What’s in a Mac?
I have never really thought much about Macs, for I have been a PC man forever. A few months ago, I went to one of the major computer stores in my area in search of a new monitor. I had already known which monitor I wanted to get but I was looking around anyway. A salesperson offered to help me and I told him that I already knew what I wanted, pointing towards the KDS 19 in. flat panel monitor, hoping he would leave me alone. He didn’t. He asked me if I had seen the new 20 in. Cinema Display flat panel monitor by Apple. I said no, so he showed me.
The monitor he showed me was very impressive and I was tempted to change my mind. But what was more impressive was the software package on the machine that he was using to show off the monitor. Some video editing software, like a sub version of Final Cut, (I’ll post something on this later), named iMovie, is what did it. This packaged software was more powerful than the stuff I bought for my PC and theirs is basically free. Something they feel they can give away with the purchase of their hardware. The salesman told me that you can download it off the internet for free. (I don’t know if this is true.) What the salesman did in a few minutes my software wasn’t able to do. At this point I started to think that there was something to the rumors of Mac machines.
The standard software installed on a Mac consist of this.