MAC or PC ?

MAC or PC ?

  • MAC

    Votes: 26 32.5%

  • PC

    Votes: 51 63.8%

  • Linux, Hackintosh, etc.

    Votes: 3 3.8%
  • Total voters
    80
I've voted linux, well pc subsequently I guess.

I use linux and windows interchangeably, mainly linux for its minimal sys requirements, the ability to fully control and configure your system the way you like it, having one of the best shells, being highly reliable (ran a linux server at home for close to 2 years without rebooting once), not to mention clustering the whole office on the cheap. Bugs are addressed faster through an open source community.

I really don't like the os x, but I like the hardware of g5's and those 40" productivity monitors they come with, effed around with them at work a while ago, they mainly used it for final cut, checking email and nothing else, which I thought was pretty much a waste of a perfectly fine hardware, so yes for parts, no for os.
 
I <3 my macbook Pro and all of its pretty aluminumness :-)





I have had pcs, and after my third go at a pc i called it quits. It was NOT a user error. It was a malfunction in the programing or whatever it was that they told me. So counter act a previous posters notion about it being the PC users fault, I will disagree.

Sure mac has its faults, but so far none I have experienced have been quite like those I experienced with the Pc.
 
ibr3ak said:
I thought the new macbook pro's ran on intel cpu's, why would you need parallels?
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you are correct. for super fast windows and super fast osx you must boot each OS separately...(you boot into windows and use windows, you restart to use osx....)using parallels you get to use both windows and osx....

both methods have pros and cons up the wazoo
 
tekonus said:
No viruses on Mac OS? LOL have fun with that. You probably have spyware and such that you don't even know about, and since you are use to using a simplistic OS that doesn't need much horsepower to run fast you don't even notice it. Mac OS is not immune to viruses, or hackers. Example, last month Apple rushed out an iPhone patch because there was a bug in the OS (which is a scaled down version of the real thing) where someone could send you a few text messages (that you wouldn't even have to open) and they could hijack your phone.

Don't get me wrong, I am deeply in love with my 3G-S. It's the only phone I've ever had that has gotten better over time instead of worse. I'm just sick of people crapping on PC's and not knowing what they are talking about. It's a silly argument for me to compare the two, however. As I have built every computer I've had for the last 15 years. So I know there are quality components in it, and I know everything about it. Comparing my computer to a Mac would be like comparing a finely tuned custom built race car to a stock Corvette. Yes, the Corvette pretty. Yes it's simpler to just get in and drive. Will it ever be nearly as fast as I finely tuned and maintained racing machine? No.

This is the problem, though. People just want to turn it on and have it work. Mac's OS is more simplistic, so it seems to "work better" as most people define it. For the record though, ya can't crap on a PC's components... all the new Mac's are Intel based anyway. Have fun buying your overpriced PC's in a pretty case with a different OS.

One last note to the OP: You can't put Linux on a different platform than PC... it runs on PCs. I believe for the PC option you meant the Windows platform.

<Gets off soap box>

Sorry for the rant, I've worked on computers for most of my life (including some Macs) and I'm currently into a few different types of programming, so I've learned quite a bit about different OS's and platforms. Reading these type of posts just gets quite frustrating at times.
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nopee no virus's or spyware! its awesome isn't it ahaahhahaha!
 
coach_z said:
you are correct. for super fast windows and super fast osx you must boot each OS separately...(you boot into windows and use windows, you restart to use osx....)using parallels you get to use both windows and osx....

both methods have pros and cons up the wazoo
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Yeah that's what I mean, dual booting/boot camping it rather than virtualization and non native modes of parallels/vmware/virtual pc, etc..
 
PC/Linux user here, I like to make my own decisions on what hardware/software I run.

But after Win7 becomes more mainstream, the adage of the windows PC being clunky and slow wont be an excuse anymore.
 
DoN_WoN said:
nopee no virus's or spyware! its awesome isn't it ahaahhahaha!
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I suppose ignorance is bliss... Btw, they make anti-virus programs for the mac os for a reason. I'd imagine since you were under the vail of "mac os is invincible" you've never looked into it. The more popular it gets the more it will be a target.
 
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