So I bought a MacMini today..

[eflat]

I hate to say it but the moment I actually took some time to play with an Apple computer I feel in love with it.

They have so much great free software on there that it was probably worth the money alone.

iGarage was what sold me but I'm going to make it my dedicated multimedia computer and store all my photography, mp3's and piano compositions on there.

Now that I have gotten serious about music and photography I really understand why professionals like these so much. They are 10x easier to use and bug free. The software is all designed beautifully.

 

[cirthix]

nice, yes

bug free, no

 

[mdchesne]

another maccy! woot! the conversion continues...

 

[Mik3y]

I've had my mac mini for about 3 weeks now, and i absolutely love it. I hope you enjoy your's too. you got questions, i got answers.

 

[dug777]

REAL pro's don't use Macs

people who like pretty design/software, and want to 'differntiate' themselves from all those 'common' PC users do...

*This advice was provided without warranty/guarantee or any acceptance of liability for anything by the CitizenDoug Advisory Office (aka ATOT)*

 

[JGruber]

Nice change isnt it? Installing and Uninstalling are the best thing on earth! - Dont like the App, drag it to the trash, BAM! Unistalled. Want to install your fav Mac App, Drag it to your Applicaations folder and BAM, Installed!
Ive been running my Mac's (Dual G5 2.7 and a Mac Mini) and have yet to have 1 single Problem!

Let me know if you need help with anything!

 

[RossMAN]

Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

 

[JGruber]

Might be worth it to help ya out.. I can use a gmail spam account... hehe

 

[OdiN]

*slaps you around a bit with a large trout*

 

[Blayze]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

How many sign ups do you actually need before you get a free one? Guess the same question can be said about the free XBox 360s.

 

[Slew Foot]

Apple puts a bunch of free crap on their computer= great find!
Microsoft puts a bunch of crap on their OS= OMG sue the monopoly!

 

[JGruber]

iLife is a very nice piece of add-on software, normally comes with OSX 10.4 (Tiger)

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
I hate to say it but the moment I actually took some time to play with an Apple computer I feel in love with it.

They have so much great free software on there that it was probably worth the money alone.

iGarage was what sold me but I'm going to make it my dedicated multimedia computer and store all my photography, mp3's and piano compositions on there.

Now that I have gotten serious about music and photography I really understand why professionals like these so much. They are 10x easier to use and bug free. The software is all designed beautifully.

I don't understand the mac people who swear they are better. My WinXP machine never crashes is plenty easy to use and works great. Photoshop doesn't work any faster on the Mac despite their claims. I use Picasa 2 for just browsing all the photos I have on here...it's free and works great.

Let's see..I took a photoshop class and they had all mac systems with wacom tablets...I had those things crash on me..the tablets were not very quick to respond (I could draw a brush-stroke...wait 10 seconds and it would show up)....Ended up not learning much in that class.

Now....not saying they are bad. But no better than my XP system. And it would cost you a LOT more money to buy a Mac that is comprable to my system with an AMD X2 CPU, 2GB RAM and 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 0.


I must admit that their LCD's are killer though...awesome stuff.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Blayze

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

How many sign ups do you actually need before you get a free one? Guess the same question can be said about the free XBox 360s.

free mini mac - 10

free xbox 360 - 8

For the xbox360 I have 5 referrals so far, just 3 to go. The best part is they're giving away the XBox 360 Premium Edition :thumbsup:

It probably won't ship until January 2005 but that's fine with me since I'm saving $399

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

OMG BaN the spammer!@!1

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

OMG BaN the spammer!@!1

/me changes his avatar, ok that's more like it.

 

[Wahsapa]

:heart: you took my advice

Originally posted by: cirthix
nice, yes

bug free, no

nothing is really... but its got more polish than anything else for the $$

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Apple puts a bunch of free crap on their computer= great find!
Microsoft puts a bunch of crap on their OS= OMG sue the monopoly!

nice troll :thumbsup:

plus i dont think its crap when you know... people actually buy the computer FOR the free software...

 

[IAteYourMother]

why dont we start someting like the gmail thread for referrals?

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

OMG BaN the spammer!@!1

/me changes his avatar, ok that's more like it.

:laugh:haha LOL NICE :thumbsup:

im gonna buy a mac once they get all this switching to intel business behind them

 

[SketchMaster]

Originally posted by: OdiN
[Let's see..I took a photoshop class and they had all mac systems with wacom tablets...I had those things crash on me..the tablets were not very quick to respond (I could draw a brush-stroke...wait 10 seconds and it would show up)....Ended up not learning much in that class.

If you knew half the stuff they have to load on those things to get them to play nice with the crappy school networks and to keep kids from messing them up, you would know why they crash so much. Take the same computer and remove all the crap off of it, and it will run great.

Same thing happened with me in college. computers would crash all the time, never worked right and were slow as hell. Got to an internship and I used the same model imac G5 and never had any issues.

My dual 1.25 G4 never gives me crap but it is alot slower then my X2 3800 as far as rendering stuff. I LOVE apple software though and I think that the new OS have some pretty cool stuff but I still like my Windows box alot more.

But I can't wait to see what Intel will bring to the mix. I really hope it will give Mac the speed it needs to keep up with PCs.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

OMG BaN the spammer!@!1

/me changes his avatar, ok that's more like it.

:laugh:haha LOL NICE :thumbsup:

im gonna buy a mac once they get all this switching to intel business behind them

Same here, my free mac mini will be given away as a contest prize.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: dugweb

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Waiting for my free mini mac, no way I'm paying $499

Just a few sign ups away

OMG BaN the spammer!@!1

/me changes his avatar, ok that's more like it.

:laugh:haha LOL NICE :thumbsup:

im gonna buy a mac once they get all this switching to intel business behind them

Same here, my free mac mini will be given away as a contest prize.

oo sweet... what contest? o__O

 

[Xycl0ne]

/SLAP!

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
I hate to say it but the moment I actually took some time to play with an Apple computer I feel in love with it.

They have so much great free software on there that it was probably worth the money alone.

iGarage was what sold me but I'm going to make it my dedicated multimedia computer and store all my photography, mp3's and piano compositions on there.

Now that I have gotten serious about music and photography I really understand why professionals like these so much. They are 10x easier to use and bug free. The software is all designed beautifully.

I don't understand the mac people who swear they are better. My WinXP machine never crashes is plenty easy to use and works great. Photoshop doesn't work any faster on the Mac despite their claims. I use Picasa 2 for just browsing all the photos I have on here...it's free and works great.

Let's see..I took a photoshop class and they had all mac systems with wacom tablets...I had those things crash on me..the tablets were not very quick to respond (I could draw a brush-stroke...wait 10 seconds and it would show up)....Ended up not learning much in that class.

Now....not saying they are bad. But no better than my XP system. And it would cost you a LOT more money to buy a Mac that is comprable to my system with an AMD X2 CPU, 2GB RAM and 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 0.


I must admit that their LCD's are killer though...awesome stuff.

Well it's not even the stability that sells me. It's the simplicity. It's just the ability to use all their software without even having to think about it. Everything is just so intuitive and user friendly.

edit: I know it's really slow compared to Windows based systems but you really don't need that much horsepower for the things I am using it for. Computers today are way overpowered for most of the things people use them for. Saving money on old but still good technology and concentrating on a user friendly package seems like a great solution for your typical computer user.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
I hate to say it but the moment I actually took some time to play with an Apple computer I feel in love with it.

They have so much great free software on there that it was probably worth the money alone.

iGarage was what sold me but I'm going to make it my dedicated multimedia computer and store all my photography, mp3's and piano compositions on there.

Now that I have gotten serious about music and photography I really understand why professionals like these so much. They are 10x easier to use and bug free. The software is all designed beautifully.

I don't understand the mac people who swear they are better. My WinXP machine never crashes is plenty easy to use and works great. Photoshop doesn't work any faster on the Mac despite their claims. I use Picasa 2 for just browsing all the photos I have on here...it's free and works great.

Let's see..I took a photoshop class and they had all mac systems with wacom tablets...I had those things crash on me..the tablets were not very quick to respond (I could draw a brush-stroke...wait 10 seconds and it would show up)....Ended up not learning much in that class.

Now....not saying they are bad. But no better than my XP system. And it would cost you a LOT more money to buy a Mac that is comprable to my system with an AMD X2 CPU, 2GB RAM and 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 0.


I must admit that their LCD's are killer though...awesome stuff.

Well it's not even the stability that sells me. It's the simplicity. It's just the ability to use all their software without even having to think about it. Everything is just so intuitive and user friendly.

edit: I know it's really slow compared to Windows based systems but you really don't need that much horsepower for the things I am using it for. Computers today are way overpowered for most of the things people use them for. Saving money on old but still good technology and concentrating on a user friendly package seems like a great solution for your typical computer user.

I have to admit that i have no problems with Xp these days...and of course have you ever tried to game on a Mac? It's worse than a joke (the few games they can run, run like sh1t (d3 is a great example))...