Penguin Follower's Journal: "Going Mac" (or: "Dodging the Vista Bullet")

I finally did it. I've ordered a new Mac with the intention of switching the majority of my computing tasks to a Mac...

I've played with Macintosh computers off and on since 2001. And even prior to that in middle school - the first computer I ever touched was in fact a Macintosh (I don't remember which model - but it was black & white only I do remember that!). Through friends and in high school however, I was introduced to the "intel-compatible PC" (Mac is part of that crowd now... heh). I became fascinated with DOS and Windows 3.1 after taking computer literacy classes in highschool. And somewhere around the end of my junior year I was introduced to Red Hat Linux 5. My fascination with Windows wore off around the time Windows XP was released. And as I've reinvestigated the Mac, I find that with the newer OS X (and classic but a memory) I like Macs this time around.

Of course, the last straw that pushed me over the edge is Vista. I can't avoid getting to know that OS completely, I realize. My job won't allow that. I *will* be doing support for Vista soon I am sure. However, I can limit my Windows exposure at home. It will be here just to keep up with the Microsoft world and not much more (hooray for Parallels). I've pretty much given up on gaming anyway - the games are getting lame/stagnant (or I'm just not interested anymore?). I did option out my Mac Pro with an ATI X1900XT 512MB just in case I decid to pick up a Mac port of a game I like sometime down the road though.

So, I opted for a Mac Pro tower. The specs of which are:

• Two dual-core Xeons @ 2.66GHz
• 2GB RAM (for now)
• A single 250GB hard drive (for now)
• And an ATI X1900XT 512MB 16x PCI-E graphics adapter

I think that'll do for a while. :)

Sweet

[OctaneZ]

Congratulations on the new toy!

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[OctaneZ]

Oh, if you do unix/ssh/sftp check out Google's port of the FUSE stack called MacFUSE [google.com]. It supports sshfs and a few other, and has the only useful plugin for Spotlight (the indexing search engine) called SpotlightFS which creates TRUE virtual folders based on search terms.

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[Penguin Follower]

Awesome, I will have to check that out! Thanks for the info.

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[Penguin Follower]

So, I just watched the MacFUSE demo video...
DocsFS! I like! :D
I do like the SpotlightFS plugin as well.
I will be making use of MacFUSE when my Mac Pro arrives, that's for certain.

Very cool

[nizo]

I have toyed with the idea of getting a Mac; at some point I want to purchase a fairly large pile of high-end animation software, and the thought of needing Vista to run it makes me ill :-| A mac however is a whole different story. I haven't owned one in quite some time, but I have always been happy with them; they seem to just work, and the last thing I want to do when I get home is debug another $#@*! Microsoft Windows problem.

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[Penguin Follower]

I use Bryce 5 on one of my Windows PCs. I remember seeing an article about Corel canning Bryce for Mac a long time ago. I did a little research just yesterday and found out that Corel had sold Bryce off to Daz 3D. A good thing, too! Daz 3D revived the Macintosh version. In fact, Bryce 6.1 for OS X is a native Intel-Mac application. :)