Mac or PC

[Hooahguy]

take your pick and tell why.

i pick PC, since i am a gamer, and since i dont have an xbox or whatnot, i need a computer that can play any game i want. i know Macs are faster and more stable, but are less convenient when it comes to gaming.

[Fragony]

You can play windows games. Happy mac user here.

[pevergreen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM

USB 1-2.0, son, you don't know
watch my data flow
From MS-DOS command line prompts
Black backgrounds, no special sauce

Take a look at Vista
enjoy the view
I suggest Premium or the ultimate skew
cop a Dell with a graphics card - super fast
turn the aero on and lick the glass

Nonsenses - I'm networking
You're not working
Stop staring at your built-in webcam
YouTube surfing

Uh! Compatibility
Everybody fits with me
All the applications wanna get with my virility
At any time
Yo, it might go off
And you can ride it
Til it's Micro-Soft

[Lemur]

Hmmm, PC vs. Mac is a religious issue, so maybe I should move this to the Backroom? No, wait, it's technical, so I'll move this off to my old stomping grounds. To Hardware/Software, away!

-edit-

I have a Mac and a PC, so I'm not sure how I should click on the poll. Also, for a while I had my PC in a dual-boot config with Ubuntu. That would really make a mess of the poll.

[Hooahguy]

try crysis on a mac....
:laugh4:

[Fragony]

try crysis on a mac....
:laugh4:

Well try it on anything. I must say that I have rapidly become a geek looking for every little inch of perfection and any gimmick I can find, it's all so terribly slick. I get a kick out of design mind you, it's all B&O here despite it being not that great at all and usually broken, I am a snob and a mac is just what I needed to feel even better of myself.

[TevashSzat]

PC b/c I game and am too lazy to deal with all of the linux issues that would come up and Mac computers are just not for me

[Mikeus Caesar]

PC

A few years ago i would have said for gaming, these days it's mainly because it's what i grew up with and i like the ability to mess around with it, knowing i can break it and just reformat it.

[Banquo's Ghost]

I used to love playing around with Linux and was, for a time, quite the proponent of the philosophy - I still am, I guess.

I always used a Mac to write on though. When I got a little tired of fixing things and wanted my computer to just work, Apple became my tool of choice. Now that I have to work for a living since inheriting, the estates all use Macs.

I used to have a little, letter box sized Sony CF1 PC, which was very portable. It ran on Windows 98, which wasn't bad. I had a gaming machine, again a Sony, but when Apple started with Intel chips, my MacBook Pro plays all the games I care to play - either under XP or natively. I removed the XP partition some time ago.

Like Fragony, I love the design of my Mac (s) more than I should. OSX is a marvellous OS for me, and I like to have things work first time - the advantage of having the software designed for the hardware. There's also some specialist creative software made for mac that doesn't appear for PC.

The best thing is, we all have a choice, which is goodness that Mr Gates might have denied us.

[PanzerJaeger]

I have both. I use MSN quite a bit and it still doesn't work just right with the Mac, so it usually gets relegated.

[caravel]

PC, with Linux and Windows XP as a dual boot. Best combination of open source, compatibility and versatility.

[Xiahou]

I'll vote PC, since it can run Windows, Linux, or even OSX(although not legitimately). :beam:

At home, I have 1 Linux machine, 5 Windows machines, and 0 OSX. Setting aside the smugness of the company in general, my biggest problem with Apple is that I don't see the value. They're far more expensive than the PC, have limited upgrade paths, and limited application support. Sure, there are a couple of killer apps for Apple, but I just don't think they're worth the price of admission. Every time I have ever thought of buying an Apple, I always end up comparing how much PC I could get for the same price- there's no contest.

[||Lz3||]

PC... and an old mac

macs are ridiclusly expensive compared to pcs...

for the price of a normal macbook pro I could get a frikin alienware monster

[Ramses II CP]

I was a Mac guy until the price to performance ratio got too crazy, then I switched to PCs. Right now there's one (ancient) Mac and 4 PCs in the house (One with a Linux dual boot).

:egypt:

[naut]

At home I have 4PCs (3 running XP, 1 running Vista). I also have an old PC running Linux, basically running my home network/acting as a file server.

No Mac for me, I'd never buy a Mac:

The ads annoy me
Smugness
Limited upgrades
Expensive
As pretty as it is the design isn't for me

[ICantSpellDawg]

MAC's are PC's now.

:2thumbsup:

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

PC. It's cheaper, it rarely fails me (alright, it fails sometimes, but at least I can fix it), it has a great price to performance ratio, and it plays games. Most of my favourite applications work on a PC as well.

[JR-]

haha, i am completely divided:

I like to do general computing in opensuse linux
I am a gamer so i have vista 64 on my main PC
I adore the hardware design of the new macbook

[Visitor13]

I'd buy a Mac... if the price for one was anywhere near sane.

Since it's not and likely never will be sane, it's PC for me.

[spmetla]

PC, more games.

[Ignoramus]

For games, definitely PC. But sadly we have a Mac now, so I've come to rely on Bootcamp.

[Fragony]

An and apple isn't that expensive, got a macbook for 1000 euro with 4 hours of heavy use and 5 a 6 hour battery if I treat it gently. It's fast as can be it does 2d imaging at blinding speed, A good laptop this powerful with that much batterylife is only slightly cheaper then that, and not nearly as cool. It's also a delight to use, feel of the keyboard is fantastic, and shutting it down or booting it up, swoosh&bang. Going to stick with this.

[edyzmedieval]

I say both, but it has to be PC for me. Break it, start from scratch, nothing happens.
Macs are amazing work platforms though.

[TevashSzat]

You know whats really wierd, mac has less than 10% of the computer market, but I seem to see easily a quater to a third of laptops on college campuses be macs

[naut]

An and apple isn't that expensive, got a macbook for 1000 euro
The new MacBook costs AUS$2,100 here, (approx €1100) and apart from the battery it has worse hardware than the new Studio 15 my dad bought (which cost him AUS$1300). The new Dells are very chic, not a sleek as Macs, but getting there. For me as a lowly Uni student AUS$2000 is a lot of money, and if I were going to spend that kind of cash I'd buy a nice beast of a PC.


You know whats really wierd, mac has less than 10% of the computer market, but I seem to see easily a quater to a third of laptops on college campuses be macs
At my Uni it seems to be about 20%. But I think if people buy a Mac they're more inclined to buy a laptop.

[seireikhaan]

PC for me. Apple's ads positively annoy the heck out of me, plus the expensive-ness factor. I mean, have you seen their most recent ones that blast windows for advertising? :dizzy2:

[Che Roriniho]

PC, but am atempting to try dual booting Ubuntu, but having problems.

[Caius]

Mac? What's Mac? Never seen one before. And no, I'm not that ignorant.

[TosaInu]

Hello Caius,

http://www.apple.com/

Apple Macintosh.

I guess you've seen some icons. The apple with a bite out of it at the right. It used to be layered from top to bottom: green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue ( http://telcontar.net/Artwork/icons/ ), but you see black and also white logos. The Mac Classic became a computer icon: a tiny all in one box. This one gives a good idea: http://www.flickr.com/photos/satta/2037359516/

[Fragony]

Anyone know of any good free cleaner for the mac? Safari is acting a bit strange, lots of 'can't display' nonsense.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Buy something without an OS (or if you must buy something with the OS of your choice) then configure it to be either a multi boot system or use a virtual machine. That way you can have the best of n (up to 3 in case of multi boot) worlds.

For all 'serious' stuff I use Ubuntu nowadays, mainly because it runs so much faster than Windows -- not insisting on gazillions of background processes I have no clue what they do, yet whenever I close something running on my name causing a Blue Screen of Death. And come to think of it, it's almost easier to work with than Windows too -- mainly because a lot of stuff can be directly run/killed from a commandline without much trouble.

@Fragony: dunno, but you could of course -- just remove all the components. If it's Unix it doesn't have such nonsense as registry meaning... locate it and use rm to remove it.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Anyone know of any good free cleaner for the mac? Safari is acting a bit strange, lots of 'can't display' nonsense.

I'm unsure what you mean by a "cleaner"?

Before trying to fix Safari, I would go to Disk Utility (Applications folder; Utilities) and select your hard disk under the First Aid tab. Click on Repair Disk Permissions. This just cleans up any unconnected rubbish and is a good bit of regular housekeeping.

If Safari still plays up, there are two possible issues. You might simply not have the right plug-in - Safari doesn't run certain video MIME formats, and reports a "can't display this content" type message. Easy way round this is to use Firefox or Opera instead. It may be a Windows Media Player issue - MS refused to make a WMA 10 for the Mac, so some content won't play whatever. You can get a workaround from Flip4Mac (http://www.flip4mac.com/).

If it's not a content issue, then it's best just to reset Safari. Go to the menu bar, select Safari (next to the apple) and choose Reset Safari. This will clear everything (you can choose what to keep) that might cause a conflict like cookies etc.

Hope this helps.

Oh, and its very unlikely (unless you are using a Boot Camp partition) but it is possible in theory to get a virus on a Mac. Just to be safe, I'd recommend the free ClamAV (http://www.clamxav.com/) to check any MS Word and suchlike files.

:bow:

[Fragony]

Tried it with safari same thing, I think it has to do with my connection, doesn't happen on wifi only with my mobile connection, it's awesome to be able to check e-mail wherever you are but it sometimes is a bit on the slow side.

[LordKhaine]

Desktop triple boots Windows XP/FreeBSD/Ubuntu. XP for games, FreeBSD for getting knee deep into command line and countless text files... and Ubuntu for everything else.

And my laptop runs Ubuntu.