sueing apple?.
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- PromotionalUseOnly0
i have problems withe my mac too... but just pleased i don't have to worry about bloody norton all the time... i had times when my protection was so high i couldn't access the internet... painful
- 23kon0
At work all us 'new media' work on PC's and (touch wood) theres never a problem with the PC's. If anything does go wrong then the programmers know how to do enough with the computers to try fix them or do things like installing software/hardware and diagnosing.
Its the macs that seem to be the most problematic, I cant count the amount of mactops that have had to be fixed/replaced.
And most of the time when you send them back to be fixed apple will claim its not within the warranty and say the only way to resolve it is to buy a new computer.
Plus its only apple places you can take it to to get fixed.At home i used macs from when they first were around and all through art college I used macs - Painfully slow macs!.
When i got out into the real world and working building interweb sites, everyone was using PCs so i had to learn how to use a PC.
Pretty easy, and even easier these days - all the programs are the same - its only some shortcuts that are 'slightly' different.
- johnnnnyh0
My experience is the same as 23kon. Although PCs do break as well so I'd never say one is better than the other. I do seem to find that a lot of the so called "new media" people are more PC than mac based though.
- 23kon0
oh yeah, PCs do break and crash too.
But nowhere near the same frequency as macs seem to be here!plus, to get a PC fixed you can get parts from your local PC world or dabs.com etc for pounds (rather than hundreds of pounds) lol.
and you can get it fixed at these places or wee specialist PC shops - or even that mate of a mate who fixes PC's.
Try to get your apple fixed like that and you'll have arsed up your warranty
- MediaPimp0
two words... USER. ERROR.
- Llyod0
try vista
- Koopsy0
Dogs crash too Chossy.
- Georges0
you can't sue what you can see
- lowimpakt0
someone is doing it. i posted a link on one of the iphone threads....
- PSYKHO0
That's why I use PC! I was on a Mac and nothing but pain in the ass! Too pricey and just not reliable. Ever use PC for graphic work?
- Me too. When OS X came out I jumped ship as I felt let down. PC's are fast and using Flash on a Mac is a jokemoop
- Tell me about it, CS2 on a Mac just never worked. I will never go back to MacPSYKHO
- never have problems on mac. I don't think my current mac has crashed... ever. What are you doing wrong? hehehesofakingzero
- If Flash is bad its Adobes faultmodern
- It is, i'm using a shitty old PC running FlashDevelop for development these days. Flash is an awkward whorebag.kingsteven
- Totally Adobe's fault. Never had a crash in Logic/Final Cut.kingsteven
- i have a bitchin' new pc at home, cs3 + flash work fine, new mac at work, it's fine too.cuke426
- Raniator0
what apps crash?
- Koopsy0
" Ever use PC for graphic work?"
I have threatened to shift to a PC for years now but never do because Apple was always the defacto hardware... tell me, is it easy and painless to make that jump?
I imagine it would be a great way to cut down all times a client says "We can't open your mac-based layered photoshop file in Word, can you resend it as a pdf'd web-peg japplication please for Quark on Windows XL 97? Thanks".
- Georges0
the thing I enjoy most about my home comp (pc) is that I have total control over it,
I feel my work comp (mac) treats me like his bitch.
I hate that feeling
- cuke4260
brand new pc at home, flash develop + flash + cs3 all work fine.
brand new mac pro at work, 8-core + 6 gigs ram, eclipse/fdt + flash + cs3 all work fine.
- johnnnnyh0
PCs crash too! I know how you feel though chossy. I often think of doing something practical rather than virtual work with computers which constantly stop you from doing anything productive 50% of the time.
for the record when I use the PC I wish I was on the MAC and when using the MAC I often wish I was using the PC. Different things annoy me about both systems.
- chossy0
Motion
Final cutboth the single worst programs I have ever used. Both the only programs that I have to use.
- PSYKHO0
Moving to a PC is so easy, if you use CS3 it's the same as on a Mac (some commands are different but that's it) even developing for the web, the PC is far superior than a Mac.
IMO if you do get a PC don't get Vista as its shit. Get XP and skin it down so it looks like windows 3.1 and then you will get a beast of a PC with tons of ram.
Also if you compare a top end Mac to a top end PC you get more buck for your money with a PC, also you can more hardware and apps for PC.
- Raniator0
I don't want this thread to turn into a Mac/PC battle but I rather like my Mac. I had hideous problems using a Windows PC (BSOD, general crashing, installing Norton didn't exactly help either). My Mac hasn't let me down yet...
I find your claim that Apple's "programs fucking crash continually" to perhaps be a dramatisation, and in reality what is really happening here is that you didn't get laid over the weekend?
- I'm sorry to hear about your experience - though I'd bet it all your problems were caused by that bloody Norton thing.anairn
- chossy0
Hey autoflavour what company makes finalcut and motion?... apple you mad rocket, read read and then read again. Honestly
My computer was 6months ago the absolute best mac available and the software and operating system and video cards and drivers are absolutely what is recommended, and they are current as well so fuck that apple are fucking screwing everycunt out there with procducts that do not do what they are supposed to. FUCK YOU APPLE AND FUCK YOU KOPSY WHOEVER THE FUCK YOU ARE YOU SOUND LIKE A DICK.