Leopard!

Who else has pre-ordered the next major release of OSX? Ok I JUST ordered mine moments ago (been a long hard week) and it will be released tomorrow. It said it delivers on the 26th but I'm not so sure I'll get it that quick since I chose regular shipping.

Anyway I know there are long time mac users here so I thought I'd ask about it. Looks like many great new features and improvements. I'm starting to miss windows less and less accept for when I occasionally need to do some gaming but I haven't had time for that in forever.

I got a 5 pack that will be here this weekend. I still like my PCs though.

i really want to order my copy, but honestly i think i may need to upgrade my mac itself before i upgrade my software. besides, if do get a new machine it will come with leopard. of course, this is mostly wishful thinking as i don't really have the cash for a new machine at the moment. aah well, there's always christmas... :P

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Originally Posted by mlededee

i really want to order my copy, but honestly i think i may need to upgrade my mac itself before i upgrade my software. besides, if do get a new machine it will come with leopard. of course, this is mostly wishful thinking as i don't really have the cash for a new machine at the moment. aah well, there's always christmas... :P

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You always have the money for a PC with Vista :D

gah....So expensive. I went and customized my own Mac Pro on their web site and with my needs, i end up spending 5,000 for the low end mac pro....but I have to be honest...when I buy a mac, I will be confident that it will be the best money i've ever spent on a computer. I'm so sick of PC's going nutty on me.

I probably would not have my own mac if I had not purchased through work. They are expensive...and I got my mostly loaded at the time. The only thing more I could have had added to 15" macbook pro I have is another gig of memory but it just wasn't worth the extra cost for 3gb! I did upgrade it to a 7200rpm hard drive though...which apple offers as on option on the 15's now!

I run OSX and Vista simultaneously 5 days a week all day and it works very well for me. I use parallels to run Vista within OSX, really the only time I full boot into Vista (bootcamp) is when I want to play game.

Anyways! I'm looking forward to the OSX release!

i have one mac on unix and one windows machine and if you like your mac set up and are tired of windows go to unix or linux its got more of a learning curve but if you know macs you'll know linux

I ran linux for a while on my last laptop but I still need windows to run some software. Most of what I use windows for is user management tools, our email client, security camera system, and whatever requires windows. I have sorta been itching to try and get Linux running on my macbook pro but I'll be darned if I can find the time.

I am planning to format my pc that I use for my home theater system and running Linux as a media center. Having a pc with wireless highspeed dedicated to storing music and video and hooked up to 6.1 surround is the best $300 I've ever spent. I can play any movie or music I've ever downloaded or rented with a mouse click, and I can pull up internet videos and stream internet t.v., videos and radio in a split screen while sitting on my couch. Let's see the Apple fan boys beat that :D

Macs are very very well made computers, but the price just turns me away instantly. I used to sell computers a few years ago(CompUSA). I could buy a MAc Pro for around $2,799 or I could spend $1000 on an hp with twice the power and internal hardware of the Mac Pro. IMacs are beautiful if you have ever seen one. I would consider one of those over a laptop.

The other thing that bugs me too is all the incompatibility. Having to run boot camp or Parallels to use a lot of daily programs, doesn't seem worth it to me.

I still use XP and I was still selling computers around when Vista came out. It was nothing but horror stories, so I am still waiting.

I have yet to have any PC's go crazy on me, like everyone says.