What do you do with your Mac?
Setup: G4/400 (AGP Radeon, 704 MB of RAM)
? Email/Internet (ofcoarse)
? Some Programming (http://www.praetersoftware.com)
? Gaming (Mainly Return to Castle Wolfenstein MP)
? Light graphics work/hobbying in Illustrator/Photoshop
And everything runs so well....on a 400 MHz CPU, it's such a workhouse. Anyway, what do you do on your Mac?
? Email/Internet (ofcoarse)
? Some Programming (http://www.praetersoftware.com)
? Gaming (Mainly Return to Castle Wolfenstein MP)
? Light graphics work/hobbying in Illustrator/Photoshop
And everything runs so well....on a 400 MHz CPU, it's such a workhouse. Anyway, what do you do on your Mac?
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I mainly use mine for:
- internet, email, IM
- school work
- internship involving web design: Photoshop, Illustrator, Studio MX
Downloading/sharing music.
Homework for college.
Light graphics/Photoshop work.
Storing photos and music.
Recording music.
Watching DVD's.
Mostly all I do is web/email, chatting, iTunes, school work, sometimes watch DVD, burning CDs, etc.
irc, aim, email, web, dvd watching/ripping, war walking/driving, hacking, music purchasing/downloading/sharing, p2p/homework/writing/web admin
b&w450 radeon32, 768mb
serving files/printers/video/music/dc/giFT/irc dcc bot/backup for ibook
My PowerMac is used for heavy graphic stuff, some light duty video works.....download....rip.....web.....
My TiBook. Strictly for web and presentation....nothing else cause it's too slow to do graphic stuff
- Surf
- E-mail
- iChat
- iTunes
- Write
- Draw
- Design pages
- Logo/infographic design and illustration
- Tutorials
- Banking, bills and keeping my finances straight (Quicken, in other words)
- Play with icons and desktops
- Watch the occasional DVD
- Burn the frequent iTunes mix CD (12 currently in my car)
- Post at AppleInsder
- Light iPhoto
- Download neat - and useful! - shareware apps like SnapzPro X and Art Directors Toolkit
Honestly, my entire life - and everything I love and enjoy and consider "part of my life" is on my Mac: songs, contacts, words, music, art, writing, friends, my window to the world, etc.
The question - at this point - is probably more like "what DON'T I do on my Mac...".
Originally posted by pscates
The question - at this point - is probably more like "what DON'T I do on my Mac...".
What about sex?
professionally
- audio production including composition, editing, mixing, and mastering
- video production FCP
- web production including html, perl, flash, and streaming
- graphic design
- photo editing
- remote admin of macs, windows boxes, and linux (ssh, remote desktop, etc)
- database development
personal use
- writing
- surfing
- email
- games
- PIM
- finances banking/portfolio tracking
- masssive mp3 library for use with iPod
- family photos/videos
probably forgeting something, but I made a decision a few years back to try to 'digitize' my life, and have been quite successful. i couldn't do everything i do on any other platform
- Web design.
- Surfing the net, etc.
- Playing tunes etc
- Digital hub type thing going on here!
2.2Ghz P4/512mb RAM/GeForce Ti4600
- Its a games console now I got my mac.
- Its sat on the floor for 6 weeks cos I am bored with my current games
- a door stop.
- a step ladder to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe
Surfing etc...
Graphics/Web design
Photography (Sony F707)
Music production (Reason 2.5)
Music storage and is currently my HiFi
My poor machine goes with me everywhere and is used pretty much all the time. It suffers not so much paint chips, but CHUNKs. I might buy a 12 inch Pb and use my trusted 15 as a desktop machine.
Anyways check out my new website it is still being worked on, but I'm quite happy with it.
I wonder how long it would be before a 970 based laptop???
I also do photoshop to created DVD menus, and DVD Studio Pro for mastering DVDs, Toast for burning 'em.
And of course every manner of general purpose use as well.
And my answer is....
My answer? Everything
Okay, but seriously? I do email, porn archiving, MP3 hording, Chess, web browsing, pre-release movie watching, typing, photoshop jollies, quark evils, and the occasional Sims, Diablo 2 or Aliens vs. Predator. I do other stuff but can't remember it now.
EDIT: Okay, I look up phone numbers, show times, translations etc with Watson/Sherlock and also make iMovies of my family. I also Hotline.
I am a light computer user - I haven't signed on to the full digital lifestyle yet.
I use my machine to work at night on Word and PowerPoint documents that I have brought home from my main office (a Windows machine, unfortunately, at the main office). Of course, I surf the web (for news, general interest and a bit of shopping) and send/receive e-mail. I do a fair bit of family photography and enjoy using iPhoto. My kids use the computer to play games and I sometimes do this as well, with them or even with my wife - rarely alone. And I spend a fair bit of time just hacking around and figuring out how the computer works and how to make it work better(I find this oddly relaxing).
I could do all of this, I suppose, on a Windows machine, but, after working on Windows machines for years, I find the Mac easier, more reliable, and simply more pleasurable.
Door stopper