Mac or PC

TylerS

TylerS

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So ive been looking to get a new comp. soon and an imac sounds ideal. So i need some feedback from you guys and if i should get a PC or a Mac.

I will use it for video editing mostly and it needs to be decently cheap. Like around $1000.

And if i have enough cash i might get a new videocamera, but i wanna get a cheap HD one. Any thoughts? Thanks
 
HD will eat your memory, if i were you i would save up a little more or look for a refurbished apple off of there site, the g5 towers are amazing, they are defiantly worth saving up for
 
where do you find the refurbished apples on their site? So if i were to do that and got the applecare warranty then it wouldnt be that bad? and the video camera i just threw out there but i doubt i will have enough money.
 
goo to apple.com then go to the store, and scroll down, its in that left gray collom on the left hand side, they dont have any g5 towers, only mac pros, they are sick, but cost a little more then you want to spend, also check ebay and try to find a legit deal
 
yeah, im liking ebay especially because i save a ton of money and it has the applecare warranty.
 
do you have a mac or pc now?? cuz if you have a pc then it might be confusing to run a mac for a few weeks-months depending on how computer adept you are. but macs are soooo much better and easier to use once you learn how. also for video editing theres no competition - definately a mac.
 
I've got both a Mac and a PC in my home right now and if I had to choose between the two I'd choose the Mac for sure.
 
if your on a budget

fuck mac

plus the editing programs are expensive cept express and i heard its not that good

ive had to replace my harddrive and my heat sensory on my macbook

shits wack
 
if your on a budget, build a PC. you can seriously build a sick machine for next to nothing. yea, XP isnt as pretty as OSX, but it works, and when it comes down to editing, youll be running the same programs or very similar programs on either machine, so why not get the more powerful one?

and if you dont know much about computers, get some help from your local computer geek. they will hook you up.
 
get a beefed up as fuck G4 tower if you are on a budget. It is so easy to pirate final cut pro on a mac, so programs won't be an issue.
 
Macs are now super-overpriced PCs. It was cool back when they were their own 64-bit architecture and they actually had a competitive edge.

I can build a $1000 PC that far outclasses a $2500 mac, and you can pirate all the software much easier when you're talking about windows software. MacOS pirating is a different ball-game. Not that I'd ever condone that. Everyone argues 'macos has all the editing software'. But if you look, every single major editing suite for A/V (Protools, Cakewalk, Director, Studio, Reason etc) is also released for Windows. The only things that aren't are the apple-produced softwares, which usually are more geared towards user friendliness than power, so youre not missing much. I've used both.

Then in 2 years when you get out of video editing or whatever you can use the machine for gaming or normal computing rather than having a $2500 paperweight to play crappy mac games and use crappy mac software alternatives for things you'd normally have every day under windows.

OSX has some benefits, neat user interface and it's pretty and makes people go 'ooh ahh', but I prefer software choice to having neat 3d windows that flip around and do tricks.

Just my $.02 (Been an audio engineer for a long time, had run-ins with macos and windows systems (even some linux))
 
i agree that you can build a PC desktop for $1000 that will run faster than a $2500 mac, but mac laptops are, in my experiences with both PC's and Macs, infinitely better than any PC laptop. and they are definitely barely, if at all, overpriced.

and i have had aboslutely no problem pirating software for my mac laptop.

"The only things that aren't are the apple-produced softwares, which usually are more geared towards user friendliness than power, so youre not missing much. I've used both."

i'd love to know how software can be geared more towards "Power" as opposed to "Friendliness." and if by friendliness you mean actually working in a way to make it run as smoothly as possible, then yes. you are completely correct. but i'd rather have software that does what its supposed to in 2 minutes than software that works in a minute and 45 seconds but crashes twice.

and sorry man, but i grew out of games when I was 16. so no problem with my mac there. And if you prefer software choice to neat 3D windows, then have fun with Vista.
 
you hit he nail on the head. mac and pcs are very alike. but you can build a pc for so much cheaper and it blows away a mac. just build a pc. my mom bought a 2000 dell, and i built my pc for 1200 and it blows my moms away, it is the cheapest and best thing to do
 
yup. totally agree. im a design student, and while most of it isnt video editing, its still alot of demanding rendering type shit like solidworks, Rhino, Illustrator/Photoshop, etc. our labs are all Mac G5s, and i cant stand them. my 1500 dollar, 2.5 year old toshiba laptop totally crushes them (its a beast thou). in reality, what it boils down to, is when you buy a mac, you get a very well designed and pretty housing (ill be the first to say thier products are Phenomenal looking), a fancy interface that is nice to look at, but doesnt function any better than XP (maybe Vista lol), and a computer that is difficult, expensive, or impossible to upgrade. if your on any kind of budget, and just looking to get the best preforming machine you can buy for the money, build a PC. bottom line.
 
go for the macbook. i have an imac g5 and got a macbook this past january. both are fantastic machines, no complaints. they are speedy and don't slow down like the dell across the room. you should really enjoy it.
 
Sony Vaio's DOminate! well i like mine atleast... dual processor, plenty of memory, speedy, and most are reasonable $$ wise....
 
dont get dells, they are junk.

my comp is a toshiba satellite 17 inch. its a little rough around the edges (case isnt as fancy as other brands, fans are loud, etc), but as an actual computer, its sooo dank. its got a 3.6 gig P4, 2 gigs of ram, etc. its insanely powerful, and never lags. plus the harman/kardon speakers are the best ive ever heard out of a laptop. i think it was only 1450, and i added on the 3 year protection plan. i defiantly recommend them. good shit.
 
I have a PC now, but our school is all macs and im pretty used to it now except the damn one click mouse, SO macbook or iMac G5?
 
apple doesn't even sell a one click mouse anymore. But yeah, you have been able to change it since there was USB
 
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