[Fahrenheit]

Someone has offered me an emac for £300 (about $550) - 1.25, 1gig ram, 10.3.5 Panther, 40GB, Mac:Office, games (walfenstein, call of duty, world of warcraft 3), WiFi, and the stand. I personally think this is good, and I hear the eMacs run surprisingly fast, specially with more ram. So I think I will buy.
Thing is, I also have a centrino laptop. This is nice as well. So what should I do...should I sell the laptop or do people find a use for both a PC and a Mac in their lives? Cheers.

[Dave]

Sure, people can find a use for both. For example, I use my Mac to do stuff on computers, and I use my PC to get rid of those annoying static charges before working on my Mac.

[BlueRabbit]

Yeah, I'd definitely buy. That's about the same price as the Mac mini range, and while the eMac does have less GHz than the mini, it also has more RAM, a screen, and software too. It's a good deal.

[scrouds]

i love having the combo of a laptop and a desktop. It just works for me.

[jevau]

thats a pretty nice deal, so i say go for it. i use a PowerBook for on the go and a home built Windows box at my desk. both have all the apps and power i need, but i definately favor the mac! you shouldn't have any problems

[Wyatt]

Originally Posted by farenheit Someone has offered me an emac for £300 (about $550) - 1.25, 1gig ram, 10.3.5 Panther, 40GB, Mac:Office, games (walfenstein, call of duty, world of warcraft 3), WiFi, and the stand. I personally think this is good, and I hear the eMacs run surprisingly fast, specially with more ram. So I think I will buy. Thing is, I also have a centrino laptop. This is nice as well. So what should I do...should I sell the laptop or do people find a use for both a PC and a Mac in their lives? Cheers.

I also have a Windows-based laptop and a Mac desktop. While my laptop is great on the go, I still use my Mac almost all the time at home.

[Robo]

Go for it! I heart the eMac.

[Fahrenheit]

sorry this is probs really stupid, but you dont need an airport to use a airport extreme card do you? I thought they could be used witrh any wireless point, such as a netgear one. Am I wrong?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by farenheit sorry this is probs really stupid, but you dont need an airport to use a airport extreme card do you? I thought they could be used witrh any wireless point, such as a netgear one. Am I wrong?

No, you're not wrong. You can use them with whatever brand of access point you want. It just has to be 802.11b/g.

[Fahrenheit]

thanks. I thought so, I just didnt want to sound like a complete n00b! I am quite computer litterate but with a buying decision you dont want to get it and find it doesnt work! Is there some kind of chapel around here where you go to get mac-baptised or anything?