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Too cynical this morning, Jon?
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Whatever gave you that idea ;-)
On a serious note, and not particularly due to viruses / spyware /
adware etc., I am giving serious consideration to a Mac. Not that I
don't get on with M$ systems, just that for what I want I wonder if a
Mac might be better.
My main PC is a 1.2GHz AMD Athlon processor, with 512Mb RAM. This is
absolutely fine for the usual "Office" type stuff. Web browsing is OK
(apart from the usual adware rubbish, but I don't know if a mac will be
better for that). I also do some Audio recording on it, and this works
fine - albeit rather slow if any post-processing is required. Video
recording / editing and Photographic work (OM content !) is painfully
slow, however, and regularly crashes my machine.
So, with that in mind, I've been meaning to get a new machine. I plan
to keep the old one as an "office" machine, and get the new one
specifically as a "multi-media" machine (Video / Audio editing,
Photographic work, etc.). I had originally planned to build a new PC,
but a friend of mine is moving over to a Mac (after 3 crashes in as many
months on a PC, one of which completely wiped everything from his system
in mid-backup, so he lost the lot !) and I must admit I am tempted. The
Mac seems particularly suited to this kind of application, and who knows
- I may switch completely once I get used to it. Or maybe not.
So, I'm after opinions. Advantages & disadvantages. No flaming, no
insults hurled (either at people or systems !). Just honest thoughts on
what you'd get given the applications I want it for. And why. Bear in
mind I'm (at this stage) proposing running both systems side-by-side and
exploiting the strengths of each.
Right, that should get things going !!
Regards,
Jon
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