Mac V Desktop????

superscaper

Nickygoat wrote: »

If only my metallurgy lecturer had used something similar none of us would have fallen asleep

Metallurgy? What was your degree? (completely off topic and just curious)
My guess is something like manufacture or materials science.

superscaper

Getting back on topic I think the best suggestions on this thread involve setting out a list of computers (no matter what OS and in your budget limit) and coming up with some kind of criteria to score them. Also actually trying out a mac would definitely be a good idea. For all I know you might completely fall in love with Mac OS and find it more intuitive.

Nickygoat

superscaper wrote: »

Getting back on topic I think the best suggestions on this thread involve setting out a list of computers (no matter what OS and in your budget limit) and coming up with some kind of criteria to score them. Also actually trying out a mac would definitely be a good idea. For all I know you might completely fall in love with Mac OS and find it more intuitive.

An excellent idea, I just query the use of "might";)

superscaper wrote: »

Metallurgy? What was your degree? (completely off topic and just curious)
My guess is something like manufacture or materials science.

An esoteric branch of engineering that is completely useless when you consider my location - Central London.

Mining. The material scientists were bottom of the tree as far as we were concerned

ABH_3

Oooh do I want to get in the middle of this :undecided Mac vs PC it never ends well.

Anyway, if you're happy with pc, why not just buy one with enough extra room for something like this: http://www.tpcsystems.co.uk/acatalog/TSLKW26MF72B.html install your OS on one drive, clone it using a drive image program to the other drive at the end of every work day. (DrvImagerXP http://www.freeware.org.uk/disk.htm a 'How to' is here: http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tutorials...subsectionid=0) So you always have a backup.

If you buy 3 of them, you can use one for 'family' things and the others purely for 'work'. Then simply swap them over at the relevant times.

You will probably also find your virus 'threat' situation dissapears with your son. Unless you're prone to the odd p2p download, or perhaps drawn to opening 'britney naked' type of file attachments.

Anyway, as I said; It's just another solution. And I avoided the whole Mac vs PC debate as well :T

HTH