[Nexess]

Originally Posted by Alpha

I just know Ashy has made several in the past....seems like she would already have the experience.....

I'll tell her :P

[Alpha]

Or I could....if she was on.

[Arikana]

Well if Ashy will make an image, I can't wait to see it. >w<

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Coda

You've been told wrong, Quiet. Desktop publishing has always been one of Mac's strong suits. The built-in TextEdit is comparable to WordPad but slightly nicer. Microsoft Word exists over here if that's what you're accustomed to, and Apple's iWork has Pages, which is slightly better than Word for desktop publishing. Neither Word nor Pages are really appropriate for REAL desktop publishing and you'd need to get some professional software if you intend to do professional publishing, but if what you're looking for is a word processor that's easy to come by.

I've heard that before too. It gets so confusing! So far though, among classmates and instructors, the pro-PC's outweigh the pro-Macs.

I plan on getting better software but right now I can't afford it (looking mostly at Adobe)so I'm going to experiment with what I can get in the meantime. I go with my brother, who has both computers and uses whichever one is better for what he needs to do and for my purposes (all my purposes) he recommends a PC.

[Coda]

If "your purposes" involve operating on a limited budget, then yes, Mac isn't for you. Generally speaking, gaming and video editing are the only roles at which Mac doesn't at least keep pace with Windows. And since your instructors have a teacher's salary, and your peers are college students, the minimum-acceptable product becomes the recommended one because money matters more than pretty much anything else in a college setting.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Money is a concern, yes, and I would like a comp that can do gaming as well as whatever I need for school and later, work. I'm in mostly a post college setting as a number of people in class are working and already have some of the software that I'm looking into, but some of us are running on shoestring budgets too. I don't plan on having more than one computer for everything any time soon.

[Ashy]

Originally Posted by Alpha

Hmmm.....this may be time for another Ashy image of Coda......

steve jobs coda?

http://i.imgur.com/8y1O9.jpg

that linkis for coda btw, spoilered for NSFB

[Arikana]

Steve Jobs Coda sounds good. :D
I can't wait to see it. >w<

[Alpha]

That would work Ashy.

Coda is right....Macs are definitely not for someone on a limited budget.....or for someone who is a pretty solid gamer. You will find that outside of Blizzard's games and a few other companies, there is a limited market. It is expanding slowly, but taking time for sure.

[Lucid:]

My husband put a windows partition on his mac and uses that for gaming. He gets annoyed with having to switch over though.

[Alpha]

I thought about doing that.....but once I got a hold of my old tower which I've kept running and in good order with Windows on it, I put the thought out of my mind. It's not that it's bad, just that I don't want to partition right now.

[Arikana]

Originally Posted by Lucid:

My husband put a windows partition on his mac and uses that for gaming. He gets annoyed with having to switch over though.

Lol, nice. At least he can still game while owning a Mac though. Better than not gaming at all... :P

[Lucid:]

It's true. We can't give up the games! He has a fair amount of mac-compatible games on Steam, but a lot of the ones he likes are windows-only.

[Demonskid]

Moonless can't play half the MMOs we wanna play together cause of the games not liking macs OnO

[Arikana]

Well, I'm sure one day all of the windows-only games he likes will be available on a Mac. :) Though I have no clue when that day will be. XD

Also: What is this Steam thing? owo

[Coda]

... please tell me you're kidding about Steam. >.>; Short version: It's Valve's downloadable game store. Lots of games, quite a large number of them with both PC and Mac support.