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Originally Posted by Hamo (Post 378548)

I don't really see any benefit to switching...

If you will be using iMovie to edit video you need to be aware that it is primarily designed to work with the DV format. So if other people are going to be giving you clips that they have shot for you to edit then you very well may run into problems unless it is in DV format (or be faced with a long conversion process).

I suppose if they're going to give you WMV files, this is true.

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Originally Posted by Hamo (Post 378548)

Also, a lot of the OSS apps that have been ported to Mac are not really particularly user friendly. OpenOffice/NeoOffice are pretty clunky on the Mac and image editing/layout apps such as Gimp and others are usually ported to Mac using the Unix X11 environment which does not offer a Mac-like user experience.

If by "not really particularly user friendly" you mean to say that they behave like Windows applications, I agree.

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Originally Posted by Hamo (Post 378548)

Again, I don't understand why anyone would switch to Mac and then use Firefox. FF on Mac does not take advantage of most of the MacOS features such as Services (which allow you to interact with certain other apps from within another) native Apple Spelling, the Keychain, or iPhoto integration...
Then again, the default browser (Safari) is not supported by many websites, so in the end you may end-up needing to use an inferior browser such as FF anyway.

Firefox isn't bad. It's not my favorite browser, but I can see why some people like it.
Yest there are some Microsoft centric sites that don't work well with Safari, but that's no reason to always use an inferior browser.

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Originally Posted by Hamo (Post 378548)

The Mac is all about compromise and marginalization...

No, it's about quality over quantity.

the mac on ebay looked good, but ideally you want atleast 1gb of ram. MORE RAM IS GOOD!!

Roadkill,

If you do need to convert video, check out 'major' at videohelp.

See:

www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t123730.html

Filter is called "ffmpegX."

Best,

eValuone

I think the bottom line is.....

A Mac will offer you a very well rounded OS with some great software packaged with it, it will be stable, secure and should do everything you need.

You wont get all the software nativly on OSX that is available on Windows because Mac OS has a much smaller market share.... but if you have a Windows box thats not a problem... you could control your existing PC from your Mac via RDC..... or even use virtualisation software should you wish.

what have you got to loose?.... with a Mac and a PC you can have the best of both worlds.

The key things to remember are:
DONT expect Mac OS to be just like Windows.... its not.
DO buy as much ram as you can afford, I tend to do 1.5gigs
DO ask loads of questions on this forum
DO be open to new ways of working

as for wanting a quick(ish) Mac..... remember that a Mac Mini is an entry level Mac, and probiably wont blow your hair back, the iMacs are very good mid level machines.

...and then theres the dream of the 8 core mac pro wit like 4 displays :p

May I ask a question? Why would a pastor choose 'roadkill' as a user name? Are you of the Church of the Flattened Squirrell?

He's the YOUTH Pastor. "Roadkill" is a lot cooler than "cuteadorablepuppy" as a nick.

Joe VanZandt

I figured it was a good name since I live in South Alabama and I do have 8 vehicles on our property though only one runs. (insert redneck joke here) But I'm not a complete redneck, I'm not even from here, and besides none of these cars are on concrete blocks.
Another thought, I'm also a gamer and the youth all think that's cool. I also love the Lord. So what else could be better.
Just because I'm a minister doesn't mean I have to be drab and boring. God never intended that.
Anyway enough of that before this get's closed.
I looked up some info about hooking up my ipaq pda to a mac, and apparently there is a program I can download that will allow it to sync up. I forget what it was now. I'll have to look again.