Mac or PC?
 

I don't believe this topic has ever been brought up, but what do you prefer more? And if you could elaborate, what are you reasons?

I'm a PC user, and I just like them more because PC far less expensive (upgrading and buying). Also you can't play any highly-graphic intensive games on MACs. About all it can handle is Tetris..or maybe Lemmings 3d...
[high]* Velocd ponders :p
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Ok, that's a lie, last game though I heard it could play fairly well was Quake 3...but no Unreal Tournament 3 that's for sure.

PC because the last "mac" I ever used was an Apple IIe over 10 years ago. :) Started on an IBM XT and moved up since...

PC in my opinion....lol

PC - started on one and just moved up. habbits are hard to change, and then i would have to learn another system.

Currently run XP and lunix on the same machine...

No contest...PC :)

-Arunan

That's complete bulls***, most new Macs come with at least a GeForce4MX which blows away most prebuild desktop's cards. The somewhat higher-end ones come with a Radeon 9700.

I own a Mac and a PC and:

1. OS X 10.2 owns any version of Windows in any aspect
2. Mac hardware at the low end is cheap but gets insanely expensive the higher up (no real mid-point). I got an iBook though for $1300 and it has a 5 hour battery life. No PC laptop at that price has that kinds of batt life. The iBook attracts chicks too (I'm not kidding, I swear it does :o)
3. PCs are usually easier to upgrade and have more choices in the terms of software and OSes, but there are also many Mac-only pieces of software. Most Microsoft apps have been ported to OS X, including Office (sans Access to my knowledge).
4. Maybe pointless but Mac hardware is better looking and quieter.
5. UT2k3 won't run on a Mac because they didn't bother porting the code to OS X
6. OS X has never, ever completely locked up on me to the point where I had to force a restart. In Windows it happens occasionally in XP for me (of course my desktop has a ton of hardware in it compared to my laptop).

I was playing Quake 3 today (during class, no teacher, wireless network ;)) and was getting 70 fps, peaking at 80 fps, on an Internet game. On my low-end iBook.

Oh yes: no registry. To install IE on a Mac, just download it and open Internet Explorer. To uninstall it, delete the program.

I like PCs...

But I do agree that Mac computers have advantages as far as OS and performance...

Unfortunately, there is little compatibility from most programs for Macs:(

Satan

If you mean program documents then that's not true, Office documents, Text files, graphics, movies, etc. are all compatible between the two. In my experience the Windows file sharing in 10.2 is worthless though, but it's easy to get around that and still do network transfers.

Basicly its a matter of preference, I'll allways use a PC and Windows, its what I consider to be best and the best working environment for me. I dislike, Mac OS, Unix and Linux intensly, but thats just me.

I hate Linux too, especially because I'm reminded of 12-year-olds sitting at their lunch table talking about Quake and compiling their kernels, whereas I'm many tables away talking about chicks, driving, and the like. Something a certain new driver here should be able to relate to :D

You mean me?

Like I said - alot of the programs I have seen don't want to work on a Mac...

Satan

The absolute only thing I can think of that a Mac can't do (and only for the moment) is have Lesane's username Glow in his Store hack work in the latest OSX browsers.
Graphics in games/all adobe software/dvds etc. are all incredible on a Mac!
What are you doing comparing a 2000 windows machine to a mac from the 80's? ;)

incidently I can run soft pc on my Mac and use any windows software I want...but why would I want to do that?! Except maybe to run windows buggy IE to see my username glow ;)

Virtual PC is okay...

BTW, playing Quake 3 today as I said...I started out at 5 hrs remaining on battery life. When I stopped 40 minutes later, I was down to half an hour left on the battery. :D

Hehe...

I started on 100% battery...

After 1 hour of playing about with PHP on my computer, i had 17% left lol...

Its supposed to last for about 4 hours!

Satan

NTLDR is right, it is about preference, I got a Powermac G4 with OS X, and its pretty nice, but I can't seem to get away from windows. DOn't get it wrong, I grw up on mac, then moved to windows at a young age :)

-Arunan

At least IE will display pages properly, I've never seen a site look as good in Netscape, Mozilla, or any other browser. Face it, IE is the best. Shame there will be no IE7 :(

IE for OSX is quick and smooth...and I definitely have had performance problems with Mozilla browsers. I was referring more to the security related bugs.
I also agree with you that it is completely a preference. :)

Why won't there be ie7?

IE6 SP1 or SP2 will come with Longhorn and after that MS will be diching IE in favor of MSN Explorer.

boo. :(. Ill tell you right now ill never install Anything related to MSN.

It's all about Jag baby! I been a Mac user for 10 years now and a member of the Apple developer program and I can proudly say, I could not even list 10 items that appear in a "start bar" Both my desk top and iBook run OS X and all my servers run either OS X server, FreeBSD or RedHat. In a world without walls or fences, there is no need for Windows or Gates :) so get a life, get a Mac!