[Hidden-tech] Does this sound like a good computer deal?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:12:25 -0800 Tom Adams / Reelife <reelifeproductions at mac.com> wrote:

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> never enjoyed the apple vs. windows debate but i can't resist throwing in a little fodder for the fire...
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> Frank wrote:
> re: The fact is, they're both valid platforms and you just have to be comfortable with what you need to work .
> > good point.  sometimes I like to wear ripped jeans, other times i like khakis.
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> re:Frankly, I think that the claims made by Apple are somewhat  overblown
> > disagree.  I've never said "wow" to a new microsoft application...whereas, I literally was flabergasted by some of the new stuff I've seen in the latest apple keynote address (http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/).  I agree these keynote addresses are a sickening display of apple geeks gawking at their faithful leader adorned in a black turtleneck and jeans... but all that aside, I think the apple product is quite an astonishing value.
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> re:...check out the top of the line Mac Mini.  It tends to be light on disk space (A question for the Mac Apostles:  Why would that be?!) 
> > the top of the line mac mini has an 80GB hard drive...that's not "light"...that's plenty of space for the average user (especially for $800)

I agree here.  *I* have never understood the reason for a putting a
300gb SATA drive on a *PC*.  Unless one is downloading (in a wholesale
manor) complete feature films in digital form (eg pirated DVDs) or
something, what do you really need 300gb for?  I do software
development and have come nowhere near filling up my 36gig disk. The
current breed of iPods have on 30gig, so 300gig would be enough for 10
iPods worth of music. At roughly 1 meg/1 minute, this is about 300*1024
minutes or aboout 300,000 minutes or 5000 hours or 208 *days* of music.

So, unless one is doing things involving image understanding research (I
worked for awhile at UMass at the Computer Vision Reearch Lab) 300gb is
a truely excesive amount of disk space.  Really.  Sort of like using a
40' tractor trailler to get a week's worth of groceries for a family of
four... 

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> re: A good reason to stick with Windows:  Office 2007
> > Not really. If you use the "Parallels" application, you can run Windows at the same time you're running Mac OS.  Doesn't matter if they EVER release it on the MAc platform...you can run it immediately if you use the "Parallels" application.
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