Mac vs. PC

[AntRid]

Mac and a PC are different things.

Mac is an entire package of hardware and software. Apple keep things very tight as to what can run on a mac and what can’t, making the OS more stable.

PC is much more open source. You can have a lot of variations in the hardware and anyone, with the knowledge, can develop a programme for windows which leads to a less stable but more varied OS.

I tend to lean towards the PC mainly because I hate the hardcore Mac community and Macs advertising campaign is just getting embarrassing. Reminds me of:

[Peegee]

Macs were better than PCs until Windoze 7 came out and combined the best of linux with the worst in Microsoft.

To say one is better than another is silly. I hate mac products for no good reason and had even less reason when the first sentence was happening.

Either case, it doesn't matter. I'll never spend thousands of dollars on a laptop. That's what's retarded about it.

[rubah]

Well, the image isn't meant to be taken literally. The image is biased to the PC's side, as you should be able to see, and I wasn't saying that the image is perfectly true, I was only saying that it seems to be the major point between Mac and PC, that Mac is easier and PC is stronger, in most cases.

And I'm just saying it's an ignorant image.

[Shiny]

I've used PC as my personal computer since I was a little tot, but now having a Mac has become mandatory. It has programs that are otherwise unusable on PC; such as Final Cut Pro. Avid also works better on a Mac. Hands down, Mac is better for what I want to do in terms of sound and visual editing, but I still prefer the interface of a PC.

[Wolf Kanno]

I've used both and prefer one over the other depending on what I'm doing so I can't say I ever like going into this whole debate about which is better, though oddly enough, I've crashed more Macs in one year than I have for PC's in a decade so I always chuckle a bit about the whole "dependability claim". I guess I admit Mac death rays or something...

Though, I will say that I also have a great disregard for the elitist mentality among some Mac fans and the fact that Apple has sorta embraced it as a company just makes them look less appealing.

[Raebus]

I don't use image or sound editing programs alot, so I have no use for the mac.
So, Pc's all the way.

[Mirage]

Please specify if we're talking about hardware or software here.

[Momiji]

I've never liked Macs.

[Raistlin]

Please specify if we're talking about hardware or software here.

Either one, or both. The poll is just for which one you prefer (or at least use), and people will obviously have their own standards for what they like.

[Rad Bromance]

Linux based PCs aren't PCs now?

I have a Windows based PC running Windows 7 and I like it. It does everything I want it to do with no fowl-ups and it didn't cost me much to build the system at all.

I've never been familiarized with Macs outside of school, and their hefty price tags while giving me no incentive other than "Cool people use Macs, they just work, hehehehehuk" isn't enough to interest me in paying so much money for a computer I have less customizing power over.

But I'm hardly one of those people who "hate" Macs. I'm just happy with my PC.

[Mirage]

Which is why I wanted a clarification on if this was "macos" or macintosh hardware we were asked if we liked or not.

I don't have a particularly negative opinion of MacOS X or Y or whatever's most recent now. Mac hardware is overpriced, but at least the machines sometimes have a better build quality than many other manufacturers do. Not enough to make up for the extra costs though.

[Meat Puppet]

Real men use the abacus.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I voted PC because I both my computers are running Windows, the laptop running 7 and the desktop running XP. But Linux is also in the PC domain, and technically so is Mac OS.

Anyways, Windows > Mac OS.

Mac isn't really anymore secure than a Windows based machine, any idiot who actually knows what they're doing will do just fine on any brand of OS they choose to use. But Windows is cheaper, easier to customize, and has a plethora of games and programs that will run on it natively. And even Mac OS is that much better at video/audio editing, it's hardly worth the douchey look and the huge price markup.

And this, it's and old copy and paste argument.

The Apple Mac Pro. The greatest computer ever conceived and constructed. Only a man like Steve Jobs could create such a marvel.

Bull.

Let's take a look at this.

Let's build a Mac Pro from Apple's official website.

Let's give it the strongest processor, the most RAM, the largest HD, and the most powerful graphics options available:

Let's give it two quad-core CPUs at 3.0 GHz.

Let's give it just one 750 GB HD.

Let's give it 16 GB of RAM.

Now let's give it a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI) for the graphics.

Now let's forget everything else, all the other tacked-on , no modem or monitor even.

The Mac's final cost: $10,543.00.

Now let's go to Newegg and build the exact same thing.

Let's give our Newegg computer the exact same for HD, RAM, and CPU options. Hell, let's give it another CPU, and another damn graphics card, and finally let's slap on two cases.

That's right, two smurfing cases, and let's make sure they're just as tough as the Mac's case, and make sure they're the most expensive cases Newegg has to offer.

And let's assume you pay some smurfer a thousand bucks to assemble it. And let's buy both Vista AND XP while we're at it.

PC Final cost: $7,069.83.

Damn, what should we do with that $3,473.17? Let's buy five God damn Xbox 360s and, while we're at it, let's get some of the newest shooting games, like BioShock, Halo 3, and the VALVE Orange Box.

Now what should we do with what we have left?

, why not put a down payment on one of those new Maserati? And let's buy some smurfing cocaine while we're at it, and maybe get some surgery to turn our right arm into a giant cock. Why the hell not? With all that money I could've wasted on a MacPRO, I could instead make my arm a smurfing PENIS to shove up Steve Jobs ass, hopefully killing him.

[black orb]

>>> I like Macs, the sad part is that I cant afford one so I`ll stick to the crappy and cheap PC for now..

[Madonna]

I like computers!