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| Thread ID: 23442 | 2002-08-16 08:24:00 | Advise on Purchase of 'Apple' computer | John Boy (1365) | Press F1 |
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| 71618 | 2002-08-16 08:24:00 | A relative is looking at buying a new 'Apple" G4 computer just for general use because she likes the "Look " of it and for its trendy appearance. Has anyone any good reasons apart from the cost why she should not go ahead and buy one. | John Boy (1365) | ||
| 71619 | 2002-08-16 09:21:00 | What do the whanau use? If friends, family etc are using PCs then she will have problems with the following: - Friendly help with using it - Friendly support for problems - Difficulties with compatibility if sharing files or photos. Beyond that ... I guess there's no accounting for taste... |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 71620 | 2002-08-16 09:54:00 | Not unless she is into playing the latest games (quake etc), or needs specialised (win only) software. I acutally quite like using macs if they have OS X. Although I would recomend that she gets a system with more than 256mb of ram because OS X is quite big. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 71621 | 2002-08-16 10:09:00 | Aren't they a bit over priced? | Baldy (26) | ||
| 71622 | 2002-08-16 10:14:00 | There are no games involved , just general computer use. Would you say it is easy or difficult to use the mac operating system ar about the same. | John Boy (1365) | ||
| 71623 | 2002-08-16 10:20:00 | I used one for a class one semester - and found it a right pain. BUT.... I am a DOS / Windows user from way back and it was probably the differences that caused me trouble - nothing was in the right place. Ask a Mac user - they'll swear by the macs; ask a PC user - they'll swear at the macs. The biggest problem would probably come if she is new to computers. If she is a newbie - do you fancy doing support on a mac? Anyone else in the family? If she's wanting to learn to get a job - what sort of job? Most likely to use PC or Mac? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 71624 | 2002-08-16 10:22:00 | Ask her if any one she knows anyone who has one and is prepared to show her her to use it . if not tell her to get a PC cheaper and more support available not to mention software , Mac have roughly a 3% market share |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 71625 | 2002-08-16 13:06:00 | Way back when I was a Mac user, I recommended my parents buy one. They spent about $7000 for the new beast which performed beautifully. Except... 1. I beleive to this day the price was almost double what they should have paid. 2. Software for the thing cost about twice as much as the PC equivalent (prices have come down now, but only for common apps. If you want a more rare app, you pay alot more than the PC equivalent. 3. Upgrading hardware such as ram was very expensive as it had to be sourced and installed by apple. Things may have changed by now, but that experience put me off buying a mac when I bought a computer for myself. I still find macs fairly easy to use however - even though they are very different. I think the advice given by previous contributors is very good. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 71626 | 2002-08-16 13:19:00 | My Old man has a Mac, poor bugger. He' s thinking of crossing the border. His biggest moan is lack of hardware in the country. Blow something up and kiss it goodbye. Also he mentioned something about OSX support being dropped... And as a matter of interest, he's had it close to 2 years now and it still doesn't run properly... SiK |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 71627 | 2002-08-16 13:33:00 | I use Windows at work 8 hrs a day and Macs at home. I am in a position to be able to compare both unlike most people. The Mac is my choice for reliability and ease of use. It Just Works Ask them — the millions of people who use and love their Macs — why it’s become such an integral part of their lives, and most will tell you that it’s because it just works. Letting them do what they want to do. How they want to do it. Intuitively. And there’s good reason. Only with a Mac do you find absolutely flawless integration of hardware and software. Only with a Mac do you get an operating system built by the same people who built the computer it runs on. Take a Mac out of its box, and you experience that hand-and-glove fit from the get-go. Plug it in. Turn it on. And you’re ready for anything. That’s because with a Mac, you’ll find all of the essentials built right in. USB. FireWire (IEEE 1394). Ethernet. Modem. Macs even come with built-in antennas for wireless networks. And every Mac comes with drivers for most of the printers, joy sticks, DV camcorders, keyboards, storage devices, digital cameras, input devices, MP3 players and game pads you’ll be connecting to those ports. So when you plug them in for the first time, they’ll just work, too. www.apple.com www.apple.com |
Jim B (153) | ||
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