Re: New computer,what should I go for,mac,windows etc
It all depends on what you want to give yourself.
Things about mac that I love:
• systemwide spelling and grammar checker
• system wide dictionary
• Voiceover is updated and integrated into the system
• Free Pages—like Word—Garageband, and other pro apps from Apple
• Get VmWare and you can run all the Windows you want, see free XP talking VM.
• All the voices. For those that love synthesizers … more than the rest of us, there are both synthetic and natural voices to drool over.
• With both Mac and Windows at your disposal, you have the best of all three worlds: Mac, Windows, and Linux, using the bash shell of the mac terminal.
• long life. The Mac Mini I have, 4 gigs of ram, 500 gigs of storage, has lasted me at least 3 years.
• accessibility, you can use just about all applications of the Mac system,
• app store
• automater
• calculator
• calendar
• chess, accessible chess game, can be played online too.
• contacts
• dashboard, slightly old.
• dictionary
• dvd player
• FaceTime, can be used to make phone calls with your nearby iPhone
• Font Book, sort of like Windows’s character viewer
• gamecenter
• Garageband
• iBooks
• image capture
• iTunes
• Launchpad, app launcher
• mail
• maps
• messages, can be used to send text messages using iPhone
• mission control
• notes
• pages
• photo booth
• photos, photo library app
• preview, pdf viewer
• quicktime player, like Windows Media player
• reminders
• safari
• stickies
• system preferences
• textedit
• time machine, sort of like system restore
• xCode, programming IDE
With that said, there are also utility programs, in the utilities folder, like Terminal and disk utility, and there are far more accessible apps, like a youtube-to-mp3 download+converter, VmWare Fusion, and OpenEmu for playing video games, from NES to PSP.
Also, there are plenty of people ready to help. We love Mac converts. Long live Apple!
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