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seige wrote:Actually, the cheapest Mac is the Mac Mini...running an Intel 1.5Ghz processor (equates to about 3Ghz in PC terms), with built in wifi, bluetooth, and optical digital & analogue audio. Oh, plus Firewire etc.

Oops, sorry. Works out just slightly cheaper once you add in the hard drive upgrade, monitor, keyboard, printer... .

We still have an ancient Mac that I don't know the model of. It's the tan-coloured one with a monochrome CRT that has a brilliant maze game on.

Yay, computers .

Kati

P.S. Antivirus...one AVG scan a week and no downloading from smileycentral.com.

Seige, if you can bear to part with them, i've seen those systems go for aquite a few quid on e-bay and other such places...especially with the packaging and so on...

I've worked with Mac and Quark and so on designing forms and magazines; i also work with PCs for building JAWS friendly websites/intranets, in my opinion, PCs are more unreliable, but cheaper to replace...

Macs are very pretty, but if there's a problem, more often than not, you have to send the whole shebang away...and their are fairly pricey...

I'm not privvy to the top of the range stuff, but i am sniffing round those mini-macs at the moment...but then again, i also like the look of those 'cappucino' pcs..those tiny cut down pc systems...hmmm choices...

Spectrum 48k - way of the exploding fist, mugsy, the hobbit, atik atak
Duck Hunt with gun on the 8bit nintendo...superb
Tekken 2 on the first playstation
I even had the Lynx portable...

I do love my sexbox360 though...morrowind 136 hours and counting...

Though im quite interested in that Wii, two controllers acting as a sword and shield sounds interesting; as does playing tennis with one...

Actually, the beauty of the Mac Mini is that you can take most if not all of your PC peripherals - keyboard, mouse (provided they are USB), monitor (one of the newer ones, not those old clunky bulky things, much as I love 'em), connect it up and within a few minutes you're away! Mac Minis came with a DVI to VGA convertor. Mine did, anyway.

I have not had one instance in which a piece of hardware has gone wrong and needed to be sent off to be fixed - when I was running Mac OS 8 and 9 there were the occasional occurances of corrupted files and the like, but they were easily fixed thanks to my back-up hard-drive. Disks needed formatting occasionally, but the hardware itself was pretty reliable. I've had no problems with my Mac Mini, with the one exception of a mate who picked it up, knocked the spinning disk out of whack and sent the whole screen a bit wonky - but I easily fixed that messing around with the display settings, and it's been running well for about a year now!

I still marvel at the tininess yet sheer brilliance of my Mini.

heh, i was tempted into buying a mac (since both my computers laptop/desktop still doesnt like to work)... my custom built pc doesnt like me because it most likly has a corrupted windows and my laptop was imported from japan by me without the english version of XP. probley some drivers that are in japanese dont work with my english verison of xp, so it decides to crash every hour or so... my pc was built for gaming and games dont even run on it... it just crashes after acouple of minutes...

macs are fun to use though... too bad the programs i need to use are only for PCs...

i should also try linux... too lazy to learn. kernels and such

They're not only for PC! First you've got standards such as Office etc. but with the arrival of Boot Camp you can run PC programmes on your Mac! Alternatively Virtual PC offers a similar solution I think.

Although, if you did go for one you'd be best not to get Boot Camp just yet as there have been several problems with it and it is still in Beta form I think.

Here at work, I only ever need the PC for testing out websites now to make sure IE6 (spit) functions correctly.

Everything else—MS Office, Photos, Movies etc. are all cross-platform, without needing to run PC software.