mac vs pc
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Reasons I don't have a Mac:
- I can get more bang for my buck, hardware-wise, if I make my a Win PC.
- In fact, "I can make my own PC". It's "my" machine, I can upgrade anything and everything when I want.
- All my software is on Win, most of my fonts are Win.
- I don't play as much as I used to, but all my games are on Win.
- I want the OS to do as little as possible - I want to run programs without bloat, or graphic embellishment. Having fancy chrome, transitions and alt-tabbing is of no importance to me whatsoever.
- When I used to use mac (and I'm sorry, I know this'll get flack) I recall them crashing more regularly and being more problemmatic than Win boxes. In particular, I found the technical side of things buried under too many layers of consumer-appeasing chrome. This was a while ago though, so I expect things have changed.Reasons I'd consider getting a Mac:
- There are some really l33t wee homebrew/shareware tools and programs coming out that appear to be for Mac only.
- I get the impression that making such apps is a little bit easier on a mac, if only (as Rafalski hints) because there's the ocean of Linux/Unix geeks out there, open sourcing everything, making it easy for schlubbs like me to poke around with stuff.
- I've already got a mac keyboard.- Yeah but aren't aesthetics worth something?? Aren't you a designer FFS?!Glitterati_Duane
- My PC sits in quite a nice aluminium box, thank you. But it's under my desk, so no - I don't really care.Nairn
- ..but I do love the thin aluminium Apple keyboard that sits on my desk here - she's teh gorjos.Nairn
- "Aesthetics" is another tired argument. I do love the look of Macs, but not everyone cares. It's how they do work that matters more.Jaline
- matters more sometimes.Jaline