wanted: realistic reasons to buy a mac

[AdmiralAK]

Man do I feel like I;ve been left in the dust -- ok no more sleep for me -- I will eat, drink and sleep MacOSX.com lol

ok so you want good reasons to buy a mac ?

1) Maintanence costs are LOWER than buying a run or the mill PC. I had my performa 635CD for 5 years before I bought another mac, and the only updates I did on it were some more RAM ($60) and MacOS 8 ($90). $150 total for 5 years isnt bad at all.

2) No stupid blue screen of death. Yes I know that XP doesnt have that, XP does something even more stupid, It just reboots itself when something is wrong and it doesnt even tell you what was wrong. -- it goes into protected more, runs tests...bs.

3) Run multiple Operating Systems! Yes folks, you can run MacOS X, you can run MacOS 9, you can run almost every single x86 (or other) OS out there (hey I am living proof --> Solaris 7, Windows 3.11, GEM, Windows 95,98,ME, NT4, NT 3.51, 2k, XP, BeOS, QNX, OS/2, AmigaOS, Atari GEM, IIgs OS,Rhapsody, NeXTSTEP, OpenSTEP,Linux, etc)

4) Productiiiiiiity! I mean apps for video, audio, photos, do much better on the mac than on a windows PC. You can get Office for the mac if you wish, you can get appleworks, you can get whatever.

5) The power of UNIX. YOu want to use unix, wanna be a geek(expressed in the most endearing way possible :P), go ahead be our guest. Join the unix comminity.

6) INNOVATION. All these "features" that windows has apple came up with it first. CD burning from the desktop, bundled movie making software, DVD, firewire and USB builtin. With innovation comes cutting edge tech and thus the value of teh macine is greater. By the time the PC industry catches up the only hinderance is this perceived "Mhz inferiority" (bull)

7) Ease of use. My grandmother could use my mac (even though I wouldnt allow ANYONE close to my mac unsuppervised )

8) Hardware/software integration. No driver headaches driving you insane providing you with uncomfortable sleepless nights.


Reasons enough ?


Admiral

[astrodawg]

OSX doesn't come with an FBI warning and did not have 57 security bulletins last year.

[edX]

hey i'm not a big hardware knowledge guy, but i know the imac comes with built in vga out so that you can view on a tv, partly making it functional as a dvd player among other things. this might be something a dad could appreciate. do the other macs have this?

(i don't spend time tempting myself with things i know i can't afford)

[BlingBling 3k12]

ed, it's ok, i only checked apple because when I buy a system, I try to order and bundle as much as I can with my system so when I finance, it's all put together under 1 bill so buying/searching on third-party sites wouldn't help me. although research on third-party sites would have helped me. plus, i really never knew of any third-party sites...

although, i'm still a bit mad that you call me an Average PC user because I know more than almost EVERY teacher in my school... both middle and high... and even the computer teacher... but it's ok, no hard feelings or anything

well, if he's into programming, isn't the mac the best place? (i'm not sure on that one). since he'd be fairly artistic, the graphics engine in a mac would be excellent, since speed would be significantly increased. music and websites would be great on a mac. and of course, they just look better (a BIG selling point for me! )

[tagliatelle]

The most obvious thing we are seeing in it, is that Steve is helping me with getting out of Luxemburg for graphics work and having iMovie instead of IDon'tKnow.

[edX]

lol blingbling

i didn't mean to imply you are an average pc user. i meant that you acted like an average user in that one instance.
example - i do stupid things sometimes. that doesn't make me a stupid person

the "not knowing" was the point i was getting at all along. most pc users just don't know much about macs. agreed?

[BlingBling 3k12]

yea, agreed

[ZeroAltitude]

Originally posted by Hervé Hinnekens
What is a weak point from Apple is that when you have broadband that you can't connect an other computer to it right out the box. I have never seen this argument, a very strong suggestion...

Hi all,

What *I* thought Herve meant was that unlike Windows machines today, Mac OSX/OS9.x does not *seem* to have an out-of-the-box configuration for NATing -- that is, you can't just hook your Mac up, out of the box, to your local broadband connection and NAT out the rest of your network over a hub to the Internet.

Now, I don't know much about macs yet -- got my PowerBook G4 667 about 2 months ago, and have done just about everything I can find short of reformatting/repartitioning (which is soon to come!). Is there NAT out of the box on MacOSX/OS9? Something like Windows "Internet Connection Sharing"? Or do you currently need 3rd party software?

-ZeroAltitude