OK Fanboys : Convince me!
I've been hesitating with this, but I think I'm just about ready to make the switch. I'm at a point where the "old way" of doing things have gotten REAL old and where I honestly think that change will be for the better.So what am I talking about here?
Well ... In my flat, I have a room dedicated to being the "home office". At the moment, it holds TONS of old and outdated computers that are rarely used for anything serious anymore, simply because they are too old. All in all, they number SE7EN, none of them "capable" of modern day computing. They are part of an intricate setup of switches, cables, keyboards, mice and HUUUUUGE CRT Monitors, taking up all the desk-space and leaving the room cluttered and Feng Shitty!
I can't take it anymore!
So I've made the decision to throw it all in the bin (minus the data of course) and replace it with something new ... or newer ... or fairly recent ... well, you get the picture.
And since my daytime job is full of IBM laptops running XP, my girlfriends home is litterede with (kids and) XP-based laptops, and my personal "location-shifting" unit - a Lenovo S10e netbook - also runs XP ...
I think I want a MAC!
I DO however NEED it to run windows to some extent, and I would LIKE it to be able to run gOS, Ubuntu and allsorts of things that might pop up - albeit not necessarily natively of course.
I also need it to be able to control my Roland JX-305 keyboard through MIDI. Would Garageband be enough for that?
And of course, I want to run Notes 8.5.x :-)
What Mac do I want? iMac, Mac Pro, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini? (Probably a Macbook)
What's included? Do I want/need iWork09? Aperture?
Help!
If you're out there, and you have made a similar transition recently. Give me the heads up!
After all ... you're a fanboy ... you want me to become a fanboy too, don't you?! ;-)
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