Messaging from a new iMac!

[ManicDVLN]

Download alot of the Porn in the HDs so you will be able to get alot of students.

[BlingBling 3k12]

Manic, this is where you could show your intellectual side, but of course you go and act like a shithead... the initial post may not have had any meaning (although simX, congratulations on using one!) but a post brought up by martinatkinson was legitimate and he would have greatly valued a real opinion.

for the "web design made easy" class, you may want to try Fireworks and Dreamweaver from Macromedia... they are highly advanced, yet, have the correct tools to make it easy, especially flash integration without even needing the flash program! since i'm not yet a total mac user, I don't know of any other web authoring programs and i'm not sure if they are OS X compatible but I will find out soon enough.

manic, unless me and you are on the same page, you are a real pain in the ass... all we ask for are legitimate posts on things related to the mac platform and you can't even do that...

[simX]

martinatkinson:

Just a note if you plan on getting the new iMacs. They have only been announced -- they are not shipping. If you plan to get the high-end one ($1799 versions), they ship by the end of January. To get the middle ones, you'll have to wait 'til the end of February. To get the low-end ones, you're gonna have to wait 'til the end of March.

So don't order them if time is an issue.

[mindbend]

Martin,

Whatever you do, at least avoid any and all input from Manic as it is purposefully negative, derisive and trolly. Educate yourself, as you are, and you'll make a good decision.

As for my own personal opinion, I love the little buggers. In a classroom setting, they'd be very cool. And more importantly, they'd be very useful.

On specs alone it matches or beats all but the very high end G4 towers. And at a very reasonable price, with a nice LCD monitor! It's a no-brainer.

Good luck.

-mb

[edX]

blingbling, watch your language. you don't need to sink to the level of his post. you do a great job of communicating without going there. stay cooool my friend.

albert - i just wonder if you might want to consider some sort of other peripheral readers/writers like zip or floppy or both. you would really only need a couple of each. then they would be able to take their work home with them to share possibly. and since they are coming from pc's, compatible format might help. you could just burn cd's but there are more ecological and cross platform issues involved.

btw - met simx as planned. i got a little confused about which side of apple booth was which, but it worked out. i had a great time and took pics which i hope to have shared by tomorrow. simx and i walked around and talked for about an hour. we went to omniweb booth together and learned some stuff. i will expand on that when i post pics.

[martinatkinson]

Hello!

Thank you all for your imput here are some replies:

BlingBling: I looked at the ones you mentioned in your post and I decided on not getting them. I will probably go with GoLive 6 (already released) or Photoshop 7 (to be released "second quarter"?) and maybe LiveMotion.

simX: Thank you for pointing this out to me. I looked on the Apple Store online and yes, as you say, they will not ship till later. Well, found out that may not be a problem. The IRS could take up to 6 more months to approve us as an official "non profit" and then it could take another 6 months to prepare, send in and get the $30,000 in grants. Looks like we have plenty of time

Ed Spruiell: Good idea. One problem. We will be using the latest versions of some pretty expensive software. These kids will (probably) not have this at home so even if I do send homework with them how will they finish it? Let me know what you think.

Sorry if I left anyone out. Thank you all for your replies and have a wonderful day!

Albert

[ulrik]

I still don't get it why he is not banned. There is a difference between saying something against Mac - which is ok, we live in a free world - and this. Member who don't know him could easily mistaken his words as the ones of a truely experienced man who really went to the expo. So, the other members of the forum always have to point out (in three threads now) not to listen to him. I can't understand why the Admin doesn't do anything against this.

[edX]

albert- first, i wasn't so much thinking about home work as about being able to share or examine it in any platform. i guess one of the biggest things that most pc users still don't understand is that macs can read and write their platform. kids who never got a chance to do this with a mac would go away thinking that the work they did was stuck on a mac. that's why i suggest just a few. learning to hotswap the same device from machine to machine might also be a learning experience. if you burned with toast you could put their work on cross platform cd's. i'm not sure that disc burner does this. someone who uses it would have to answer that.

but to address your concern about latest versions. i would think all these would be able to save and read older versions of themselves, probably even other popular competitors' formats to a lesser degree. This would be worth checking into.
not exactly the same arena, but i used to dazzle pc users by downloading an excell or similar file, taking it home & doing the work, and then bring them back a file that they could run and do more work on if neccesary.