Going to the Dark Side

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Going to the Dark Side

Post by steelcityuk » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:40 am

For some obscure reason I started to like Macs more and more. Maybe it was the change over to PC parts and the ability to run Windows if needed but last week I took the plunge and bought a used Mac. Upto now it's been painless. I had it in bits the other night to fit a 500GB HD. The lack of clutter is great but you literally pay the price for this.

Do many other forum users have them?

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Re: Going to the Dark Side

Post by andmcit » Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:54 pm

Yep! I love'em as much as I do Citroens. I have several iMacs of varying generations, a G3 graphite 466 clamshell
(which I adore) and a dual desktop tower with an Apple Cinema HD 23" LCD display, a couple of iPhones and a pair
of iPods.

Guess you could say I'm brand loyal to Apple but my livelihood depends on them as I use a G5 tower and Apple 30" LCD
for my Graphic Design job.

What machine have you bought?

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Re: Going to the Dark Side

Post by messerschmitt owner » Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:52 pm

I've a G3 blue and white - which is upgraded to 756MB ram, twin 40gb HDs and it's faster than a two or three year old PC.

The missus has a macbook, I have a macbook and the monster, who's eight , is running one of our old powerbooks. The computers are great, hold their value well and just work, where as the phones are rubbish in comparison.
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Re: Going to the Dark Side

Post by Citroenesque » Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:12 pm

I've been using Macs since 1990... Now I have a Mac Pro dual quad-core and 30" display. Awesome!

Oh, and we have a venerable eMac that keeps the little one amused...
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Re: Going to the Dark Side

Post by steelcityuk » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:33 am

I went for a iMac 24" 2.8 core2duo with 2GB RAM. A colleague has given me a genuine edition of Snow Leopard and iLife.

The trigger for buying one was probably the short term use of a faulty G5 and the ownership of a couple of iPods and iPhones. I replaced my 3G with a iPhone 4 so passed the 3G onto the wife.

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Scenic 1.5 dCi 100
Gone -
Scenic 1.9 dCi 130 FAP
Prius T Spirit
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XM S2 2.5 VSX Estate
XM S2 2.1 VSX Hatch
Xantia 110 HDi Exclusive
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