Re: Just venting (totally OT)

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Mandy <mandy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've just found some resellers that sell Macs around here so I'll
see if I can persuade Steve to take me to each of them so that I
can have a look! :o)

I strongly recommend you find a friend who already has a Mac and
make sure it will run everything you need before you buy one.

I don't have any RL friends... only online ones!

Online is all you need - but remember, since you can run Windoze on a
Mac, everything you've got now will work on a Mac.

I don't know if I can afford to buy Windoze though! :o(

Well, that's fair enough - and if you're not getting rid of your Windoze
computers, you won't *need* it.

But you've said what applications you use all the time - Poser is
available in a Mac version (both Mac and Windoze versions of Poser are
the same, at version 7), and while MS FrontPage is discontinued by MS,
there are much better Web page creation tools around.

I doubt I'd be making pages on the Mac... not straight away anyway :o)

Do ask on uk.comp.sys.mac about Web page creation software. I gather
that there's good stuff available, and you'll probably like the
experience once you've learnt how to use the software.

So: if you want to run Poser 7 on a Mac, the thing to do would be to
enquire about with the firm about a cheap `side-grade' so you can go
from Poser 7 on Windoze to Poser 7 on Mac without paying full whack
(not all firms do this, but some do).

I've just emailed them about it :o)

Any joy?

MS FrontPage - well, you should get something better even if you stick
with Windoze. But aside from that: ask on uk.comp.sys.mac, explain
that you use FrontPage now, and I'd bet that you'll get lots of good
suggestions on what'd be a better replacement for you to use (they can
probably advise you on a replacement for FrontPage under MS Windoze
too). For sure there will be a period of learning, but whatever you
get, it'll be better than MS FrontPage. Remember, MS FrontPage was
dropped by MS some time ago, and it's always been the crappiest big
name Web page creation software out there.


Yup! I'm not going to build webpages on the Mac though so that's no
problem :o)

Mmm... But if you don't use it for the things you use computers for,
why buy the thing in the first place? No point spending money on tool
that's not used, is there? Thing before spending, yes?

[snip]

As for the rest of it: as I've suggested, you do need to check that
you can run what you need. But that doesn't mean you need to get
specific versions of specific software, necessarily. Identify the
jobs you do, and ask on uk.comp.sys.mac how to get them done with a
Mac - telling them what you use *now*.

If I remember I will but I might need a reminder if I forget! :o)

If you can remember to ask me any Mac question you might have, I'll
easily remember to suggest you ask there if I can't help.

[snip]

So: if you're an avid gamer, don't get a Mac. But otherwise, it's a
better bet than Windoze in general.

I mainly use the computer for email, building websites and using PSP and
Poser and I'll keep using Windows for all those, I just want to play
around with a Mac to see what it's like :o)

Best to play around with it at the jobs you want to do, or you'll not
really find out, will you?

[snip]

Put it like this: Safari 2 came out years ago. It's long been able to
pass the Acid 2 test.

<http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html>

MS IE /7/ fails the test - the new one (not sure if it's out yet), v8,
is the first MS Web browser capable of passing it.


Blimey! It looks like IE7 fails it badly!

<chuckle> It's a really evil torture test - if the browser fails it,
it's likely to look really nasty.

[snip]

If you get a Mac, it makes sense for *YOU* to put Windoze on it in my
opinion to aid with the transition because you're Windoze only at the
moment. If you don't do that, you could possibly get stuck at some
point if you don't have access to a Windoze PC. If you've got Windoze
available, you can't get stuck without access to Windoze software.

We've got 3 Windows PCs and a Windows laptop atm... would I still need to
put it on the Mac?

Not if you keep them, not at all. If you've got a home network, the Mac
can connect to your Windoze PCs (although exactly how much networking
will work is anyone's guess - one way or another, you'll be able to get
access to files across the network, although it might be that `only the
Mac can connect to the Windoze machines' or `only the Windoze machines
can connect to the Mac' depending. Why do I say that? Because I've
read lots of questions from people who have had trouble with that sort
of thing, and usually they've got it working one way but not the other).

[snip]

The flash way of doing it involves Parallels Desktop.

<http://www.parallels.com/en/rc/screens&demos/>

Now, with that on your Mac, you could have all your old Windoze
software available and the new Mac stuff, all running alongside each
other. That'd be dead convenient in many ways - you could use the Mac
stuff until you got stuck, and if you did get stuck, you'd have your
Windoze stuff available to use at the click of a mouse. For sure it's
not a *cheap* way of doing it, but oh boy oh boy is it fancy or what?

It looks it but I don't think I could afford to do that :o(

No need to worry about it, really. Although you might consider looking
for a second hand copy of Windoze XP or something - I dunno what that
might cost, but if you could get a version that would work on a Mac (I
don't know what limits there are) at low enough price, it might be
something you'd think about. But there's no need. But - oh, there's
MacBook Pro here that belongs to someone else and I don't use but I've
seen it running Windoze and the MacOS (separately) and it's just one of
those `Oh wow!' things, you know? I love clever gadgets showing off how
clever they are. So I'm a geeky bloke, so what? ;-)

Rowland.

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