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C-64 for teh win. Nothing like loading a game off of a cassette tape.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

C-64 for teh win. Nothing like loading a game off of a cassette tape.

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Hahahaha! I SO remember the days! And it was COOL to have a cassette player hooked up to the computer! (We had a TI-994A though... :P )

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Originally Posted by KLG

MAC USERS!!!

Who else? I know I'm not the only one around these parts sportin' a G4 (hopefully soon a G5)!

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Word!
I have a G4 Laptop with double ram, blue tooth, loaded to my personal tastes with creative suite, photoshop/illustrator cs2, adobe bridge and go live.

i will never own a pc.

I use them in school.......I am wanting to try one out as a personal puter. Well see....




Adam...:devilish: ;)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

macs are best for kids to learn how to use computers. My mother is a computer lab technician for an elementary school and all they use is macs...the entire school. Macs were the first type of computer I have ever used and I still like them........but I got stuck using a crappy HP. Seems like all the engineering software is not made for macs. :(

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wow that is amazing. im in community college taking a class on windows' programs circa 2003. Floppy discs ya'll! Who knows how to minimize a window?

that's crap. macs imo are the primo computer for running software- its like Word is horrificgood but Quark is better

I used a lot of Macs in college. This pretty much sums up my experiences. :P I'm much saner with my PC.

EDIT: Er, warning, I just remembered there's some swearing in that vid! :oops:

I'm not on a Mac at the moment, If we had cash outside of the rescue (I wonder if that will ever happen...lol) I'd love to get a nice hook up with one. I'd have a much better time with my music and photos etc....
My father in law Randy Gilman sports a real nice one. Did you know that the author of the "I spy" and "Can you see what I see" children's books does all of his graphic editing on a Mac.
* A little tidbit of Rusty's useless information for ya..lol*
Rusty

Mac all the way!!! I use an iMac G5 with no built-in iSight, sadly.. we got it a week before they came out. We do have the iSight you buy seperately, but you don't get Photo Booth with that. It could log in a little faster, but I love it! Windows drives me crazy. I couldn't agree more with those commercials Apple has with the Mac guy and the PC guy. My iMac has never frozen. Not once. It has never contracted a virus or otherwise had anything seriously wrong with it. Whenever I walk into the computer lab at school, I think, "Pssh, Dells... Mac Minis would've only cost $600, and they're faster and have much better graphics!"

I'd never get anything else, except maybe the new 24-inch dual core iMac.

I've worked for public schools for almost 10 years now and macs have always been something of an odd ball in the districts I supported. I remember in grade school having the IIe's then grandma got a Tandy 1000 that ran DOS!

Anyway through my career thus far I remember setting up a few imacs (I think?), the blue ones when they first came out and I thought they where pretty cool myself. They where for an elementary school here in town. Skip ahead a couple years and the one corporate job I had used macs for graphic arts/design commercials and that sort of thing (Quality Farm and Fleet HQ). After that I was a Tech Director for a smaller school district for about 3yrs. Macs where never a part of the system then...not because I had any bias, there just wasn't money so there was little room for "diversity" in technology at the time. Currently I've been working for a larger ISD for the last 2+ years and macs are now coming back into view. I know of at least one whole district that uses primarily macs which as I said is pretty rare around here. I currently run technology for two specialized schools: a career tech center (for high school kids 11-12 grade what some might call a trade center) and also a special education school. The spec ed school had alot of apples at one time but by the time I got there the machines where all but functioning and of the very early generations so more than a little outdated. The tech center is a different story. I have 2 full labs of mac's for two different programs: commercial arts 17" imacs with all the good apps, and then also printing with dual processor G5's (I think). Also one co-worker who uses a 20" imac who does the school's PR type graphics and what not.

Our ISD admin office has started getting in some of the new macbook pro's, even my boss is using one now with the intel based internals and boot camp. He says he uses the two OS's about half and half, we run a mix of Novell, microsoft, Linux, Solaris (maybe not anymore), and even a mac OS server! The mac server has been around a couple years actually but is pretty beefy with a few Tbytes of storage as it runs educational streaming media to our districts.

So in my area of work I'm starting to see them come back and I say they definately have their place and functions and I don't see them the way Daniel described as I once did. I may even be requisitioning a macbook pro for myself in the near future as I take on support for more of them and will need the "tools" to do it as well keep up on how to use OS itself which is a bit dusty yet in my mind.

Wow that was a long post...just my personal timeline I guess of how I have seen them in places I have been. I am open to any OS that works period. I enjoy using Linux because its different and there advantages but it goes both ways and depends on how it fits into your scheme of things. I see the mac OS now running on non-proprietary hardware beginning to be more and more diverse in its applications and able to cater to that many more users. Maybe if I was a die hard or knowledgeable mac user before I would have already known these things :P

Ok I'm done now.

We shopped around a lot and settled on a HP; I have no complaints. We wanted a built one from a friend of ours, but the cost was astronomical; this computer gives me no grief. But our sllllooooowwww satellite internet, that's another matter; darn living in the sticks.