| from Paul Gil Happy Earth Day, readers! I had a funny conversation with an environmental advocate at work yesterday. He was working on a PC, but had wallpaper from an Apple Mac. I asked him: "is Apple a proponent of environmental awareness?". Suffice it to say, he kept me in his office for another 30 minutes to explain Apple's green hardware to me. | ![]() | In the Spotlight | Is Mac Pro the Right Power Desktop for You? The Mac Pro is an 8-core powerhouse desktop, expandable to 32 GB of RAM, with 11 hard ports for Firewire and multiple USB peripherals. The 8-core system fully supports multiprocessing, which means graphics and media software run dramatically faster. This is definitely a powerful machine worth looking at. Read more about the Mac Pro here... | | Apple's iMac: a Computer for People Who Just Want to Compute Being a PC person often means that you have to tinker with hardware, and constantly deal with the instability of connecting this XYZ component with that ABC component. The Apple iMac was made for everyone else: no tinkering required, just start it and begin computing. If a no-tinkering machine sounds appealing, then definitely check out this About.com profile of the Apple iMac computer... | Run Windows or Linux on a Mac PC users find Macs attractive, but are reluctant to give up what is familiar to them. But if you like the look and ergonomics of Macs, you'll be pleased to know that Macs also run Windows and Linux quite well. It's called "virtualization software", and it works like this... | Sponsored Links | ![]() |  | | Computers Ads Advertisement |  |