[condra]

I'm on my fourth mac now.

Mac 1:
G5 Powermac
Solid.
8/10

Mac 2:
Macbook
Noisy, flimsy, and shoddy.
4/10

Mac 3:
Mac Mini
Great machine. Powerful and silent.
8/10

Mac 4:
iMac 20"
Sexy and sound.
9/10

[iamhunted]

i got my got my first mac in 1995 (7100-80AV) which still works, then i got a 4400 (horrible piece of ****) and after that it was a second gen imac (bright orange), an imac DV (which I still have and still run), a lampshade imac, mac mini, macbook pro and now a brand spanking new 24in imac.


have to say im very happy with them.

[silvine]

The macs weren't up to much till OSX arrived. I've used OS 9,8 in work and they are worse than their Windows' equivalents.

[erie]

Here picture of my iMac.... location : dining room... very nice

[ninja900]

Originally Posted by Cabaal

Bought a MacBook last year in Las Vegas along with a Mighty Mouse, I've hardly ever used the Mighty mouse but well impressed with the MacBook and when it comes to replacing my desktop (running WinXP) I'll be getting a iMac

LOL, the Windows mod has been assimilated

[condra]

WOOT! Welcome to the dark side!

[culabula]

Originally Posted by womoma

WOOT! Welcome to the dark side!

Goodbye to the Dark Side, surely?

[culabula]

Originally Posted by erie

Here picture of my iMac.... location : dining room... very nice

Yes, but nicer if you get a BT keyboard and a BT mouse :-)

[condra]

I've seen both Windows and Mac described as the darkside, both proudly and scornfully. It will never be agreed on, but personally, I like to proudly call OSX the dark side (especially considering Steve Jobs is the antichrist).

[ZENER]

Originally Posted by culabula

Yes, but nicer if you get a BT keyboard and a BT mouse :-)

Not too keen on the wireless keyboard for a desktop/work machine. The absence of the numeric keypad is annoying on the small keyboard. The wireless mouse now, that's a different thing, I love my wireless Mightmouse.

ZEN

[condra]

I've got a wireless keyboard and I love it. Battery life is amazing. Literally months between battery changes. Planning on getting a bluetooth (not mighty) mouse but only to save on usb ports.

[erie]

Originally Posted by culabula

Yes, but nicer if you get a BT keyboard and a BT mouse :-)

I'm working on it... but still not sure either go for apple BT Keyboard + BT Mighty Mouse or other options... or waiting for Apple wireless (radio not BT) launch (don't know when).

[luckat]

I normally buy at the top of the range, and nowadays always a laptop, but having just been downsized I got sensible and got a MacBook rather than a MacBook Pro.

It's a nice little machine, which I've upgraded with a 250GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, but I wish I'd got the Pro.

The sound settings are flaky, and reset themselves all the time, so you have to do things like plugging earphones in and out and resetting to SoundFlower or Speakers.

The DVD drive is too close to the surface; if you put the laptop on your lap while a DVD is playing it will sometimes make the DVD jump.

And the DVD drive is not patchable to make it region-free; Apple isn't my nanny, and if I choose to watch the DVDs sent to me by my son and nephews from Hong Kong or Japan or Australia, or by my friends in America, I don't see that it's Apple's business to stop me. After all, if I had a TV, virtually all modern DVD players for TVs are region-free.

There are other fiddly little annoyances too - but mainly a general sense that this isn't a top-grade computer, no matter how I upgrade it.

[culabula]

Originally Posted by luckat

I normally buy at the top of the range, and nowadays always a laptop, but having just been downsized I got sensible and got a MacBook rather than a MacBook Pro.

It's a nice little machine, which I've upgraded with a 250GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, but I wish I'd got the Pro.

The sound settings are flaky, and reset themselves all the time, so you have to do things like plugging earphones in and out and resetting to SoundFlower or Speakers.

The DVD drive is too close to the surface; if you put the laptop on your lap while a DVD is playing it will sometimes make the DVD jump.

And the DVD drive is not patchable to make it region-free; Apple isn't my nanny, and if I choose to watch the DVDs sent to me by my son and nephews from Hong Kong or Japan or Australia, or by my friends in America, I don't see that it's Apple's business to stop me. After all, if I had a TV, virtually all modern DVD players for TVs are region-free.

There are other fiddly little annoyances too - but mainly a general sense that this isn't a top-grade computer, no matter how I upgrade it.

I can't say that a DVD has ever jumped on me -and I use it all the time, on my lap, in bed, on buses and trains. Have found it much more reliable than a stand-alone player.

As for the region -locked drive -this is just a fact of life and I doubt if it's down to Apple as any other PC I've ever owned has always been the same. The Mac Pro's drive is 'just as' locked. Nor are modern DVD players 'unlocked' it's just that certain shops like Peats or Richer Sounds or online sources will sell tweaked unlocked versions of a given model -usually with a few bob extra charged over the standard version.

Is it not the case that if you watch a DVD from another region using VLC instead of DVD player, that you can bypass the lock (the blame for which you can firmly lay at Hollywood's door)?

[Red Alert]

Apparently the drive used by Apple is one of the more resistant ones to unlocking - bad move apple