Mac OS X

Aunty Em

Aunty Em

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Picked up a manual for Mac OS X for £0.25 and a dvd-rom containing a lot of stuff about servicing etc.

My niece has an older mac which she doesn't want, so I decided it would be fun to add them to my resume. So they're not a big force over here, but it can't do any harm to know how to mess a bout with them. :)

I think I also got my first paid upgrade job as well... a friend asked me about adding more ram and a new drive to her pc... assuming she actually gets back to me when she can afford it.
 
Aunty Em said:
Picked up a manual for Mac OS X for £0.25 and a dvd-rom containing a lot of stuff about servicing etc.

My niece has an older mac which she doesn't want, so I decided it would be fun to add them to my resume. So they're not a big force over here, but it can't do any harm to know how to mess a bout with them. :)

I think I also got my first paid upgrade job as well... a friend asked me about adding more ram and a new drive to her pc... assuming she actually gets back to me when she can afford it.
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They're not a big force over here, either. I think they have something like 3% of the market. Lot of zealots hollering about it though. :swing:
 
Which Mac did you inherit? If it's pre blue and white G3, I wouldn't recommend even trying it. There's not enough HD space, RAM nor is the is the processor fast enough. If it is blue and white G3 or later, usually if you can move up the OS's from 8 to 9, then 9 to 9.2.2. Only at this point can you try to install OS X (10.1).

There are fun to tinker with ... and OS X is a whole lot easier to use and fix than previous OS's.
 
speaking of OSX im installing it right now on my IBM laptop. This should be interesting if it works. If it does ill post pictures of it. Im so hoping it does, ive wanted to play with it since it came out but i dont have the cash for the hardware.
 
chcr said:
I'm surprised anyone thought it was. It's based on a flavor of UNIX now and there have always been UNIX viruses.
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You'd be surprised on how many Apple fanatics would argue that point...:D
 
Having worked the same programs with the same files on both MAC and PC... I can tell you that the MAC people have a point about its strengths. It's not a gaming platform by any means, but those that do use the MAC do it for the right reasons. It absolutely flies on anythign with image modification, layout, design softwares etc... all the way to Flash and Director 8.

It'll never catch up to PC for outright sales and market share but for those that use it..they have a right to be fanatical about it. Night and day!
 
They do have their uses, almost entirely confined to multi-media. They have not and will not supplant PC's, and given the restictions in general software usage, I class them as inferior to PC's.

If you want to make movies or graphics, they're great. If you want to do anything else, get a PC.

*Dons asbestos suit*
 
It's only been fairly recent that Mac has had a UNIX base. As a Mac enthusiast (and technician) I've always known that we weren't immune to viruses, but it has been harder to get one historically. And when we did, it was kinda funny because it wouldn't know what to do :D But these last two worms, albeit low-level, are weirding me out. I've been taking precautions with the staff and student computers big time.

:p @ Homey .. I use my Macs (plural, because I have so many hehehe) for everything. But you're right - for mutlimedia of any kind, they are untouchable.
 
HomeLAN said:
They do have their uses, almost entirely confined to multi-media. They have not and will not supplant PC's, and given the restictions in general software usage, I class them as inferior to PC's.

If you want to make movies or graphics, they're great. If you want to do anything else, get a PC.

*Dons asbestos suit*
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Ya can take off the suit. I don't own a MAC...price is a major issue, but because of what I do...I'd love one! I'm not about to go postal and neither is anyone else who is a MACaholic.... they understand the popularity of the PC . Frankly, it's idiot proof and that's a big plus.

I doubt they're even trying to supplant PCs...they have their niche market and are pretty happy with it.
 
I sure do wish my newspaper would upgrade to OSX... but our version of Quark won't run on it (we're behind on that too). So I'm stuck on OS 9.2 on a 400MHz "screamer" G3 server. Pages that take less than a second ot render here can take upwards of seven or eight... 10 or more if Starya posted in the thread because of her remorely-hosted signature image.
 
Oh wow, Inky ... it really is so much better to upgrade. I know they don't see it now but the time it saves in working - and the templates the newer version of Quark has as well as the toolboxes, are so much better. In Yearbook Productions I'm teaching the kids to use the entire Adobe Creative Suite (sunk a lot of money into it but it's so worth it). They're learning a lot about spacial concepts and math AND having a great time.
 
Our sister paper the next town up just upgraded some of its computers. The editor there now has an iMac G5 with a gig of RAM and OSX with Quark 6 and a newer photoshop (I have 5.5). Mine's still one of the slowest computers in the newsroom, but at least it's only tied for slowest now (there's an iMac with a G3/400 and 384MB of RAM in there too), better than the POS iMac G3/350 (the last to not even have firewire) that I had before. Half the RAM in the G3 server is mone though, and I'm still trying to find a CD burner that will work with it. I bought a Yamaha off eBay that's the same model as others have used in macs, and when I go to use the disc burner utility, the CD drive quits responding to anything.
 
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