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RadioPatrol

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Xaquin44 said:
BSoDs are usually caused by overheating and/or operator error. I've never had one (well, not since my first PC that I screwed up hehe)

I also don't have any problems with viruses etc.

Plus I saved a lot of money =)

whatever floats your boat though hehe
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IMHO

you have no idea about what you speak ..... Nvidia has had major issues with past video driver updates causing BSoD Issues ..... Creative / Sound Blaster had problems with the add on software for their sound cards and several antivirus makers - I know I undated my Computer Assoc. eTrust anti virus software last year ( regular patch / updates ) and when the patch finished my system had a stop error in one of the sound card drivers .... after a couple weeks of searching i finally found where other SB users had had the same issue with various AV programs .....


So while not a Microsoft Problem, it was def an issue with running Windows

the Aug 05 Nvidia Video drive updates were well know for causing 1000's of people who update regularly BSoD's

so while you personally have had no issues - the wisdoze world is far from perfect dude .......
 
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vegmom

Bookseller Lady
Xaquin44 said:
remember the god awful circular mice that shipped with those dumb iMacs?

God I hated those.
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The Crash-O-Matic '99?

I used one for work.

I had to crawl under my desk to unplug it when it got stuck because there was no other way to reboot.

And I hated those mieces to pieces.
 
clevalley

clevalley

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I have owned both and use both, the Mac at work is a tester we are using for Active Directory Integration testing...

Macs are OK - if you like to play with music, video, images - the Mac's are more user friendly... Windows will do the same thing, but it is not as streamlined...

All my machines at home are XP SP2... NEVER had an issue... not even at work on my workstation except when I fried a video card... the fan gave up and the VGP fried :frown: I can do whatever I want on either machines - except manage my 2003 Domain at work - can't do on a Mac but you won't need to at home! :yay:

Anyhow - get what makes you happy - they all work fine....

We use to say "Know what Macintosh stands for?"

Many
Applications
Crash
If
Not
The
Operating
System
Hangs

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EmptyTimCup

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clevalley said:
:roflmao:
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that was os 7-9

OS X is very stable ....... i have only seen a Kernel Panic ( Linux version of a BSoD twice - while 1st running OS X 10.2 Jaguar w/ an Adaptic 2940 SCSI card .... in 7 yrs of running OS 10 ..... and I have used 10.2 Jaguar, and 10.3 Panther ...
 
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chaotic

This is your captain!
Macs are very nice, usually very stable. The only issues I generally have are with Safari, the web browser - every once in a while, I get the Spinning Beach Ball Of Death. That's the OSX way of saying the program is locked up, and needs to be killed.

Other than that... it works very well, and comes with a ton of software that you wouldn't ordinarily get with a windows box.
 
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Speedy70

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chaotic said:
Macs are very nice, usually very stable. The only issues I generally have are with Safari, the web browser - every once in a while, I get the Spinning Beach Ball Of Death. That's the OSX way of saying the program is locked up, and needs to be killed.

Other than that... it works very well, and comes with a ton of software that you wouldn't ordinarily get with a windows box.
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Firefox. :yay:
 
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uckrt

New Member
With the Mighty Mouse, you can right-click. I believe you have to enable it though. Just go into System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, and there should be a setting you need to check and that's it.

Also, I'd actually recommend getting something else like a Logitech G5. The top trackball on the Mighty Mouse is similar to old trackball mice. It gets just as dirty/gunky and it needs cleaning from time to time.
 
truby20

truby20

Fighting like a girl
Speedy70 said:
Firefox. :yay:
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I used to HATE Safari on Leopard until I read this article. Webkit is the open source version of Safari and the current build is so much faster than Firefox (I didn't think it was possible!). I found the link on digg but it didn't seem that windows users were seeing the same speed improvements.

But if you have a mac give it a shot, I haven't opened firefox for the last week.
 
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alex

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I love my Macbook Pro. I had a 12" powerbook before and an Dell XPS 140 inbetween. Hated the Dell even though it was running XP2. I never have any issues with my Mac. It recognizes so much of my hardware without having to load all sorts of drivers.

I was even able to take a network cable from from PC to Mac and transfer all my data to the Mac.

I gave the PC to my son who crashed the system after installing Norton 360. Had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything. What a pain the neck that was.

The only thing about my Mac I don't like is BootCamp. I use Parallels instead.
 
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uckrt

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alex said:
I was even able to take a network cable from from PC to Mac and transfer all my data to the Mac.

The only thing about my Mac I don't like is BootCamp. I use Parallels instead.
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I love the way mac handles network cables. If you connect a couple macs via straight cable, the mac will treat it as a crossover.

Have you tried VMware Fusion? If i had to use any type of virtualization (which I'd rather not), I'd use that. At work, we use Parallels. I tested VMware Fusion when it came out, and I was impressed. One major difference is that you can allocate how many cores you want to utilize. Parallels can only see one processor. Also, I'm not sure if they changed this or not, but last time I checked, Parallels did not support USB 2.0.
 
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RadioPatrol

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Geek said:
We are getting a new Mac. I have a pc now. I have tried my FIL's Mac and the mouse drove me crazy. Will I adjust?
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If you have an windows application that has no Mac equivalent check this out:

 
cwo_ghwebb

cwo_ghwebb

No Use for Donk Twits
At work we have one Mac (for evaluation), mostly Dells (reliability) and 3 custom built PCs for our graphic artists. My experience is that I get far more bang for the buck with PCs. No problems with the Mac, but I can't get the high quality video card I can get with the PC. Mac won't run our CAD programs but for graphic layouts, web design, etc. our girl loves it. Apple was smart when they got Macs into the schools and the young folks love them.
 
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