Sweet, sweet apples

[Tommy Boomfiger]

just got a 15" iMac couple of days ago and it is so nice. i havent really used a mac in 5 or 6 years but this one is so much nicer than my last experience. i was suprised to see all the software that was bundled with it. it runs so smooth, apps install easily and cleanly and setup was a breeze. these things are so sweet, too bad its not mine to keep. i will definately be buying another mac as soon as i can, maybe not another imac though. i dont really like the propriety form factor of the system, but i would love to put some cold cathodes around the screen and keyboard and some leds into the mouse and speakers. and those speakers are nice, i wish i could put them on my pc . the voice command integration is great, there is absolutely no teaching involved, you just turn it on and talk. too bad there isnt a voice setting to make the computer sound like HAL or Majel Barrett from st: tng (hope someone puts out a mod for it). thanks to ribitch, seqiro and especially spigidygak for thier help.

[Tommy Boomfiger]

ive been playing around with this for a while now and got ms office and im thinking of putting toast in here. what other apps or utils would be useful to have?

[ribitch]

I'm glad you are liking your iMac. Today at work, i ordered a dual 1.25 GHz powermac with 512 MB PC2700 and a 17" LCD.

office
toast
chimera navigator
photoshop
windows media player
fetch ftp client
MOX Optimize


go to versiontracker.com/macosx and search for these. There are a few other apps that I use but cant think of them off the top of my head.

As for people complaining about apples performance, all i can say is check this out:
http://www.cpuscorecard.com/

Look at the top 4 systems. Apple is tied with a 2600+ for the #3 slot. Not too shabby

[johnnymk]

Originally posted by ribitch
[B]As for people complaining about apples performance, all i can say is check this out:
http://www.cpuscorecard.com/
[B]

CpuScorecard is a great reference site that I have been using for years

[Hoser]

Rbitch, what are your Apple computers at work used for?

[Mpowered]

Windows Media Player, Microsoft Office and MS Internet Explorer on a Mac, what has this world come to?

[ribitch]

Originally posted by Hoser
Rbitch, what are your Apple computers at work used for?

we have a mySql server and a webserver both running OS X. we also have many apple work stations and a central apple server to authenicate and serve files. I also use the machines for any video editting that i need to do as well as any photoshop work.

Windows media player serves one purpose for me, and thats for streaming audio at www.wrif.com

i tend to do most documents in the terminal unless i need to make it look more appealing (i.e. memos purchase propositions) in those cases i use word.

IE is worthless in OS X. I prefer chimera and Omniweb to IE. Chimera renders pages so much quicker than IE does

Mail is a great program that makes outlook and entourage look bad. iCal and mail together totally elimiate the need for entourage and outlook.

[spigidygak]

Heh if you want something pretty snazzy to get for your imac. . . check this out: http://www.xtrememac.com/formac/irise_for_imac.html The thing adds more usb and firewire ports and also puts a really cool blue glow underneath a la griffin's powermate which btw is a VERY cool product.

Or in need of a really nice desk/kiosk? http://www.termimac.de/eprodukt1_tm5.html