I have to confess! For I have sinned

[Prometheus]

I....

I....

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Im considering buying a Powermac g5



Nah i dont feel that bad


Im gonna start saving up...ill make 1600+$ by the end of the school year

+xmas and other holidays and other misc holidays then i just have to work this summer and I can get a top of the line (non 20" LCD) g5
+ I dont have nearly the expenses of a college student so :P



Panther has drawn me in

+i get virtual pc and office cheap

So my statement/question is



Are the dual processor worth it? itll make me not have to buy a new comp for a few years

What else is also good to buy /w the g5?

Now then

Let the being mean to me begin

[Jason425]

I'm probably the only one here other than you, but I like macs. (though i haven't used the new ones) I could not let myself spend that much cash on one though. (because of lack of programs and such familiarity with PC's. If nothing else, you'll learn a lot and become part of the cultist group of mac owners!

[Prometheus]

yeah

im still only considering
a car/motorcycle is also in the picture

im gonna be smart and pay for my ducati upfront :P

[Jason425]

and hopefully not wreck it out back

AMD Athlon64 is actually faster than G5

i read that in a news article somedays ago

[Prometheus]

REALLY?

hmmm

osX loooks very nice though and from what ive used its very smooth running

[Keefe]

I respect macs too.

They came out with years of crap, now the stuff is staring to get kewl.

I really want one of the titanium backed i-books, a big i-pod, and those sweet Harmon Kardon speakers that look like morphed bells.

OSx really is sweet, I wish they would release an x86 version for all of us PCers.

[Prometheus]

im sure its on their to do list

actually about them working on an x86 version, they are currently developing an open source version of the OS called Darwin with _some_ x86 compatability. Many of these developers currently also work between it and OSX. It is highly developmental so i doubt it would be stable enough to depend on as a main os. Haven't tried it but it sure looks fun.

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/index.html

os x has more kickass shit than windows by a long shot. although i await Longhorn to disprove this next year.

basing the platform on unix is probably the best thing apple could have ever done. this overcomes so many obstacles, interoperability, wider userbase, putting apple in more realistic competition with other backend server/production companies, joining opensource creates a stronger bridge of standardization, breaking apple-for-graphics-only stereotypes, other stereotypes of macusers changed, programming became more interoperable and less proprietary, and more practical.

macs have always had very nice hardware, even those old ones, they ran solid, more consistant than most pc's. Hell i had an apple II that booted os 7 in 10 seconds.Mostly because of proprietary hardware, but still it worked much slicker. this was when most of their stuff was not crosscompatable..ew..


some really cool stuff if you haven't tried os x (not just osx, os10.3 Panther then go try it now. Its so much different than 10.1 & 10.2. They are both HUGE leaps from eachother, many many changes went between these versions and fixed most bugs, a main one being stronger emulated backwards compatability.) here are some links:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/products/

[Prometheus]

i can guarantee i will be installing that and windows simulator ASAP