Mac users

[yasir_roxas]

Ok so lets survey this...
how many people on an average activity forum use a mac ?
its that simple
so right now the mac count is....


"mac users" count: 6

[Ravioli]

If I had the funds, I'd buy a powerbook for my graphics and media work, but I'd never give up my gaming PC. I might even run a Mac box alongside my PC tower. I have yet to decide.

[The Man]

I use Macs when possible, but it's not very often possible.

[Angelus-Mortis]

I've been using one for five years, and I like it. It's UNIX based too, and I'm starting to get used to using the Terminal.

[yasir_roxas]

Originally Posted by The Man

I use Macs when possible, but it's not very often possible.

So is that a 2 and a half or a three?

[Kionae]

I'm forced to use a macbook pro at work. It's a piece of **** and I hate it.

[YopY]

Originally Posted by Kionae

I'm forced to use a macbook pro at work. It's a piece of **** and I hate it.

XD.

I'd like to use one for regular desktop work, just to see whether the fanboys' opinions are justified. But it won't play much games, which is half the reason I use a computer.

I'm gonna buy a new computer when I have enough cash (probably will take more then a year), that one's going to be a gaming PC for now.

[yasir_roxas]

Originally Posted by Kionae

I'm forced to use a macbook pro at work. It's a piece of **** and I hate it.

woooah... any problems I can help with or... maybe its because **** cant be changed?
whats so ****ty about it?

im up for a debate

[Scrutator]

Use a Mac about 3-4 days every week at college, the ratio of Macs to PCs there is 2:1 so don't have much choice but to use one. Not to say I hate them though, I do prefer the Macs except that the mouses are a bit ****.

[yasir_roxas]

Originally Posted by Scrutator

Use a Mac about 3-4 days every week at college, the ratio of Macs to PCs there is 2:1 so don't have much choice but to use one. Not to say I hate them though, I do prefer the Macs except that the mouses are a bit ****.

ok on that point I agree, the new mighty mouse is annoying thats the reason why Im not using one nor will i change my mind until I get a good point why i should get one

[YopY]

The good thing about Mac mice is that they're sxc, you have to admit.

[Scrutator]

Originally Posted by yasir_roxas

ok on that point I agree, the new mighty mouse is annoying thats the reason why Im not using one nor will i change my mind until I get a good point why i should get one

You don't use Macs because of the mouse? The Mighty Mouse is a bit crappy but you can easily get a different one if it bothers you that badly.

[Tycoon]

I use a eMac for all of my computering needs, unless I am at school. Then they force you to use Windows 98...

Good news is is that I don't use that crappy mouse. I use a normal 2 button mouse, with a scroll wheel.

[Kionae]

Originally Posted by yasir_roxas

woooah... any problems I can help with or... maybe its because **** cant be changed?
whats so ****ty about it?

im up for a debate

Well, my biggest peeve right now is that I have to restart the ****er at least twice a week, or I start getting errors everytime I try to do something. I haven't restarted my PC at home in over a month and it's running fine.

Plus, damn Mac OS doesn't give you any indication of how many windows you have open... I can have 50 windows open any not realize it until I go to switch programs.

And maybe it's me, but my mac can't multi-task for ****... I frequently have to have three web browsers open, and it's slow as ****. Especially when I'm running Parallels so that I can see what the site I'm working on looks like in Internet Explorer. Add Photoshop and a text editor into the mix, and OMFG.

And there's no ****ing right click! What the hell? You have to hold down control to right click... that, or buy a $50 Mighty Mouse (which has an absolutely craptastic right click that half the time doesn't register as a right click).

And there's any number of other little things that aren't so bad in and of themselves, but combined on a daily basis drive me nuts. Like the huge freaking delay between clicking on a filename and having said filename switch into rename mode.

[yasir_roxas]

Well, my biggest peeve right now is that I have to restart the ****er at least twice a week, or I start getting errors everytime I try to do something. I haven't restarted my PC at home in over a month and it's running fine.

are you sure its because you don't restart?
and what type of errors do you receive?

Plus, damn Mac OS doesn't give you any indication of how many windows you have open... I can have 50 windows open any not realize it until I go to switch programs.

yes thats true...
but is the problem in desktop usage, or in closing them all?
if it was in desktop usage you can always use virtue desktop (its like spaces in leopard)

And maybe it's me, but my mac can't multi-task for ****... I frequently have to have three web browsers open, and it's slow as ****. Especially when I'm running Parallels so that I can see what the site I'm working on looks like in Internet Explorer. Add Photoshop and a text editor into the mix, and OMFG.

how much ram do you have?
lemme tell you this, OSX LOVES RAM...
OSX: me like random access memory!!

And there's no ****ing right click! What the hell? You have to hold down control to right click... that, or buy a $50 Mighty Mouse (which has an absolutely craptastic right click that half the time doesn't register as a right click).

well you don't really need a mighty mouse, any other two button mouse can work with the macbook pro

And there's any number of other little things that aren't so bad in and of themselves, but combined on a daily basis drive me nuts. Like the huge freaking delay between clicking on a filename and having said filename switch into rename mode.

well that can be solved in the system preferences, go to mouse and keyboard and click on the mouse tab and change the double click speed to what suites you...

by the way, I use a 17" iMac G4 1.25 GHz and doing just fine with playing around in photoshop, but I have to admit iLife with me is very VERY slow..

[Kionae]

Originally Posted by yasir_roxas

are you sure its because you don't restart?
and what type of errors do you receive?

Pretty sure... it happens about every three days, and fixes itself as soon as I restart. At one point it was so bad that I could open any programs. They'd start up, and crash immediately. The error messages themselves are something like "Could not complete the operation". Photoshop it would sometimes error three or four times before it finally crashed completely.

yes thats true...
but is the problem in desktop usage, or in closing them all?
if it was in desktop usage you can always use virtue desktop (its like spaces in leopard)

The problem is that I have 50 windows open and can't find the one that I actually need. XD

how much ram do you have?
lemme tell you this, OSX LOVES RAM...
OSX: me like random access memory!!

1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, according to the About This Mac window.
Which seems like it ought to be more than enough for just about anything... I can't upgrade it, anyway, since it's work-issue. Maybe I'll ask the IT guy, and see if he can add me some more in.

well you don't really need a mighty mouse, any other two button mouse can work with the macbook pro

Really? I tried my mini-mouse off my Windows laptop and it didn't even recognize it.

well that can be solved in the system preferences, go to mouse and keyboard and click on the mouse tab and change the double click speed to what suites you...

It's not double clicking... its single clicking on a filename. It sits there, like it's waiting for me to click again and then FINALLY realizes that I'm not going to and switches to rename mode. I've given up playing with the preferences.

[cRz]

I have an iBook g4 that I got a month before they came up with that sweet new line of laptops, last april I got it I think.

Have 512 MB of ram and I can run Photoshop, Firefox, Adium, iTunes seamlessly... I can run WoW at the same time as those and it's fine. I'd like more ram but it's so expensive.

I'm pretty happy with my notebook. Any complaint about it is minor and usually something I can work around. Though I've been depressed that I can't find a cheap webcam, as I'm not sure how that'd go.

You can get a mouse that hooks up to Mac and works just fine for under $20.
It's not made for man-hands, though, as it's cute and tiny. But I'm sure it wouldn't be *that* hard to find a mouse with a double click if you wanted it.

I'm used to the one button set up, but I bought that (the link) to see whether or not it made playing WoW easier. There was no difference to me, and it's more convenient not to bother with the usb mouse.

I find all the programs I need.

Add me to the tally.

[Larsa]

Well I always use a Macbut I have five of them at my house. How many Macs does that count for?

[yasir_roxas]

sorry people I have exams at the moment and can't really catch up to what's been going on,
I agree with what Chrz?szcz said and congratulations you have made it to the tally!

Pretty sure... it happens about every three days, and fixes itself as soon as I restart. At one point it was so bad that I could open any programs. They'd start up, and crash immediately. The error messages themselves are something like "Could not complete the operation". Photoshop it would sometimes error three or four times before it finally crashed completely.

about this multitask, I seriously do not know what to say but it seems like you have a problem with you RAM maybe or something clogging it, ...do you always have dashboard open? although I must say I have zero experience in intel based macs so I can't really be right.

The problem is that I have 50 windows open and can't find the one that I actually need. XD

uummm... so your saying this would be better in windows because windows has this menu bar at the bottom which shows you the windows....all of them is that what you want?

Really? I tried my mini-mouse off my Windows laptop and it didn't even recognize it.

well Ive tried logitech(wireless) and it works with my friends mac mini

It's not double clicking... its single clicking on a filename. It sits there, like it's waiting for me to click again and then FINALLY realizes that I'm not going to and switches to rename mode. I've given up playing with the preferences.

umm...patience? :banplease:
(no i Do not want to be banned ...please)

about what larsa said...
I think I should change the name to mac user count to be more clear

[Words of Ivory]

I don't have a MAC myself, mainly because my PC does everything I need it to do right now and I don't care to spend money unless I have to, but I do think Macintoshes are a lot better than PCs.

As a general rule they're more powerful at a cheaper price, more reliable, better at multi-tasking (which has never exactly been Window's strong point) and much better for professional graphical design and publication work simply because of the Mac monitor's better colour management. Ever wonder why most magazine publications are put together on Macs? That's why.

For the record, if your Mac is going as slowly as some of you are saying, changes are you're just overloading it with too many running programs at once. Even tabs in I.E. and FireFox use up more memory, and can be a memory hogger on older machines if you have a lot of them open.