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Just got a call from my father and I'm still chuckling.

He's 61 years old and has been bitten by the Apple bug. Looks like he's gone nuts over the iPhone and has to have one. I happened yesteday on the golf course and he his cart partner was using some interesting apps on his....Dad watched and was facinated. Now he's gotta have one.

I just kicked back and listened as he listed out all the apps he wants to run on his. It sounded like an Apple advertisement.

It really is facinating what these new smart phones can do. Any number of phones would suit my needs but I'm an iPod user and Apple is the natural choice for me.
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I just bought a Mac for home this weekend at the Apple store's grand opening. You need to go by there (it's at the mall). They have everything laid out where you can get at it and play with it to your heart's content. My son texted me from an iphone while I was deciding what to buy. My home computer (pc) died last week, and the kids have been saying for a while we ought to get a Mac (they're big with the kids). I've always been annoyed at having to unclog all the junk the kids seem to accumulate on our computers from surfing the net and supposedly Macs do a better job at preventing that. Since our pc died and I was going to have to pony up for a new box anyway I figured now was a good time to go Mac. And what with the console market taking over gaming there really isn't any reason for having a super powerful desktop anymore.

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Yeah, you pay a premium for a Mac, but they're great. I'm a converted Apple/Mac guy as well... they are extremely intuitive and user-oriented. Ultimately, a windows-based PC can do just about the same stuff, but it's a whole lot easier and sexier on a Mac.

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Yeah, you pay a premium for a Mac, but they're great. I'm a converted Apple/Mac guy as well... they are extremely intuitive and user-oriented. Ultimately, a windows-based PC can do just about the same stuff, but it's a whole lot easier and sexier on a Mac.

You get a whole load of stuff already built-in that you have to pay extra for on a PC, too. Like a working and compatible suite of office apps...

(Having just switched to OpenOffice, which is free anyway!!)

Dub Great Member

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Macs do seem very tempting.

Many of the guys I work with are going with them for home use.

There is one version that that simply run through their HDTVs and use a cordless keyboard. It is getting some rave reviews by them.
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Yeah, you pay a premium for a Mac, but they're great. I'm a converted Apple/Mac guy as well... they are extremely intuitive and user-oriented. Ultimately, a windows-based PC can do just about the same stuff, but it's a whole lot easier and sexier on a Mac.

You actually don't pay a premium for Macs. If you put together PCs with comparable hardware (processor, memory, graphics, buses, etc.), they come out about the same. You just can't by a chintzy Mac.

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You actually don't pay a premium for Macs. If you put together PCs with comparable hardware (processor, memory, graphics, buses, etc.), they come out about the same. You just can't by a chintzy Mac.

I would agree with that. Total cost of ownership on Macs has always been significantly lower, too.

There's little things too. No "activation" of the OS - Apple relies on people's honesty. I don't have to call Apple to authorize my OS when I install more RAM or something.

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LOL yea, so true. Typing this from my macbook and LOVIN it... Not one crash, spyware, malware, I dont need 5 programs to clean my computer nightly...

So glad I bought this computer!

Don't mean to sound like a commercial, but man its so clean of an OS, due to its Unix kernel and not Kernel Bill Gates...

Notice there is like 1000 windows IT certifications and like 2 for mac?? I just dont know why companies dont run their networks and businesses on macs...

Guess its good for the IT industry, MS keeps IT guys employed!

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I just (couple weeks ago) started switching from Linux to Mac. It's been moderately painful-- yes, things "just work" on the Mac in a way that they (mostly) didn't under Linux, but that's only assuming the way you want them to "just work" agrees with the design. Usually that's a fair assumption, but not always. It's difficult for a control freak...

It's also odd to switch to an OS where you're generally expected to be buying software. My Mac came with a free iPod touch as part of a promotion, and since I'd customized the Mac, the iPod shipped first. I turned it on, plugged it in, and literally the first thing it did was offer to sell me an update to its firmware for $10. The music store in iTunes is also prominently placed... After years virtually exclusively operating with a free operating system, it feels really funny to have this salesman pestering me...

Still, it's nice having 4-5 hour battery life instead of ~45 minutes, and the GUI is a lot more responsive.

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You guys just wait till your fancy Mac OS becomes self aware and starts sending cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger clones after you... then you'll be sorry

Rut-ro.....hope I can conjure up an app to deal with that.

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