Jon,
Check for peripheral support, but you may be able to add a Mini-Mac to your
stable and just switch CPUs or just run both (use a KVM switch if you like).
Relatively inexpensive, starting at a bit over $400. Nice software package,
too. Look at www.dealmac.com for best deals of the day. Or look for a
warrantied, Apple-refurbished machine at the Apple Store or www.Smalldog.com.
Or get a nice secondhand G4 tower and zip it up affordably with upgrade parts
from http://eshop.macsales.com/, with input from reviews at
www.xlr8yourmac.com. Add VirtualPC and you should be able to run most of your
old Windows software on it if you wish to. If you go for a tower, be sure to
get a dual processor card and a RAID card to run several drives in an array,
plus max out the RAM. - Phil
On 12:48, Jon Mitchell wrote:
>
><snip> Too cynical this morning, Jon? </snip>
>
>Whatever gave you that idea ;-)
>
>On a serious note, and not particularly due to viruses / spyware /
>adware etc., I am giving serious consideration to a Mac. Not that I
>don't get on with M$ 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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