PC to Mac?

[wushuguy]

So, any ideas on how to cool this space heater off? Case is so hot I swear you could cook on it. Clueless people at the Applestore were no help, neither was Apple's forums. Power supply is scoring close to 190' right now according to iStat.

I fell for the advertisements and bought an i-mac-n-crack a few years ago. When running into problems, most people I asked help for it on their forums or support blindly kept saying how great mac-n-cracks were. However they did admit if the slot drive cd got stuck, you have to fish the cd out with a thin blade, paper clip, or some tape, how cool is that?!
Basically buy a mac, and you're on your own to fix problems... About the heat issue, I was told by their rep, that that is a result of macs being thinner and more hip than a pc, which could have enough space to put a fan... perhaps having a macbook-burn on your thigh is cooler than a pc-blister?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Lol

 

[steve7968]

I live in Firefox. mac version avail
Need to test against IE. No current mac version available. There is Safari, Chrome, etc.
I use Dreamweaver (mac), Photoshop (mac) and Eudora (outdated version available).

Other software:
MS Office 2000 (Open Office is avail)
WinZip - ??
WinRar - ??
Quickbooks (Mac version available. Can it import a PC database?)

Need a good FTP program, offline log file analyzer, telnet/ssh client as well.


How about DOS/Win9x/etc emulation? I've got a lot of legacy windows and dos programs I'd still like to run from time to time.

SimplyRAR
use parallels for emulation
ie explorer is a dog firefox much much better or safari

ftp- cyberduck

the majority of websites are built on macs

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I ended up using Fugu for SFTP support.

 

[Steve]

A few days ago, I installed Windows XP Home on my Mac using bootcamp. Working okay so far. It's set up so that I can boot to either operating system. Pretty cool, although windows is a little temperamental. I tried running a fairly resource intensive game (fallout 3) and it crashes after about 30 minutes of play.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

The Mac "Mighty" Mouse, sucks. Scroll ball stopped working, Apples solution doesn't work, only way to fix it is major surgery it looks like.