who is going to buy a mac before june 07?
 

home system (g4 cube) is fairly out of date and we plan on buying a new mac, g5 2 ghz duel tower or 20" imac, within the next month. not sure if i want to wait for the intel macs which will be released in june 2007. just not sure if i need to spend the money on a tower plus matching 20" monitor. figure with the money i would save in buying an imac i could buy a nikon d70.
any one else on the fence about buying a new mac within the next 6 months?

I might buy a mini in the next few weeks. Any large apple purchase will wait until the intel boxes are solid.

Buy the 20" monitor in any case... they will rock your world :D

My G4 tower is ageing too. When I redo the system I will go wireless powerbook and wireless routing to printers and such. I will boycott the Intel mac.

No reason to wait for the Intelintosh.

What now is "The Intel Mac"? (I skipped that whole news cycle somehow).

I was considering buying an Imac or something cheap for my poor Mom, who is 74 and dealing w/ PC viruses and spyware, etc... I just recently got her off of AOL. :rolleyes:

(Parents are ~2000 miles away or I would be a lot more "hands on" helping her).

buy a used one on thebay.

Apple announced that they're switching to Intel chips. faster, better, cheaper... i hope :)

Home wireless networking is incredible with them. My Powerbook picked up our network out of the box. It set itself up, which is a BIG plus, as I know computers but little about wireless networking. We have 2 other PCs hardwired to the network. I got my files off my old PC... PC to Mac works better than PC-PC...it's really something.

I have one of the new 1.5 GHz G4s with a 15" widescreen. It's occasionally slow, and my AIM quits unexpectedly on occasion, but I still like it better than Windows for everything except for gaming.

I'm looking for a used sunflower G4 iMac for the kids.

Also we need a Mac laptop, if we go for the cheap iBook I'll buy a current one, if we decided to spend big-bucks I might wait until the Intel-based PowerBooks, guessing in early '06.

We recently bought two G5 iMacs, one for us and one for my dad. I had no problem buying those, the existing processor is more than enough for our needs and I don't think the desktop Macs will switch to Intel until early '07.

I'm really looking forward to the Intel-based Macs. Intel has a great roadmap, and we could get dual-processor, quadruple-core PowerMacs - which would really be smokin'.

My new 17" iMac is really nice but the fan is a little loud.

Those G5 CPUs must crank out a few BTUs!

Buy a Mac now, then wait until 2008 or so whilst they perfect the IntelMac.

And yes, I did just write "whilst." :rolleyes:

Whoah, slow down, cowboy. Do you really _need_ a new computer? Is your current machine _honestly_ not performing up to par? Do you have some performance limitation which is actually costing you time, mission-essential capabilities, or other Pain and Suffering (tm)?

I only raise the question because a lot of people upgrade simply because newer stuff exists, spending rather a lot of money on stuff wot they won't benefit from. Just a thought ...

yeeehah...okay let's say i want but don't need a new machine. let's face it a g4 450 mhz os 9.2 machine is outdated. current day peripherals (digital cameras, scanners, printers don't cater to 9.2. even my web browser is behind. a quick solution would be to install os 10.4.2 but do i really want to do that on a 450 mhz machine then load it with all the graphics applications. it has not been a huge concern for me as i work in a room full of g5s and g4s. the real reason i want to update the home system is because i may or may not be thinking about a job change and want to be able to work from home. my current thought is to move forward and buy a new tower and monitor and be done with it.

I've saved many many thousands of dollars in refusing to acknowledge the existence of computer games. We have a PS2 for games. The PC is not our entertainment system. Our home computer is one step away from crude oil but still does the tasks asked of it.

No joke, I play ONE game: Enemy Territory.

Both my Dell 1.7 GHz P4 running Linux and my iMac are fast enough to handle it with aplomb.

Yes, I just said "aplomb".

I have a Dell P4 just to play Halo and Battlefield 1942. Windows is way too unreliable to use for anything else.

Wilst!!! Aplomb!! Man you guys are smart!

Windows runs well enough to play NFS5, Porsche Unleashed, for me. If only I could figure out how to play in Linux, or on the Mac ... That's definitely the one downer about the Mac -- minimal gaming support. I guess it's good, though: when Mac games come out, you already know which ones are good, because you remember them from 5 years ago on the PC.

Right on. I guess the last biggie we got first was Myst.

techweenie - I'd like to remind you that the first public test release of Quake3 came first for Linux then Mac, then a month later win32...

I lost track of Quake 3 after seeing the prerelease teases at E3 about 3 years ago. I guess it finally came out?

Anyway, looks like maybe we don't need stylish, reliable boxes to run OSX anymore. Some hackers have OSX running on Intel/AMD cpus now:

http://wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,68501,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

OSX is a good system, imho. I'd be curious to know what else you think about it Tech, as I respect your computer opinions. In the month or so that I've been dorking around with it, it does everything I've needed, runs smoothly, and hasn't given me any problems. I've always been a PC-guy, but my intro to OSX has been pretty positive.

I've had, I think, three crashes in 4/5 years with OSX. That's pretty good stability for a system I almost never shut down.

There are a couple of things I'd still like to see in OSX related to pathnames, but there are lots of people with little utilities to add to the OS to bring greater functionality. Since it's based on FreeBSD, it's a pretty well-sorted basis for an OS. And the fact there's never been a virus/trojan/worm is a huge plus. Apple has been pretty aggressive with updates when 'theoretical vulnerabilities' have been discovered.

As with any OS, wait for the X.0.3 revision before updating.

My only complaint w/ OSX is the goofy way it handles drag-n-drop of multiple files. There seems to be no order or sequence to it. Just kind of random.