Vista vs Leopard !!

well .. I'm not going to go through any details or compariosn .... it's so enough to say that Microsoft is just producing their new operating system (Windows Vista) with similar features to what we've got in Apple from 5 years !!! ... so basically and simply, Microsoft future is our past :) ...  in those 5 years, Apple produced 6 different releases from the Mac OS X (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger and Tiger for intel) while Microsoft was just releasing their Windows XP with 2 or 3 different names ... anyway I'm not gonna talk more .. if you want to see with your OWN eyes what I'm talking about .. just watch this video



https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=253307780391983639


it's one hour and twenty five minutes, Steve Jobs presentation in the WWDC 2006 .. the operating systems part starts at the twentith minute (00h:20m)



ps: watch the whole presentation, you will be really amused to death :)

your always talkin bout mac and pc whatever.. is it actually possible for me to get a mac for a reasonable price. i want one so bad but actually cant afford one. ive shopped around on the www.apple.com and its alittle expensive. thanks commi im confident you will have a good response from the time you told me that xp wasn't an os..  

I was making fun of it .. it's an OS but the worst poorest one :) .. compare it to other OS and you will see ... by the way, you don't have to get your mac from www.apple.com .. try looking in amazon, ebay and all similar sites, you can find really hot pieces out there wil very low prices .. i recommend you the macbook or mac mini .. any of both will cost you the least

yeah i understand what you were saying i just wanted to ask you bout mac's cause i figured you 'd be the one to consult...i want one so bad but cant afford it and hopefully the transition wont be as painful as suse or for that matter any unix os's.  thanks. i'll look around.          https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Notebook-M9848LL-PowerPC-SuperDrive/dp/B0009U7XH4/sr=1-1/qid=1159072164/ref=sr_1_1/002-6365040-4351235?ie=UTF8&s=pc


do you think thats a good deal...and is the specs for the computer alright.

Microsoft ain't got nothing on Apple...it never has and it never will...its just that simple!...Mac just rocks

i got pc runing on intel xeon 2.66Ghz dual core and i can say that is werry good processor.

Well...  Mac is way better in everything comparing to windows,
But windows is much easier to use... as in menu...
Its the same for mobiles!
Nokia is the easiest software menu to use
But there are other brands much better than Nokia but not as easy as Nokia.

yeah man, thats a good one, all what you need, even you can increase your RAM later ... the price is really good if its new

i don't know nothing about Mac.but i'm interested. how is with software and video games?are the same as for windows or are other ones?i know that programs are diferent and you need diferent drivers for hardware .

yes Jose, you are right but let's set some basics here :)

Apple is much related to Arts, whenever and wherever you find any Computer Art (Photos, Videos and Audio) related task or issue, you will find Apple

you are already using Apple hardware (USB, FireWire and Bluetooth were invented by Apple)

Apple hardware is similar to PC hardware except for some technical issues and technologies appear in Apple first before PC, and this brings us to the main point which says "it's not only about the hardware you are using, it's more about the software you are running on this hardware and how does it make use of it" .. I consider this is a main difference between Windows & Unix

about softwares, yes .. you will find all your favourite software for Mac, even some software vendors like Adobe and Macromedia launch their applications for Mac before they do for windows, you will even find MS Office 2004 for Mac (2007 will be released soon), microsoft messanger for Mac .. briefly, all softwares you working on is available for Mac

Same goes for Games ... all games come with Mac version just like the windows version

in Apple, you dont need drivers, you really enjoy what Windows wrongly announce "Plug & Play" .. in Mac you really enjoy this plug & play, plug anything (iPod, external storage, cameras, any device) and it will work instantly without asking for any restart !, without asking for install and modify system files !!, and when you finish, just eject or remove the device safely and its BOOM, done like a piece of cake

in Apple you will find NO Viruses, NO trojans, NO spyware shit .. also NO hanging or crashing, NO failure, the only thing you might face as a machine failure is the Kernel Panic (common on all Unix systems) and this really rarely happens, it never happened with me until now

you will never bother yourself in any kind of software installation cause Mac does it for you automatically

you will just find every task and everything is going easier, faster, smoother and more efficient :)

if i understand you dont need any antivirus or firewall program on mac?
so this mac pro how much € will cost?

yes mate ..you will never need any antivirus or firewall (firewall is built-in) ... Mac Pro is a very powerful desktop my friend, more powerful than your needs, also it's for 1,950 EUR ... I recommend for you iMac 24" for 1,565 EUR or iMac 20" for 1,170 EUR .. and for notebooks MacBook 13" black for the same price of iMac 20" 1,170 EUR




ps1: these prices are the official ones, you can find cheaper in amazon or ebay and alike services

ps2: you will be able to run Windows XP SP2 or Vista natively by specifying the partition size you want to create a windows partition (FAT32 or NTFS) and install your Windows on it, run all your windows applications on your Apple hardware and side by side with your Macintosh

iMac 24" for 1,565 EUR

if i see correct the iMac comes with 24 inch monitor?

thats the newest superb one   .. now iMac comes in four different models, two 17", one 20" and one 24" :)

whenever i can afford it im gonna buy me a small macbook. but can i plub usb external up to mac that has been running on xp. will it recognize it.