Oooooops - my basis is low 20's, sorry. That run to 180-200 was short-lived after the first iPhone launch. It actually settled back down to 150's before the last crash.

I do this all day long on my Mac.

I don't know the max the OS supports, but the MacPro towers support up to 32gb of memory and can use all of it. My Macbook supports up to 4gb and the 17" MacbookPro goes up to 8gb.

The upgrade is very easy, but you can order your MacBook with the SSD already installed from Apple. And for once, their prices are competitive with what you can get from 3rd party.

After about 20 years of PC use, I switched for these same reasons a year ago and have been very happy. I don't have anti-virus software - spam is unrelated. My MacBook Pro boots quickly, is really reliable, and a lot of things "just work." I think the real aha! moment was when I brought the (4 GB RAM) MBP home and it autoconfigured the wireless network and then (unprompted) magically found my network printer, and it all worked perfectly in under a minute: "would you like to use this as your default printer?"

That's in contrast to my XP-based Lenovo, which needed to know the wireless network type (WPA2), the encryption style (AES) before requesting the password, and "Add Printer" in Windows, which needed me to create a TCP/IP adapter, enter the IP of the printer, download a driver, and configure the laser printer for "raw LP" style before working properly. It was like moving from a Heathkit TV to a new LCD.

I would strongly suggest that you consider a $99 investment in Apple's One to One program. This buys you one year of personal training, which can be used at the rate of one hour per week, at any Apple store. I only used it four times over the past year, and they had trouble answering my tougher questions (setup TFTP, console cable adapters) but those few sessions helped increase my productivity a lot.

I was out at 200$, it was getting ridiculous.

That's easy. It won't charge on a mac either without a driver, if you can find one for it. This is the Razr, not the PC, because they are doing something non-standard with usb power. Yeah, I have a Razr also, so I know what you are talking about w.r.t. needing the driver so it will charge when plugged into a standard usb computer port.

This really has nothing to do with this topic.

Anyway, if you have a mac, you're supposed to have an iphone. hahaha. (in addition to your collection of ipods, apple tv, airports, airport express, apple time machine, .mac subscription, etc, etc.)

-David

Actually, it does. It speaks to the ability to do non-standard things through (extremely simple- maybe 2 minutes from google search to working) configuration. For those OK with doing a little work it seems like they may be able to do more (I had a feeling that the charging on the Mac was a likely no-go, but I wasn't sure)).

I can certainly see why someone may not want to configure for anything; others are OK with that, and can do more.

As for the comment about "magically" finding wireless items and adding them- I'd rather it wanted to know something about my encryption and password the first time before adding anything to my LAN. But that's just me My XP machines have found all the stuff out there right off the bat, and they do know what encryption I'm using...but I have to enter the password the first time...then it just works, each and every time.

Cheers.

Not really any different on a PC or a MAC for the Razr. Again, it's because of the Razr, not the computer or standard USB software on the computer.

http://blog.gruby.com/2006/11/27/cha...razr-over-usb/

You can write drivers and/or custom apps for either platform or both if you want to. And you can find them out there also.

-David

apple: typically more expensive but more reliable and less crashes and less viruses and anti-spyware.

ms windows: typically cheaper, easier to adapt but the cost and time involved to stop viruses and anti-spyware is quite straining. Each and every single update in the past have also been merely a "top-up" to existing software and due to its code, it will always be vulnerable to attacks.

Oh, I fully realize that it's the RAZR and not the USB port. This is a non-standard application. I was just commenting that it's frightfully easy and fast to configure this to work on a Windows box, and wasn't sure about the Mac. Your comment about the Mac driver- "if you can find one for it" made me think it was not so easy. I found many locations for Windows driver in a matter of seconds, and it was a trivial install process...and just worked.

Cheers.

I switched back to Mac three years ago - having deserted the platform since 1995 - and couldn't be happier. I'll never go back to Windows in it's current form (Vista).

Make sure you ask for student discount ($50.00 on a Macbook or so) - Best Buy and usually Apple store doesn't ask for student ID.

I hope you bought another MBA with your capital gains

I love my Macbook Pro. I switched a few months back but still have an XP Thinkpad also.

I don't like on the Mac:

1. Lack of End and Home keys operating the way they "should"
2. My Blackberry just doesn't work, tried everything...doesn't sync

I have a MacBook, bought in November.

I have multiple operating system partitions:

(1) Work (our software is Windows) - Vista. I can run the image either as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion or I can boot it natively.

(2) Home - Mac.

I replaced the boot menu with this:

http://refit.sourceforge.net/

Now when I boot my machine, I get a screen that asks me whether I want my Mac or Windows. If I don't choose one in 120 seconds (I configured this), the Mac boots. (The Boot Camp boot menu required a press of the "option" key in order to give a choice and I'd miss it 75% of the time when I wanted to boot into Windows and I'd have to reboot AGAIN.)

Best of both worlds.