I recently bought a Mac Mini, And I thought I'd talk about my experiences in the transition from Windows XP to Mac OS X.
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Member since:2005-08-26
Smart, smart man.
I personally don't want to waste time with supporting a "tool" I'm supposed to be using. Hence why I don't have a Windows box at home. I do use it right now at work, but only because I'm forced to. I can't believe how common minor problems that aren't hardware related pop up.
Member since:2005-07-06
Here here. I did the exact same thing. Got her an iBook, wireless network, set it up and left.
I don't even know the passwords on this thing anymore.
We ran into the iBook logic board problem but that was resolved promptly, and I finally stuffed another 512M into it (we were using the stock 128M for almost a year -- quite usable, just slow transitions from app to app).
I shared the printer on my W2K box, and the durn thing Just Worked (though I recently reinstalled the printer, so now it's broken for her...I'll get 'round to it soon enough).
Member since:2005-06-29
I tried something similar, but found that sharing the printer from Windows using Zone Alarm as my firewall causes all the other computers on the network not to be able to communicate with that Windows box or the printer connected to it.
I'm aware that Zone Alarm can be set up to allow specific IP addresses, the problem is that all the computers have to use DHCP and the IP addresses do change quite regularly. What firewall do you use?
Member since:she should be able to login to her office's exchange network if mail is set for IMAP (not sure if entourage supports it, i would think so as it is another MS product).
or is she wanting to be able to login to the domain and be on the network itself? i would think that should be doable if she connects to the server?
as for the rest, i would prefer to spend the money on a mac and be able to use my computer and know what is going on with it and have control.
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I bought an ibook for my wife last December just because I didn't want to deal with fixing her computer every now and then, just for THAT. Let me tell you that I have not had to "fix it" not ONCE. The only issues she has is that she cannot log in to her company's Microsoft Exchange network, and certain websites that are IE only, like banking, Yahoo Launch, MTV ??? So I think for personal use they're great, but do not recommend it for work. Performarce is great, I especially like the accelerated desktop, and the feeling that it does not get in your way. I personally use a windows laptop because I didn't want to spend the extra $$$. It runs all the programs I need, although desktop performance is ok (I customized my install with nlite, so I can tweak it in case you asked). Are macs worth the extra price not to have any technical issues? Or do you rather put with windows? I guess it depends if whoever's getting it is counting on you for tech support. hehehe