[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[Bronius Motekaitis]

I'm sorry.. I do have to hit upon this one point of contention:

> don't have to worry about "will my presentation or document look the same
> on my screen as it does when I email it out to others?
>
Doesn't that mean "if my recipient is on a Mac?"
I still find it frustrating on a PC to watch a QT .mov movie.  I keep my
work PC up-to-date with the latest flavor of QT player, but who has time at
home for that mega-meg download?  Apple's own site uses something that
wouldn't play for me at home:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/awesome.html
Side note: You would think that Apple of all people would understand that if
someone is looking at that page in particular that they are not a mac user
and that they possibly might even be looking to replace their aging windows
machine-- might not even have any QT let alone the latest.

I am more convinced following these msg's, some conversations, and my own
research over the weekend that mac is the way to go for me.  I just hope I
won't become numb to the behind-the-scenes or ignore the target market in my
new platform.. :)

For the record, I used to love PC b/c it didn't tell me what I needed to do
or how to go about doing it-- it was black and white DOS, and I could have
ultimate control.  Now, however, since XP and I imagine even more so with
Vista, I just don't get that feeling-- if my o/s is going to shield me from
the details of implementation, I want it done by a company who knows how to
do it well.

-bronius

On 6/24/07, Kevin A. Estis <stdkxe14 at shsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> >> You can run OSX on a PC (check with RRR on that one)
>
> Randy's one of the few people I know who've successfully gotten a
> hackintosh to run stably but it was a lot of work. However, his was for
> professional research (as someone that has "IT Security Engineer" in his
> title) and knows the issues surrounding how *not* to run afoul of DMCA,
> etc. So, I wouldn't recommend anyone doing that unless they have fully
> researched how to stay within the law (Federal and State).
>
> Another item that I thought of when I saw Dr. Cooper's email...check out
> the Educational Discount for both Dell and Apple along with the warranty.
> I'm pretty sure that Apple's warranty is more comprehensive and with the
> educational discount you save a couple hundred.
>
> --
> This signature was created on a Mac...therefore it should look better than
> other signatures but will cost you more and doesn't really work in the
> enterprise.
> Kevin Estis
> macinhack at shsu.edu
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