Computer ****z

[LagerHead]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... i fired up the plastic and the phone lines so that a week later my 27" i5 iMac as well as 3rd party +4Gb of RAM was here. It fired up, installed, discovered my network, a couple of clicks later and i was into my e-mail, had VMWare's Fusion 3 installed and Win7 running in sandbox mode and haven't looked back. For my Xmas present, my Son-In-Law's sister bought me Photoshop Deluxe for the Mac.

Us Mac Geeks gotta stick together!

My 13" MacBook is spec'd the same as your iMac. LOVE it.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... i fired up the plastic and the phone lines so that a week later my 27" i5 iMac as well as 3rd party +4Gb of RAM was here. It fired up, installed, discovered my network, a couple of clicks later and i was into my e-mail, had VMWare's Fusion 3 installed and Win7 running in sandbox mode and haven't looked back. For my Xmas present, my Son-In-Law's sister bought me Photoshop Deluxe for the Mac.

Us Mac Geeks gotta stick together!

My 13" MacBook is spec'd the same as your iMac. LOVE it.

I went Mac about 3 years ago now, and won't ever go back. The only thing I really use Parallels/Win XP for anymore is CAD and some control software that aren't available in Mac world (yet).

I'm quickly ridding my home of anything Windows. Mac Pro with two dual core 2.66GHz procs, 13GB of RAM, 1 150GB HD, 1 250GB HD, and 1 1TB HD. 22" wide screen HD monitor, blue tooth keyboard, Magic Mouse, Bose speakers. Life is good.

 

[Bounce]

The nice thing about Linux is the live CD, try it out without risk, if it finds all your hardware to your satisfaction & you like it, just install it.

and, along those same lines, a lot of security wonks are recommending a portable boot from CD of everything you need (drivers, apps, etc.) that you can boot to each time you do any on-line buying or banking. a completely fresh, malware-free boot each time. et viola!

as for storage, i'm sticking to my internal 1Tb hdd that came with the iMac. after all, there's that Drobo FS sitting on my gigabit home network with 5 2Tb caviar blacks; just begging for more...

 

[Checkswrecks]

Ironic....... I'm going the opposite way. I have a newish Dell laptop that I'm stuck with for work. The thing has so much employer bloatware for security that I'd much rather have a tablet.

 

[dcarver]

MAC's are for people who don't know how to run a computer.

Kinda like a skooter compared to a Hayabusa.

Oh, what you say? Mac's rule, mac's rock?

Where are they in enterprise commerce, Fortune 500?

huh?

...can't hear you..

And what now?

Mac OSX server *no longer available* for purchase?

By Bye Macpuppy..

Long live Windoze!

Signed,

A Mac user and lover,

really.. my primary machine at work is Mac,and I love it..

but if you need a job, better learn Windoze..

Edited by me..

This rant had nothing to do with a wonderful box put together by a really cool forum peep.

My apologies, D.

 

[FJRBluesman]

Dan - R U nutz? Do you have a license to operate that nuclear device?

Talk about more power! Holy smokes!

Now mount that bad boy on the FeeJ, and I'll really be impressed.

 

[CaptainK]

"but if you need a job, better learn Windoze"

Don't most servers run Linux?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Linux distributions have long been used as server operating systems, and have risen to prominence in that area; Netcraft reported in September 2006 that eight of the ten most reliable internet hosting companies ran Linux distributions on their web servers. Since June 2008, Linux distributions represented five of the top ten, FreeBSD three of ten, and Microsoft two of ten; since February 2010, Linux distributions represented six of the top ten, FreeBSD two of ten, and Microsoft one of ten. Linux distributions are the cornerstone of the LAMP server-software combination (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) which has achieved popularity among developers, and which is one of the more common platforms for website hosting. Linux distributions have become increasingly popular on mainframes in the last decade due to pricing, compared to other mainframe operating systems. In December 2009, computer giant IBM reported that it would predominantly market and sell mainframe-based Enterprise Linux Server. Linux distributions are also commonly used as operating systems for supercomputers: since November 2010, out of the top 500 systems, 459 (91.8%) run a Linux distribution. Linux was also selected as the operating system for the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's Sequoia which will become operational in 2011.

Come away from the darkside Luke, SSD's and Ubuntu/Linux is your answer.

P.S. I only use Windows to please my Garmin

Carry on