Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

Mirth said:
Sorry about letting this thread lag. I added new members to the list at the beginning. Welcome to buzz & RyanL!

I think I'm finally ready to update to OSX. I have a iMac 400mhz G3/192mb RAM/10gig HD. Any recommendations on how I should approach the update? Right now I have the HD partitioned into one 5gig and two 2.5 gigs. I'm going to erase the drive before I install OSX. Should I get rid of the partitions? If I need to boot into OS9 (as was mentioned earlier in the thread), should I keep one partition for that? If I think of other questions, I'll come back and post 'em.

Thanks for any advice,

Jay
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I know this comes a little late, and someone may have covered it already, but I thought I'd throw it out there as a cautionary tale for others.

UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE AND BACKUP YOUR DATA before you upgrade to OS X!

I have a friend with an old bubble-shaped iMac, who didn't do this, and it took me a week to recover all his files and repair the OS.

amazing what can go wrong when the OS and the hardware don't speak the same language.

More details are available at Apple's support site.




Oh, and I'm a devoted Mac user - G4 733 powermac with a 17" studio display CRT (last of the breed) at home and a g4 800 at work. G5 tower will likely be ordered the next time we do an in-house video project...

woot! More macs than people at work! I love my job.

jtb
 

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Uber Nerd

I've amassed a large library of music for our games on my Mac Desktop (G4 Dual 500), but we don't game in the room with it. For awhile I used to hook up my iPod to some external speakers and play through that.

Now I stream the library through my laptop (the library still resides on the desktop downstairs) into the stereo through Airport Express. I'm a player in our game so I don't need the laptop at my side. I control volume, order, etc from afar through Bluetooth on my cell and laptop. I use Clicker by Salling Software.

I get all sorts of crap for being so dorky, but it's pretty friggin sweet. ;)
 
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Im primarily a PC user (never owned a Mac before). Im a network admin for a local hospital here in town and we are getting more and more 'nix centric. It was with that in mind that I ordered my very first Apple Product (err, besides my 40 gig ipod):

1 PowerBook 1.33GHz (15.2" TFT) Z0A2
1.33GHz PowerPC G4 with 64MB Graphics Memory 065-4811
512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 2x256 SO-DIMMs 065-4860
60GB Ultra ATA drive @ 4200 rpm 065-4822
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) 065-4824
AirPort Extreme Card 065-4820
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English 065-4819

I sincerely hope (and suspect!) that I will enjoy this product. Wish me luck!
 




I posted in this thread a looong time ago, saying I was looking into getting a Mac. Well, the motherboard on my Dell laptop died (again), and this time the warranty was expired.

I'm now the proud owner of one of the new iBooks. I got the 12" model, the only upgrade being the Combo Drive instead of the regular drive. So far I'm loving it.

Some things that are new to a former diehard Windows user:
-The USB bluetooth thingie I had for my Dell that never worked properly works as advertised with my cell phone, and all I did was plug it in and use iSync.

-I couldn't figure out how to uninstall programs until I asked someone: my Windows-trained brain couldn't grasp the idea of just deleting the directory rather than going through the Control Panel or something like that. I'm a fan of simple, go Apple.

-iCal and Address Book work better together as separate programs than Microsoft Outlook does as one program
 

Enforcer said:
I posted in this thread a looong time ago, saying I was looking into getting a Mac. Well, the motherboard on my Dell laptop died (again), and this time the warranty was expired.

I'm now the proud owner of one of the new iBooks.
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If you're in the market for a hard core, Mac only word processor, may I suggest Nisus Writer Express from Nisus Software. Loads of functions, easy to use, and cheap (well, compared to some other word processors I've seen). Yes, you can do books on it. High grade DTP in other words. With OSX's print to pdf feature it could help you break into PDF publishing.

BTW, if you find yourself in the market for another machine, and you only need something basic, may I suggest getting an eMac. They start at about $799.00 US and go up from there. At the top end would be a dual-processor G5 fully kitted out at about $4,000.00 US the last I looked. Plus video display. But that's for serious video and graphics design work.

Have fun, and welcome to the Mac side.
 

mythusmage said:
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If you're in the market for a hard core, Mac only word processor, may I suggest Nisus Writer Express from Nisus Software. Loads of functions, easy to use, and cheap (well, compared to some other word processors I've seen). Yes, you can do books on it. High grade DTP in other words. With OSX's print to pdf feature it could help you break into PDF publishing.
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Thanks for the tip about Nisus writer. I've been working with the demo and think I like enough to buy it. I'm enjoying my Mac so far.
 

Nisus Writer is the bomb. I absolutely love it.

And I just installed 10.3 and what do you know? OpenOffice suddenly just started working. I converted my Excel spreadsheets with one click and they work flawlessly -- even links from one spreadsheet (converted) to another (unconverted, still an Excel file) worked just fine.

Bye, bye Microsoft! Hello Nisus and the good people at OpenOffice.

Oh, and if you like poking around with graphics programs, check out Create from Stone Software. A true Mac-only product that gets more amazing the more you use it. This program couldn't be built on any other platform -- it's a wonderful demonstration of what's REALLY possible inside of OS X.
 

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