After a year and a half of my beloved G5 Powermac, i sold it (awaiting payment as we speak)... I archived all my data to DVD (ugh), wiped it, installed a fresh run of Tiger, and bid it fond farewell *tear*. I have been without my G5 (or any mac for that matter) for a full 25 days now. Im starting to have withdrawls! Being forced to use my windows pc in the mean time, i miss things like Expose, the dock, spotlight, live searching, and that oh so beautiful startup chime. OH how cruel the wait for a new mac is. OH how cruel indeed! Any of you people experience such woes as i? Just having sold off your old mac and awaiting the new one, meanwhile being forced to use a PC? Tell your stories!
Tell me about it! ive only just got my ibook back from it being repaired, ive been usuing my powermac but it has no net connection or expose
25 days!!! OUCH!! what mac are you waiting for? i've only been a mac convert for a few months. now i've just started a training course and i've got to use the school's pc for some work and printing. PC's are just not the same anymore. u can't really keep up with technology anyway. what u buy today might be obsolete 2morrow. So I think u should buy what u need now and be happy with it.
personally if buying a power mac, i'd wait for the new intel chipped ones to come out... which will hopefully be soonish
aye a macbook it be. a purdy white one. im going to get the baseline 2.0 ghz model. I'll buy 2gb ram and a 100gb 7200rpm drive for it from newegg. After i sell off the old drive and RAM i'll actually have paid less than if i had gotten 1gb ram and a 100gb 5400 rpm drive from apple directly...... basically an extra gig of ram and a faster drive for the same money.
A GUI imitation isn't the same as a full OS... I know the feeling, if I go back to XP (from Gentoo) everything seems to be in the wrong place, things take ages to do, with an immense amount of unnececary clicks... ***HUGS GENTOO LAPPY***
nah im using blackbox for windows and as for the 160gb drives, i dont have the extra time or money to wait for or buy one
Yeah, I've got an OSX theme for Windows (Stardock's WinCustomize+ObjectDock), but not having Expose at the very least is a killer, even if I can have my close/max/min buttons on the left. Natrually iTunes is the only app that doesn't get skinned Well, best of luck coping. I'm VERY tempted to sell some of my misc crap and get a Mini for my desktop, if nothing else in parallel to my Windows box. I dunno if I could stand the humor of having a 6x6x2.5" (or whatever) little bugger of a comp sitting on top of my Dremel-tested, Zeus-approved mah00sive v2000, rocking about 24x24x8" dimensions and probably ten times the weight. Maybe I'd just slip it in a spare drive bay
Oh I'm sure it'd fit, I was just commenting that the size difference (especially considering usability) would probably keep me in a state of continual giggling.
Thankyou! I'd totaly forgotten about BB4Win, it's a great shell replacement, very usefull. Thanks for reminding me of its existance
I'm on day 3 of my month without my Powerbook. I foolishly said my girlfriend could take it while she's away in Belgium for a month. So I'm back on my PC. I'm tolerating it rather better than I thought I would, actually. There are some things I actually prefer about the PC. Namely the speed (An Athlon 64 3200+ is waaaay faster than a 1.5GHz PB), and I prefer how Windows handles picture files. iPhoto is useable enough, but I hate Preview compared to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Catchy name). Also because of the speed, it's much easier to dip into Photoshop when I need to tweak (Photoshop on my PC loads in about the same time as iPhoto does on my Mac). However, I'm really beginning to miss other things. I use Exposé on my Mac all the time, same with the Spring-loaded folders. Also Quicksilver searches, I hate being without them. And I don't like having a crowded Windows task bar at all. What I love about the Mac is that although it's way slower than my PC, I can get stuff done much quicker. I can't wait to get my PB back, anyway.
Ive just been through the same thing, well, 3 weeks without a Mac. It made the Macbook turning up even more exciting! I hated being back on a PC, its great to be on the Mac again
since i got my first mac, i've refused to be without at least one for any period of time means i've run an upgrade path of macs continually... but not for pcs... go figure
