All right. Screw this

[pegkerr]

This has been going on since the week before Christmas. I have absolutely positively had it. Bill Gates can jolly well bite my bum.

I'm going into Rob's store and buying a MacIntosh this afternoon.

Yet more thing on the credit card. *sigh*

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

going to get the new Mac mini? Or an ibook?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'm getting the iMac G5.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Right on! (And write on! I suppose.) Have a look at http://www.apple.com/switch for tips on switching so that it's as painless as possible. Here's hoping the hassles of learning something new are outweighed by the joys of using something that works.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Since Rob works there, can the technicians who are presumably still in possession of your old hard drive dump all your data to the new machine?

Maybe someone can come up with some free software for you, too. Microsoft Office is not cheap. I don't have another license myself.

K.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

There's a Student-Teacher issue of Office for Mac. IIRC it's about 150$. I use Abi-Word and like it, there's also Open Office for OS X. I'd agree the one best thing to do to a new iMac is add RAM, 512 at the minimum a full gig is way better. I finf Virex much less a pain than Norton in anti-virus.

If the the old drive as at all useable burn the files you need then transfer. Heck MNSTF has a LOT of Mac users to support switchers.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

I agree - add as much ram as you can afford - with their compact design they are nearly as bad as a laptop to tinker in.

[ex-radparker580.livejournal.com]

I would not rely on Open Office for OS X. I found it to be counter-intuitive for anbody who isn't an X-windows geek, and I am an X-windows geek. It's just not as slick as the Windows version of Open Office.

There is some Open Office-fork that puts a real Mac windowing interface around it, but the name escapes me at the moment.

If I were Peg and it were doable, I'd probably just buy the real MS Word or MS Office. Otherwise she'll spend some amount of time fiddling as opposed to Just Writing.

Oooooo!

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty good! Hope it works out for you. I've been happy with Macs for years. (Right now I'm seriously lusking (I think I'll keep that one...) lusting after a HD cinema monitor - you can get one that's about a YARD across diagonally.)

Re: Oooooo!

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Dude. Dual cinema displays. Sixty inches, that is five feet of monitor. Mu hu wa hahahahaha!

Got one even better for you...

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Chris Conroy (Sue's husband) wants to get three of those sucker and set 'em up with one on the right, one in front, & one on the left.

Of course, should I suddenly have a couple of million bucks fall on my face & I get the uber HD monitor I'd _just_HAVE_ to get an uber HD video camera (and then take over the world!)