I'm thinking of switching sides

[WDWFigment]

what about all the apps on windows I thought there were many more :/ can you play bluray movie disks on a mac?? cos our IT dept says you cant do a lot of things like that

[catrancher]

what about all the apps on windows I thought there were many more :/ can you play bluray movie disks on a mac?? cos our IT dept says you cant do a lot of things like that

The question really is what do you want to do? What apps do you want to run? Generally speaking, there's probably more apps on the Mac platform than you'd ever need to use. It all depends on what you want to do. But for things like Office apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, there's a version of those available from Microsoft for Mac called Office 2011. Or Apple has their own suite of apps to do the same things called iWork. I MUCH prefer the Apple suite. If you simply have to have additional Windows apps, you can run something like Parallel's Desktop on your Mac. This provides a virtual machine environment where you can run any copy of Windows on your Mac right along with your Mac apps. The best of both worlds.

You're correct about bluray for the moment. There IS ways to do it but it's not easy yet. I fully expect that to change before too long.


Tom (... prefers a Mac!)

[Skywatcher]

I was sceptical about the app store coming to the Macbooks and the iMacs but I am astonished how well they work and how fluid it all is



every day in every way I love my mac more

Facetime is cooool on the mac - a little narked I had to pay 59p but it helped get the boy off the computer and doing his homework last night - I do fid it remarkable that I can call him on the iMac from work and speak to him via webcam from a phone!!! This is real Star Trek stuff to me

[JStrickPhoto]

There are already BluRay drives for Mac that can read/write BluRay in both data (50gb) and movie format (for making backups of your movies).

OS X clearly states that it does NOT support BluRay movie playback at this time.

[catrancher]

OS X clearly states that it does NOT support BluRay movie playback at this time.

Yes. But there's rumors afoot that indicate that it CAN be done with an external BluRay player and the MakeMKV software.

Tom (... there's usually a way.)

[Johnie]

Watching movies on the computer is NOT an issue for me. I don't do it lol

[JStrickPhoto]

Yes. But there's rumors afoot that indicate that it CAN be done with an external BluRay player and the MakeMKV software.

Tom (... there's usually a way.)

That I don't doubt at all. Just not natively part of the OS (yet).

I would imagine they (Apple) are also working on a player interface and the requisite driver/plug-in/codec to play BluRay.

Watching movies on the computer is NOT an issue for me. I don't do it lol

I don't either. I'd rather watch via the 61" DLP and 5.1 digital surround

[Johnie]

That I don't doubt at all. Just not natively part of the OS (yet).


I don't either. I'd rather watch via the 61" DLP and 5.1 digital surround

Exactly!