Mac VS PC

[Ted Striker]

The new Macs are pretty solid because they are based off of FreeBSD but in general I'll take my cheap ass Intel based PC over a Mac anyday.

The Macs seem to sell into the niches of graphics and journalism, and also to fanatics who refuse to use anything else. Outside of those niches it's kinda pointless to use one.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by panag
hi ,

maybe it would be intresting to set up a serious conversation in the MAC forums , ....

have a nice day

Does anyone actually visit those forums?

[MRT144]

Originally posted by monolith94
Building one's own mac, eh? It's possible - over in Japan they have hardcore macheads who do it all the time.

no wonder that country has a problem with social misfits.

[Drake Tungsten]

Macs rule all, biotches!!!

[Kingof the Apes]

Macs are nice.
My only real complaint is that they seem to be getting caught up in style(IE thier mouse, which was apparently designed to hang on a wall.)

[DarthVeda]

I'll never get a mac for the same reason I don't run Linux on my machine right now. I have my computer for mostly gaming. That's it. Mac used to be a gaming platform back a long time ago but they got real dumb and lost that market. It nearly burried them. Now what they have left is a niche market of elementary schools and people that simply own them to ire the PC users.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Macs are overpriced/underpowered compared to PCs. XP is perfectly stable so the whole OS argument goes out the window anyway. And I never found macs stable anyway.

XP is perfectly stable? Ask che about his horror story.

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
And Linux eh? Cryptic commands, only really designed for the ultrageek, horrendously long installations, and no, I don't give a flying f**k if I can recompile my kernal...

Ever needed to do remote administration?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Kingof the Apes
Macs are nice.
My only real complaint is that they seem to be getting caught up in style(IE thier mouse, which was apparently designed to hang on a wall.)

hi ,

then you should get a kensington wireless mouse , they have great style

have a nice day

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


XP is perfectly stable? Ask che about his horror story.

In my opinion XP is the best desktop OS ever to hit the market.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


XP is perfectly stable? Ask che about his horror story.

1 and a bit years and not a single system lockup. In my experience, that seems to be 'stable'. Now I am not going to do an Asher, but credit where credit is due. I certainly never had this from any Macs I have previously used.

Ever needed to do remote administration?

Can't say I have actually

[MRT144]

UR, 1 story hardly makes a case...

[Agathon]

In my opinion XP is the best desktop OS ever to hit the market.

Surely you jest.....

In XP the UI is far too complicated and inconsistent. Some people remarked that they don't like Apple's one button mouse - that's fine, a two button mouse with scroll wheel is supported by Mac OS X - but you don't really need a two button mouse to use the Mac OS if you know what you're doing (but some people prefer them anyway).

XP has "wizards".

XP needs "wizards"

Ripped an mp3 lately?

Windows is an ugly and inferior copy of the Mac OS.

Windows Media Player is an ugly and inferior copy of Quicktime.

XP is monopolyware - every person who uses Windows contributes to Gates' virtual monopoly on computing and you don't have to be an economist to know that monopolies are, in general, very bad for the consumer (I often wonder where computers would be if the Microsoft monopoly had been broken in the mid nineties).

Windows will soon be rentware.

XP is not UNIX - nuff said.

and

OS X has much better graphics. If you've ever tried to read classical greek on windows you will know what I mean.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Agathon


Surely you jest.....

In XP the UI is far too complicated and inconsistent.

Alright, as someone else inthis thread said (can't be bothered to remember names) we have to give credit where credit is due. The XP User interface is too COMPLICATED?! There wasn't a thing I couldn't do (barring the entire system crashing. Then I couldnt do much)

XP has "wizards".

I'm sure your new MAC OS has "wizards" or something to help the new user.

XP needs "wizards"

No, it only means you need wizards.

Ripped an mp3 lately?

No. I have 98.

Windows is an ugly and inferior copy of the Mac OS.

Thanks for the Ad Hominem.

Windows Media Player is an ugly and inferior copy of Quicktime.

Actually, I've found that Quicktime is much more unstable than WMP.....Oh, and another Ad Hominem.

XP is monopolyware

No offense, but I would take "monopolyware" than an Apple anyd day.

every person who uses Windows contributes to Gates' virtual monopoly on computing and you don't have to be an economist to know that monopolies are, in general, very bad for the consumer

Considering the alternatives, this monopoly is serving us pretty well.

Windows will soon be rentware.

XP is not UNIX - nuff said.

Thank banana for that.

OS X has much better graphics. If you've ever tried to read classical greek on windows you will know what I mean.

Better graphics......?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Agathon


Surely you jest.....

Surely I don't.

In XP the UI is far too complicated and inconsistent.

Tell me what exactly is "too hard" about pointing and clicking?

XP has "wizards".

Which work well for the novice user.

Windows is an ugly and inferior copy of the Mac OS.

Actually if you want to go that route we could say that Mac is a copy of the system originally developed by Xerox!

Then we could further go down the line and say that MacOSX is an inferior copy of FreeBSD!

Windows Media Player is an ugly and inferior copy of Quicktime.

I've never had a problem with it.

XP is monopolyware - every person who uses Windows contributes to Gates' virtual monopoly on computing and you don't have to be an economist to know that monopolies are, in general, very bad for the consumer (I often wonder where computers would be if the Microsoft monopoly had been broken in the mid nineties).

Spare me the diatribe. If you want to whine then start using Linux and post over with the zealots at Slashdot. You can't use Red Hat though because Red Hat sold out by actually being successful. Microsoft has plenty of competitors. People don't use Macs because they prefer PC's. Plain and simple.

MAC is ALSO monopoly. Why can't I buy commodity parts for a Mac? For a PC you can even buy an entire system now for only $200! But with a Mac you are forced to use all their damn proprietary hardware. Lack of hardware competition keeps Macs price artificially inflated.

XP is not UNIX - nuff said.

And that's good, because UNIX is a HORRIBLE desktop. Yet XP is an extremely stable desktop.

OS X has much better graphics. If you've ever tried to read classical greek on windows you will know what I mean.

The average user reads classical Greek?

[CapitanGarlic]

What did I say? There's the UNIX argument. From my experience, Macs are good for two things, and two things only: Audio and Video. If you make your own, then a mac would be handy. If not, then it wouldn't.