Mac time!

[Wayne]

To still be able to handle the multitudes of Windows-only programs.

And I don't have Office for Mac yet.

Matt,

First -- welcome to the light...

When I went 100% Mac 4 years ago -- out of frustration, now HATRED for Microsoft -- on a spur of the moment decision, I thought about all the "multitude of Windows programs" (hahaha) and even bought Parallels with it just to be able to make sure I would "survive" the change.

To date, 4 years later, I have found exactly ONE program (Newsrover) which doesn't have a better equivalent on the Mac.  I've fired up Parallels three times, usually to download Mac software from the usenet newsgroups.

Trust me.  Unless you're running some weird, off the wall stuff, get OpenOffice (or even buy a copy of Office for the Mac if you must) and you'll NEVER even miss the PC at all.

Wayne

The Macs so far...

• 20" iMac 2.16 -- owned for 4 years, traded in for absolutely no reason other than I got a great deal on the 27" iMac.
• 27" iMac 3.06 -- beauty in computing defined. Call of Duty 4.. {drool...}
• 15" Macbook Pro 2.4 -- sold when I lost my job.
• 13" Macbook Pro 2.53 -- My newest 2 week old MacChild for use on travels.
• Dell Mini 9 - 8.9" netbook bought with Ubuntu and Hackintosh'd with MacOS X on the very first boot cycle.  For sale now..  $250 if anyone's interested.

[Wayne]

Guys the dell mini 9 rocks MacOS... forget the ipad!

Yep.  If it weren't for the keyboard, I'd probably not have bought the latest macbook pro.  Well, that, and while it can fire up Garageband, it has a bit of trouble recording vodcasts (which really needs the core2duo).

Matter of fact, for three weeks, I ran it here, driving a 20" LCD monitor and using my ergo keyboard and wireless mouse.

Greatest little workpad you can get for the money.  Just don't expect to do 3d rendering on it.

FYI, what I have is the black "Vostro A90" (business model Mini 9) with 32gb Runcore SSD (fastest) and 2gb of RAM.  

Hell, straight out of the box, even the camera works with photobooth..!

Wayne

[Wayne]

Same thing happens on Macs these days

Perhaps.. Haven't tried it, but here's the fun thing about that.  When you have a Core2Duo chip running 2Ghz+ and a MINIMUM of 2gb of DDR3 RAM, does "a little spike" matter at all?

Trust me.  It doesn't.  

I routinely format and burn DVD's while playing Call of Duty 4 over the net with little to no appreciable effect on the fps rates..  Of course, that's on the 3.06 c2d 27" iMac.  Haven't yet run CoD 4 on the baby book.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Just to make this Amiga related, Mac OSX on the Intel platform is EXACTLY where and what the Amiga coulda, shoulda done starting in 2000.  Imagine where we'd be now if they had..

Wayne

[Wayne]

For the record, just tried Call of Duty 4 (and Sims 2) and other games I have on hand on the laptop, and were it not for a crappy wifi connection, all I can say is... "Game on!"

[Wayne]

I dont see the point comapring osx with amiga could be, if amigaos in future becomes more powerfull hope that its no closer to osx.

Maybe mac is so popular in the usa and it make see osx with better eyes.

Not comparing AmigaOS with OS X.  You couldn't, no matter how delusional you are.

What I was saying was.. In 2000, if Amiga Inc had "pulled an apple" and built a new AmigaOS out of a NetBSD or Linux kernal like Apple did with OS X, then ran it on commodity hardware, we'd all be singing a much happier tune today.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Hey, is there an Aminet-type place for Mac software?

Aminet is kind of a really outdated idea, as most software projects/groups/people put up their own web sites.

The best place I've found is downloads.com.

Wayne