Superfly Night crew Dialogs...

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Software wise you cant beat a mac for OS IMHO, Currently I have an iBook g4 Mac and I plan to get a Mac Mini to do my podcasting from...

But yeah I think an iMic will go with a PC.

Macs have always had a built in microphone, but I wanted a better quality one to do some recording...

I was asking because I might want someone to help out with a podcast from time to time, and I can do it with some software I just got, but it has to be through a program most people find odious... at least on the PC side...

I use iChat and my old account through Aol IM Express
But non iChat folks need to use IM to get audio and video with me (well eventually video) I cant stress how cool IM will be in a few months when Apple and Aol go to multiple audio and video feeds in the same chat (up to 4 video and 10 audio)

Old One I say get the mac, but wait untill they come out with their new build of OSX in a few months. Its called Tiger and its slick...

Id even say get the mac mini on the education discount and use all your old pc periphials (monitor, keyboard, mouse)

But thats me Im the rabid mac champion on the board...
still I likes a computer you can hold in you hand...

[Eagle Prince]

If you are a gamer, then you want a PC, easy as that.  If you're not into video games, then I'd just go with the cheapest, but keep in mind that PCs are more popular and so you are going to find more stuff for the PC than the Mac.

[stacer]

I'm using my insomnia to my advantage and doing my taxes. I'm missing one form, but I figured I'd at least estimate it and do everything else, save it, and all I have to do when the form comes in is fix that one data figure, and send it on it.

Well, if I estimated correctly (I could be off by a few hundred dollars, but not a whole lot), I'm going to be getting a HUGE refund this year. Heaven bless whoever thought of the Lifetime Learning Credit. I've been worrying and worrying about how I'm going to live the last month of class, because my student loans didn't quite make it all that way. I've been looking for a part-time job, but nobody's even called me back for an interview, and I've been really trying to stretch things, but there's only so much it can stretch.

What a huge blessing. I can't tell you how relieved I am that I'll be able to eat in April and early May.

Now, to find a part-time job anyway, so I can also afford to move, if I end up doing that. And live a couple more months, if I end up having no income for a little while after graduation.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Good for you, I wish I was doing my taxes right now


As for programs availible for mac and pc, in my experience its just been games. Im using Microsoft Office as my work suite right now for instance... beyond that almost any useful program is availible on mac, and since its a Unix based system you can run unix programs like a dream too.
And if your that worried about it microsoft makes a version of windows that you can run from osx.


I priced the Mac Mini for you at $736.00 with a BYU discount, and thats with a DVD burner... 80 gigs of Hard drive space and 512 mb of RAM

Unless you intend to do tons of video or audio editing 512 ram on a mac is great...

80 gig hd could be a little small, but they make good external HD's now...


I love my Mac, my whole attitude toward computing changed the minute I 86ed my old laptop and bought my new one...

[Eagle Prince]

Computers are getting cheap nowdays... its amasing.

[Eagle Prince]

What a huge blessing. I can't tell you how relieved I am that I'll be able to eat in April and early May.

I think everyone is relieved to hear you will be eating for a two-month peroid.  That would be quite the fast.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

You could always start a blog and have a paypal donation page...
and then not declare it  

[Eagle Prince]

Or get some pet monkeys and train them to steal food.  Or if you're not into the whole stealing thing, start hawking as a hobby and they can bring you back rabbits and stuff.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

or have the monkeys take up hawking and then sell tickets...

[Eagle Prince]

Ninja monkey scaplers?

[stacer]

I'm thinking the ninja monkeys would object to such use of their kin.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

And I meant sell tickets observe the monkeys while they hawk.  

Stacer-no, thats just the kind of thing they like to do after wallowing in hot butter

[stacer]

Sweet buttered monkeys!

I'm off to bed, though. I can at least stop worrying about one thing, so perhaps I'll be able to relax a little better.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Yep Im off to bed too....

Gotta get up before 10...

[Eagle Prince]

night then. :waves: