I've been a Mac user all my life, but I'm getting increasingly disillusioned. A few weeks ago I got a new G5 iMac (the very last spec to have the PowerPC processor before they brought in the Intel one) and I've been plagued with bugs and compatability issues.
The broadband modem software keeps deleting itself every few days for no apparent reason. Apparently it was never designed to work with Tiger, and there's no fix. What am I supposed to do? Buy a new modem?
The date and time in the corner keeps disappearing every time I boot up.
If I put the Mac to sleep it won't reconnect to the internet unless I do a restart.
Microsoft Office suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel & Entourage) for Mac doesn't like ANY of the fonts I've worked with for years. It won't start up if they're in the Fonts folder. Apparently the only way around this is to temporarily take them all out of the Fonts folder, then put them back in if I need to use any of them for Graphic Design apps. As I switch between Graphics apps and MS Office apps all day as part of my work, this is utterly ridiculous.
Now I can't get my HP printer to work with Tiger either.
It's all a completely fucked up nightmare. After spending £1100 I'm disgusted. I never had any of these problems with my 3-year old G4 eMac.
I'm thinking about converting to Apple - convince me
Even that I'm beginning to question. About a year ago I'd have agreed wholeheartedly that macs win on the looks front. Then I converted my PC into a mac skin (using Flyakite OSX) and enjoyed it for the first 5-6 weeks, but then missed the Windows look, and I've never looked back having deleted it. While macs are nice for first impressions, it's all just a bit dull once you get used to it (how much bloody white and transparent plastic can you get!)cat wrote:Look great, yes...
I'm still not convinced by the whole Apple thing, TBH I expected cat to tell me how great they are.
I'm now thinking about going with a Dell and then using the spare money to buy a digital SLR camera.
However, it's ever-so-slightly annoying that the same laptop in the "good ole" US of A costs about £850 rather than £1,100! Shocking! I could fly to New York and back to get one and still have change...
I'm now thinking about going with a Dell and then using the spare money to buy a digital SLR camera.
However, it's ever-so-slightly annoying that the same laptop in the "good ole" US of A costs about £850 rather than £1,100! Shocking! I could fly to New York and back to get one and still have change...
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James Martin
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But you have voltage etc to worry about, wrong keyboard layout etc etc.
Buy a refurbished laptop - they are so much cheaper and the amount of checks they go through means they're probably in better condition than the ones in PC World (not that it takes a lot).Aston wrote:I'm still not convinced by the whole Apple thing, TBH I expected cat to tell me how great they are.
I'm now thinking about going with a Dell and then using the spare money to buy a digital SLR camera.
However, it's ever-so-slightly annoying that the same laptop in the "good ole" US of A costs about £850 rather than £1,100! Shocking! I could fly to New York and back to get one and still have change...
laptopshop.co.uk and laptops-direct.co.uk sell them, the latter are excellent. When I ordered my Acer with them a couple of years ago (pre-Mac) I phoned at 3pm and it arrived at 9am the next day.
If you decide on a PC, whatever you do it's good advice to wait for a laptop installled with Vista as OEM (pre-installed). It would save you the ridiculous cost to upgrade to Vista from an XP laptop, and you'll only have to wait less than a year.Aston wrote:I'm still not convinced by the whole Apple thing, TBH I expected cat to tell me how great they are.
I'm now thinking about going with a Dell and then using the spare money to buy a digital SLR camera.
However, it's ever-so-slightly annoying that the same laptop in the "good ole" US of A costs about £850 rather than £1,100! Shocking! I could fly to New York and back to get one and still have change...
I would do, but as I said on the previous page, I'd quite like it for my one month stint in Manchester in a fortnight.cdd wrote:If you decide on a PC, whatever you do it's good advice to wait for a laptop installled with Vista as OEM (pre-installed). It would save you the ridiculous cost to upgrade to Vista from an XP laptop, and you'll only have to wait less than a year.Aston wrote:I'm still not convinced by the whole Apple thing, TBH I expected cat to tell me how great they are.
I'm now thinking about going with a Dell and then using the spare money to buy a digital SLR camera.
However, it's ever-so-slightly annoying that the same laptop in the "good ole" US of A costs about £850 rather than £1,100! Shocking! I could fly to New York and back to get one and still have change...
Filming in Granada Studios - ah the joys of living in a hotel for a month :roll:Sput wrote:How about a second hand Apple laptop off ebay? You could sell it when you're done in Manc (what brings you here anyway?) and will have had a chance to evaluate the wonders of Tiger.