Hey stof....how do I make VGchartz one of my widgets?

@chriscox1121, do you have 10.5 (leopard) installed yet? if you do just use the little button that looks like scissors (right next to the add and refresh icons) in safari 3 and click on the part of the page you want to make a widget, it will outline it then add it too the widgets

@kazadoom sadly appleworks is dead now, has not been coming on new macs for about 8 months.... not even edu models 

@joora, i agree with your opionions completely. i have to use macs for my design and video classes, and while i dont mind them, and im getting use too them, i'm incredibly slow. one thing that bugs me, is things are called diffferent things, like when i want to delete something, ill be staring at the dropdown menu for ages, and then remembering its 'send to trash' and not 'delete'. its just the small things. im so adjusted to windows, it kind of annoys me sometimes. i feel more at home on a pc.

plus, pc's are so much cheaper, i just completely upgraded my 10 year old pc for a little over $300 au.

 That is weird.  I have an intel iMac, not the newest ones, but I have Appleworks 6.0 on mine.  Came with it too.  It just sits there in my Apps folder as I use iWork for everything now.

 The reason that they cost so much is 2 fold.  1 - there is no competition, Apple makes Macs period, you can get a PC from a million different places.  2 - and this is the one that I like the most.  Every Mac is proprietary.  You will never get junk, they are all built with the best hardware, and they all have the same hardware in them.  Apple simply will not put crap in their computers.  When buying a PC, you never know what kind of crap is in there, unless you build it yourself.  I guess I could throw in a number 3 - the genius bar.  No matter how long you have had your Mac, you can take it to any Apple store and they will take a thorough look at it and tell you what needs to be done to fix it if there is a problem for free.  When you buy a Mac, you are paying for the best hardware so of course it will cost you.  You get what you pay for.

 Speaking of which - how many of you Mac users out there use Safari? I tried it out for a few days, but found it to be rather... unstable, so I switched to Firefox for OSX.

 I use safari everyday and I love it.  I do like firefox though.  They both are so much faster than IE.  I have never had any problems out of safari other than occasional things that will not load that I use firefox to look at.

I have to use Macs for my visual communication classes, but I can navigate through them pretty easily. I Learned how to type on Macs when they were so tiny, then learned how to navigate on an MS-DOS computer for a while, then we bought two Dell PC's in the years after that, and now I have my own custom PC which I've recently upgraded.

I don't mind macs, especially now that they're using Intel cpu's because there is a clear difference between the Macs on campus that do and don't use the new C2D cpu's. However, I don't have much of a use for it other than college/career related programs like photoshop, illustrator, ect. This is because once I get back to my computer, I'm playing games and such.

Also, I don't like how I can go to the Mac website to try and build a computer and then see how darn expensive it is compared to what I've done with my PC (with a cheap e2160 overclocked from 1.8ghz to 3.0ghz). That could maybe start to change as game developers such as Id seem to be interested in bringing games onto the Mac. Still, I'm comfortable with using the Mac, I'd prefer my custom PC to it.

This isn't to say I'm supporting Windows. . . I do wish that the software was put together better

Also, does anybody else totally hate the Mac mice? There are two kinds of Mac mice for the Macs on campus. There is the older one button mouse and the (I think it's) 4 button mouse with a right/left click, middle roller, and a button on the side of the mouse.

Obviously, the one with more buttons is 10x better than the one button mouse, but even with it's helpful scroll ball, I dislike the one button look because I find myself hitting the wrong button because I don't know exactly where to press down with my fingers.

lol, I've actually been content with bringing an extra Logitech mouse to campus and using that instead.

I love my Mac's. One is a very old Powerbook G3 which I take places to do internet surfing and quick notes and such. And my other is a Dual 1Ghz PowerMac G4. I use this to do my design work. I can't wait till our business picks up and we can get new Intel based Macs.... Anyone need any graphic design work?