Dual-Core Macintosh: So Choice
I’ve heard from many of you who have taken the plunge and switched to Apple Macintosh. It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on Macintosh, but…let me just say that longer I have my iMac the more I love it. Parallels just came out with an upgrade to their software and all the excuses for not getting a Macintosh are gone, virtually (pun intended) gone. With Parallels you can run all the PC programs you want. I’m running all my Mac native software and my Windows software transparently. There is complete interchangeability. I can open Windows files with Mac programs, and similarly Mac files in Windows. I even have a feature that makes the Windows program files running appear simply as open Windows in my Mac. The copy/paste commands
on my Mac keyboard work perfectly in the Windows applications, etc. And, if any of you want to say, "Bu
t I can get a PC for a lot less than the Mac and it will perform just as well."
I will say, "With that statement you have proven you have not actually compared any Apples to apples, so to speak." Oh, and I just took a sneak peek at the next Macintosh OS coming. Windows Vista users…you ain’t seen nothing yet. In other words, as Ferris Bueller once said: It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
Amen… Windows user for years, always frustrated (worked in IT before Seminary). Bought my first Mac (a MacBook Pro) before coming to Seminary and I have never been happier using a computer. Everyone should take a look at a Mac when it comes time to make an upgrade to a new computer!
Hmm, I think I will upgrade my Parallels, I have not checked for some time. Thanks for the info.
[McCain response: Lito, please do. I waited to upgrade my Parallels for some time, but the new features are really great. ]
I have never stopped regretting the decision of the college I taught at for 30 years to “take away” my Mac. My first computer was the first generation Apple, now being used as a fish tank in the IT department. As more faculty chose Macintosh’s, I suddenly became the Mac-guru, though I am not a techy. The Mac really is so intuitive.
When I had to switch, it was done with wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I did cross over to the dark side and have had Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, XP and now Vista) and they still don’t compare.
My son is a junior in high school in Vail, AZ and his school opened with the approach of no textbooks. Each student was issued a Mac notebook and the software for each subject. The whole school is Wi-Fi. He has done very well, even though most of his hard drive is motocross and music videos. What is amazing to me is that I can still troubleshoot any issues he has with is Mac, and it has been 20+ years since I have used a Mac on an everyday basis.
Next computer….
>>It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
But wasn’t he talking about a vintage Ferrari?
Yes, he was talking about a Ferrari, but as we all know:
PC is to Mac as Yugo is to Ferrari.
My Pastor is a Mac user. Do they teach you this at the Seminary?
McCain: No, sadly, there are some at the seminaries who are in the darkness of the land of Microsoft, but some have, and do, see the light.
How well does a Mac work with Libronix and Lutheran Service Builder?
McCain: If you have an iMac with the dual-core Intel processor, and are using Parallels it works perfectly.
“It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.”
I have no choice but I do tithe — I think I’ll use my tithe to get one of these fancy Macs.
Besides that, Libronix is hard at work developing a Mac native version of their engine. And the cool thing is: they are not porting the existing code. They are recoding it from the ground up so that it is a true Mac application, using the latest OS X API. I am betting that it will put the PC version to shame.
I run BibleWorks 7 on my MacBook Pro using the latest Parallels. I absolutely love it. Before that, on my old PowerBook, I used Virtual PC (which was very slow, but it worked) since BibleWorks in the one PC app that I CANNOT live without.
McCain: I sure hope Libronix gives us long-suffering Mac users a major break since I’ve invested quite a large chunk of change in the PC version of their software! It will be interesting to learn how the Mac native version compares with the PC version. It is very, very fast now on my dual-core Mac.
I have been away in the land of PC hardware, since Dual Core is now on PCs, will Mac OS X run on a PC desktop with Dual Core? I remember there was some project like this but as I said I have been away, been busy testing BGP, LDP, MPLS, IPV4, IPV6, ISIS, OSPF etc (been speaking in tongues now for a while).
Lito
Any chance CPH will begin producing software native for Macs?
McCain: I would say the chances are extremely low. With the advent of the dual-core processor, Macs can now run PC software as fast as, if not faster, than any PC system. That fact, and the fact that there are still far, far more PC/Wintel platforms out there, than Macs, and the high cost of developing software for the Mac, means we will not be developing software for the Mac as far as I can see. Who knows what the future holds, but for now that’s the situation.