Viddler

one of my favs

Actually it is Steve Ballmer who loves mac users going out and buying windows. Bill Gates left the scene a long time ago. Otherwise, great video!

Man, you have a cube. You bastard! :)
(Looks on in jealousy)

Nice video. I love the G4 cube I think it one of the nicest computers Apple has ever made. And it was a great machine for its time. Im tying to get my hands on one just because its a beautiful computer.

I like the cube, it's kinda cute. Anyway, if you want to play games, get a console. Pretty much the only games you really need to get a computer for are the Blizzard games (can be played on a Mac) or something along the lines of Crysis (the cliche super-advanced marine thing again).

I still like building my PCs a little too much to switch (plus I'm not fond of the OSX interface), but games is a piss poor excuse to make a stand on. I have a question though... is the Mac vs PC debate really that serious and intensive?

Scruffy, you do realize that OS X is based on BSD right? So if you want to get your hands dirty then OS X gives you access to all of the details just as much as Linux does (and far more than windows). In your 2 months experience did you try opening a terminal and messing around in the system at all?

I can't really see the difference between OS X and Linux. Both let you mess around with the guts of the OS if you want to. The only differnce is that with OS X you don't have to mess around with the OS to do normal work, which helps when you actually need to get work done rather than just play around.

You know i really like the cube. But probably would not buy one. I would maybe buy an iMac g4. But only as a cool display. Altho for a small desktop computer it would most likely be a MacMini.
But i will stick with my Laptop being the Tower.

@ eddyr78 / ScruffyBarker

Hi Ok i will tell you a little about me.
Years ago i knew nothing about mac or apple bet had come across it a few times i will try to remember to post a link to my whole life store in tech.

I have said a few thing bad about apple or Mac.

I finally went to apple and customized an ibook. "Where in the would is Windows XP listed whats OS X" The total was around $2000

I was at compusa a few months after apple switched to intel. alltho i did not know that then. I was looking at a Compaq i was wanting. a sales person comes over to me and get me to look at an imac he shows me boot os x tiger and then windows. "so i have to buy another copy of window thats another $200" nah thanks.

5 years ago my dads friends girlfriends told be about mac. I didn't listen.

Thats so far it nothing too bad. But i thought only windows existed. I don't know why. If i could go back in time and slap the crap out of myself then tell myself how wonderful my life would have been with an iBook instead of a Compaq Persaio 1200 that had windows ME and took 2 minutes to boot. Let me tell you i wanted to break that think almost every day but loved because i love technology.

Now one thing that had up set me with mac at the very begging 2 weeks after looking into it was. I had created a cool blue theme with Win Me and have all the text its own theme and toolbar.

But a another 2 weeks i started loving the cool aqua look. and a few more weeks into researching mac i was going to buy a MacBook. "My first ever mac" I did 3 months of research untill i had to find a way to get it. I sold old stuff. Abd had it December 10th. I went to compusa every day i could and the very first time i went to see it I had no trouble using it. I was a little confused with things. But a few days after using it i got tired of windows really quick. So i installed a few different things and couldn't find anything for the os x menu bar but used that till i got my Mac.

When i got my Mac I just used my Old pcs windows disk but only used windows 30 times for a year and then deleted it off my system. the old Hp Pavilion ze2113 is my Moms and was the day i got my MacBook.

Now as for customizing thing i have found os x to do a great job well as to my likings. I have changed a few things but not much it works great for me.

OS X

I think viddler does have a limit. I tried that all in one but it would not go.

I only converted to Mac recently, but I think the timing was quite right. Steve Jobs has done a lot of great things since his return to Apple, but in the Mac area two things stand out to me:

1. Switching to a Unix based OS (OS X)
2. Switching to Intel processors

Moving to a strong OS based on Unix allowed Apple to leverage all of the work done for BSD in the Unix community. It also made the Mac much more interesting technically for a Unix nerd like me. Previously I've avoided Macs because of my impression (correct or not) that you can't really get into the guts of the system. I think this may even have been true prior to OS X, but it's certainly not true anymore.

The other great move Jobs made was the switch to Intel. This means Apple can leverage the economies of scale built around the PC industry in order to minimize hardware costs, whilst still building customized computers that just work.

Personally I made the switch to the Mac through the iPhone. I was so impressed by the iPhone's design that I jumped right on board and bought a Mac. I'd stayed away in the past because the mac laptops were kind of heavy and bulky, but when the Mac Air came out I had no more excuses.

Now my TV's hooked up to a Mac Mini, and my desktop has been cleansed of Windows and runs only Mac OS X (it's a hackintosh waiting to be replaced by a real iMac). I've even bought Apple stock. The switch is almost complete.

@ cendrillon
Cool.
Well Altho i said first Mac it was not my first apple product. My first was an iPod which i loved but did not use i was too afraid to break it. Tho i don't usually break things.

@ cendrillon
Well what about a MacBook Pro with 2.5 ghz processor 320gb HDD and a 256 or 512 md navida graphics card. Plus a 15.4 or 17 inch monitor.
Oh add the Apple corded Keyboard Apple Cinema Display and Apple Mighty Mouse corded. Now is that not a powerful enough Desktop system. Plus it has about the same specs as the imac. its just $1500 more. But you still have a laptop and desktop its just the same computer.
I might have forgot to add. Apple Pro Speakers "with a griffin Powerwave"
And an external 500 gb HDD.
only $250 more.
Now the MacBook Pro might still weigh 5.5 pounds but that is pretty good for a pro laptop.

Please note i was not trying to be rude. I just got a bit upset. With someone calling a laptop a crapy computer.

@ cendrillon
We when the air came out I was planning on getting an MacBook Air for portable and an iMac for home use. But in my case it would cost the same price. Plus with having the whole systhem being a portable I can edit on the go with Shake 4.1 "altho it works on the air" and Motion 3 and Final cut pro.

To be honest I think people get scared of desktops because they have to plug cables in :)

Lack of CD/DVD drive is not an issue in my view. DVDs are a thing of the past. If you're using a laptop as a laptop (as opposed to a desktop) then you can always access the DVD drive from your desktop anyway (via remote disc).

I was a bit hesitant about the lack of a firewire port, since I need a low latency sound card, but it turned out that the internal card did a great job anyway.

It's true the Mac Air is not for everyone, it's primarily for people who want to use it as a laptop. So if you're looking for a laptop to use as a desktop then it's not for you. After having a Mac Air for close to a year now I'd say the biggest limitations are the slow HD and the fact that it tends to heat up a bit which forces the CPU to step down (although this can be helped somewhat by undervolting the CPU).

The Mac Air is definitely not for doing large ammounts of processing on though. Although it only weighs 1.5 kg which is fantastic. I avoided Mac laptops in the past because 2.5 kg is just too much for me. Lugging something like that to meetings and conferences is a hassle. I used to have a Samsung Q35 which was only 1 kg, but if it means I can escape Windoze I'm willing to live with an extra 1/2 kg. Plus the Mac design, LCD backlit screen, backlit keyboard, trackpad, magsafe adaptor etc. etc. etc. are fantastic!

Any news on youtube :)

emeek i was 1 of ur subscibers on youtube and when i saw this vid and you said tht you wouldnd put windows on ur mac try try this its called crossover its great and it runs windows apps with out actually running windows ps do u no when ur youtub acc will be back up