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Well im bored at work, but I was imaging some 12" powerbooks and I know a lot of ppl on this forum have apples. So which of you have apples and what apps do you use on them?I have a 400mhz G4 Powerbook 15"I need to upgrade the hdd and once I do I'll be using garageband more often. Im still using 10.3.9 so i dont have any cool widgets yet but my parents G3 is running Tiger and I got them a couple neato widgets, for cooking, mixing drinks and gas. So for now its just iLife 2005 for me and ircle for irc chatting.

me:powermac G4 w/17" flatscreenOS9 (upgrading to X soon)photoshop 5illustrator 9quark xpress 4 and 5outlook expressadobe streamline 3stuffit deluxeacrobat 5MacShopStation 1.1.1connected to G5 server. (what a phatty)connected to a windows server, which i don't know anything about.

Drunken.. lol maybe you should not buy alcohol for a day so you can upgrade to osX 10.4 Oh yea i do use office 2004 a lot for presentations with powerpoint.

Quote, originally posted by northvibe »Drunken.. lol maybe you should not buy alcohol for a day so you can upgrade to osX 10.4 Oh yea i do use office 2004 a lot for presentations with powerpoint.hey, it's not my fault, it's the companies job to pay for it, not mine! after i get OSX, ill get illustrator CS photoshop CS, quark 6, adobe in design and pagemaker, added to my list

ah well if its free i work for the college, so my G3 work station has tiger and all the upgrades i want, dvd burner, 1gb ram, 200gb hdd. but for my pc work station i have this ... dell....yuck

Home:iMac G4 800-OS X 10.3-Adobe PhotoShop 7-Adobe GoLive 7-Adobe Illustrator 7-MS Office XiMac G3 333-OS X 10.2 Running Apache Webserver (Development and Testing)iBook G3 500-Basic load, soon to be out the doorAt Work:iMac G5 (Don't remember which speed)-Web Access/EmailI have a number of older Macs at home as well, but they don't see much use anymore.

hell, the pc i use is a no name dinosaur! i only use it to transfer windows files to my mac though, so it's ok.

Mac mini, 1.2 GHz/512 MB RAM/40 GB hdOS X 10.3.9Apps I use:Opera for my preferred browser, I'll use Firefox if I absolutely have toThe GIMP for hacking up imagesPhotoshop Elements 3 (although I rarely use it, the GIMP is so much more lightweight and is easier for me to use as I haven't learned the ins and outs of Elements yet.)Terminal gets a LOT of useiTunesMacAmp Lite X for when I just want to listen to music and don't need the extra stuff of iTunesMeterologist and Weatherman X for keeping tabs on what's going on outsideSnapNDrag for when I need to take screen capturesAudacity for editing wav filesAudio Hijack Pro, which works great for grabbing the audio from any source (used it for stuff like iDVD/etc)OSXvnc so I can connect to the Mac from the Linux box graphicallyChicken Of The VNC so I can connect to the Linux box from the mac graphicallyFolder Brander for changing the icons of various foldersWindowShade X which gives me the much needed ability of shading the windows like you could with Mac OS 9 and like I can with KDE in Linux.Frozen Bubble if I really get bored and need to play a gameThere's my list of apps/utilities/whatever. Not complete but stuff that does get used the most.

oh thnx colonelpanic, If im going to run osX more often i need to know what apps i need for the osX so i can do the same stuff i did on pc. those are some sweet apps.

I, too, am a Mac user (though I am typing this on the Linux box ), with an iBook G4 12" 800mhz...I love it, though I'm not sure I'm of too much help in finding Apps and such, as the only thing I really do is surf the web, type stuff, mess around with my home network, and send e-mail. My personal favorites are Firefox and Mail for e-mail, and even though it's MS I do kind of like Office, and I'm forced to use it for school stuff anyway...heh. I use NFS Manager to set up fileshares between the Linux box and the Mac. For graphics and photos, I use iPhoto or Photoshop Elements, and Dreamweaver MX for web pages, and that's about it as far as regularly used apps.

Believe it or not, I have a Mac LC I upgraded to a 32MHz 68030(!) that I still use for MIDI sequencing with a home synthesizer studio.I haven't done much in the last few years since the kid was born, and was thinking of replacing it with a PowerBook once I manage to get a little free time again . However, now that Apple may move to Intel chips I'll prolly get a WinTel laptop. The rest of my family uses Macs, but I went over to the dark side for my main machine long ago cause I can't do anything work-related on a Mac.

Quote, originally posted by GMJAP »I haven't done much in the last few years since the kid was born, and was thinking of replacing it with a PowerBook once I manage to get a little free time again . However, now that Apple may move to Intel chips I'll prolly get a WinTel laptop. Just curious, but why get a WinTel laptop just because Apple is moving to Intel? Since it would be an Intel chip either way, and the Mac OS will remain the same.

Quote, originally posted by Kari »I, too, am a Mac user (though I am typing this on the Linux box )this has to be the weirdest "me too" post ever...on my macs, other than the stuff that comes stock w/ OS X (terminal, safari, mail, X11) and the iLife apps (iPhoto and iTunes mostly) the only apps i use are BBEdit, WeatherPop, Adium, and Toast. occasionally i'm forced to fire up office 2004 or acrobat, but i do that vast majority of my work in text editors (i'm a unix admin).

Quote, originally posted by Kari »Just curious, but why get a WinTel laptop just because Apple is moving to Intel? Since it would be an Intel chip either way, and the Mac OS will remain the same. A worthwhile question. Mostly because I'd be concerned that in a few years new apps for Intel-based machines might not work on a PPC PowerBook. (Or not work well). Secondly, I'd still be part of the InHell juggernaut, just the OS is different. And based on my experience with WinTel compared to the rest of the family's with Macs, it seems the reliability and ease-of-use gulf between the two has narrowed drastically. My dad's spent hours trying to figure out why they suddenly couldn't print, or why his Airport connection went down, etc. We (wife & I) haven't had a problem like that..... ever I think.If I waited, just seems to me like I'd be spending a lot of extra cash for an Apple brand Intel box that has a more limited application market. Speaking of which- both the parents and the bro have spent even more money to buy SoftPC so they could run stuff they needed. Once they switch processors - it seems silly to run a Windows emulator on top of another OS on an Intel processor....I don't mean to start off a skirmish in the perpetual Mac MicroSuck wars. Just a perspective from a former Mac addict from a Mac family.

well ever since osX came out mac has been great for compatibility with windows units...althou windows still has zero compatibility for mac stuff. Its hard if your work only uses windows but I run both so i have the best of both worlds. My parents had me build a pc for them (windows) and idk how many calls a month i would get because of a virus or spyware and the modem going down..uhhh drove me up the wall. so i got them a G3 tower and put tiger on it and my dad never had used a mac before was able to use the apple in 10min asking like 5 questions and LOVES it. i have not ONCE gotten a phone call from my parents since and the internet has never not worked. Apple just makes some computer users life's simple and they just work. as for the airport yes some had issues i think they were fixed with a firmware patch or restarting it but the extremes seem to work great.as for the intel mac's i think it will let them drop the prices down. rossetta should make pre-intel mac programs work almost flawlessly on the x86 OS. Who can deny a mini mac, so cheap and they pack a punch with all the things you need, wireless, blue tooth etc. good deal right there.

I tried and tried to get my folks to switch, but in the end, dude, they got a Dell. (and got one for the price of three basic Mac minis, heh.)They can't really get any sort of support from me anymore - and I warned them of that - not because I don't want to, but because I don't know how to. I abandoned Windows entirely in the 2K days in favor of Linux and have only used Windows when I absolutely have to (like at work.) So, they always ask me about how to do this or that in XP and I simply can not answer their questions.Like the other day, dad wanted to know what the best kind of spyware killing apps, what sort of virus protection, whatever other utilities that decrudify a windoze box he would need. I had no clue, as with Linux and the Mac, I have no need for any of that crap.

hahah well its great we dont need to know what those apps are MUAHAHAHHAHAHa, i can even install osX on my xbox or any other pc for that matter....Well, osX is seriously easier than xp to learn, ppl need to just try it at the apple store first you can get so many free classes there too.

Quote, originally posted by northvibe »hahah well its great we dont need to know what those apps are MUAHAHAHHAHAHa, i can even install osX on my xbox or any other pc for that matter....How does one go about doing that? I'd love to do it myself...

Quote, originally posted by Kari »How does one go about doing that? I'd love to do it myself...Do it while you can, that ability won't last long...http://www.macrumors.com/pages...shtml

Think I'll stay away from hacking and stick with Linux for now on the PC...heh. Just in case

for the xboxlinux needs to be installed then pearpc so osx is pretty much emulated on the xbox, legal if you own osX disc and the apps to install it.for a pcit can be done 2 waysthrough vmware and sorta emulated or a native install both of which require some work with editing and typing. only legal if you have the developer kit