Mac or not ?

alan · Dec 24, 2008, 09:05:26

After seeing a Mac demonstrated I'm very tempted to get one. Hoping they might be in the sale at my local John Lewis.. I know the price is higher than a PC but I'm edging towards one each time I see them.
Can somebody please put me off? Any pitfalls?
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Thanks

Rik · Dec 24, 2008, 09:07:22

No pitfalls, Alan. You'll need to get used to the differences, but it's not that different to Windows - iow you already know the basics before you start.

Glenn · Dec 24, 2008, 09:55:45

There is an interesting, but not very legal way of turning a PC into a MAC, search for hackintosh

Rik · Dec 24, 2008, 09:57:06

Not hacksaw?

Sebby · Dec 24, 2008, 13:31:15

Quote from: alan on Dec 24, 2008, 09:05:26
After seeing a Mac demonstrated I'm very tempted to get one. Hoping they might be in the sale at my local John Lewis.. I know the price is higher than a PC but I'm edging towards one each time I see them.
Can somebody please put me off? Any pitfalls?
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Thanks

I'm afraid I can't put you off. I've found myself in the same boat since getting an iPhone. If you're looking at an iMac like I am, you're best to wait until January - a new model is rumoured to be coming out.

Tacitus · Dec 24, 2008, 14:02:30

Quote from: Sebby on Dec 24, 2008, 13:31:15
I'm afraid I can't put you off. I've found myself in the same boat since getting an iPhone. If you're looking at an iMac like I am, you're best to wait until January - a new model is rumoured to be coming out.

As a Mac user for some 16 years Seb, I'd agree with that. A lot of stuff often comes out at MWSF - MacWorld San Francisco to the uninitiated. I'm guessing at iMac updates and a new version of the Mac Mini.

This will the last MWSF which Apple will attend, so no doubt updates in future will arrive when they're ready, rather than have the, by now traditional, guessing game at this time of the year.

Glenn · Dec 24, 2008, 14:40:15

Or maybe Apple aren't releasing anything ever again

Rik · Dec 24, 2008, 14:40:55

Optimist!

Tacitus · Dec 24, 2008, 15:57:27

Quote from: Glenn on Dec 24, 2008, 14:40:15
Or maybe Apple aren't releasing anything ever again

But if that happened, Microsoft would have nothing to copy.......

Rik · Dec 24, 2008, 15:58:44

This is true.

Sebby · Dec 24, 2008, 15:59:39

Quote from: Tacitus on Dec 24, 2008, 15:57:27
But if that happened, Microsoft would have nothing to copy.......

Copy badly.

alan · Dec 24, 2008, 21:31:52

Thanks all.. Need to get down there early on re-opening and see if any bargains about.