Guest Bernd Banken Posted December 20, 2006 Share #141 Posted December 20, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) the first for me: Apple LISA and later until now 3x Macs under the table and 3x iBook and Power/MacBook pro for my sons and me. just reading "iWoz" by S. Wosniak - great;) Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 Hi Guest Bernd Banken, Take a look here POLL: Mac or PC. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
kamilsukun Posted December 20, 2006 Share #142 Posted December 20, 2006 What's a PC? An IBM concept to stop Apple's growth. Beginning of 80's. Lead to the creation of a brainless self-repeating industry. Uses an operating system which vacuums all of it's features from the other's innovations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 20, 2006 Share #143 Posted December 20, 2006 Let's not forget that you can't judge anything from a self selecting sample like this - other than to say there are at least 50 Mac users :-) For a proper analysis you'd have to choose say 100 people at random and ask them what they use. As someone who has dipped his toes in the Mac waters with a MacBook I have to say that the difference between the two machiens isn't as great from an operational point of view as I was expecting. I can however acknowledge that the Mac is the smarter solution 'under the hood'. Actually for a long time the PC was the more reliable machine as the MacBook would often shut itself down without warning when it came out of sleep mode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 20, 2006 Share #144 Posted December 20, 2006 Uses an operating system which vacuums all of it's features from the other's innovations. If you're going to tar MS with this particular brush, then you have to splash a bit of tar on Apple too ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnl Posted December 20, 2006 Share #145 Posted December 20, 2006 MAC Powerbook G4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamilsukun Posted December 20, 2006 Share #146 Posted December 20, 2006 If you're going to tar MS with this particular brush, then you have to splash a bit of tar on Apple too ;-) Steve, Don't you agree Apple might perhaps deserve very very little tar compared to MS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryW Posted December 20, 2006 Share #147 Posted December 20, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) 24" iMac 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo with 2Gb RAM. 12" PowerBook G4 1.5GHz with 1Gb RAM - soon to be passed on to my wife to allow me to get a MBP in the late spring (hoping that Apple will introduce a 12" MBP as rumoured) No Callibration Use a PC for Autocad + MS Project however that will change to PowerCadd next year. Regards Harry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 20, 2006 Share #148 Posted December 20, 2006 Don't you agree Apple might perhaps deserve very very little tar compared to MS. I have no desire for this to descend into a PC v Mac thread - I think these days both are suitable platforms for users. But, Apple did 'borrow' certain aspects of their OS from the Xerox at Palo Alto - the use of a mouse, gui interface, WYSIWYG editing, networking, use of laser printers etc. In fact I hadn't realised that Xerox sued Apple, but the case was thrown out of court because they delayed too long before launching the suit. See... Xerox PARC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted December 20, 2006 Share #149 Posted December 20, 2006 The more OS's the better: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Here's a classic mac application (a billing program I use to get paid) running in OS9, inside SheepShaver on WinXP, running in emulation (Parallels) on OSX. Oddly enough it works and is usable. No, I don't have to do it this way; this is the OS equivalent of seeing how many students can get into a VW Beetle! Chris Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Here's a classic mac application (a billing program I use to get paid) running in OS9, inside SheepShaver on WinXP, running in emulation (Parallels) on OSX. Oddly enough it works and is usable. No, I don't have to do it this way; this is the OS equivalent of seeing how many students can get into a VW Beetle! Chris ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/11610-poll-mac-or-pc/?do=findComment&comment=122691'>More sharing options...
kamilsukun Posted December 20, 2006 Share #150 Posted December 20, 2006 I have no desire for this to descend into a PC v Mac thread - I think these days both are suitable platforms for users. Steve, I definitely agree. Both companies have contributed a lot to the level of today's computing. And although I have some arguments you might consider, I will join you and not post them to avoid turning this thread into a Mac vs PC analysis. Maybe in some other circumstance we can exchange opinions in the future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
firoze Posted December 20, 2006 Share #151 Posted December 20, 2006 Macs since 1990. Currently using Powerbook G4 17", 1.33mhz, 80gb H/Disk, 1gb RAM. Also have G4 Cube, 450mhz, 80gb H/D, 1gb RAM, Apple 15" LCD display. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnPirat Posted December 20, 2006 Share #152 Posted December 20, 2006 Mac! iMac 20" at work 12" PB @ work/@ home iMac 17" at home (and sometimes a PC if I have no choice) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anfrve Posted December 20, 2006 Share #153 Posted December 20, 2006 Power Mac 2 x 1.25 Ghz G4 2Gb Ram 2 X 250 Gb internal Hd + various external HD LACIE Monitor Samsung 21" calibreted with Eye One pro P Book G4 1.65 Ghz 1,5 Ram HD 80 Gb monitor calibrated with Eye One Pro Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveF Posted December 23, 2006 Share #154 Posted December 23, 2006 Mac G5 Quad, 2.5GHz, 8GB, Spyder Pro Calibration, dual 30" Cinema HD. Mac G4 450, 4GB (I think), same calibration, 22" Cinema. Mac Powerbook 17" G4, 1GHz, 2GB. MacBook Pro 15" C2D, 2.33GHz, 2GB, 30" Cinema HD, Spyder Pro Calibration. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LADP Posted December 23, 2006 Share #155 Posted December 23, 2006 MAC: 15" MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 20" Cinema Display, Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED. I'll probably be getting a Spyder 2 Pro Monitor calibrator soon, as well as SilverFast Ai software to run the scanner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobrudolph Posted December 23, 2006 Share #156 Posted December 23, 2006 Mac Book Pro, 15in,2G G5 Dual 2.3, 4G Optix XR Bob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Frisch Posted December 23, 2006 Share #157 Posted December 23, 2006 I use Mac's ... not for the "photographic" capabilities but for the possibility of being able to listen to the same music in every room of the house. We, me and my wife, listen to music 99% of the day and we have a huge house (12 rooms) which we actually frequent. We have setup an Airport configuration, well not us personally, but this enables us to listen to music all around the house at the same time. We currently have 5 mac's of which one, a mac pro, the server thingie of the whole lot, I use for photo editing, I have recently bought a 22" inch Eizo screen to replace the 17" mac and this works fine actually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted December 23, 2006 Share #158 Posted December 23, 2006 At the moment, most of my DNG-handling tools run under Ubuntu Linux (Shuttle XPC, Athlon64, 2 gigs of RAM, 20" Apple Cinema Display) UFRaw handles my raw file conversions: UFRaw - Home digiKam is an iPhoto-like organizer that handles DNG nicely (v 0.9.x): http://www.digikam.org/ And of course, GIMP for the actual editing: GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program I also have an iBook G4 with a gig of RAM, but come on, 12" notebook screen versus 20" Cinema Display for photo editing? I will buy a new Mac later on, but right now, Leica has all of my money! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobold Posted December 24, 2006 Share #159 Posted December 24, 2006 All-Mac: dual G5 (2G processors), two 23" HD Cinema Display screens, 2.5 TB storage on FireWire 7,200 r.p.m. drives in addition to two internal drives (I edit video as well as shoot images), 2G RAM. EyeOne Pro colour calibration. MacBook Pro, same specs (core duo 2G; 2G RAM), the 7,200 r.p.m. HD, etc. I run Parallels too, especially for developing web sites (key stroke switches OSs; v. handy). I run and recommend Sophos anti-virus software (a Melissa virus attached to a Word document took a past machine down—and I was running Norton's at the time). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniswong Posted December 24, 2006 Share #160 Posted December 24, 2006 Macs since SE, which is still running! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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