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Using Apple Laptops?

  • 09-12-2004 11:12am
    #1
    RicardoSmith
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    A lot of people seem to be recomending apple laptops for people. I was wondering what applications and games you run on them? I was also curious to know if you have any problems with transferring files and with working with other applications, for college or work. I have a Mac myself but generally use PC as I need them for development work, and college stuff. But I'm just curious about peoples experience of apples.

    I know I could stick this thread in the apple forum, but I more interested in people who work mainly in a PC dominated enviroment.


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  • #2
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    I've recently bought an iBook - the first apple I've ever bought for myself (I've a G5 in work though, which is what convinced me to switch from x86).

    I use it for surfing (safari), mail (the apple mail thing), office & presentations (office 2003 for mac), coding (java & c, gnu make, ant & eclipse), use itunes all the time, use it for sys admin (shelling into unix/os x machines).

    In work I use windows, osx and linux machines. I've found the osx machines to give the best blend of nice front end with useful back end. I admin over 130 machines with about 60 users, write code and do research and while I can do all that on all the machines/os's I have - the apple with OS X is my favourite.

    I don't game much these days, though I have Warcraft 3 + the Frozen Throne and they play very well, as do Quake 1&2.

    Another major plus I've found is when you travel the apple is very easy to get online whereever you are, be it wireless or wired. I was using a dual boot system for travelling but got sick of it just not working half the time. Now I bring the iBook and I'm usually one of the first online.

    One problem I've found is with memory allocation in OS X. It allocates vast amounts of swap no matter what's happening - e/g with nothing running on my G5 I might be using 4GB of swap, even though I'm only using 300MB of the 768 physical RAM I have. This can lead to major slowdowns in certain applications.
    (java apps being a classic - the machine can spend all it's time paging)

    anymore questions just ask - I can go into a lot more detail :)

    oh - and I've never had a problem transferring data from machine to machine, be it by cd/usb key/ sftp/http/whatever.


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