I want a new mac

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beriah

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I am after a new computer, i want it to be a mac, i will mainly be using it for the internet and music that is all so i will want a bigish hard drive and pritty fast. Im on a budget of $1000.

Can you help me choose a good mac desktop computer, what specs should i go for.
 
well he is paying you out (or macs out to be more specific):)


for that price honestly, in an unbias way, a mac is an expensive option. a pc would give you a bigger HDD and better specs. dont get me wrong, i think macs are good, but be prepared to pay more for what you get especially at the lower pricce range
 
i.Angel said:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa

^I don't know much about Mac's, but you can take a look for yourself here:D^

Apparently, 1k isn't going to get you much.
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Seriusly for 1k you could get a pritty great gaming pc. But if you only want it for internet and music you could do it for 500, and if you still like mac so much you can get itunes for windows and such.

Apokarteron said:
I'd stick with the Mac, PCs suck
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Is that why you have a pc in your sig? :P
 
As everyone is saying, why don't you just buy a pretty decent PC and just run the Mac OS on it? And if you don't want to spend the money on the OS, just get a skin.

Besides, I still don't know why Macs are overly priced... they just have a different looking OS. My friends say they are great for music and photo editing... Must be Apple's software then.
 
kobaj said:
You could alwase get a pc with windows and then put on a mac skin...
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Yeah only if you like the looks of MAC, and NOTHING else of mac, plus a "mac skin" wouldn;t even make the controls the same. a MAc skinned PC and a MAC are so totaly differnt.
 
you really can't get much for $1k, there are a few of options for that budget:
A mac mini, with upgraded 1 gig of ram, and wireless keyboard and mouse
A bottom of the range ibook G4
Or there are 2 lower end mac minis which you could go for

But i would seriously go for pc, you would get a waay better spec for your budget, and if it something that you specifically have against windows then you could try out linux on it

for example you could get the pc here
http://computerforum.com/showpost.php?p=267490&postcount=4
for a $800 budget then get a nice tft to go with it, that wayyou would get far superior specs and performance

Lee:)
 
elmarcorulz said:
To everybody who said "get a pc" he said he wants it to be a mac, so id ont see how your comments were helping

;)

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...6044003/wo/1l6dID60e40C3DKLSdQxtrNWP9Y/1.?p=0

If you take the RAM to 1GB and the HDD to 120GB then it comes to $1024. Anything else you want to customize you can, and it looks a pretty good setup
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Elmar, the link has a session period, which incidentally has timed out...

As everyone is saying, why don't you just buy a pretty decent PC and just run the Mac OS on it? And if you don't want to spend the money on the OS, just get a skin.
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Plain and simply: You can't just go out and build/buy a new PC, and expect that the Mac OS X operating system will run on it. It's all down to the hardware you choose... Me? I was just lucky!

You see, becuase of the transition to Intel CPU's, they had to redesign the OS in order for it to operate on Intel CPU's. This meant that is could be hacked, and ran on x86 machines.

Now, there is still a difference between running the OS on an x86 System, and buying an IntelMac. Compatibility. When you go out and build a PC, you cannot just expect to run OS X(86) properly on your machine without any hitches. Thankfully, I having it running almost perfectly on my system, with the exception of it not reading my SATA drives (due to drivers) and my 7800GT is currently not being used to its optimum (again, due to drivers. There is a MacVidia project which is slowly but surely getting there though... Support for resolution and refresh rates has been successfully done).

So, with a proper IntelMac, you get full compatibility, and assurance that you will be able to run the next OS X (Leopard) on it. With it running on an x86 machine, you have to decrypt all sorts of files... 10.5 (Leopard) may have a hardware requirement that x86 cannot support. Oh, and you can also run Windows, with practically 100% compatibility, on Mac hardware now, due to the newly released beta by Apple called, BootCamp.

That's mainly it.

Lastly: If you are planning on building a PC to run OSx86 on, visit http://forum.osx86project.org/ for the hardware compatibilty lists, etc...

:)
 
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