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"I'm buying an iMac"

I've fianlly got round to saving enough cash to buy myself a nice, shiny iMac. I could afford a G5 but would never use it to it's potential so I thought I go for the middle of the road.

I was wondering if any of you guys have used or do use an iMac or any Mac with OSX on? Is there anything you can't do that you can on a PC? Apart from reboot, that is ...

While we're at it, can anyone recommend a Mac alternative to FrontPage Express?

Cheers in advance.

I've never used MSN and I doubt I'll be using iChat, either.

I am looking forward to using Safari, though ...

How sad am I?!?

Good for you.

If you use msn though it is alot different.
No webcam allowed and no games allowed and no background alowwed.

There are better ones but not many people use them so you will have to stick with ichat and msn.


Safari is extremely good though.

Socks D Snake wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot to ask-which imac are you getting?
>
> G3 or G4?

G4. The money went into the bank today and I shall be ordering and taking delivery of it on Wednesday.

Yeah but I noticed yours (and a few others) are called eterm, whereas the one at uni is xterm - what's the difference?

+--={07:55:54}=--
| rob@euripides:~$ somecommand someargument


That? It's just standard bash that comes with most distributions. I customised the prompt though.

Heh heh. I'm being off topic, but TBN, what is your shell in Linux called?

The wrong one.

Oh, and I forgot to ask-which imac are you getting?

G3 or G4?

Timmargh wrote:

> And I don't actually use FrontPage Express, I just wanted a WYSIWYG
> HTML editor that didn't try and take over everythng like FrontPage
> does. I'd like to use Notepad but I'm not quite that good, yet.

I've used both FrontPage and FrontPage Express.

FrontPage wanted to take over my site and added lots of proprietary extras, even though it was easy to use. I've avoided it ever since.

FrontPage Express was simple and straight forward, and great at throwing together basic web pages.

If you're looking for a good HTML editor, that is both simple to use and WSYISWYG, you couldn't do much better than go for Netscape with Composer. Works a treat on Macs (as well as Windows, Solaris ...).

Socks D Snake wrote:
> (loads, and then ...)
> Go for it, and enjoy!

Cheers - I will!