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<blockquote data-quote="Planter" data-source="post: 11512280" data-attributes="member: 101620"><p>i love it, works great for what I need to do, and this is my 3rd mac computer. have a 27" iMAC i got last april that still runs great, i had a 2006-2007 model 13" macbook but recently sold it to upgrade to a faster processor, bigger video chip and more memory to run a few other video editing and digital animation programs the old one wouldn't run with slowing down too much. </p><p></p><p>I tried the Hackintosh thing on my Dell Latitude, but had the same problem you did with getting driver support. recently i've heard VMWare now offers a virtual environment for PC that you can install MAC OS on to, much in the same way you can install Windows on a MAC, but i haven't seen it for myself so could be rumor.</p><p></p><p>It's definitely different and takes getting used to, i hated it at first, but it's only because there were things I was used to on Windows/PC, like the keyboard and mouse but after 30 days, it was all 2nd nature and smooth sailing from there. I didn't have much of a choice though, I needed it for work to do my work (digital animation) on, so it was either adapt, or find a new job lol. </p><p></p><p>Ended up using a microsoft keyboard and a logitech mouse, and it resolved almost all of my issues with the mac keyboard, the only one that still gets me is the delete button won't move files to the trash bin, quite annoying but I can live with it. </p><p></p><p>There's only 3 other things that somewhat annoy me, but I can live with and that's there is no button to eject discs from the cd/dvd drive, there is no button to simply turn the monitor off instead you have to put the sys prefs to turn the display off after a minute up to 3 hours, and Apple doesn't offer a blu-ray drive for any of their computers, because Steve Jobs opted not to go with blu-ray because he believed the technology won't last long enough to warrant the investment. How he came to that conclusion I don't know, but I was able to purchase an external blu-ray drive and I downloaded Mac Blu-Ray player and I can watch Blu-Ray's without issue. The external blu-ray drive was supposed to be a burner, but so far it won't recognize blank blu-ray's, but I've seen a lot of issues with this drive, where people are having the same issues with it online, and there's no firmware support for it, it was just a cheapie off ebay, so I'm going to drop some cash on a LG off macsales.com and see what happens. At worst, I can boot into Windows 7 and burn from there if needs be, I have it loaded. </p><p></p><p>Aside from that, I can't complain. It's stable, it's fast and it does everything I need it to do and more and I have yet to have any trouble out of the iMAC, never had any issues with the macbook pro, and so far no issues with my macbook pro and just upgraded from 8GB memory to 16GB for $50 on the iMAC, and upgraded the new macbook pro from 4 GB to 8GB for $50 as well. I spend far less time troubleshooting errors on my macs than I do on a pc, which is nice because you actually get to use the computer and do what you need to do without having to dick around with a bunch of permissions, settings or missing .dll files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Planter, post: 11512280, member: 101620"] i love it, works great for what I need to do, and this is my 3rd mac computer. have a 27" iMAC i got last april that still runs great, i had a 2006-2007 model 13" macbook but recently sold it to upgrade to a faster processor, bigger video chip and more memory to run a few other video editing and digital animation programs the old one wouldn't run with slowing down too much. I tried the Hackintosh thing on my Dell Latitude, but had the same problem you did with getting driver support. recently i've heard VMWare now offers a virtual environment for PC that you can install MAC OS on to, much in the same way you can install Windows on a MAC, but i haven't seen it for myself so could be rumor. It's definitely different and takes getting used to, i hated it at first, but it's only because there were things I was used to on Windows/PC, like the keyboard and mouse but after 30 days, it was all 2nd nature and smooth sailing from there. I didn't have much of a choice though, I needed it for work to do my work (digital animation) on, so it was either adapt, or find a new job lol. Ended up using a microsoft keyboard and a logitech mouse, and it resolved almost all of my issues with the mac keyboard, the only one that still gets me is the delete button won't move files to the trash bin, quite annoying but I can live with it. There's only 3 other things that somewhat annoy me, but I can live with and that's there is no button to eject discs from the cd/dvd drive, there is no button to simply turn the monitor off instead you have to put the sys prefs to turn the display off after a minute up to 3 hours, and Apple doesn't offer a blu-ray drive for any of their computers, because Steve Jobs opted not to go with blu-ray because he believed the technology won't last long enough to warrant the investment. How he came to that conclusion I don't know, but I was able to purchase an external blu-ray drive and I downloaded Mac Blu-Ray player and I can watch Blu-Ray's without issue. The external blu-ray drive was supposed to be a burner, but so far it won't recognize blank blu-ray's, but I've seen a lot of issues with this drive, where people are having the same issues with it online, and there's no firmware support for it, it was just a cheapie off ebay, so I'm going to drop some cash on a LG off macsales.com and see what happens. At worst, I can boot into Windows 7 and burn from there if needs be, I have it loaded. Aside from that, I can't complain. It's stable, it's fast and it does everything I need it to do and more and I have yet to have any trouble out of the iMAC, never had any issues with the macbook pro, and so far no issues with my macbook pro and just upgraded from 8GB memory to 16GB for $50 on the iMAC, and upgraded the new macbook pro from 4 GB to 8GB for $50 as well. I spend far less time troubleshooting errors on my macs than I do on a pc, which is nice because you actually get to use the computer and do what you need to do without having to dick around with a bunch of permissions, settings or missing .dll files. [/QUOTE]
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