Mac vs. Windows

-Kieran-

-Kieran-

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what do u guys think is better windows or mac. i like mac cause it workd better and it totally faster and windows is hella slow and gets viruses. 
 
totally depends what you want it for.

personally, after owning both, mac kills windows for what i need and i love all aspects of my mac.
 
BTW that was a huge generalization. I figure if mac users can generalize about pc users we can generalize about them.
 
I have owned windows comps for years. I use macs all the time at school. Not gunna lie, i'd rather have a mac. I like editing with video, and photos, surfing the net and watching vids. i just like macs better for what i do, even though i own a PC.
 
I have a PC and it works great for everything, my best friends has a mac and he hates it.

So from personal experience I prefer PCs, I'm sure a lot of people like Macs, but I'm not switching any time soon.
 
i see where ur coming from but whats bad about the mac where pc is better. no viruses, that could alerady destroy a pc so i would rather a working mac then a virused pc. really i wanty to know what does windows have on the pc
 
You're thinking of older generations. I've used mac's and pc's since 1st grade. Our school has both types of computers. The mac's in the computer lab and the pc's in the tech rooms. There's a reason for that. The mac's freeze almost every time I am on them. Sometimes it's from the network and everyone is booted then the mac guy has to come in and restart every computer and reset every connection then other times just the computer I'm on freezes which then freezes every computer at the table I'm at. Everyone hates mac's except the mac guy because if they didn't freeze, he'd have no job.
 
i have a mac and it hasn't frozen once in the 3 or so months that i've had it. also, the apple stock that i own has more than doubled in the last 10 months. so its like the mac is paying for itself!!!!LOLLL!!
 
Most of them are brand new. Each year they replace half of the computers so this year half of them are new. The other half was new last year. I've used macs not just in school. Overall I felt like I was spending most of my time waiting.
 
amen. bootcamp is the answer to this arguement. get a mac and run bootcamp if you want windows.
 
seeing as I am a frequent gamer, and only use photoshop and dont edit any movies, or stuff like that, I use a PC.

it just suites my needs way better, which is what you should base your purchase on

dont just buy something because people say it's "Better"
 
its not really huge at all.. its not hard to download and configure it. Its also only a web application framework. There are plenty of others available using different languages, such as zope (python) and fusebox(php and cf). I hardly think that a web developer will make the choice between a mac or pc based on whether the os has rails bundled with it. Most are probably going to go with mac anyway because they are seen as the computers for designers. No legit web developer will only use one computer anyway, so they are probably going to have both windows and os x machines.
 
Macs for students, editors, so on and so forth. PCs are much more for gaming and business. All depends what you want it for, they both have their pros and cons.
 
Illegal?, do you really think anyone cares about legality concerning software? I have an older laptop running OSX that actually runs faster (and not just subjectively faster, I've run several benchmark tests) than my aunt's (miniumum spec) Macbook. The older laptop cost 500$ and the macbook cost 1100$. You can get drivers for just about any hardware now, although I agree when people just started running OSX on PC's the compatibity was shit. Nowadays running a dual boot system with XP and OSX on a PC is more attractive to poeple with shallow pockets than buying a Mac. I'd rather save 700$ and be "illegal".
 
IMO alot of people that are starting to buy mac's are just getting them because they are apparantly "virus free" (which wont last too long) and because they are asthetically(sp) pleasing. The commercials are further building hype that the gravy train i.e pc, is going to be coming to a hault and mc/osx will further rule the pc dominated market. Now im not putting down macs, there pretty solid machines but there just not for me. too much money for something you could get cheaper in 2 pieces instead of just one.

and for a changeup from the norm... Screw PC! Screw MAC! GO LINUX!
 
lol, yay, linux.

But I think the market is shifting. Macs are going to get stronger with personal computing, and micro$oft will go with corporate type stuff. More expensive stuff that the normal people cant buy, like their table thing. They are working together.
 
If you really want to get into technical stuff hard-core programmers can just get linux or something and put it on their PC...now that's a hard core programmer...personally i prefer windows,

though people say viruses come with owning a windows based operating system it's just because people believe that mac users are suffering enough and sodon't create viruses for macs.

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linux just isn't a viable consumer solution at the moment. Ubuntu can't even play mp3s "out of the box". I use linux pretty often but its by no means a replacement for OS X for me. A lot of the really good software for linux has a version that runs on mac too or theres a similar open source alternative.
 
I do oodles of editing videos. I would much rather use Finalcut than Adobe, because adobe sucks. Therefore i chose mac, because Finalcut really only works well on macs from my experience.
 
I disagree, you can go to Nvidia or Creative's website and download the drivers for your hardware, it required no "hacking" and the average user with a good tutorial could intall and get OSX running with no sweat.

And to your point below the one I'm quoting:

About not getting software updates, and getting shut down: People have hacked OSX to make it not check to see if it's running on Mac hardware, when the newest OSX comes it it's likely that I'll have to wait about a week so that someone can hack it. After OSX is hacked every other application doesn't check to see if it's on genuine hardware and can be run normally and updated normally. I think it is a genuine long term solution, while it's true that apple will start putting harder protection on OSX I don't have to deal with that, the people who hack it do. Windows Vista has the best antipiracy controls in any software ever and it was hacked before it came out.
 
I've owned both, i'm currently on a mac, a MBP.

I loved XP, it did everything i wanted it to, i took care of it, and it worked fine.

Now, i have a much better computer in terms of hardware than my PC, and OSX is also catering to my needs as of now. I was skeptical about not having Office anymore, but it's all been good with Pages, with a few things that I can't do as well, but also a bunch of stuff i couldn't do or couldn't do as easily...

It really is all personal preference. The main deciders were being able to use final cut pro, the design and the ease of use.

Just go with what you like, at this point both PC and Mac will do the same things.
 
i personally love mac i always have trouble with windows, i think macs better cause it hase OSX (now leapord) and has boot camp (wich you can run windows opperating system on mac) so i say mac but then theres kids who say windows cause of the games they play on their computer
 
Believe it or not, a lot of them do. When Apple changed from a PowerPC cpu to an Intel they took out the only real limitation on why OSX on PC wasn't viable. Before you had to emulate the PowerPC cpu, now there's virtually no difference hardware wise between a Mac and PC which is why it's not hard to run OSX on a PC anymore. You don't even need a driver for your CPU as all that information is in the bios. And many (creative and Nvidia as well as others) hardware developers are releasing drivers for OSX.
 
its all personal preference, why argue about it?

its like skiing and snowboarding.

we all use either os x/windows to access the same exact shit, who cares.

personally i have a mac and love it, but at the same time i'm not arguing that it's better or worse, it's just what i PREFER.
 
My dad is a graphic designer so the first computer I ever used was a Mac, then the family computer turned into an HP and then a Dell, with which we had nothing but problems with after six months of use (granted I had to share it with a computer illiterate mother and a 13 year old sister). When I went to college I bought a Macbook and stand by it that I will never ever go back. I fucking love this thing
 
i have a macbook and a PC, and i enjoy both. Macs are hard to get to know, but i certainly find that PCs are much simpler, and neither are dumbed down compared to the other.
 
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