Mac vs PC
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- mrdobolina0
you can have the girls that know the difference and give a shit.
- versa0
i luv both, but have actually found my xp PC to be more stable
and i can afford PC equipment and upgrades more readily
dream would be to have a solid network of both, with a random linux machine in the corner somewhere too
- -leah-0
*sings in tune of montey pythons "spam" skit
mac mac mac mac macity maaac!!
we've got mac mac mac mac eggs and mac
mac and bacon and eggs and mac
- ribit0
Can't remember when my Powerbook last crashed... It gets a little flaky sometimes, or apps crash, or it falls off airport xray belts and gets all twisted, or it gets white spots on the screen, or Bluetooth stops working randomly, or they repair it and when it gets back I cant slide a PC card in the slot anymore and it has to go back to Apple again...but it hardly ever crashes... I miss those old OS9 total system freezes... you know where the cursor is not moving at all and you KNOW it's all over...
- normal0
Hmm... used both for years. Macs or PCs... Macs or PCs...
I like PCs more, because you can take them a part to replace parts, troubleshoot the OS if it crashes, there is always a reasonably cheap workaround for everything. It's kind've like having an old car where you know what's going on under the hood. Whereas Macs are more and more trying to emulate appliances in the respect that you turn them on, they work, but the problem is when they don't work or start acting up. What do you do, start turning on and off extensions hoping for the best? You can never really get behind the curtain on a Mac like you can on a PC.
I just feel like I've got more control over my frankenstein self-built boxes because I know every component that went into it.
I just wish that Microsoft and Apple would allow them to be networked together properly without buying an PCMacLan or something like that. With XP they've dumped the appletalk protocol, thankfully i've got a win2k pro machine which still has it.
- ribit0
You can network XP and OSX without any extra software. They both have all the necessary bits now I think (at least OSX has Windows File Sharing builtin, and there's Rendezvous for both). And thats without using Appletalk, which I think is obsolete.
- Super_Chef0
i used a pc at my old office and it was fricken speedy. much more so than my mac that i have now but the pc needed so much attention and the mac just requires a little nudge here in there in terms of maintenance. i love my mac. though i have some color issues with it.
- aram0
actually the rotoring isoball is the best, and anyone who would even consider using a faber castelle is a moron. There is a CLEAR difference.
- cre2done0
i don't know anything about PCs, but my G5 has never crashed.
- aram0
im telling the truth. At the office I have a new Dell, granted its not top of the line. Its a dimention 340 with 512 megs of ram. At home I just got a G5. What is so hard to believe about that? I was not comparing those, I was rightfully comparing the dell to my old laptop. And sadly... the laptop can do many things faster.
Ok, it cant photoshop... fine... but we all know what would win out between the Dell piece of crap and my G5
Sorry Dell.
If you gonna buy a PC, Dell should be your LAST choice. I dont know anyone who has had a Dell that lasted more than 8 months without FATAL problems.
I have been a mac user for about 7 years. I had one serious computer problem in 95 and I have never had to have any of my macs serviced ot fixed since.
- aaakpth0
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... never had to have any of my macs serviced ot fixed since.
------------------------------That's the other pitfall of Mac vs PC arguments, and that is Mac is THE single manufacturer of mac parts, aside form the clones way back when. So when we hear constant PC horror stories, blamed on software or OS, it could be due to low-grade hardware problems.
Buy quality, get quality. in a Mac or a PC. Macs just eliminated the option of you not getting quality hardware, and taking a nice chunk of change for having proprietary everything. Not a bad idea, just not a cost-effective one for us.
- mogwai0
3 out of 4 Macs prefer homosexuals.
Fact.
- gabriel_pc0
a mac geek NOT driving a VW???
something strange is afoot at the circle K
- mrdobolina0
he wasnt drinking a latte and wearing artgeek glasses either.
- gabriel_pc0
I think that photo is faked.
- ********0
i have a dell and love it.
I use mac/pc at work.
I have a 3.4gb processor, 1gb ram, 120g hard drive.
I run AE 6, PS & Illi CS, C4D, FlashMX2004Pro, etc.
never had a problem.
this is my 2nd dell.
i never open it or fix it or anything nor do i know how nor do i care to know how.
- pre-unloaded0
i've got black dell dimension and a g4 mac... mac hardly crashes but black dell... i've lost the count!!
