I was at compusa looking at one and talked to toby he had a austriallian accent really cool guy anyways he showed me the various macs the 2 mac mini's and the imac's. I was impressed with the look and the compact size but the price and the current payment plans both at comp usa and apple is what is stopping me from doing this. that and I am trying to relocate so I can try to find work and I don't want to try to pack the mac accrost state. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Freedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:27 PM Subject: Re: building a mac
Can we please again stop the back-biting? Back on list and again wondering if I should be. Getting back to the original question: If you can get to a Mac store or see a friend's Imac or even mini, you may see the attractiveness in outward design that is so cool about a Mac as opposed to the PC. It's the feel of the machine, its space-saving physical design, it's 'cool' look. It's a bit like I guess the difference between getting a Merc and a bog-standard car of the cheapest production line. But it's your choice. I tend to agree that unless you're already used to building mnachines it would be safer, if less rewarding from that standpoint, to buy a ready-made new machine. On 29 Apr 2006, at 22:05, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Granted, what personally interest you is unimportant as you are not > the person seeking the information. > However you did make a better stab at answering the question. > upgrading the processor does not a new mac make, nor does it > apparently make for building one of course. > Personally there is nothing wrong with running os 9 if it suits > your purposes, vo does not run with what I use the mac for, so for > me os 9 is just fine, and I personally think 512 meg of memory is > more than baseless. This is me, however and I would not project my > interests onto this person, nor diminish their goals as I am not > them. It is their time after all? > > Karen > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net wrote: > >> because when you upgrade an old mac, you only upgrade the >> processor or ram, or maybe, pci cards. big deal. I to, have torn >> down, did magic tricks and rebuilt a pc, for a living mind you and >> you donb't see me wripping my mac a part to see if I could do it. >> it just doesn't interest me. >> >> As mac users we know the reason why mac os and mac hw run so well >> is because they were written for each other. now, if he is so >> pressed on running a mac on a pc, then why not go get osm 9 and >> baseless rom and a couple of other items and have a litteral mac >> on your indows pc??? >> BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> website: http://blindtechs.net >> Visit our website where we offer free email, shell accounts, >> shoutcast radio service, online games and more! >> Powered by Unix not Microsoft >> >> >> On Apr 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> In an effort to add something educational here, what is the >>> difference between what he is suggesting, and say upgrading an >>> older mac to a newer one? Others have done this on this list or >>> have referenced as much. >>> building a pc from parts is not uncommon, so I can understand the >>> spirit of the goal, but not why the idea is such an odd one where >>> macs are concerned? >>> Just wondering, >>> Karen >>> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, David Poehlman wrote: >>> > You might save 200 dollars or so, but what about that >>> warranty? What > about all the time and effort? Sheesh, oh, and >>> you have to buy the us. >>> > > On Apr 29, 2006, at 2:42 PM, hank wrote: >>> > > hello I was looking around on the osx86project.org site and >>> it mentioned > building a mac pc out of intel parts. >>> > 1. there any one doing this currently? >>> > 2. if this is possible, would it run tiger, or would I have to >>> result to > using hacked version of osx? >>> > am trying to find out the cheapest way to get my mac legally >>> oviously >>> > if I can build my own using parts, then purchase tiger I would >>> be saving > 200 bucks or so. >>> > let me know >>> > thanks >>> > hank >>> > > >> >> > > > ________________________________________________________________ Did you know! This message could have been secured by the TFT BBS Digital Security Initiative. To secure future messages from this sender, please click this link: https://keys.tft-bbs.co.uk:10040/b/b.e?r=Discuss%40macvisionaries.com&n=kRp% 2BKwUcsrHLnGdLA%2FpTTg%3D%3D
