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trustory
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| mdgm wrote: | | Leopard's too expensive. I spend heaps on getting mac hardware and they charge to update the OS. Come on, don't they know that uni students don't have much money? |
When did you buy your mac? You may be eligible for a cheap upgrade. Also Apple offer very steep discounts on Mac OS X for students.
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mdgm
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| trustory wrote: |
When did you buy your mac? You may be eligible for a cheap upgrade. Also Apple offer very steep discounts on Mac OS X for students. |
I got my mac before the discount came. $145AUD for Mac OS X edu is still a lot of money for a student. If Apple charged $50AUD I think I'd definitely buy it. I just don't want to spend heaps on a new OS when I only got my computer in the middle of last year.
If the price was right, I think Apple would be great. The upcoming 10.5.3 should sort out a lot of the remaining major bugs. |
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Bobaloo
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The Education store price from Apple is $116, regular price is $129.
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Cypher
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I got my copy of Leopard for free via the ADC.  it also came with the monthly ADC mailing DVD and a free apple T-Shirt. Also got a hardware discount which I used to purchase the MacbookPro. I think it was a bargain for the £65 cost of the Student ADC Membership.
Happy so far with Leopard, although TimeMachine did crash my system last night 
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GCG
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NadiaGeek
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| GCG wrote: | | That's why I stayed with Tiger! |
When you consider how much Vista costs, Leopard doesn't seem that pricey -- at all. Vista is one of the most ridiculous operating systems I have ever used. I tweaked it enough to make it bearable, but it does suck. Leopard gets an A+ and Vista gets a C, in my book.
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Cheffy Dave
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| robinscruffy wrote: | | It's good but it's SO glitchy! Looks like a rushed release by Apple... I really hope Apple sorts out these issues. |
Glitchy??, I haven't had a single problem, you want glitchy, get VISTA
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Bandit Bill
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| Cheffy Dave wrote: | | robinscruffy wrote: | | It's good but it's SO glitchy! Looks like a rushed release by Apple... I really hope Apple sorts out these issues. |
Glitchy??, I haven't had a single problem, you want glitchy, get VISTA |
What do you mean by glitchy Robin? Have you personally had issues? I haven't had any issues with Leopard. I've been running it since it was released.
There were a few programs that I had, that only ran on Tiger, but they've since been updated. |
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jema6666
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: Yes except... |
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Wlan, the stability is nearly gone, a shame.
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ESUNintel
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: Better than Vista |
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| I got a Vaio about a year ago and a desktop with Vista, and it's been nothing but issues. I got the MacBook Air and a MacMini and love it. I'm now officially an Apple fan!! |
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pjarvi
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I'm extremely happy. So far all of the problems I have experienced were caused by 3rd party software that was eventually updated, or were caused by a hardware issue (the Bluetooth module in my MacBook was defective).
The only thing that annoys me is Apple caving in to the cry-babies over the translucent menus and menubar. They should have either left it alone, or made the translucency an option that could be disabled. |
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Pleiades
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| pjarvi wrote: | | The only thing that annoys me is Apple caving in to the cry-babies over the translucent menus and menubar. They should have either left it alone, or made the translucency an option that could be disabled. |
At least for the menubar, it's an option in the Desktop and Screen Saver preference pane.
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eXtSieg
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: New to Mac but like what I see |
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I have only been a Mac user for a little over 2 months now and I believe I made right move by jumping away from the PC world and into Mac-ville. I have had a few programs frezze up on me and maybe one or two hard boots but that sure beats a typical day of working hard with a PC and having to power reset at least twice a day. So I have sold off my PC computers and got the wife a iMac and myself a mini for my away living which I do for a year at a time every so often. Next stop will be a macbook Air so I can chill on the couch and the switch will be complete. Luke I am your Father come over to the good side.
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idave
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: New to Mac but like what I see |
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| eXtSieg wrote: | | Next stop will be a macbook Air so I can chill on the couch and the switch will be complete. Luke I am your Father come over to the good side. |
I almost pulled the trigger on refurbished a MBA today. The thought of chilling out with one on a couch is very compelling. Plus, I need a new portable in the worst way.
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Cypher
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: Re: New to Mac but like what I see |
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| eXtSieg wrote: | | I have had a few programs frezze up on me and maybe one or two hard boots |
I switched in August 2007, so had the pleasure of switching from XP to Tiger, I gave Vista a very wide berth after trying a beta version of it. Tiger was awesome I never had a single problem with it, and held off upgrading to Leopard. In March I bought a Macbook Pro which came with Leopard and so I upgraded my iMac to Leopard.
Since installing Leopard on my iMac I have had a few glitches, they are rare but I don't think its as stable as Tiger was, it’s a huge improvement on Windows though. I literally detest using windows at work, I never realised how troublesome it was until having working with Macs for 10 months now. I usually reboot by work machine at least a couple of times a day, although I think a lot of that is the way our IT dept have locked it down but it is a miserable and frustrating day using window. I tend to take my MBP to work and use that for most things I don't need the corporate network for.
Leopard has some great new features but I think I still prefer Tiger for the stability. Hopefully with the updates that Leopard has been getting it will become as strong as Tiger was.
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