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[illflem]

Apples are nice but the problem I ran into using them is that they aren't compatible with some websites and many downloads. They speak a different language.

 

[Bad340fish]

Is that still the case with the newer ones?? I know she uses it for its ability to run graphics software very well. I don't think that she has had any compatability probs with it yet, not sure though
Clark

 

[Mike Sisk]

I have one of those G4 Cubes (using right now in fact... ). The wife has one as well.

Macs are great for graphic design work and are the standard you'll see most arty types using. Most of the big websites are designed by graphic design firms using a Mac so most sites work just fine.

If you're the type that likes to download lots of stuff or get those email attachments from friends and family that are Windows-only perhaps a Macs not for you.

Those cool touch buttons on top are nice until your cat jumps on top (because the cube is convection cooled and heat rises out the top vents--no fans) and turns it off while your using it!

I did have the hard drive die on mine but it's easy to replace with a new one--it's a standard IDE drive.

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[Ramboy00]

Illflem,
Was surprised to see you speak well of Apples. I thought you were having bad luck with them. #ad
#ad

Phil

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[illflem]

Phil, what's interesting is that the founder of Apple (Jobs?) named his company Apple because of fond memories from his youth of picking apples in the North West. Picking apples sure as heck didn't make him rich though. The others are right about Macs and graphics, they can't be beat.

[This message has been edited by illflem (edited 05-16-2001). ]

 

[Lurch]

Didn't make him rich? He might not be Bill Gates rich but he's better off than you think. Besides, if he was the weasel gates is he'd be that rich.

Sorry, struck a nerve, I'm an apple guy. Kinda like blastin' my truck.

 

[Bad340fish]

My sister is out of town for a few months so she loaned me her digital camera. I came over here to transfer some pics off of the camera. She has an Apple G4 cube computer. This thing is cool!! Infered mouse with no balls lol... female mouse i guess. Can't even tell its on. You just move your finger over an on off symbol on the comp and it comes to life. Kinda different to use compared to a normal PC but this thing is FAST. Anyways just an FYI if your computer shopping.
Clark

 

[Pat_in_Utah]

The others are right about Macs and graphics, they can't be beat.

Have you seen Jurrasic Park? This was not done on a Mac. It was a Silicon Graphics machine! They don't call it a "Graphics" machine for nothin'. Very fast processors. Very expensive too!

I'm sure the SGI machine can be beat too. Probably by some government machines.

Pat




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[Mike Sisk]

When I say the Mac is pretty much the standard in graphic work I mostly mean "still" stuff. For every person doing computer animation there's probably a hundred doing page-layout, web design, and other print stuff on a Mac.

Still, the Avid video editing system was originally built around a Mac.

True story: there was this fellow in the mid 80's that worked at Skywalker Ranch doing computer animation on their SGIs with proprietary software. He was so impressed with his new Mac he wrote a little program that could do similar things. After a while his little program could do some really cool stuff that folks hadn't seen done on a desktop computer before. He searched around to see if anyone was interested in marketing his program but had a hard time finding anyone. Finally, this little "font" company called Adobe took an interest in it and renamed it Photoshop. And it's done pretty well.

It's been awhile since I had an SGI but they are pretty cool boxes. I was always fond of the IRIX operating system and it's development tools. When I worked in UNIX ports at Autodesk we were working on AutoCAD for Sun, SGI, IBM AIX, and HP-UX at the same time. We had a quad-processor SGI Crimson that could compile an AutoCAD with debug symbols in 30 minutes. Our top of the line dual-processor Intel NT box with a custom C++ compiler from Microsoft took over six hours to do the same task.

Unfortunately, SGI isn't doing so well nowadays. I still see a few of their servers at the datacenter where I keep mine but not as many as I used to. On the other hand, SGI is doing lots of stuff with Linux now which is good.

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[Crash_AF]

Actually, I've never found a website that my G4-400 tower couldn't open/use. Some of the e-mail attachments I get are useless, but those are few and far between.

My biggest complaint is that game developers don't port enough stuff to the Mac because Mr Gates holds the lion's share of the market.

Jobs held back on an affordable home system a little too long and lost his edge, but the iMac might help fix that.

The cube is cute, but not really user friendly in the upgrade dept. They also priced it wrong from the start and that hurt sales.

Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a Mac discussion... #ad


Later,
Joe

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[illflem]

One site that is very good that a Mac won't work on is alldata.com , least it didn't the last time I tried. There have been agricultural programs that I tried to down load and use that are useless on a Mac. Other than that I like them, still have my old one.

 

[Mike Sisk]

the alldata.com site works with my Mac.

I didn't see anything there that wouldn't work on a Mac. They are using JavaScript and some DHTML layer stuff but those should work with any newish version of Netscape or IE regardless of platform.


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