what do you do with your mac?

I can make art, send messages, write letters and do my bills, communicate, play music, watch movies... :D
 
I use it for the same stuff every other mac user uses it for...

distilling moonshine, props in kinky fetish videos, hacking government servers and cooking eggs.

I keep requesting to be in 'Switch' commercials but they just laugh at me. My self esteem is so low because of those stupid Apple marketing people. I'm going to go drown out my problems with some good old fashioned iMac bowling.
 
Mine rides in my backpack (viva la ibook!) and goes everywhere with me.
I use it for communication, mostly, but also DVD (viva la AV-cable!) movies, my music collection (which has outgrown my hard drive), programming, schoolwork, creative/novel writing, a bit of artwork (though I have developed a preference for paper and pastel lately. Maybe when I save enough for a new Wacom tablet ...) and for fixing PC-ers computers when they crash and burn (just FTP the files across and burn to a CD).

I also use it for that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you can work on a project and be completely, totally submerged in the creative process without having to stop and swear at your computer every ten minutes.

And, its a great conversation starter, and fantastic for sharing interesting work very freely with friends and colleagues.
 
For me lately it's been for Cocoa development mainly, centering around database work. But would much rather be using Maya or Corel Draw.
 
Mainly Graphic work, Web Design, Database stuff but I'm still looking/waiting for:
iPet, nifty program that will walk my dogs, feed my dogs, feed my cats and pet them for time to time.
iWife another nifty program that will send flowers to my wife at random (once a month) and will fetch some beer out of the fridge....
iKid yup another fine freeware piece of coding that will bring my kids to bed and read a nice story while iWife is fetching beer and iPet is walking the dogs...
iShutUp...a kinda extension I can install on my wife...:p
 
Have a G3/500 iMac.

Intensively:

• Design (Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Web Design (GoLive)
• Multimedia (MP3, DIVX, Web, IM)

Periodically:

• Games (Unreal Tournament, Quake, Warcraft III, Undying, Alice, Max Payne)

Soon:

• Music (Reason, Peak, Ableton)

I also used to program a bit in simple languages (Texas Instruments calculators, a few BASICs, some ANSI C…).
 
A little development (mostly java but whatever school asks for), email, web browsing, MS Word, and iPhoto.

Vanguard
 
Originally posted by hazmat
My uses really vary. I do like to play with audio and video editing, as well as graphics stuff. All that it stirctly amateur crap for myself. :) Otherwise, it is now my everyday machine at home, and I do treat it as a Unix box. I always have a terminal open.
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i have a question.....

why do people leave the Terminal window open all the time? it constantly uses at least 10% of CPU.....

one would think it might slow down other processes.....
 
I checked terminal's cpu usage using process viewier, which showed little or no cpu time for terminal.

Interestingly enough, iTunes was using between 5 and 10%. I noticed that it was paused in the middle of a song. Deselecting the song reduced cpu usage.
 
Originally posted by dktrickey
I checked terminal's cpu usage using process viewier, which showed little or no cpu time for terminal.

Interestingly enough, iTunes was using between 5 and 10%. I noticed that it was paused in the middle of a song. Deselecting the song reduced cpu usage.
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try using Top and look at usage there....

is using Top what is creating the usage of CPU that is showing in Terminal?

thanks
 
500 MHz ibook... first mac ever... bought it because it makes clients go into an impressive degree of brain freeze, where they equate my ability as a designer and developer with the coolness factor of my laptop and the sheer beauty of OSX, and marvel at how good their website prototypes look in Omniweb.

Other than showing it off to clients, I mostly use it to listen to iTunes while I read, or for checking email when I dont feel like going into my office.

And of course I test websites on various browsers in OSX & OS9 to make sure they're compatible.

It's too hard to do any serious development work on it, though... small screen, laptop keyboard, trackpad.. the keyboard and trackpad can be resolved, but if I have to keep the lid open to hook it up to a 21 inch monitor, it kinda defeats the purpose.

I was using it as a dev server for a while, but when I upgraded to 10.1 it killed something in my php & mysql setup that I havent taken the time to fix... maybe with jaguar I'll try that again.
 
Runs my small business making white box PCs. And on a side note I use it for Web editting, video editting/creating, Photoshop (need I say more), scanning, CD Ripping to feed my Sony Clie and my CD Burner, browser evaluation, programming (java, tcl/tk, perl, c - but only for my Sony Clie), software engineering (UML stuff), unix geeking (LANs, firewalls, ipv6, linux, X-Windows, you get the picture), email, writing to you guys.
 
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