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What do you use your Macs for?
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I was wondering what most people here use their Macs for. Just out of curiosity.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Body in London, mind elsewhere
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Other: All of the above + some work admin boring stuff.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Pittsboro, NC
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Originally Posted by Nivag
Other: All of the above + some work admin boring stuff.
ditto.
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Professional Poster
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I use it for server work, photography a little graphic design - just enough to maintain my web pages and of course the ubiquitous home tasks, surfing, personal finances, etc
The server work is done via vpn and vmware fusion, as I need to windows to connect to work and maintain the servers and the applications on those servers
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Web design, photography, and the obvious home use.
Sometimes I use it for work stuff, but not that often. When I get an intel Mac I will probably use it a lot more with VMWare for work.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Home.
Soon I'll be starting a business, so I'll get a new Mac for that. Mainly doing accounting and admin on it.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I myself use my work computer for mostly graphic design. And MacNN interwebbing.
My home computer I watch movies on from time to time (love the 22" LCD for that) and play online monopoly, or admin an IRC channel. (so much fun... asl ctc?)
Most of the time however, I don't mess with my home computer unless it's the weekends. Spending all day on my computer at work just doesn't make me want to jump right on it when I get home.
I usually watch some movies with the ole lady, or mess around with recording. (I have a 8track recorder along with a computer I use)
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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writing. video editing, CGI work (attached to a renderfarm of Macs), the internets, also have 5 Xserve file servers and a cluster of 10 more Xserves for DNA research. I love these machines!
edit: oh, and of course my 200Ghz for SETI!
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The deep backwoods of the PNW
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My 466Mhz clamshell sits on my coffee table pretty much all the time. I use it for chatting, surfing, sometimes writing in Journler, and I'm trying to collect various family recipes and cooking instructions in iCuistot. I've got a few games on there, too.
It's so slow, though, that I mostly just chat in Adium and don't do much else.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Vente: Achat
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All of the above, though my music skills are seriously lacking. But it's helping as a useful learning tool for the guitar.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
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work (email, spreadsheets, powerpoint, word processing), internet, personal email, Diablo II sometimes, video viewing, photos, DV editing (consumer level), video chatting when traveling.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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Work (email, MS Office type stuff), browsing, iPhoto, iWeb, ocassionally WoW.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Ghent, Belgium
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work (adobe CS3-filemaker-)
pleasure (logic pro 7, logic studio is on it's way)
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
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Video editing is a big part of the G5s use around the house. Music editing too, mostly Vinyl clean-up.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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I used to do school work (Electronic Imaging major) solely on my G4. Video work, 3D modeling, etc... I guess I'm antisocial since I hated working in the Mac lab...even if they had G5s.
Now I just browse with it, burn DVDs, touch up photos in PS, and sync my iPod to it. Since I've stopped going to school the need for a new machine is out the window, my G4 does everything I actually need it for now (except for Flash, which bogs my computer to unusable levels)
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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I work on one, study on one and surf macnn on one.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Safari, Adium, Mail, Word, iTunes, iPhoto, Garageband (live on-stage stuff with a guitar and keytar).
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
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Musak + MacNN + pictures of things + TV + maintaining a list of people who have wronged me so that one day I will pass their details onto my mafia friends who will cause mischief in their refrigerators.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
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Work and sometimes games - MBP
Photoshop (I suck), music and photo storage - Sawtooth
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Clinically Insane
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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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All of the above except music. I'm a terrible musician.
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: eating kernel
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iMac - Used for home use and linux administration. I also use it for some video editing and I run a Ubuntu VM on it.
MacBook - Used for school and linux administration, I also have a Ubuntu VM on it.
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Signature depreciated.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
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Standard home usage: Web surfing, chatting, watching movies, & listening to music.
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Originally Posted by Microfracture
Standard home usage: Web surfing, porn, chatting, porn, watching movies, porn, & listening to music.
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Professional Poster
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Video, Graphics, Photos, Web Browsing, Mail, etc.
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Originally Posted by Rumor
You promised that you wouldn't tell
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Web design, graphic design, moving graphics, animation, photography, video editing, sound mixing and music.
Stereotypical mac stuff
At home I use it for web surfing, as a "TV" (bittorrent ftw), and games on my mac, wintendo and wii.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Photographic and Graphical Endeavors, Surfing, Music Acquisition.. and a little bit of errything else.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
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Needs "Everything" or "All the above." The only computers I use are Macs, so pretty much every computing need I have gets taken care of on one. I use mine for surfing the web, chatting, video production, light Photoshop, and recording live music.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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So, nobody uses their Macs to look at porn iPhoto pictures ?
-t
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I use it for everything, work, play and in-between.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by turtle777
So, nobody uses their Macs to look at porn iPhoto pictures ?
If I ever find somebody who uses iPhoto to organize their porn, I think I will literally die laughing. It will be a good death.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Cologne & Helsinki
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All the home usage - my MacBook has to do all the things from musicbox to video and picture archive, TV, movie station, for Internet, Email, Communication, cutting videos, and and and...
And it has to be the working machine for concepts, texts and books i write. :-)
The digital hub idea works for me, it seems. :-)
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Baninated
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
If I ever find somebody who uses iPhoto to organize their porn, I think I will literally die laughing. It will be a good death.
Oh I am sure someone does it. Why wouldn't they?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Belgium
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General use + Photo work. Aperture FTW!
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iMac 20" C2D 2.16 | Acer Aspire One | Flickr
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Oh I am sure someone does it. Why wouldn't they?
It's just so…obvious. Most people hide their porn in a folder called "Incredibly boring tax documents" or something.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Baninated
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I have some rather riske pictures of my signifigant other in my collection. I guess that would be considered porn.
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