It costs $99 and you get a free copy of os X and a 20% discount on a hardware purchace. Also, if Mac os X 10.4 Tiger comes out before your one year membership is over, they will send that to you for free.
With the discount, you can get a 15" 1.5ghz powerbook for $1999.
I did this to get my powerbook.
You need to fax them a copy of your student ID to verify that you are a student before you get the discount.
If your school uses all macs, I would definately get a mac. I have had a lot of problems networking my pc and mac together.
I have also been able to easily access my school's PC network easily with my mac.
... an get the learning curve in now rather than regret it come next year or so...
Thank you once again to everyone, I'm also open to any further suggestions!
What kind of "learning curve" are you talking about? After playing a bit with the finder and the iapps, you'll gain a curve, promised
As someone else mentioned in another thread: For the most part the Mac OS acts as you think it should do. That is nice. Try drag and drop, that will blow you.
Of course, go for the mac, no consideration here. You won't regret. And concerning the "speed issues": perhaps the Athlon outperforms the G4, but so what??? On a basis of daily usage, you probably get your work done pretty fast, - with LUST and PURE EROTIC. This is something MS Windows actually can't offer out of the box.
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Red plastic with a Ferrari emblem tacked on.
Wow. Blows me away.
Originally posted by Grafieks
The powerbook is approx. $600 more...
If you want to buy the powerbook, you should sign up for the Student Developer.
http://developer.apple.com/students/index.html
It costs $99 and you get a free copy of os X and a 20% discount on a hardware purchace. Also, if Mac os X 10.4 Tiger comes out before your one year membership is over, they will send that to you for free.
With the discount, you can get a 15" 1.5ghz powerbook for $1999.
I did this to get my powerbook.
You need to fax them a copy of your student ID to verify that you are a student before you get the discount.
If your school uses all macs, I would definately get a mac. I have had a lot of problems networking my pc and mac together.
I have also been able to easily access my school's PC network easily with my mac.
Originally posted by Grafieks
... an get the learning curve in now rather than regret it come next year or so...
Thank you once again to everyone, I'm also open to any further suggestions!
What kind of "learning curve" are you talking about? After playing a bit with the finder and the iapps, you'll gain a curve, promised
As someone else mentioned in another thread: For the most part the Mac OS acts as you think it should do. That is nice. Try drag and drop, that will blow you.
Of course, go for the mac, no consideration here
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"To crush your enemies.. to see them driven before you.. and Macintosh computers"
Maybe that's not exactly how it went, but that was basically it.