Thinking of buying a Mac. Suggestions?

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Originally Posted by BBKing

Get a decent Mac laptop, he says from his Mac laptop. These days:

1) It's a PC, so you get plenty of performance for your money - Intel's latest chips are spiffing beasts.
2) It's a Mac, so you get excellent design
3) It runs OS X, so you get an operating system that gets out of your face
4) It runs XP, so you can game (got Boot Camp on here and it's just another XP PC after you get it running, albeit without a ****ing right mouse button)
5) It's rather expensive, so get a paper round

I'd suspect that you'd end up using it for a lot more than just Final Cut, tbh. I split my time between my Linux laptop and this beast, and there's only one transition I miss things on, great though Ubuntu is*.

* Except the ****ing right mouse button.

Oh, and I replaced my old FreeBSD server with...a Mac mini. Smaller, faster, quieter, uses less power and you can watch DVDs on it, too, while it runs Apache, IMAP, PostFix and all the other open source goodies without a hitch. The Macs coexist much more happily with Linux than Windows, of course my old PC is plugged in the back of the Mac mini, for when I need stuff, which isn't that often, as it's awfully noisy in comparison.

Very very good points! I use Mac Mini's at the college library- They're fantastic! I find it incredible enough that they're so small and yet require no fans, never mind being the same sort of spec as a just above budget computer!

I think more than likely my transition to Mac will happen eventually.. Although I will probably keep a Linux machine for fiddling about and an XP machine still for gaming, as much as the Mac gets my taste buds going with the new Intel chipset, it just doesnt compare to the options available to gamers.