New buy, PC or MAC?
Considerably Bemused Wannabe
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From: UK
No, I got your point thanks. I'm fully aware I could find myself with a MAC with the same model/make HD, but it's as much to do with the shoddy customer service DELL have provided since the HD failing - which to be honest has been nothing short of appauling. Granted Samsung made the HD, but I purchased the PC from DELL, so my issues lie with them.
Anyway, all being well I'll be placing an order for an iMac in the not too distant future once DELL have refunded me for the very expensive paper weight currently sat on my desk at home.
Cheers
S
Anyway, all being well I'll be placing an order for an iMac in the not too distant future once DELL have refunded me for the very expensive paper weight currently sat on my desk at home.
Cheers
S
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From: Location, Location
Apple appear to be having drive reliability problems with current MacBooks - see The Register.
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From: England
Got a new Mac book Pro recently. They are absolutely awesome, and it can run any windows application. Further if you live near london, the after sales support and tuition you get at the Apple store in Regents Street is fantastic.
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Just realised as well that becasue I work at a UK University, I will get a nice little educational discount too. I've just priced up the iMac I'd like, and the discount saves me over 300 quid 
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From: Aberdeen, UK
I'm converted to the iMac - but I run Vista on it with BootCamp.
Works perfectly - looks stunning - great screen.
Leopard is ok - I'm a NeXTStep afficionado so I love the finder, Entourage is nice with it's project focus, but Word and Excel ain't quite right on it. Running XP or Vista under parallels is great, but Safari occasionally renders things wierd (not its fault probably more the page optimised for IE).
The new keyboards don't have enough travel for me, so I'm using a Logitech one - no problems there either.
Decent machine, decent performance, looks the mutts - runs Windows if you want - it's all good!
Mind you, with a little creative patching you can install Lepoard on vanilla intel hardware, so you could always give that a go if you want to dabble in Mac without the hardware premium!
Works perfectly - looks stunning - great screen.
Leopard is ok - I'm a NeXTStep afficionado so I love the finder, Entourage is nice with it's project focus, but Word and Excel ain't quite right on it. Running XP or Vista under parallels is great, but Safari occasionally renders things wierd (not its fault probably more the page optimised for IE).
The new keyboards don't have enough travel for me, so I'm using a Logitech one - no problems there either.
Decent machine, decent performance, looks the mutts - runs Windows if you want - it's all good!
Mind you, with a little creative patching you can install Lepoard on vanilla intel hardware, so you could always give that a go if you want to dabble in Mac without the hardware premium!
