Compare PC vs Mac
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- ernexbcn
http://www.microsoft.com/windows…
"If you use Apple's productivity suite, sharing files with PC users can be tricky. Your documents might not look right and your spreadsheets might not calculate correctly."
"Macs only come in white or silver. PCs are available in a full spectrum of colors across a range of price points."
comedy goldmine!
- monospaced0
"Things just don't work the same way on Macs if you're used to a PC. For example, the mouse works differently. And many of the shortcuts you're familiar with don't work the same way on a Mac."
Hahaha, the mouse works differently? How?
- osx has very little acceleration. mouse is like a brick compared to windowserikjonsson
- no right-clickbliznutty
- lol, you guys are hilariousmonospaced
- you get used to it. first few hours was horrible thougherikjonsson
- hey erik, if you use a 3rd party mouse, their software usually has acceleration control, but I guess it's not the samemonospaced
- wait, did you mean acceleration, or just tracking speed?monospaced
- what is right click?! better, what is a mouse?oey
- TRACK PAD! (mac)akrok
- no right click? that's odd, i use it pretty frequently.acescence
- lolmoldero
- haha, acejuhls
- i'm the only one at the office that activated the right mouse click. horrible when changing workstation.stewart
- monospaced0
emexbcn, you're right, this is hilarious
"Unlike Macs, many PCs running Windows 7 support Touch, so you can browse online newspapers, flick through photo albums, and shuffle files and folders—using nothing but your fingers."
Yeah, Macs don't support any multi-touch gestures. At all.
- It means touch-screen gestures, but this is still highly limited to a few devices.orrinward
- kpl0
"Macs can take time to learn.
The computer that's easiest to use is typically the one you already know how to use. While some may say Macs are easy, the reality is that they can come with a learning curve. PCs running Windows 7 look and work more like the computers you're familiar with, so you can get up and running quickly."For instance, the preference pane. So very hard to activate the right click on your mouse!
- oh. and if you search really hard, like reading the same pref pane, you can even speed up the mouse! O M G.Amicus
- Amicus0
Are they serious? Or, were their lawyers just bored and wanting to visit the courtroom again?
- kpl0
I like how the arguments boil down to, "you're probably too lazy or stupid to change, so stick with us, mmm'kay?"
- see, windows is easy! Our animated on-screen talking dog will show you how.kpl
- and if you didn't realize you just plugged in a scanner, we'll let you know with a pop-up window!monospaced
- hahaha at monospacedMiguex
- what happened to the talking paper clip? retired or got fired?akrok
- oey0
I touched PC today, 5 minutes, fucking complicated!...The last time it was 4 years ago, damn, it's so difficult that I forgot how to do it!
- oey0
And besides, why are we talking about this over and over?! It's easier to respond to this "question" than learning Windows...
- ukit0
I wonder if this would be the right time for Apple to introduce a new lower cost, mass market computer now that they have all this momentum from iPhone, iPad, etc...
I think a lot of people who are not techies are starting to view Apple as a more viable choice but it might be a little out of their price range. Also something like 65% of the world's computers still run Windows XP. So they will be upgrading to something in the next couple years, huge opportunity there.
- no way, part of the marketing attractive is that is more "expensive" hence "I'm better than you" attitudeMiguex
- "Macs. Better than Miguex." - Steve Jobskpl
- hahahaMiguex
- Aren't mac minis the "lower cost" option?Pixter
- Not user friendlyukit
- Remember the original iMac, it was targeted at the mass marketukit
- Yeah. What features would you strip away to justify the price drop? Not much can be done that won't de-lustre other lines.Gucci
- ukit... this is why Steve Jobs is rich and runs a huge company and you don'tPIZZA
- raf0
I'll repeat it for the thousandth time: I wonder why there's still no third option. Plenty of usable linuxes out there waiting to be packaged and sold en masse like Apple once did.
- not enough marketingdorf
- You could say this about Democrats and Republicans too, no? Seems people like two limiting choices in life.Gucci
- there are whole sections of society who struggle to type or write PC or Mac let alone linux.Amicus
- not to mention the fact that Macs are actually PCs and we should use the term Windoze instead.Amicus
- I wouldn't say that people like two choices, it's made to seem like they ONLY have two choices.dorf
- Haiku might be a competitor in 5 yearsPIZZA
- erikjonsson0
they bumped down the prices so its not really a high priced product any more.
- fugged0
So this in no reason to buy a Mac over a Windows machine, but explains one reason why I love the Mac so much. It's the attention to detail...
I just recently got an HP laptop for work because I needed a Windows machine. And I got to say, the difference in unboxing a MacBook and a [insert other windows laptop here] is HUGE.
The packaging, the design, how everything felt, the whole experience just felt good with the Mac. Starting up the machine and even going through the basic OS setup was actually a pretty good experience. It was exciting, and it felt like something special.
The HP was shit. Ugly boxes, with excess packaging. Felt like a chore to open and plug it in. Then I boot it up and click through endless fucking nonsense of packaged 3rd party software just to set up the machine. The whole experience was crap and had no soul to it. By the end of it all, I was just annoyed. Now it sits there staring at me, and I hate when I have to use it.
But to me, that whole attitude and attention to detail goes beyond the packaging and marketing on the Mac. The form factor, the OS, etc. To me it's worth the extra scratch.
I just wish Steve Jobs wasn't such a dickbag.
- pillhead0
hahahha, This is Gold
"Use Windows 7 to simplify your life.
Windows 7 was designed to make it simpler to do the tasks you do every day, with features that the Mac doesn't have. For example, the new Snap feature makes it easy to view two documents side by side."- yeah, using a grid as a tool for layout is comedy gold.zarkonite
- maikel0
Get a PC and you can even go full retarded!
Anyaway I will play devil's advocate and will note a few ones. I'm a long time user of both systems as back in the old days it was impossible running any Macromedia soft (yes you heard right) on a G3-G4 based computer.
- The character map in PC is a simple application that mac could have and it doesn't.
- Macs are cheaper now but still the price is way above in similar in like for like tech specs.However
- Branded PCs as VAIO are as expensive as macs and a lot shittier
- PCs have no soul. Full stop.
...and if you spend 10 hours plus in front something soul-less you might start losing yours!- still asleep.
way above in like for like spec
sorry for the shit writingmaikel - vaio expensive as mac?
my €1000 laptop specs would have cost me the price of a powerbook if I wanted a mac,georgesIII - So what you are saying is that your PC is expensive. With £1000 you get a basic 13' macbook pro. Is your laptop...maikel
- ...better or worse than that in terms of what's inside?maikel
- lol, we ran a shit-ton of Macromedia software of G3s and G4s, where did you get THIS SHIT from?monospaced
- from EXPERIENCE mono. Macromedia on its early versions worked a lot faster in PC. At that time Adobe was...maikel
- by far quicker on mac. now it is about he same...maikel
- still asleep.
- ernexbcn0
- I know the tool. But anybody who has used mac and pc have to admit that for once the PC app is simpler.maikel
- The Mac version does a lot more you do realise...PIZZA
- don't give me that. sometimes you only want to know where to find a bloody arrow and that's allmaikel
- if you're looking for esotheric glyphs, you don't want simple, you want fucking comprehensive.kpl
- georgesIII0
this page is full of crap? Yes.
but Microsoft doesn't have the monopole of "magic" PR campaigns,
I have a win7 partition and I'm sorry to have to say it,
but I love the fuckn OS,
it proves windows is still capable to innovate.
Immagine having to make a single os run on thousands different setups, computer parts and brands.
just that is a miracle*drinks pitcher of kool-Aid
- ukit0