:D Yeah, it looks a bit poor. I'll assume I was hungover. :D
Ianwoollam Wrote:
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> Gav is half true, even though he has really
> overexaggerated
a Mac Mini Intel's and
> PowerPC's has never cost £770 even when first
> released and brand new. The most expensive is
> about £529, and it ain't really work the extra
> compared to the £399 version. Problem with Apple
> is they don't lower their prices, for instance the
> price of all the Mac's since the intergration of
> Intel have hardly changed since it was first
> released, neither have they been upgraded. At
> first the prices of them were very good, around
> the same as the PC's offered by Dell but Dell's
> prices have lowered and Apple's just haven't
> lowered theirs or released anything new. I don't
> understand that buisness sense myself, but usually
> you can get a pretty good deal through
> refurbished. It dosn't help by the fact that Mac's
> arn't very upgradable, its like the PS3 vs Xbox
> 360, theres so many options avalible for the PC
> and just not as many for the Mac, the only
> upgrades I can do on this laptop is RAM and Hard
> Drive, and tbh I don't think its much different
> with the rest of the Mac's Retail range except the
> Mac Pro, but that things really stupidly
> expensive!
I just compared the prices online. All specs as close as I could get them, and at the time, all prices were correct, exclusive of delivery (which was free on the Dell, though I don't know about the Mac. The Mac I specced isn't up on their site any more.
Ianwoollam Wrote:
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> I agree with Chris the Networking isn't that good,
> Windows has Network Neighbourhood with is easy to
> get into, Mac has to use "Connect to Server" which
> is similar to Window's Map Network Drive, its the
> only way to access shared folders which is
> annoying to say the least, but it does work! Which
> tbh is more than I can say about Vista's
> interaction but thats another story
I can't comment on the Mac's networking abilities, but I agree that Vista's main problem is probably networking. There's a known bug which can take network transfers down to a crawl, and getting XP and Vista machines to share files can be like trying to swim through hardened toffee. Sometimes it'll just work, sometimes you have to completely reset all permissions, and sometimes it just plain refuses to work.
On a side note which is bordering on off-topic, if anyone wants a Vista-style file management system (ie, the much-improved Explorer) on XP, check out [
www.gpsoft.com.au]Directory Opus]. It really is rather awesome and saves you a lot of time once you've got it set up. The only draw-backs are that it's not free, and it's Australian.