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Symp:
This may be a noob question, but what I want to know is, why do some of you think that Mac's are better than PC's?
I want to here both sides of this argument and dont want it to be a flame war between PC and Mac people.
Ok, everyone know the rules?
Go.
ForteBass:
Eh. It all depends on what you're doing and how you use them.
est:
before this degenerates into a PC vs Mac flamewar, they both have their good and bad points. there is generally a larger number of games released for Windows than Mac, and the games released for Mac are generally released on Windows first, then Mac later. there are some notable exceptions like titles from id, Blizzard and other quality studios who respect and encourage the Mac as an alternate gaming platform.
it used to be that if you wanted to do anything creative you got a Mac. i believe that this was because the monitors on the Mac were fairly superior to those you would (normally) get with a PC. i think that this is because Apple doesn't fuck around when it comes to hardware. it only makes/gets made good stuff. on the PC side you're normally using whatever the hell monitor your employer wants to pay for, which is usually a shitty cheap pc/monitor. it is my solid opinion that if you shelled out the cash for a hi-quality monitor and sound card for your PC then you would have a machine that is in every way equal to the audio/visual creation task you want to perform.
nowdays i believe that the "if you want to do something creative you get a Mac" idea is mostly due to advertising, styling and brand loyalty than anything else. perhaps also because Macs are simpler to set up and use, and creative people normally aren't necessarily techy people, nor do they have the inclination to learn. they just want to plug it in and for it to work, because it's a tool. (unlike some techy people, i totally understand this mindset. i do not know how to maintain my car, for example).
so yeah, i hope that helps. i guess that the short answer could probably have been "it used to be that if you wanted to play games you'd get a PC, and if you wanted to work or learn you'd get a Mac, but now the lines are getting a little blurry ad Windows becomes more stable and more games are released on the Mac".
Wevah:
Because we Mac users don't use the grocer's apostrophe?
:P
Matteh99:
I am fairly new to the mac. Before I was a windows person and pretty much a power user. I switched to the mac because there are no viruses and spy ware for the mac. Also windows xp pisses me off. I hate the fisher price interface, the cute dog that searches for your files, the popup that says you have un used icon's on your desktop etc.
I still use my PC almost every day for programing a micro processor which the mac can't do. Or at least can't do easialy.
For the general consumer I think mac's are better because most people use their computers for internet, email, and word processing. The mac does that just fine and with infinitly less chance of getting scewed up by viruses or spyware.
Also working as a PC technition in a mac store it really showed me how much easier sofware problems are to solve on the mac. Most OS-X issues can be solved by doing an achive and install. All user settings get transfured back, in most cases you don't have to reinstall any of the programs it just works.
The programs that come with the mac are also pretty darn cool. Most programs bundled with PC's suck but the mac ones actually are worth having.
In case any one is interested I did a bunch of benchmarks between a dell and a mac mini. http://www.macsupportpro.com/~eric
Eric
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