sburke Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Don't watch much tv, do you? Macs turn up in shows at roughly the same frequency as all other brands combined. Hollywood loves Mac. Michael You mean Apple pays Hollywood to like the MAC? In show advertising dollars are a nice deal. Used to be all you ever saw were AT&T/Lucent/Avaya phones till Cisco caught on. That was all you saw for a while on 24/CSI etc. You'll now see Avaya starting back again. yes as a phone geek I actually notice the phone types..... I used to love watching shows where they would show the White House and phones from wherever they picked em up. The US gov't used to be exclusively AT&T. They had a guy who traveled with the President and George Washington University Hospital had a dedicated portion of the cable frame to connect the System 75 that they traveled with..yeah I am dating myself there, but I doubt many of you will know by how much...until you google it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Your mac is a slightly higher spec than mine and CM:BN works great on mine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thanks again for all the responses. My new laptop arrived yesterday and it now appears I may not have to have a dual boot system to use some key software (it seems to run well under a Citrix plug-in). This will likely save me a few bucks on Windows and an external CD/DVD drive. I downloaded the Mac demo, but haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet. I expect it'll work okay, so my question then becomes: Should buy directly from BFC or via the Mac App Store? I suspect the former, but all thoughts welcome. Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Does the mac apple store sell CMBN? There's the ipad version which is an entirely different beasty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 MikeyD, it's mentioned on BFC's CMBN "news" page, where there's also a link to the App Store. It also notes that CF isn't yet available via that channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Williams Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Should buy directly from BFC or via the Mac App Store? I suspect the former. Directly from BFC would be my advice. Why go through a middle man when you can buy direct from the manufacturer? BTW, when did software become "apps"? Damn kids. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collingwood Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I suggest you buy directly from BF. Main reasons being: modules and new releases take a while to filter through to the app store, Apple also sometimes are stubborn and will cause new releases to be delayed weeks. Developers such as BF are at the mercy of the Apple App Store beaurocracy. Patches also will always be available from BF before they appear in the app store. I run CMBN/CF on a MBP with no problems so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thanks, guys. BFC it is. I given Apple enough $$$ this month anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Williams Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Apple also sometimes are stubborn and will cause new releases to be delayed weeks. Developers such as BF are at the mercy of the Apple App Store beaurocracy. Unlike PC games, where we live Wild & Free. Sure, we might have some technical issues, because the stuff we try to run isn't approved and tested by Big Brother, but we man up and solve it like the guy in the Viagra commercial who pours some bottled water into his classic sports car's radiator when it overheats out in the desert. We solve it and we play our games, and we don't expect pappa Jobs (RIP) to come dumb down everything and make it "easy" for us, because having everything be EASY is the New American Way. No child left behind, don't ya know? Easy Peasy, yesssir! Can't hack it? No problem. The government, and Apple, with make everything better. Just a little pinprick, there'll be no more, but you may feel a little sick...... ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 I am delighted to have Apple make things easy for me. Some folks like to have their heads under the hood, messing around with the machinery. Obviously you are one, and I don't see anything wrong with that. Whatever floats your boat. But speaking for myself, I've got a whole bunch of other things to do with my time and I emphatically do not like spending a big chunk of it trying to figure out why my computer just stopped working, thankyouverymuch. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Williams Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I have never had a computer "just stop working". Every computer I have ever built has gone obsolete and/or reached the end of it's upgrade path prior to hardware failure. This myth about Macs being bulletproof is just that. Hardware is hardware, be it solid state, or mechanical. It will all fail at some point. The software is another matter. You are either willing to put up some some uncertainty to have a larger library of software available, or you are not. If not, go Apple. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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