I got a Mac!

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Aren't your proud of me, Sage? :p

My dad has recently been on a Mac rage that first started about 2 months ago when he picked up an riginal iMac for $30 from a church rummage sale. He then went on to buy an older Power Book, and a Power Mac G3 desktop. Of course, they are all older machine, they still run great. It amazes me how I can watch a DVD, surf the internet, and have multiple AIM chat windows open without a slowdown on a 400Mhz machine. I love the look of the Mac OS. Nice and smooth. Not to mention a lot of blue (my favorite color :D). My dad is letting me use his iMac and Panther OS "bibles" so I can get my read on about these Macs.

I do have a question though (Most likely directed to Sage). Why doesn't GTP display right in Safari? All I see is text. I'll post a screen shot tonight when I'm on the mac.


Anyone else care to share their thoughts/experiences about Macs?


Mine is the one on the top right.
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My dad's Power Book.
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And my dad's Power Mac G3 is just like this one
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Aren't your proud of me, Sage? :p
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Delighted! That makes two people I've officially switched! :D (I'm still waiting on you, Sunny ;))

I do have a question though (Most likely directed to Sage). Why doesn't GTP display right in Safari? All I see is text. I'll post a screen shot tonight when I'm on the mac.
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Displays fine for me... my guess is that you hit it when the server had a flux, and the style sheet didn't load – happens rarely for me, but it does happen. Just try reloading the page. The site looks absolutely fine in Safari, aside from the right side of the border imploding.
 

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Give Mozilla or IE for mac a try. Both run gtp quite nicely

By the way, whenever I'm at my parent's office to do work, I'm always on their Mac g4 :)

I know 3 oses now :) OSX, Windows, and Linux
 
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Delighted! That makes two people I've officially switched! :D (I'm still waiting on you, Sunny ;))
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I'm almost there, Sage. Just have to wait till 1st or 2nd week of September!

Good luck with the Mac, Charles. Is it running Panther OS X? Or one of the older one's?

Sage have you seen that new Airport Express? :drool:
 
I've been using IE for mac, emad. My dad put mozilla on here but I havn't used it yet. I'll try it out in just a few minutes. And Sage, here is what I was talking about when I said that GTP doesn't diplay properly in Safari.
 

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:lol: It's a duck and it is the mascott for a program called Adium (Thanks Sage :D). It's kinda like Trillian on the PC.
 
I think Macs are very nice computers. I just dont like the fact that they are very very expensive and just doesnt match up to the processing powers of a pc for that money. In the future, I will go for a Mac when I find one for cheap on eBay. I wish I could afford a mac. Eh.
 
:lol: Don't worry. I am not strong in the Dark Side. I am still a young padawan learner. I am much stronger on the Light Side. May The Force be with us all wheather it be Light or Dark.
 
Oh how I love being on the dark side. In fact, the windows partition on my laptop is getting really dusty now because I'm almost exclusively on Linux now :). When I'm at work, I use a mac. In fact, the only times I ever used windows is for gaming or because I need specific software for school (SPSS, Secure Browser, Visual Studio, etc).
 
I'm getting an older Windows Laptop (probably 700Mhz and 512MB RAM) and I was thinking of putting Linux on it. Any suggestions for Linux n00bs?
 
Go for Mandrake or Fedora. If you have a lot of patience and want to dive in head first and learn everything at once, there is Gentoo linux. Install from a Stage 1 or Stage 2 tarball - you'll learn a LOT about the core features of Linux that way. To top that, installing Gentoo gives you the satisfaction that you custom built the operating system exactly to your needs :). The documentation is VERY well written plus their forums and IRC are always full of people willing to help.

If you don't want to install, I'd suggest PHLAK, Knoppix (my personal pick) or MandrakeMove. All 3 are cd bootable so no installation is required.
 
emad
Go for Mandrake or Fedora. If you have a lot of patience and want to dive in head first and learn everything at once, there is Gentoo linux. Install from a Stage 1 or Stage 2 tarball - you'll learn a LOT about the core features of Linux that way. To top that, installing Gentoo gives you the satisfaction that you custom built the operating system exactly to your needs :). The documentation is VERY well written plus their forums and IRC are always full of people willing to help.

If you don't want to install, I'd suggest PHLAK, Knoppix (my personal pick) or MandrakeMove. All 3 are cd bootable so no installation is required.
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Thanks, emad. 👍 I have a copy of Knoppix, but right before it boots into the GUI, I lose video and all I see is a blank screen. I'm sure it isn't a bad download/burn because I tried it on another computer (that didn't even have a hard drive) and I could boot into the gui and it would run, but it still had very choppy video. :confused:
 
The only thing I have against Macs is their eye candy. I can't stand all those glassy, over-sized icons...

Oh, and brushed metal just isn't my thing. :p
 
Sage
There's always Rhapsodized then. ;) There's also Classix10k (second one down), BeOSX, ChosenOS, NeXT, and if you're a really dreary chap, Good Grey.

See, plenty of options. :)
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I love the Milk 2 theme (I'm using the Windows port of it at this very moment ;)).

I would actually give OSX a go if I didn't have to go out and buy a whole new PC with a completely different achitecture just to use it. See, if I ever get tired of Windows, I know there is always Linux just around the corner...
 
Ooh, Milk's nice, but it hurts my eyes... Macs have a much lower Gamma setting than PCs (1.5 versus 2.1, I think), so everything's much brighter. It is one of Max's most popular themes though. :)
 

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