[nabs-l] Getting a Mac for my birthday, recommendations wanted

Sat Jun 1 05:56:56 UTC 2013

My parents are  aware of this. How about disk space and RAM? 

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On May 31, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zach and all, if you're going to get a Mac with a solid-state drive,  which is faster than a hard drive, expect to pay more for the higher amount of space. If you're going to get a standard hard drive, you will pay less for that, but you will have to run the risk of hard drives failing at random. This will eventually happen with solid-state, but it is not as random since these have no physical moving parts which is part of the reason why they can run so fast. It should be noted, however, that Apple is starting to move away from the hard drive, so you're going to find more and more Macs with solid-state rather than hard drives. The latest max have good processors, they're quite fast. Depending on what you want, you can either get an A5 or A7 processor. A7 is faster than A5, so   depending on what you want, and if speed matters, you may look into either option. It Should be noted, however,  that Aseven is more expensive than than A5. I suppose that what it really boils down to is what you're going to be using the computer for. If you're going to be doing a lot of video stuff and podcasting, you may want the speed but if you're going to be doing a lot of web browsing and other such smaller tasks, speed may not be an issue and the price may not be as bad. Be forewarned though, Max are notoriously more expensive than Windows computers, in the thousand dollar range. So just be aware of that.
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> On Jun 1, 2013, at 12:54 AM, "Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer" <zdreicer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the help there, how about disk space and computer specs? 
>> 
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>> On May 31, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes but from what I have heard, this is not accessible with voiceover. And I really don't mean to offend, but if you're going to do that, why not just get a Windows 8 Computer? I have  VMware Fusion but it's a pain  on the processor. I imagine that parallels would be too. Although I do have a standard hard drive so that could be part of it, as solid-state drives managed to run more quickly. but for me VMware just maxes out my processor so that when I turn on voice over so I can check Skype chats or something it is really really slow.
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>>> On Jun 1, 2013, at 12:37 AM, Suzanne Germano <sgermano at asu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I prefer using parallels to bootcamp so I don't have to reboot the computer
>>>> to switch between the two.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer <
>>>> zdreicer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> For my 19th birthday and high school graduation, my parents said that they
>>>>> will be getting me a Mac. They wanted me to inquire from my sources, which
>>>>> one would be best given the following specifications: I would like to be
>>>>> able to have Windows 8 and a version of Mac running from the same computer,
>>>>> I know that this is possible using Boot Camp, among other methods. What
>>>>> specifications could I have to have a stable Windows 8 and Mac OS running
>>>>> from the same system? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>> 
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