Hi All,
Sorry for the off topic posting, but I've been thinking about upgrading my laptop and you guys have been saying how good the modern Macs are :)
I was wondering if you'd tell me which Mac you have and whether you'd buy one again :)
Ohh... And the list starts. At home we have:
PowerBook 15" Alluminum 1.25 Ghz: my laptop, best ever... had problems with the screen (white spots) Apple replaced it no-question-asked in 48 hours almost 3 months after I bought it (oh, and I bought it in a completely different country, so international support _works_)
PowerMac G4 Dual/800 Mhz: my video editing machine at home. never had a problem it is up-and-running since 2 years no-stop, had to reboot it yesterday when I installed panther. uptime was 3 months
Cube G4 450 Mhz:
I have this one since ages... Probably 4 years or
something like that... I bought it at Fry's when I
was still living in California. I never -ever- had
a problem... Only drawback is the power button a little
bit over sensitive (it's a light sensor), but once
you get used to it, no problems...At the office:
iMac 17" 800 Mhz:
One of my latest toys, which I got because I was fed
up with CRTs at work... It's not the fastest machine
ever, but it's still able to compile Cocoon decently.PowerMac G4 466 Mhz:
Same as Apache's "MOOF", it's my personal intranet
server (and dev machine)... Old fart, but working,
never a problem...xServe Dual/1.33 Ghz:
We have one of those in the shop for testing... We
need to upgrade our live web servers, and as far as
my testing goes one of those babies is as fast as a
4 processor Sun E-3500/450, and offers a wider data
path. At the end of the day, a machine that costs
roughly 5000 US$, beats the hell out of a machine
that costs twice as much ONLY on yearly maintenance
contracts. And you should see the Java performance
on this one!!! We're probably going to get 3 of
them in January...At the end of the day, would I buy another one? Bhahaha! Guess! If you need to buy a laptop, however, make sure that if you buy a PowerBook 15" Alluminum, it has the NEW screen already, so that it won't develop the famous "white spots"... The first batch of them had a defective screen, there must be some of them still in the retail chain...
Pier
