Well it's official. I'm going over to the "Dark Side" or the "Light Side" depending on who you talk to. I'm getting a Mac. Gently used G4 450 Mhz with 128 Mb Ram (But there's scrudloads of PC-133 around here, I'm adding more) 20 Gig HD (I'm getting a 120 to replace it) and a 17" FD Trinitron monitor.
This will actually be my second Mac, my first being a family heirloom Mac Classic 128k upgraded to a whopping 1Mb. No HD and the internal, single sided, low density floppy was broken so I had to use an external drive that could read double sided disks but again only low density. I'm not kidding when I say family heirloom--it was my Uncles, then my Grandmas, then my Aunt's family computer, then my Cousins and then another cousin and finally me. It's monitor developed a problem while I had it and it's long gone now.
Funny thing is my moms whole side of the family, with the exception of her, uses Macs. My grandma, uncles, aunts, etc. But we've always been the black sheep in that we used PCs, so my immediate family if giving me crap over switching (They jest...mostly) while my extended family is welcoming me to the world of...Mac
This will actually be my second Mac, my first being a family heirloom Mac Classic 128k upgraded to a whopping 1Mb. No HD and the internal, single sided, low density floppy was broken so I had to use an external drive that could read double sided disks but again only low density. I'm not kidding when I say family heirloom--it was my Uncles, then my Grandmas, then my Aunt's family computer, then my Cousins and then another cousin and finally me. It's monitor developed a problem while I had it and it's long gone now.
Funny thing is my moms whole side of the family, with the exception of her, uses Macs. My grandma, uncles, aunts, etc. But we've always been the black sheep in that we used PCs, so my immediate family if giving me crap over switching (They jest...mostly) while my extended family is welcoming me to the world of...Mac