Mini Mac or New PC
Discussion
Not looking to spend a massive amount of money, but I like the look of the Mini Mac's.
At £499 ish from the Apple store with 1Gb Ram, Wifi and Bluetooth it looks a winner, but how will I cope with software, sharing files between company laptop (centrino pc) and the Mac.
Will the same wifi work for both?
Can I get open office or star office to the mac, save me buying expencive office type software?
Main function, basic graphic and web design, personal office stuff and video editing.
Ideal spend about £500, ideally with a screen, but I could stretch to without.
>> Edited by vex on Wednesday 18th January 13:45
At £499 ish from the Apple store with 1Gb Ram, Wifi and Bluetooth it looks a winner, but how will I cope with software, sharing files between company laptop (centrino pc) and the Mac.
Will the same wifi work for both?
Can I get open office or star office to the mac, save me buying expencive office type software?
Main function, basic graphic and web design, personal office stuff and video editing.
Ideal spend about £500, ideally with a screen, but I could stretch to without.
>> Edited by vex on Wednesday 18th January 13:45
vex said:
Not looking to spend a massive amount of money, but I like the look of the Mini Mac's.
At £499 ish from the Apple store with 1Gb Ram, Wifi and Bluetooth it looks a winner, but how will I cope with software, sharing files between company laptop (centrino pc) and the Mac.
Will the same wifi work for both?
Can I get open office or star office to the mac, save me buying expencive office type software?
Main function, basic graphic and web design, personal office stuff and video editing.
Ideal spend about £500, ideally with a screen, but I could stretch to without.
>> Edited by vex on Wednesday 18th January 13:45
The Mac can mount windows shares no problem, and vice versa.
Open office is available for Mac. However, if you do get MS OfficeX, its sooooo much better than the wondows version.
The Apple Wi-Fi is 11b and 11g compatible so will work. I've got a Linksys access point and my windoze box and both my macs work fine with it.
Video editing comes with it, in the form of iLife (music, photos, web design, video editing, music creation, dvd creation) which is free with new Macs. This is by far the best consumer tool for these tasks.
I've had Mac's for years (PowerBook and PowerMac) and love them. Pop into the apple store and try one - they are so much easier to use than macs. Also scout PH for spyware/virus/trojans etc and count how many windows problems people have, and how many Mac owners have (I bet the mac count is 0)...
'nother vote for the Mini here.
As an aside, I killed my 12" Powerbook over Xmas (to embarassing to relate here). Replaced it with....another 12" Powerbook. I'd forgotten just how easy they are to setup, which goes for all Macs (in my experience - i've had 2 powerbooks, an iMac and now a Mac Mini).
And no, I'm not a luddite by any means, just that after spending years with my arms inside PCs and rebooting/reinstalling/rebuilding them, I now think life is too short...
As an aside, I killed my 12" Powerbook over Xmas (to embarassing to relate here). Replaced it with....another 12" Powerbook. I'd forgotten just how easy they are to setup, which goes for all Macs (in my experience - i've had 2 powerbooks, an iMac and now a Mac Mini).
And no, I'm not a luddite by any means, just that after spending years with my arms inside PCs and rebooting/reinstalling/rebuilding them, I now think life is too short...
xiphias said:
As an aside, I killed my 12" Powerbook over Xmas (to embarassing to relate here).
It's ok, my room mate at uni puked over his :]
It wasn't quite that bad. Too complicated to explain but it involved the magnetic base of my iSight webcam and the case of the Powerbook to the left of the touchpad and directly above the hard drive.
800 said:
Thats got to spoil your day!
Admire Apple's ability to mix magnets and hard drives. The New PowerMacs have a magnetic power supply connection
Oh, it did. Lost all my email and contacts which, coincidentally, I planned to backup to my Gmail account - "planned" being the operative word. Before the fateful day, it had given me 3.5 years of trouble-free (and much abused) service. Best 1k I ever spent on a computer.
Know what you mean about Macs and magnets though - the catch/release mechanism for the lid contains a magnet yet it's only centimeters away from the drive. Barmy.
>> Edited by neil.b on Thursday 19th January 09:01
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