Comments on: Choosing a Mac

By: Brisbane Marketing Consultant

Brisbane Marketing Consultant — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:29:56 +0000

Don’t throw away your PC. Get yourself a free copy of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and install it and see what you think.

It works very well and apart from games, there’s not much Ubuntu can’t do compared to an INTEL box running Windows XP.

By: Ian Ng

Ian Ng — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:21:19 +0000

I think she mentioned that she was looking at laptops (MacBook v. MacBook Pro).

To add another key factor, whether or not your graphics card is using shared memory would impact your performance, especially for things like playing graphically-intensive games like Second Life or most MMOs.

The difference is having a dedicated card and dedicated memory (the higher the better) for handling just the graphic functions. If you have a graphics card that utilizes shared memory, your graphics capabilities will be competing with all the other applications open on your computer.

The MacBook and MacBook Air use shared memory. The MacBook Pro uses dedicated memory.

By: jason {macedonia}

jason {macedonia} — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:20:25 +0000

“Also, you need to accept that no matter when you buy a computer (or other gadget) that the price and capabilities will be old and outdated faster then you want it to be. Just accept it and move on. It is not worth dwelling on.”

thank you for that. i want things to last forever and that’s not how the world works, particularly anything technology-related. i needed to hear this from someone, so thank you for being the new media voice of reason once again.

By: Matthew Ebel

Matthew Ebel — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:05:09 +0000

So wait… you ditched your desktop PC for a desktop Mac now? Honestly, C.C., you’re becoming smarter every month.