FYI, my installation appeared to stall at about 95% completion, but I left it alone. It finished up about 10 minutes later.
Glad to hear that there were no adverse effects of rebooting before the installation was completed.
-Dan
A lot of people argue about whether PC's have more bang for your buck than a mac. I happen to agree with them, but I still own two macs (a 7 year desktop and a 1 year old laptop) mostly because I find the mac operating system more open to finding and fixing problems, and I happen to love how beautiful OS 10's quartz extreme works for displaying 2D graphics.
I have felt for years that a lot of people's problems often stem from the fact that money enters into decisions that they make. Consequently, whenever possible I try to leave the cost out of the decision. Once a decision is made, I this do whatever it takes to make that decision happen.
Now, I'm fortunate in that I make enough money to be able to afford a new mac every couple of years or so (not so for many, I realize), so I have been lucky in that I could decide on a computer and not have price be that much of an issue. Assuming that price did not come into your decision, would people prefer a PC or a mac? Let's assume that for some reason you had a rich uncle or aunt that offered to spend a couple of thousand dollars on you to buy your dream machine. What would it be? I'm not that experienced with PC's, but I'm thinking that the following might factor into your decision:
PC pros:
Can find almost anything developed for your machine.
Lots more games than on the mac.
Love windows XP interface.
PC cons:
Problems can be difficult to diagnose and fix (based on my experience of having to fix several friend's PC problems).
Hate Microsoft's history of proprietary code, undocumented "features" that violate constitutional rights, etc.
mac pros:
All of the free applications from Apple (itunes, imovie, etc).
Love the OS 10 interface.
Can run lots of UNIX applications side by side with standard desktop apps. (I personally LOVE this - I work in a protein crystallography lab, and I love being able to build structures while watching the keynote address).
Lots of the OS is open source, and Apple regularly contributes back to the open source world.
mac cons:
Charges for upgrades to the operating system every year (although this may not count if you are not letting money affect your decision).
Applications often delayed to come to the mac, if ever.
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FYI, my installation appeared to stall at about 95% completion, but I left it alone. It finished up about 10 minutes later. Glad to hear that there were no adverse effects of rebooting before the installation was completed. -Dan
A lot of people argue about whether PC's have more bang for your buck than a mac. I happen to agree with them, but I still own two macs (a 7 year desktop and a 1 year old laptop) mostly because I find the mac operating system more open to finding and fixing problems, and I happen to love how beautiful OS 10's quartz extreme works for displaying 2D graphics.
I have felt for years that a lot of people's problems often stem from the fact that money enters into decisions that they make. Consequently, whenever possible I try to leave the cost out of the decision. Once a decision is made, I this do whatever it takes to make that decision happen.
Now, I'm fortunate in that I make enough money to be able to afford a new mac every couple of years or so (not so for many, I realize), so I have been lucky in that I could decide on a computer and not have price be that much of an issue. Assuming that price did not come into your decision, would people prefer a PC or a mac? Let's assume that for some reason you had a rich uncle or aunt that offered to spend a couple of thousand dollars on you to buy your dream machine. What would it be? I'm not that experienced with PC's, but I'm thinking that the following might factor into your decision:
I'm curious to hear what people think.
-Dan