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Originally Posted by astraith  If you buy a Mac Pro, then you can change anything you want. In the iMac, as far as i know, you can not change the hardware. I think the iMac was designed to be easy, maintenance free. And it pretty much is. However, I know you can open up an iMac (but it voids the warranty). Could you send it to Apple to upgrade it? Probably, but that kinda ruins the point.
However, you can upgrade the RAM -- mine is three years old, and only goes to 2GB (kinda disappointed, but thats what I get for buying the first gen of Intel iMacs) but the newer ones go to...what, 3gb? Maybe even 4.
But like I said, the Mac Pro is made to be upgraded. It's more upgradable then any mac.
My point I was trying to make with my post with Dell/Apple All-In-One's is that that type of computer is expensive. You can buy the exact same hardware with a Mac Min for like 700/800. And you can buy whatever screen/keyboard/mouse you'd like. (I would buy a Apple keyboard, but screw their mighty mouse). But that one I don't know how upgradable it is. |
Well mac pros are boxes just like a regular desktop, kind of defeats the purpose. It'd be cool if you could strap a big ass graphics card to one. They should just make a gaming edition imac, but knowing apple it'd be like $3,000.
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Not a lot of software for Mac's? If you talking games, I'd give you that. But I use ADIUM not iChat. You can also download AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM -- but I like Adium. It's like gAIM but is much, much better. And I mean...really...their are tons of word processors, most all of them better then MS Word (and iWork 08 actually opens Open XML format...docx whatever it is) and most every major browser works for Mac OS X besides IE. Actually, I think Firefox 3.0 works faster on OS X then Windows, but thats me. Also, Safari 3.0 is really, really fast. And plus, you can go to Open Source Mac and find tons of software that works for Mac, and even some wicked games.
Plus, if you want it, you can use MS Office 08 on a Mac, and most of the people I know say it works faster and better on a Mac.
And anyway, you ca always duel-boot, or even use a virtual machine, to run Linux/XP so you can be fully compatible.
(BTW, Photoshop is available for Mac OS X, and actually, as far as i know, any professional application works with OS X and if it doesn't, there is another App that does work, and sometimes free -- Like Blender 3d.)
Also, I think it plugging my mouse in my keyboard is a good thing. However, you can always plug it into the back of the iMac or the Mac Pro.
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BTW, I am not trying to bash anyone who says Mac sucks. I'm just annoying, and when someone says Mac doesn't have a lot of App's, its sorta true, but sorta not. There are a lot of App's that aren't on there, but usually their are equivalents that are, usually, better then the Windows app you use to use.
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Well duel boot is only a half solution. I do know that macs have some kind of advanced virtual machine you can buy that runs windows fairly quickly but I'm talking about integrated apps. They'd have far more applications if they supported X better.