2007 year of the Mac

I am thinking of buying a Mac this year.

already switched to mac. i am glad to get rid off bill gate's shit and pc

I have no plans to buy a mac... ever

I bought a MacBook last month!

I have started to eat more of Macdonalds :-)

I consider buying Mac, but as second computer. Switching wouldn't be easy nowadays.

wow, you are right...that 12% is AMAZING

How's the Mac Pro versus the Mac BOOK Pro? Discounting the fact that one is a laptop, and one is a desktop, of course.

That's already on my plan--probably this coming month.

i bought and ibook and then a macbookpro in 06. still use the semi-trusty pc as a work horse tho. I love my macs for personal use

They are both really solid. I work with both at work and an intel iMac at home. I have Paralells Desktop running on 2 machines so I can run some WinXP apps at work. Really more testing it out. One guy I know bought a MBP and runs all his hardcore 3D software that is PC only. Says it works pretty damn well. At home I installed VMWare which is another way to install WinXP on the Mac. Works ok. Lets me run Unified Stats and other things I am messing around with.

The Mac Pro is a kick ass machine though. Faster than the MBP. And plus you can install a shit-ton of RAM and a lot of extra HD's (4 I think).

...Just bought my first one about 3 hours ago

I'm also a big Mac fan.... be it a mini, an imac, any of them is better than a pc.

I am planning on getting a Mac Pro this year, too. Just incredibly stable and reliable machines.

I'll never switch to a mac. I like PC's and am happy.

Its nice when you have parallells machines, its easy to use. and fun to learn off of. for different purposes of course.

Mac all the way bitches

you know...macs arnt all that "special...

damn thats hurting my eyes

Still planning to get one this coming June.

I'm thinking about buying a Macbook in the summer

Already a proud Mac user!

MAC dumped ppc all together didn't they? Essentially they're just pc's now.

Bought a MacBook.. trying to resist running Parallels for the last few Windows programs I might want to use.

One noticable difference is the lack of a StatsRemote or Unified Stats like product for Mac OS X.

Im guessing even a poll on gfy would show mac with less than 20%. More than likely less than 15%. But mac users are likely to sign up with multibile nicks and vote. lol

I buy macs to give to the community center for the mentally disabled, since they're kinda aimed towards that crowd anyways. Also it helps that they repel drool quite well.

I bought this about a month ago. The reason, tired of buying a new PC every year.

Mac Pro

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...C0&nclm=MacPro

I hate it when you get hardcore mac fans and hardcore pc fans fighting over which is best, I mean they are both good for different reasons I choose to use a pc because I prefer a pc

Spoken like a true 'ignoramous'.
Or a lame attempt at humor.

You will eventually be using a Mac. Trust me.

Never going to happen.

i bought a macbook for my wife and to be honest... i just didn't like it at all.. mac's interface just pisses me off.. sorry for the mac users here but i think i'm just a pc guy after all.. hehe wifey loves it though..

I'll be getting a mac soon.

Don't think I'll be "switching" to it, but it's not a bad idea to have both in your arsenal.

They are cool looking and all but when I look at the price to buy one and what I could build for the same amount.I feel very fucked.

ya know, i have always liked macs, never called them stupid or useless, used them in my highschool days, and that, always been a PC guy... but i decided to take the plunge a few weeks ago and bought a decent Mac iBook off ebay, and to be honest, i find myself on that more then i do my PC, except while im doing work, because the ibook isn't really that good of a work machine for the programs i use, since its small

well, by the end of may, i will no longer be using a windows based machine, as the 2 weeks i've been fucking with my ibook, im getting a mac desktop to replace my beloved and always handy dell demension 3000 and will be stripping that down and putting linux on it to use as a storage machine for movies/music and shit so my macs can just get that shit from there...

Hi my name is Josh, and i'm a new Mac fan.

sticking to pc all the way

I switched 2 years ago and I feel sorry for ignorant pc users.

I mean, those who never owned a mac and think they know something about it.

i dont like mac

Don't you have a truck-stop to visit, get inspiration for writing another country song?

im not switching :P

Has anyone hacked OSX to run on a standard PC?

Awww, good for them...

They are certainly looking better all the time

And sometime this spring they will be releasing the next major upgrade to OSX and unlike all the Vista threads posted all over the net its not wait and see if its any good it wil be how soon can I get it.

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Apple Computer's recently previewed Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" has made quite a stir, not because of what was shown at the World Wide Developer Conference but of what was excluded from show, cited "Top Secret". However, the build released to attendees at the conference includes a huge number of ground-breaking changes to the underlying technology in Mac OS X and the APIs exposed to developers.

As a world wide exclusive, AeroXP has received information detailing several of the API improvements to Leopard, detailed below:

* Complete 64-Bit support for Intel and PowerPC through all frameworks excluding QuickTime C, QuickDraw, Sound Manager, Code Fragment Manager, Language Analysis Manager and QuickTime Musical Instruments. These modules are deprecated and one should use the modern equivalents instead.

* Leopard will feature resolution-independent user interface and there are several functions to get the current scaling factor and apply it to pixel measurements. It is a good idea to use vector controls and buttons (PDF will work fine) or to have multiple sized resources, similar to Mac OS X icon design, so you can scale to the nearest size for the required resolution.

* Address Book adds support for sharing accounts, allowing an application to restrict content according to user.

* Automator includes a new user interface and allows things such as action recording, workflow variables and embedding workflows in other applications.

* Time Machine has an API that allows developers to exclude unimportant files from a backup set which improves backup performance and reduces space needed for a backup.

* A new Calendar Store framework allows developers access to calendar, event and task information from iCal to use in their applications or to add new events or tasks.

* Carbon, the set of APIs built upon Classic MacOS and used by most 3rd party high-profile Mac OS X applications, now allows Cocoa views to be embedded into the application. This could provide applications like Photoshop and Microsoft Office access to advanced functions previously only available to Cocoa applications.

* A new control for creating matrices of views is available, NSGridView. This allows a grid to be created from any view in the system, including OpenGL or Web Views.

* Core Animation allows layers to be used as backing stores for a view, windows to use explicit animations when resizing (can be three dimensional, akin to the Time Machine view). Any view can now be put into fullscreen mode and a CoreImage transition effect can be used. Using Core Animation you can create anything including GPU-accelerated Front Row-style user interfaces without having to write OpenGL code. A Core Animation layer can include OpenGL content, Core Image and Core Video filter effects and Quartz/Cocoa drawing content, like views and windows.

* Text engine improvements include a systemwide grammar checking facility, smart quote support, automatic link detection and support for copying and pasting multiple selections.

* Core Image has been upgraded to allow access to RAW images directly.

* Apache 2.0, Ruby on Rails and Subversion are included, and support for script-to-framework programming is available, allowing Python and Ruby scripting to access Mac OS X specific APIs.

* The iChat framework allows a developer to add shared content to an active iChat session, for example a video, an image slideshow or even an online multiplayer game.

* "Sharing accounts" are possible, with users being restricted via an access control list (ACL) to certain applications or files. Developers can integrate with this by restricting access to a specific piece of content by connecting it to a sharing account. Sharing accounts have no home folder.

* An Image Kit is included, to allow a developer to easily create an application that can browse, view, crop, rotate and pick images, then apply Core Image filter effects through an interface. A slideshow interface is also open to developers, allowing any application to display a fullscreen slideshow of images.

* Leopard also gives developers access to a "Latent Semantic Mapping" framework, which is the basis for spam protection in Mail. It allows you to analyze text and train the engine to restrict items with specific content (like spam e-mail for example).

* Mail stationery is open to developers, allowing any web designer to create fantastic-looking Mail templates, with defined areas for custom user content.

* A new framework is included for publishing and subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds, including complete RSS parsing and generation. Local feeds can be shared over Bonjour zero-configuration sharing and discovery.

* Quicktime 7.1 is included, and the underlying QTKit framework is greatly improved. There is improved correction for nonsquare pixels, use of the clean aperture which is the "user-displayable region of video that does not contain transition artifacts caused by the encoding process", support for aperture mode dimensions, improved pitch and rate control for audio and a number of developer improvements, like QuickTime capture from sources like cameras and microphones, full screen recording or QuickTime stream recording. Live content from a capture can be broadcast as a stream over the network.

Source: In-House Exclusive

No Mac for me!


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I heard alot of people switching to it.
The iPhone is another smart stuff

Macs are for fags.

you must have a lot of macs...

thinking about it to be frank.
not sure yet