get an imac and replace your pc with it.
I guarantee you that you won't look back - look into the price of upgrading a mac mini vs. a fully loaded
17in. / 20in. imac and you'll see what i'm talking about:)
1. turn on auto hide for your dock.
2. shrink your dock's size.
3. don't buy 12 inch laptops.
4. yes, finder sucks. it takes some adaptation to learn to live with it. long time mac users have no complaints about it, whereas when i switched over from pc it was waa-waa time.
5. if you're having problems with crashing maybe you should have it looked at. I was using a powermac g4 for about two months. I left it on to do some bittorrent downloading for over a week and to my shock, it didn't crash or experience memory leaks. It never once crashed on me - and this is a 6 year old machine we're talking about here.
Yes, imac hard drives are replaceable. RAM is also, and very easy to do. I am told that the cpu is soldered on but i wonder if it's possible to just solder on another. I wouldn't doubt it.
You can get a imac with a 7200rpm 500gb SATA NCQ-Capable hard drive as an option. Would you need to upgrade that?:) I recently switched and faced your dillema though. The main difference between this and pc is that you are paying for it all upfront instead of gradually. I had a hard time getting over my tinkering mentality too. I wanted to get a mac mini but i looked at the cost and realized getting an imac would be cheaper because i could configure it to my exact specifications, which ended up being cheaper if i say, built up a mac mini. Look into it.
I've been a hardcore PC user since birth. I started working for a mac retailer
which really piqued my interest in these machines that i previously scoffed at.
Being of the build-it-and-upgrade-later mentality, my first thought was
to get the base model mac mini, throw a 2.0ghz core2, a 7200rpm 100gb
drive, and 2 gigs of ram into it, etc.. But i calculated the price:
1.66ghz solo base model mac mini = $600
core 2 duo 2ghz = ~$200
2gb 533mhz ram = ~$200
7200rpm 100gb sata 2.5" drive = ~$250
keyboard / mouse = ~$75
Total cost = $1325 before tax. Without a display.
Instead i settled on a used core duo 2ghz 20" iMac with a 7200rpm 500gb hd,
1gb of memory, and 256 vram, which threw me back $1250 - and saved me
lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Even a new 2.13ghz 20" model would have
been cheaper @ $1500 if you figure in the cost of a display.
All i'm saying is, get what you want. Not what's cheap to begin with. All the
mac geeks at work drilled 'just go get an imac' into my head but i wouldn't
listen because i usually build my own systems and to buy something pre-
built and non-upgradeable was previously unthinkable to me.
I am beyond satisfied with the speed and features of this machine. my pc
building skills could never produce something engineered this well, plus,
now i have a viable escape from windows, with the option of crawling back.
Being able to play fairly recent PC games w/the radeon x1600 is definetely
a perk also. And the screen is practically of apple cinema display quality,
something i'd normally pay $300-$400 in the pc world, easily.
So as a note, if you're thinking of switching, consider craigslisting your
old setup and going iMac.
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I have been told that the 200gb disk is 4200rpm. Hard to believe.
get an imac and replace your pc with it. I guarantee you that you won't look back - look into the price of upgrading a mac mini vs. a fully loaded 17in. / 20in. imac and you'll see what i'm talking about :)
1. turn on auto hide for your dock. 2. shrink your dock's size. 3. don't buy 12 inch laptops. 4. yes, finder sucks. it takes some adaptation to learn to live with it. long time mac users have no complaints about it, whereas when i switched over from pc it was waa-waa time. 5. if you're having problems with crashing maybe you should have it looked at. I was using a powermac g4 for about two months. I left it on to do some bittorrent downloading for over a week and to my shock, it didn't crash or experience memory leaks. It never once crashed on me - and this is a 6 year old machine we're talking about here.
Yes, imac hard drives are replaceable.
:)
RAM is also, and very easy to do.
I am told that the cpu is soldered on but i wonder if it's possible to just solder on another. I wouldn't doubt it.
You can get a imac with a 7200rpm 500gb SATA NCQ-Capable hard drive as an option.
Would you need to upgrade that?
I recently switched and faced your dillema though. The main difference between this and
pc is that you are paying for it all upfront instead of gradually. I had a hard time
getting over my tinkering mentality too. I wanted to get a mac mini but i looked at the cost
and realized getting an imac would be cheaper because i could configure it to my exact specifications,
which ended up being cheaper if i say, built up a mac mini.
Look into it.
I've been a hardcore PC user since birth. I started working for a mac retailer which really piqued my interest in these machines that i previously scoffed at. Being of the build-it-and-upgrade-later mentality, my first thought was to get the base model mac mini, throw a 2.0ghz core2, a 7200rpm 100gb drive, and 2 gigs of ram into it, etc.. But i calculated the price: 1.66ghz solo base model mac mini = $600 core 2 duo 2ghz = ~$200 2gb 533mhz ram = ~$200 7200rpm 100gb sata 2.5" drive = ~$250 keyboard / mouse = ~$75 Total cost = $1325 before tax. Without a display. Instead i settled on a used core duo 2ghz 20" iMac with a 7200rpm 500gb hd, 1gb of memory, and 256 vram, which threw me back $1250 - and saved me lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Even a new 2.13ghz 20" model would have been cheaper @ $1500 if you figure in the cost of a display. All i'm saying is, get what you want. Not what's cheap to begin with. All the mac geeks at work drilled 'just go get an imac' into my head but i wouldn't listen because i usually build my own systems and to buy something pre- built and non-upgradeable was previously unthinkable to me. I am beyond satisfied with the speed and features of this machine. my pc building skills could never produce something engineered this well, plus, now i have a viable escape from windows, with the option of crawling back. Being able to play fairly recent PC games w/the radeon x1600 is definetely a perk also. And the screen is practically of apple cinema display quality, something i'd normally pay $300-$400 in the pc world, easily. So as a note, if you're thinking of switching, consider craigslisting your old setup and going iMac.