac but wondered if you all had had experience with the
>>mac os and apples.  I don't play intensive games but I want things
>>to WORK.  I don't like freezes or slowdowns or having to reboot or
>>spending all day trying to figure out why printer won't install.  
>>(needed to reset printer bios settings, duh)  I want to surf and
>>send email with the best of em basically and run an accounting
>>program and a couple graphics programs if I ever get the time.  
>>If things don't work I tend to get obsessive about them, I think I
>>spent 2 months trying to get windows xp home and knoppix which was
>>really unstable debian to network happily.  I finally did a vpn
>>and said enough.
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>>So is the mac os really more stable than windoze???  I'm not
>>giving up on linux but those imacs are pretty and someone said you
>>could install linux on them too???  And they are actually fairly
>>cheap.  Opinions????  Pleeze?? Thanks, Teresa
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>Mac OS X is certainly more stable than Windows 98, NT or 2K (in my
>experience).  Win XP is the best of the Windows lot so far, and I
>think it can be made to be pretty stable.  But out of the box, I'd
>say that Mac OS is about the easiest and most stable thing you're
>likely to see.  In the last five years, I think I can still count
>the number of honest-to-God, have-to-restart crashes on two hands,
>and at least 3 of those were due to a bug in Keynote that has since
>been fixed.  For web-browsing, Safari is very nice, as is your
>favorite flavor of Mozilla.  Mail is a decent email client (although
>I still use pine).  The pervasive use of PDF is incredibly handy
>also.  Also, iPhoto, iMovie, and iTunes are basically the best
>programs I've seen in those niches. Plus, OS X can be as unixy as
>you like.  You can also install linux on a Mac, and that's probably
>a pretty good idea for some of the older hardware (especially
>hardware that isn't supported by OS X).
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>If you do buy a more recent Mac (post-2000 or so), there have been
>many improvements in the OS over the last two versions (Jaguar and
>Panther) and I wouldn't recommend using anything older than 10.2.
>Ebay probably has a decent selection of used Macs, and there are
>also refurbs available (with warranty) directly from Apple.  The
>best deals in the new Mac line-up these days are the eMac (you can
>actually get a new one for about $500 if you're an MU student) and
>the 12-inch G4 iBook.  The LCD iMac is very nice, but I can't say
>it's cheap.
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>Hope this helps.
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>jking
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