Brisbane POTN Coffee Club (3) - Everything From Shutters to Cuppas

-Pleiades- wrote in post #5104616
although now I'm actually trying to activate it and set it up I'm feeling like a ping pong ball

Ooh Kinnon, looks like i will be down in melbourne on the 16th, 17th and 18th of May, thats friday to sunday. Although i might be able to stretch it to the 15th to the 18th...

ooooh Sam. Sounds good! I have no idea if I will be working or what my roster will be but send me a pm or something and if you want we can try for a mini meet!

I gotta be first to get to 500!!!

yay!

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I purchased a MAC months ago good news no ads no virus etc... only downside is loads photoshop plugins are out of bounds, good news think you can run a programe
http://www.vmware.com/​products/fusion/ that allows windows to run
about to try this tonight sometime as I really need my other plugins

-Pleiades- wrote in post #5104688
ooooh Sam. Sounds good! I have no idea if I will be working or what my roster will be but send me a pm or something and if you want we can try for a mini meet!

Will do. Have to work the details out with dad first though. Only just did the math and that is the only weekend i can go

wakko wrote in post #5104831
I gotta be first to get to 500!!!

yay!

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woah, did i catch up or what?

mc41 wrote in post #5104839
I purchased a MAC months ago good news no ads no virus etc... only downside is loads photoshop plugins are out of bounds, good news think you can run a programe
http://www.vmware.com/​products/fusion/ that allows windows to run
about to try this tonight sometime as I really need my other plugins

What sort of mac do you have? If its an intel one, cant you just install windows on it and run it via bootcamp?

-spam- wrote in post #5104867
woah, did i catch up or what?

nah you continued like normal... i did some work

wakko wrote in post #5104874
nah you continued like normal... i did some work

I did some work too

Made notes i could understand from some lecture notes my economics lecturer put on the net for us and then retyped them

-spam- wrote in post #5104867
What sort of mac do you have? If its an intel one, cant you just install windows on it and run it via bootcamp?

why would you buy a mac to install windows? *sigh*

wakko wrote in post #5104879
why would you buy a mac to install windows? *sigh*

Dual boot. So you dont lose all your windows programs when you switch to a mac. Dad would be doing that if he got one because of the programming stuff he needs that wont work on the mac.

Have Leopard but cannot locate bootcamp,need to find disk and see if its on there.

-spam- wrote in post #5104884
Dual boot. So you dont lose all your windows programs when you switch to a mac. Dad would be doing that if he got one because of the programming stuff he needs that wont work on the mac.

mmmm nah stuff that when I went mac, I stayed mac all the time

mc41 wrote in post #5104942
Have Leopard but cannot locate bootcamp,need to find disk and see if its on there.

Click on applications
utilities
therein you will find boot camp assistant and the not so lovely world of windozes will be there for you

On both my Mac though I use vmware fusion as it allows me to run Mac OSX and windows apps together

Okay, so fill me in. What exactly is the advantage of a Mac over a PC?

Greg_C wrote in post #5104406
want to do some cad work? can't promise anything but we are looking for entry level people

Air conditioned comfort?

Oooh, is experience necessary?

Nick C. wrote in post #5105093
Okay, so fill me in. What exactly is the advantage of a Mac over a PC?

really depends on what you do... for me, I'm pretty happy on PC, but if I had plenty of disposable income to spend on a computer, then I'd get a mac pro.

Nick C. wrote in post #5105093
Okay, so fill me in. What exactly is the advantage of a Mac over a PC?

To be honest, they're pretty much the same now days. Different OS, yes, but much the same format and both are customizable to the extent that they can be virtually identical in layout etc. Most programs come in Mac and Windows versions, and those that don't you can run using emulators on either OS anyway. That said, i prefer my MacBook to my PC desktop. It's smoother running, gets no viruses (even without any virus protection software), it doesn't have all the annoying prompts that you get every time you try to do anything on a PC ("you look like you're trying to move your mouse cursor - allow or decline?"), and I find it does everything I want without any hassle. There are always going to be fanboy-wars (kinda like Canon v Nikon, I guess!), but I think the reality is really that whichever suits you individually and whichever you personally prefer is the one that's the best.

Oh and Nick, I forgot to PM you, but the card reader arrived last week. Thanks a bunch