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BrianG · 03.16.2011, 02:54 PM

A little off-topic here, but has anyone tried IE9 yet? I am using the release candidate at work and it is better than IE8, but still not there yet. It's funny, but it looks and acts a lot more like chrome now. It is faster and does allow your GPU to do some of the work for Flash and stuff. So, IE9 is better, but still not as good as Chrome IMO. Of course, this has nothing to do with Mac since IE stopped supporting Mac as of IE5 or something.

Harold, since your mac is obviously long in the tooth, and probably can't/don't want to buy a brand new mac, have you thought about maybe getting a PC that is ~1-2 years old (but still far newer than your mac) and installing Linux on it (I personally like Kubuntu)? The PC would be pretty cheap and the OS is free. If all you're going is internet stuff, that'll work fine. And it comes with OpenOffice so you can still open documents. The only downside to Linux I've found is gaming support (unless you have decent hardware and want to virtualize windows) and Netflix (if you use it) doesn't work yet.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	03.16.2011, 02:54 PM A little off-topic here, but has anyone tried IE9 yet? I am using the release candidate at work and it is better than IE8, but still not there yet. It's funny, but it looks and acts a lot more like chrome now. It is faster and does allow your GPU to do some of the work for Flash and stuff. So, IE9 is better, but still not as good as Chrome IMO. Of course, this has nothing to do with Mac since IE stopped supporting Mac as of IE5 or something. Harold, since your mac is obviously long in the tooth, and probably can't/don't want to buy a brand new mac, have you thought about maybe getting a PC that is ~1-2 years old (but still far newer than your mac) and installing Linux on it (I personally like Kubuntu)? The PC would be pretty cheap and the OS is free. If all you're going is internet stuff, that'll work fine. And it comes with OpenOffice so you can still open documents. The only downside to Linux I've found is gaming support (unless you have decent hardware and want to virtualize windows) and Netflix (if you use it) doesn't work yet.