Posts made by Edson

an older thread on mice had a posting mentioning how good this vertical mouse is. sorry, but i have no time to look for it right now.

with my olympus there is almost no perceivable delay in both situations.

i have an olympus evolt e-500. it is a great digital SLR camera with a 14-55mm zoom lens, very well suited to architecture.

although i am quite happy with that, it is fair to mention that i came acroos many excellent reviews about the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, the same kind of camera.

for windows only. i hate this phrase.

very interesting tip, susan. i am right now trying to overcome a light numbing of my little finger, caused by so much mousing, i suppose. i may consider getting one of these mice myself.

hi ross,

i had a look around and found here in brasil both the 3000 and the 4000, its wireless brother. i kinda like the cordless. any info on how well it works?

cheers.

edson

i use a USB apple mighty mouse and have no qualms about it.

when i recently ordered a new macbook pro i wondered as to which mouse to buy. i ended up getting apple's wireless mighty mouse but also considered buying logitech's V450 laser cordless notebook mouse (which is the one used by the guys at go-2-school, who gave me the tip).

cheers

although it could have had 256 it actually has 128. it has run well so far. even though i did not make it go through any severe test in my work i took the crowd test refered to in this thread. have a look at it and you will get an idea.

regards.

just to illustrate the topic of graphic cards. in march i bought a brand-new iMac intel 20". all specs are the best but i did not realize i could order a GC with 256 mb (whereas the standard one has 128). only when i was researching to buy the notebook i discovered that possibility but it was already too late as you cannot upgrade much more than RAM and HD in an iMac. it took me a week to recover from feeling stupid but i learned a good lesson from that.

good luck on your purchase.

@planner dude said:

What are the Mac programs that allow programs to be run solely in RAM? I have never heard of such a thing! That would prove interesting if it's true.

me neither. please elaborate on this, mike.

planner dude, i have just bought a macbook pro (specs attached) like the one you describe. as soon as it arrives i will be able to tell you how well it runs.

regards.

@unknownuser said:

I was not that keen on Mac Finder either BUT I found
Macintosh Explorer, works a treat

mike,

is it shareware, freeware or what? i am so used to the finder that I cannot really see in which way any explorer-type app ca be better. could you just give me an example?

regards.

edson

@ross macintosh said:

Recently someone in these forums posted a screenshot of the mac finder. I cringed! Yikes! Talk about info overload! For me it is just bad interface design. I much prefer Microsoft's fairly intuitive 'file explorer' approach.

ross,

i am to blame for the posting of the offensive screenshot. i apologise for any pain it may have inflicted in you and promise to try my best to refrain from posting such stuff in the future.

very humbly yours,

edson

p.s.: just pulling your leg. you have every right not to like macintoshes.

@unknownuser said:

I have always had PCs but I will probably buy a mac.

Virtual PC for the Mac will run virtually every windows app including AutoCAD.

That said I may be a hypocrit and still buy a PC if I can't afford a Mac.

hi jon,

today there are better applications than virtual pc: parallels and bootcamp allow for much smoother running. and bootcamp is free from apple (it is supposed to be part of next OS).

is the mac still so much more expensive than pcs in the US?

if you decide to buy a mac laptop check the macbook pro out.

regards,

edson

exactly. the high end macs are amazing machines. no wonder most advertising agencies (at least their image processing depts) and video production companies use mostly macs.

my question is: why do not apple allow us who are not such power users to have machines that could be upgradeable? i do not need a super machine like the 8-core mac pro but i do need more than my emacs with a meager video card (32 Mb).

my current machine is an imac intel with a 128 Mb video card. but what if i need more than that in the future?

cheers.

alan, I agree entirely with you. if something works for you why move to something else? my case was quite different, when i moved to mac there was a lot to gain in terms of quality of output in architectural drawings and almost nothing to lose. autocad's output looked awful and minicad offered a much shorter learning curve and very good looking results.

i also agree that pcs are cheaper and offer one more possibilities of putting together the machine one really needs. but apart from that macs have worked perfectly for me: no freezes, no viruses, the few problems that arose were simple enough for me to solve without any expert help.

on the other hand, the whole issue of mac vs pc shall soon disappear as they are becoming more and more alike. the components used by macs and pcs are the same, intel macs can run windows, etc. the only difference right now is the operating system.

regards.

hi glenn, come to think of it, you are damned right.

i have been a mac user for 12 years but only recently it dawned on me that unless you own the top apple model (the cheese graters) you are stuck with what they but inside the box. sometime ago i wanted to get a faster graphic card for one of my emacs but could not as it comes soldered to the motherboard (which cannot be upgraded either, by the way).

so far i have been quite happy with the many macs i have owned but what you mention is indeed a limitation. one wonders why apple does not do the obvious thing. perhaps now that they moved to intel they will start thinking differently.

cheers,

I started off with a PC, of course, but in 1995 saw a coleague working on a mac and producing graphics no PC-based cad app could match then. so I switched to mac and have been happy ever since.

right now in my small office I have a G3 iMac, two G4 eMacs and one iMac intel core 2 duo (in a few months I shall get a macbook pro 17").

the exception is my wife. the poor thing works on a PC notebook. I swear I did not force her to do so.

best wishes to you all (the more so if you own a PC).