<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You might want to post this on the Yahoo group, since it isn't really relevant here. Mark the subject as [OT] as well.<div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:03 PM, ron ridge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Good afternoon all, I am a long time windows user, a linux user of
about three years and do some database administration into a windows
server environment using remote desktop. I have both windows 7 and
linux mint debian edition machines installed. I have never had a
mac of any variety but am considering adding a mac alongside the
windows and linux machines. Best guess is that I would want the mac
to do the normal internet browsing and email stuff as well as drive
the telescope through astroplanner and I hope that I might also be
able to remote desktop into the windows server environment. <br>
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Would want sufficient horsepower in the mac that I would feel that
the mac performance was better than the windows performance while
maybe not being quite as responsive as the linux machines. I
haven't the slightest idea of where to start figuring out what the
range of macs might be that would not cost too much while being
sufficiently powerful and also portable enough to carry outside to
use with the telescope. I also have no idea about which version of
the operating system I should have as a minimum.<br>
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I think that a lightweight monitor with the mac mini might work in
terms of portability and would even consider the imac as it
apparently weighs somewhere in the 20 to 25 pound range. A laptop
would be the right choice and Apple touts their "new" machines as
being "twice as powerful" as the predecessor machines but that means
nothing to me because I have no understanding of the predecessor
machines. And the new laptops are pretty pricey. There appear to
be very few places to buy a new mac so there seems not to be a very
wide range of pricing available.<br>
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I know there are several, several mac users among the group and
would appreciate hearing your thoughts on how I might go about
figuring this out. There may also be some websites that would have
information on the topic but I have not found any that have been
helpful to me regarding how a windows or linux user might approach
this.<br>
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Thank you very much!<br>
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