considering converting to a mac from a desktop windows pc, info/suggestions ?

[fast68]

ok i have been a desktop pc user since day one, it is all i have ever had and used, i started out in 99 with a 98 SE OS and have now had xp home for a few years,

during that time i have had billions of crashes and lot data and fried HD's and so on so many problems that im sick and tired, plus IE issues constantly and so forth

i have been thinkign about getting a mac book for a long while now but i know nothing about them it seems ot be some underground thing thats impossible to find out about or preview or anything

i want to learn what OS i should have if i were ot get one of these and how they work and so on

i dont game or anything else all i do is visit online forums and use IRC and such, and i do it alot, commonly i have a million windows running at once really busy and on commonly use up my memory resources and get errors and lock up IE

tired of it all

and im tired of the big clunky desktop

i want something tiny and portable anyways, i dont need anything special, nothing crazy at all, just something small and that runs good for the internet and IRC mainly, from everything i have seen/read a G3 or G4 would be more than plenty for me



something new and different and hopefully better and maybe halfway reliable ? unlike windows and such ? im tired and bored with windows and theres no way in heck i could run linux or something else like that, that stuff is way crazy complicated i am bad with commands and remembering them, my memory for things liek tihs is basiclaly non existent i dont know how ppl remember commands and such like they do, i have a hard enough time rmembering regedit and msconfig and such even though i use them all the time, windows is just plain too complicated and messy and problematic, a disaster, im tired of the never ending issues and problems to have to spend time working on, when such time could be much better used for much better things,

any command-based OS is not for me whatsoever not even in the slightest



so anyone with info or suyggestions or anything else then lemme know

i have alot i need to know/learn

thanks

[Buzz]

Hi Randy,

You may actually want to consider something newer than a G3 or G4. Since Apple has shifted to the Intel processors in the MacBook and MacBookPros, support for the PowerPC architecture of "G" machines probably won't last many more years. If you want a laptop that'll be good for 10+ years it's just something to consider. It does sound like a G4 or G5 Apple laptop would work for you (I'd avoid G3s -- just too old at this point, although they will probably work but will be much much slower).

I don't see anything specific in your post to address beyond this. The Mac OS is very easy to pick up. And it's versatile, if you want to use a command line structure you can, but it's almost never required.

There are IRC clients for the Mac and a few are really great (like Audium). Email, web surfing, etc is all about the same.

You do realize you could switch to Firefox on the PC and get rid of all those IE issues I hope. IE is IE.. thank GOD they quit making it for the Mac.

If you need anything specific, just let me know. I've been using Macs since late 1984 so I've pretty much run into almost everything at this point.

[chicohonda02]

very familiar situation.

[arm]

well, i have many years experience with macs and pc's.. i have had a pc at my house since i was in 3rd grade. and i have been using macs all through school.. in elementry school we used the old Macintosh apples. then in junior high school we used macs. now in high school we use Emacs.. *same thing as mac just white* you prolly know what an Emac is.. anyway.. personal preference is that i hate macs.. there slow, and unreliable. at least at my school theres at least 2 crashes a day. we also have mac books at my school in a little cart for the kids to use if the teacher has an in-class research thing. i like the mac books ALOT better the the macs.. they seem faster.. the only thing i do like about macs is garage band.. i mess with that all the time at school. but if i were you.. i would go towards a dell latitude or inspiron notebook.. there faster, and THEY HAVE VISTA!!! but thats my opinion, not yours

[Buzz]

School Macs are not the same as owning your own. They are used by many people in a community, a far cry different than being able to control you r own system.