is an apple macbook worth the extra

Leopard

BillScarab wrote: »

Yes, that is interesting. But as I said I was surprised as I know two school governors, one of whom is reponsible for IT and neither of their schools use Macs. Also the school my children goes to doesn't. None of the local secondary schools seem to either.

Perhaps certain LEAs are keener on Macs than others.

It seems from that report that Apple are adopting the Jesuits principles.

I saw a child pestering his mother for her white iPod, the other day.

I thought, when he gets bigger he'll be asking her for a white MacBook...

viv0147

I have had both systems, and without a doubt the Apple is the best in my opinion, in fact its fantastic.

randomtask_2

Scrilla wrote: »

I use spotlight in exactly the same way. I have no application icons in my dock and always open them using spotlight. I try to stay away from using the mouse as much as possible and find this method efficient. Strangely, my preferred method on windows is pinning programs to the task bar and clicking on them. What I love about Spotlight is it's ability to search content and not just file names. With in excess of 100,000 work documents, it is very easy to use spotlight to find documents relating to "the three bears", even if the file name happens to be "Goldilocks.doc". I'm used to Spotlight (keyboard) navigation in Mac OS and using the mouse to navigate in Windows. Different environments, different habits.

I agree with the 'horses for courses' approach - in my case, my Macbook's desktop is very clean and I use spotlight or the recent documents stack to access frequently used files. My work laptop (running a relatively stable but sluggish XP SP2) in contrast has a desktop full of application shortcuts, folders and random files that I'm working on - probably because I've never found the search facility or tagging anywhere near as useful and my mentality at a computer in the workplace is different to home even if some of the applications are on both.

I'm not saying this is a case that using a Mac at work would be better, but I'm certainly evidence of different behaviours between the two OS environments especially when one is for home/leisure use and the other for work...

adouglasmhor

Marty_J wrote: »

If the hardware is so standard, it much be pretty easy to put together a Mac by purchasing the components yourself, huh?

Building hackintoshes is a grey area indeed. but any dual core laptop will run osx as native if you know how to instal a legaly bought copy of the os.

almillar

tescodave - make an appointment at an Apple Store - that's a known fault and they'll fix it for free for you.

Leopard

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Building hackintoshes is a grey area indeed. but any dual core laptop will run osx as native if you know how to instal a legaly bought copy of the os.

It isn't "a grey area" at all; it's totally black and white: it breaches, unequivocally, the EULA of Apple's Mac OS X and, as such, is an infringement of copyright law.

(Nevertheless, if you do it properly, you will find that even its spelling-checker works. :rolleyes: )

So let's be quite clear about that.

Leaving the legitimacy of them aside, however, Mac-hacks work with varying degrees of stability and functionality, depending on the model of host computer and the ingenuity of the perpetrator.

The big problems come when Apple releases an OS updater or upgrader to its OS and this breaks the hack. (Golden rule: leave "Software Update" switched off.)

Mac OS 10.6.2 has wreaked havoc among the transgressing unwary and is proving quite a hard kernal nut to crack for the hacking gurus.

I'd be extremely chary of running a Mac-hacked laptop or desktop for anything crucial but it's safe enough on a netbook if you are content to stick with a tried and tested, fully de-bugged, earlier version of the Mac OS.

Fortunately, for those who like naughty things, OS 10.5.7 has been hacked and perfected to a degree that's rock solid on a Wind. And you aren't going to be needing to run the latest version of Photoshop or Logic Pro on a 10" netbook.

On the other hand, I use an old (2003) Apple G4 Power Mac, running Mac OS 10.5.8, as a file, printer and network server, with four large storage hard drives inside it. When, eventually, it expires, the idea of replacing it with a cheap (but Gigabit capable and Firewire upgradeable) PC tower, Mac-hacked with a version of OS X that isn't cutting-edge but can do that particular and modest job safely, is not without appeal... :cool:

adouglasmhor

Leopard wrote: »

It isn't "a grey area" at all; it's totally black and white: it breaches, unequivocally, the EULA of Apple's Mac OS X and, as such, is an infringement of copyright law.

It's only black and white if you get caught. Or if you were unfortunate enough to be running a pentium m or an intel atom on the last upgrade.

Leopard

adouglasmhor wrote: »

It's only black and white if you get caught. Or if you were unfortunate enough to be running a pentium m or an intel atom on the last upgrade.

As the burglar said to the judge.

(And as I hope, personally...:cool: )

Why does the type of CPU in the non-Apple computer alter the legitimacy of hacking it, in your opinion? :huh:

adouglasmhor

It's not the legitimacy, it's the fact that it seems Apple are trying to weed out hackintosh netbooks http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hackintosh-intel-atom-snow-leopard,9025.html , http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/09/mac-os-x-10-6-2-update-released-intel-atom-support-officially-missing-breaks-hackintosh-netbooks/ but this only affects you as you said if you like to update.

Intel macs used to just use core solo and core duo so that is what the support is geared to.

asininity

markymoo wrote: »

So you really have no idea what the onion is then do you.. its satire... you know.. a joke, a laugh.

shame the joke is always lost when you have to explain things

M

Other than something good to eat no and neither do I care... yawn... if its pish its pish and it was pish.

Leopard you'll get no argument from me about m$.