Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

Dimwhit said:
Be sure to tell us what you think of the mini, Raevynn. As for extra software you'll need...surprisingly little. iLife will be on it. You might want an office suite, but OpenOffice is free and fairly good.
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Does the mini come with the new iWork?

J, a bit jealous that his g5 didn't include iLife.
 

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You can add me to the list.

I own an Ibook G3 - 366 MHz with OS X running on it. I use it almost daily to play music, browse the internet, type documents, display pdf E-books from rpgnow, I use it even as a place to store back-ups of important documents I created on my much faster Windows machine.
 
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Hey all,

Does anyone know of a utility for OSX that will test an internet connection and tell you what speeds you're getting, both up and down?
 


barsoomcore said:
Right. Because Microsoft wouldn't stop making Mac:Office just because it might inconvenience Mac users.

Come on. Apple is smacking Microsoft right in the face. They are saying, "Screw you, we don't need you anymore. Take your toys and go home." They are saying, "We don't need you to keep making Office for us anymore." This is a significant shift since the late 90's when keeping Office on the Mac was a huge deal for Apple. They basically begged Microsoft to keep making Office. Now they're launching competing products against Office? That's a sign.

And I'm betting that Microsoft never releases another major version of Office for the Mac ever again. Why should they compete with Apple for a market that's 3% of their current market? They're not going to fight for it; it's not worth their time.
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Microsoft will keep doing versions of office for the mac, because it helps them to pretend they aren't a monopoly.
 


Rackhir said:
Microsoft will keep doing versions of office for the mac, because it helps them to pretend they aren't a monopoly.
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But the US courts have already decided that Microsoft IS a monopoly, and a criminal one at that. They just decided not to punish the company.

But maybe they will. They've threatened to pull the product previously, is all I know.
 


Wow! I can't believe it's been 6 months since I updated this thread. In that time, I finished my MA in Literature, my wife and I had a second son (Magnus Armstrong Myers, called Max) and I finally went back to work full-time (no that I'm making excuses or anything).

We've had 18 new members sign up, whom I've added to the list in the first post:

blizack
pdkoning
Raevynn
Kage Tenjin
Sun Wukong
fenrat
Enforcer (full-on Machead now!)
weezoh
Nifft
Breakdaddy
niolo
jerichothebard
MetalBard
mikedidthis
Sephiroth no Miko
Zepherus Bane
mythusmage
Thornir Alekeg
ShinHakkaider

I wasn't sure whether to add Rackhir or greymist to the list, so if either of you are Mac users, tell me and I'll add you.

I'm still slowly maintaining my ol' iMac (added an 80GB HD recently) but the Mac Mini looks awfully tempting. I'm gonna wait it out and see if they put Tiger and iWork on one before I make the final leap...

Thanks to everyone for keeping this thread going!

Jay
 

In the first post Mirth says we're 2/3 of the way to an official user group. Is that for a user group here at EN World or for somewhere else? Just curious.

And congrats to Mirth for all his new accomplishments!
 

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