This article I wrote some time ago, and my opinion on MAC has recently changed a bit. I will go into it in more detail later on, but for now, enjoy the read!
I've been a geek for many years, and bought, used, and drooled over hundreds of products, but recently I became interested in one that I never thought I would want. Recently I got a MAC because of some development I wanted to do that could only be done on a MAC.
I already hear all you PC hardcores screaming me, "You trator! How could you, you can't game, you can't even right click! We're going to renig your Unreal Tournament Ranking!"
Ok, ok, ok, calm down... The reason I'm writing is to talk to all you skeptical whine-monkeys and let you know what I've learned, and why I actually LIKE my mac, along with complaints/problems I suspect you're believing in.
I can't right-click...
First of all, they DO have a right click. It's a "control-click" in windows terms, or you can just pick up a two-button mouse and it works just like it should. (or on the new multi-touch pads, press with two fingers)
The OS is proprietary and/or unstable and/or unreliable and/or etc.....
Well OSX made a huge shift from the original MacOS (as far as I understand, I'm not an expert in MAC history) by using a BSD base. That's UNIX, if you're not familiar with it, and you can even get to a command prompt if you want to. It doesn't get much more stable than that. As for proprietary, yeah, it is. So is Windows.
Most games aren't available for MACs...
Ok, this one is a big one, I just love gaming, and the first thing you do when you get a new machine is try all the games you wanted to play but couldn't on your old machine, right? Well I got the MacBook Pro, 15 inch monitor, 2.4 core2duo, 2 gig ram, 250 gig HD. Well in answer to the complaint, no, MAC doesn't support most games out there. But it DOES support windows, via a software package titled Boot Camp. Just run Boot Camp and it will ask you to insert your valid Windows XP or Vista installation CD. It will ask how big a partition you want (I made my 32 GIG so I could keep it FAT32 and readable by OSX), then followed the instructions. This is NOT a walkthrough, but basicly my experience was to install windows, reboot like usual, put the OSX disk in (in windows mode) and it installed all the proper Hardware drivers, then reboot again. Done, fully functional Windows XP running native, choose your OS at startup. I've been playing the Windows version of Bioshock a lot lately and it runs perfectly, without any problem.
Now the down side... MACs do tend to cost more, but they also have features that you can't get elsewhere, so they're not the perfect product.
So here's your down-n-dirty... is a MAC better? no. Is a MAC worse? no. Is it a good idea to check it out for yourself? Yes. This is a review column of things i like, not things I think everyone likes. I know for a fact that there is at least one person that would never buy a MAC, even if it came solid gold plated, with a coupon for 15 free hookers, so the choice really is up to you...
(or you could reverse the offer, but i don't know what you could really do with 15 gold-plated hookers.. yeah... go think about that one for a while)
See you next time!
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