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

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One credit hour. Also most parents of students qualify.

Apple also has eMac's (17inch CRT) machines forsale for 
non-students for around $600. I don't remember who had 
that price but I just saw it in the last day or two.

<http://www.apple.com/emac/>

Some of the laptop's have also been in the $600 - $800 
price range for new and factory referbished.

Michael

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:10:52 -0600
  liz <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

>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
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>Jonathan King wrote:
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>>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.
>>>
>>>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).
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>jking
>>
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