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i'd like a pic of this boneriffic screen, you peasant.

haa! I was just drooling over it at bestbuy 40 minutes ago...have fun saturn

I never gave mac much of a chance but I have to say their style owns,...imo apple designers should regulate all forms of aesthetic design in our everyday life.

i heard the 24" imac screens upscale, and it shows.

but thats just what ive heard from the resident applefreak

I play computer games so a Mac at home is pretty much out of the question. I could use one at work (I did a couple of years ago), but this company uses 99% PC right now and a transition to Mac would be ridiculously expensive and quite pointless.

I do have an Apple keyboard though.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i'd like a pic of this boneriffic screen, you peasant.

coming....after I cleaned up this mess on my desktop....

I'll post a vid on youtube

Tsakali_ wrote:haa! I was just drooling over it at bestbuy 40 minutes ago...have fun saturn

I never gave mac much of a chance but I have to say their style owns,...imo apple designers should regulate all forms of aesthetic design in our everyday life.

Get one and come over to the dark side

MKJ wrote:i heard the 24" imac screens upscale, and it shows.

but thats just what ive heard from the resident applefreak

upscales what? the resolution is 1920x1200 and you can see every compression artefact of DivX/DVD and even HD movie.....it's that clear.

Grudge wrote:I play computer games so a Mac at home is pretty much out of the question. I could use one at work (I did a couple of years ago), but this company uses 99% PC right now and a transition to Mac would be ridiculously expensive and quite pointless.

I do have an Apple keyboard though.

What kind of company do you work for? I'd like Macs at my work in the hospitals, but I'd figure that they would get stolen all the time and people would waste time with the built-in iSight webcam making crazy faces.

P.S. You could use Bootcamp for a dualboot system (I'm pondering about it)

We're a design company, so there is no real technical reason we couldn't use Mac, most of the software we use is available for Mac (except maybe for the CAD guys, they'd probably need to keep their PC's). It's more a cost issue at this point I'd think, plus the tech support team only know PC.

Grudge wrote:plus the tech support team only know PC.

That's a pretty big freakin reason to stick with PC's at your company then. I'm sure they'll figure it out eventually, but the lost productivity costs would be pretty big. They'll probably be stumped when they can't find the ALT key.

Bootcamp is pretty awesome. I dual booted with Vista on the Mac and installed Halo 2. Dual wield doesn't work too well with the Mighty Mouse though, since you can't right and left click at the same time. But other than that, installation was simple and flawless. I also gave Parallels a try, I think that needs some more polishing.

Here's the setup:

Left: PC with XP, some Athlon CPU etc. 17" Iiyama CRT (I think it's the same screen I bought in 2000 to play Q3 )

Middle: Apple Powerbook 12" with 1,5 Ghz G4 CPU

Right: the 24" iMac with 2,4 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB DDR ram etc.

Hidden behind the powerbook are three Lacie Porsche external HD's which I'm still pondering how to make NAS of them. I'll probably buy some router like the Airport Extreme to attach them all to a network. Any tips on this?

nerd

I don't have a PS3, Wii, Xbox 360.

Just an old Xbox and DS

I dont have a PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 either :P

sick pic. that screen is hot. what kind of k/b is that on the left?

thx mate....the keyboard on the left is a Logitech Ultra X keyboard. The finest keyboard I ever used...slightly better than the Mac keyboard. Great tactile input, sturdy no-nonsense, ultra-flat, dirt-cheap

I bought it for 20 euros, you can get it at newegg.com for 19 bucks: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6823126022

how much did the iMac run you?

saturn wrote:thx mate....the keyboard on the left is a Logitech Ultra X keyboard. The finest keyboard I ever used...slightly better than the Mac keyboard. Great tactile input, sturdy no-nonsense, ultra-flat, dirt-cheap

I bought it for 20 euros, you can get it at newegg.com for 19 bucks: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6823126022

ordered. thanks man!

I'd order one as well if the backspace key wasn't so small. Oh well...

saturn wrote:

PhoeniX wrote:I have the same problems when I use one. Maybe it's because I know all the shortcuts on Windows, but it just seems to take twice as long for me to get somewhere or do something on one.

Yeah, it took me two weeks to get used to the UI. Mainly cause you have to let go of the Windows interface dogma.

I'm using Quicksilver on the Mac, some sort of keyboard shortcut orientated launcher/macro/everything program. Saves me lots of time navigating for the right stuff.

Quicksilver's quite awesome. Been using it ever since you praised it quite some time ago.

Can't tell by the pic, but the left side of your desk looks like it's made of stitched leather. Is it as awesome as I think it looks?

saturn wrote:What kind of company do you work for? I'd like Macs at my work in the hospitals, but I'd figure that they would get stolen all the time and people would waste time with the built-in iSight webcam making crazy faces.

P.S. You could use Bootcamp for a dualboot system (I'm pondering about it)

I thought Bootcamp no longer worked with leopard or are you still using tiger? Sadly, work only budgeted for the 20" iMacs, but they're going to have Parallels to dual boot WinXP.

Bootcamp works on Leopard only. An update or sommat broke the bootcamp beta on Tiger.

Dave wrote:Bootcamp works on Leopard only. An update or sommat broke the bootcamp beta on Tiger.

still works 100% on mine. i'm still running 10.4.11

andyman wrote:I'd order one as well if the backspace key wasn't so small. Oh well...

then quit fucking up your typing.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote: ordered. thanks man!

have fun with it

kel wrote: Quicksilver's quite awesome. Been using it ever since you praised it quite some time ago.

Arcor, the developer is slowing down the coding and development. He has released it as open source and some people have started cleaning up the code. Apparently there are hundreds of bugs and faulty code lines inside. Other people are lining up to get a developers group for Quicksilver. I couldn't live without it anymore, it's the first thing I installed on the iMac. I do 90% of my stuff with three keystrokes. Keep an eye on it elkdriver.

obsidian wrote:Can't tell by the pic, but the left side of your desk looks like it's made of stitched leather. Is it as awesome as I think it looks?

It's a large patch of metal with a leather coating that follows the curve of my desk. It's for my writings with pens and pencils (analogue stuff).

Sanction wrote:

saturn wrote:What kind of company do you work for? I'd like Macs at my work in the hospitals, but I'd figure that they would get stolen all the time and people would waste time with the built-in iSight webcam making crazy faces.

P.S. You could use Bootcamp for a dualboot system (I'm pondering about it)

I thought Bootcamp no longer worked with leopard or are you still using tiger? Sadly, work only budgeted for the 20" iMacs, but they're going to have Parallels to dual boot WinXP.

Tiger on the laptop and Leopard on the iMac.

I love my job and the place where I work, otherwise I would've called in sick all week to fiddle with the new Mac and Leopard

How's Paralells? Could I run Outlook and Active Sync and synchronize my WM6 phone in a Paralells window?