Excellent choice....eyeing a 27" myself to join my AppleTV, MacBook, 2 iPhones and now 2 iPads

baa baa

 

all im saying is urgh

anyone seen the latest about Apples Hard drives ?gonna use a sata connector with more pins than the standard
if you use a standard hard drive it will stick all the fans on full o.0

 

I'm loving it so far, theres a few things that have flumoxed me, like copying pictures from a web page. Easy once you know how though Getting used to the lack of right click too!

Loving the bluetooth too. Pics transfered off my phone in seconds
Missus is eyeing up the iPhones now though

Photoshop is my next purchase.......

Had a play on the 27" in store. Found the screen excessively big tbh. 21" is perfect imo.

 

Right click works, just click the right hand side of the mouse. I think it's turned on by default otherwise look at the mouse options in System preferences.

 

So it does Turned it on now

 

The battle will rage until Unix / Android freeware becomes user friendly and people refuse to be ripped off by overpriced harware and software. Meanwhile you pays your money and takes your choice!

 

how more user friendly do you want Ubuntu or Fedora or any number of variants to be. I haven't looked back since installing Ubuntu. yes there are a few wee niggles but it does everything windows does and doesnt cost anything.

 

It installed easily enough, has it's own boot manager, but on my AMD quad core 8Gb DDR3 windows 7 64bit laptop it would not connect to the net. Crashed a couple of times then lay down and died!
Strangely, so did red hat Linux, and a few more penguine's.
I would like it to work, but it was not a great experience.
On work computers we used to run SCO IV Unix, brilliant for the program for 3D calculations on older laptops, but all the IT staff wondered off to pastures new. So we have to use Windows based databases and 3D GUI layered program on inadequate machines. Result frustration watching the hard disk light flashing and little happening, regular reboots and database conflicts!
Another huge step forwards from the old Unix system that worked well and was stable and fast on modest hardware.
Mac OS does the job well enough, but the control thing that grips all Apple products does not lie easily with my rebellious nature!
They say, if it aint broke dont fix it, but until you break it you dont know how to mend it!

 

Curious as to what the "control thing" you mention on OS X is. Standard accounts do restrict things, Admin accounts will require a password for somethings, but I can't think of many things are are completely locked down. That's part of the problem for Education and Corporate users, they need something to lock the machines down.

 

Itunes, Ipad,Iphone,Imac all have inbuilt flaws that are anti tampering features, according to Apple.
Unable to add memory, change battery on Iphone, no USB on Ipad, also no memory slot.
Itunes is updated continuously and tedious for the traveller with poor internet capabilities. Ipod, daughter has had 3 64Gb touch replaced under warranty.
It's not all rosy!
But if you are happy with that level of *rap, great!

 

he asked what was restrictive in osx like you claimed ,not their ipod range

 

What is he on about??

 

Thread wondered, keep up please!

 

What are you on about?

 

People who buy PCs feel the need to defend why buying a PC is better than buying a Mac
People who but Macs don't give sh*t why people buy PCs.

Personally for me I wouldn't buy a PC because Windows is garbage. It needs totally re-writing. Its been the same rubbish since Windows 90 whatever, just getting more demanding on CPU etc. Just to run Windows 7 you need quite a powerful machine.
A PC running Linux on the other hand is a different story.

 

seriously....

 

Jack, is that you?

 

Who said "Beetlejuice"?

 

I've been a PC user for 25 years but getting a new 13" MacBook Air when they come out this week (hopefully) - can't wait for a change Home/family computer will still be a Windows 7 machine.

 

and........?

 

If you want to go cheap on a replacement hard drive then you can control fan speeds with software. Another load of FUD.

I went to a friends house last week and was about to compliment him on his air conditioning install when I realised it was his 'super mega' PC making the racket and draft.

 

Oh you will be frustrated! And then it'll get better but you will still shake your head every so often and go "why? WHY?!".

Steve

 

Yup, have to agree with that. I've used Macs for quite a while and every now and then come across something that makes me have the same reaction. Example, the old replace not merge thing when copying a folder into another folder that contains a folder whose name matches the folder you are copying. Instead of merging, or asking, it'll replace the "old" folder and it's contents. Thankfully fixed in Lion (after how many bloody years? )

So Mac OS X isn't perfect by any means, then again, neither is Windows or a *nix OS, all depends on what you want from an OS and the hardware it is / can be run on.

 

i discovered Geektool yesterday

I now have my magic mouse and trackpad battery level on my desktop

 

Someone once told me that windows NT stood for "nice try".
Fail!

 

New Technology

...which in 1993, it probably was. certainly trounced apple back then.

 

yep - sure it will be an interesting experience. Looking forward to the battery life and instant on compared to by aging Song Vaio. Given the cost then I wouldn't buy a mac myself, can't justify the spend against a PC laptop, but one of my clients is buying 2 new airbooks when they eventually come out (next Thursday now?) and is giving me one to use indefinately

 

I'd strongly suggest looking at Apple Refurbished stuff, some very good deals there

 

Thanks for the tip

 

A few years ago I bought a refurbished MacBook pro, I have to say it was very good, the item was as new with the full 12 month warranty from date of purchase with the option of extending the warranty during the first 12 months of ownership (AppleCare) and I saved nearly £400