So, I bought a Mac yesterday. Now, before anyone who is anti-mac decides to jump my shit with the "OMFG Mac Suxors!" type things, I think they need to see the whole details.
I bought a POWERHOUSE, 400mhz G3 (blue and white) with 384mb RAM and a 9gb SCSI drive. This monster has a Rage 128 so you know i'm getting the coolest, high performance graphics. All for the affordable price of $10.
I have the latest version of OSX Tiger on it, and it seems to run smooth enough. I'm still trying to work out a practical application for it. I was thinking of getting a larger hard drive and putting my music collection on it. Anyone with Mac experience have any other ideas of what I can do with it?
Joose wrote:Ive used macs quite a bit, but only for video work, which I suspect would make that machine vomit all over you.
Yeah, I most definitely won't be running Final Cut or After Effects on this lil' guy. I don't even thing it'd be wise for me to run Photoshop on it, as my PC runs it just fine and it's got quite a bit more under the hood.
tandino wrote:Give to your mum and ask her to right click on something. Minutes of entertainment guaranteed!
Stoat wrote:
That's quite impressive in itself.
How noisy / power hungry is it? Home media centres are all teh ragexors.
it's actually pretty quiet. The loudest thing about it is the SCSI drive. You can hear it when it spins up. it's still nowhere near as loud as my PC with the billion* fans all going and blowing things around.
iTunes should run well enough on it, might be a bit slow if you've got a lot of songs to index, but it'll be usable and preferable to running it on a PC I suspect.
The media centre idea may be a good one, but see how well it handles playing decent quality divx file first, it might struggle.
Wrap it round your waist for when you go back to college. That way you can get away with spitting on all the Korean kids safe in the knowledge your bullet proof.
M4niachicken wrote:Wrap it round your waist for when you go back to college. That way you can get away with spitting on all the Korean kids safe in the knowledge your bullet proof.
This sounds like its similar to use to the other computer I've recently found. Basically, an internet browser/music player. That's all mine is doing. Except its missing some speakers, so my mum uses it to look up recipes on the web.
iTunes is the ideal application if you own a Mac, as it gives you the benefits of iPod connectivity and one of the largest library of downloads and podcasts, while not compromising your PC with software that er...wasn't optimised for it.
You can share files if your music collection is elsewhere, with Samba on the Mac, or NFS on the PC to connect to the other's native filestore.
One of the benefits of a mac is you get to look down on Windows users. You might even land a gig in a commercial where you get to play the part of a person born with the amazing powers of having a huge stick up his bum.
ellachen wrote:One of the benefits of a mac is you get to look down on Windows users. You might even land a gig in a commercial where you get to play the part of a person born with the amazing powers of having a huge stick up his bum.
