meta-nerdy and pretty hot, so you got that goin for ya.

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Sounds like the Pro-PC guy is bitter that he's never heard of macsales.com ... ;-)

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oh sweet. i need to get some new non-apple store ram for my powerbook...

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They ship out of Cary, Indiana, btw. And they're totally efficient; every order I've placed has been shipped out within an hour of me placing it.

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OWC (macsales.com) always ships to me from Woodstock, IL. I live in the Milwaukee area, so it comes pretty fast.

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ack; I meant Cary, IL, not IN. I was pretty sure stuff came from Cary, but they're only a half hour apart :)

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I still have a shipping box from them from a week or so ago, and it says Woodstock, but since I've never been over at their HQ that's all I got.

It could be just a matter of convenience to list that city for all I know. They do that for Milwaukee suburbs sometimes.

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Dude. Crucial. They even have a thing to tell you exactly what RAM you need, with parts and prices and everything. It's rad.

Check both, but Crucial is usually cheaper. And higher quality!

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So far, I've gotten all my Power Mac's RAM from Crucial, but everything else is usually from OWC.

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Beware of Crucial.

The short: The email address that I gave Crucial was only known to them--and years after I did my last order with them--I started getting really raunchy SPAM sent to that address.

The long: Realistically, any company that holds customer information is subject to hijacking--either via hack or disgrunted employee--so I did the right thing and notified them of the problem (afterall, I had no reason to think that Crucial was *intentionally* SPAMing me). It apparently went to the top of the support chain and they totally blew it off like I didn't know what I was talking about. They gave me a copy of their "privacy policy" and closed the door on me.

I was left with the choice of taking Crucial as idiots or party to SPAMing. In either case, I can't do business with them anymore.

The follow-up: The reason I know they were responsible is because I have an absolutely 100% proof-positive way of knowing where SPAM comes from (with the bonus of very, very little SPAM--ever). I'd be happy to share if you're ever interested.

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Ooo dang, you win!

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lolz!

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here here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Arguing about computers in a law magazine is meta-nerdy."

But correcting an argument about computers in a law magazine is meta-nerdy-er!

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IT'S TRUE.

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I'm pro-pc, but my reasons are quite clear: you can't really be a gamer on a mac without running Windows anyway. Sure, some games are available for a Mac, but by and large most are not.

Beyond that it's about usage.

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Sure, but this was about legal stuff.

The sad thing is, the PC guy said he preferred PCs because the software for document management and the like was "far more mature" on the PC. While this may be the case, most law firms don't have the most recent version of the software, so the experience of the average user of law software on PCs hasn't changed much since 1995. That... really isn't a good thing.

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Well, here's where he'll be right (soon). Most professional (white collar) businesses will be moving over to 'software as service' systems soon, where a company (not unlike the one I work for) will charge a subscription fee instead of a retail (or wholesale) fee for software. The advantage is that you'll have tech support on call during American business hours and programmers constantly updating software as needs/the market evolve and change. That way you don't ever buy software that's out of date.

All of that of course leads to the fact that most of these services are provided for Microsoft's OSes.

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Ah yes, but they're also provided for the MacOS, which has increased its market share (especially in traditionally-PC industries like law) exponentially in the last few years.

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Oh sure, but like most things computer, the Mac version is just less readily available.

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Only if you don't know where to look. ;)

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(truth: Parallels and VMware Fusion do slow down your machine, but if you have enough RAM, you're fine; plus, you show me a PC that can run two OSes at the same time with a program installable by the average user)

vmware, again =) vmware esx is free, and runs just as well on a PC as it does on a mac ;) My old laptop from work at one point was actually running 3 OSes at once with Windows as a base and suse 10.2 and redhat enterprise in VMs. VMs are awesome in any OS really, so long as you have enough ram in the machine to allocate decent amounts out.

RE the hard drive stuff, yea... Even harddrives that come 'pre-formatted' these days all come formatted in fat32, and osx can use those just as well as windows can.

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vmware server is free, vmware esx is the big dawg version that's run off a *nix kernel... ;)

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Well, i switched from PC to Mac 4 years ago, i sooo wish i had done it much sooner than that! My Macbook is the dogs bollox! *lol*

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Sure, but I said "installable by the average user." Maybe I should've clarified that to be "OSes usable by the average user. ;)

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