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Inlander:
You see, now in my head Stewie is rubbing his genitals and saying "I'm thinking of getting a 15" powerbook g4 for all my pornographic stuff", and it's all just wrong.

McTaggart:
You're a bad man, est. A bad, bad man.

CamelFilters:
i get an almost daily "sugestion" at school from my teachers to get a mac but i've come to realise that the "macs for work" vs "pc's for fun" issues are things from the past. you can actually do work on a pc and have fun on a mac.

anyway, i think macs are over-stylish and under-upgradable. i mean i don't care if the damn machine has handles on top, i'm not planning to carry it around that often and i don't want to have to buy o whole new machine every 5 years. but i agree that they're hardware actually works better (faster and stabler although they crash as well - only in style, like all mac stuff) than the equivalent in a pc. dunno if it's just the way the software is coded but it's the truth. something that pisses me off is that apple stopped producing crt monitors, you cant do any propper image work on a tft piece of crap.


on the other hand, pc's are upgradable to an extreme that a mac is just not designed to and if you actually feel like having a powerfull pc you can customize it  for some (maybe alot) extra and actually get a better machine that any mac around. i'm not talking about moddin' it  cause that's just plain dumb.  oh, and they right click wich is a great advantage.

i'll have to submit to the mac propaganda someday but in the meantime i'll just hope that the linux geeks decide to start meking some really good authoring tools besides gimp.

Wevah:

--- Quote from: captainawesome ---For me, OS 9 had the stability of a heroine addict, while OS X, in however many years I've been using it, has yet to have crashed. Ever.
--- End quote ---

I had a kernel panic yesterday.

...Of course, it was my first in around a year and a half (or more), and my machine had been running for 60-90 days (I didn't check in ages)...so I'm not really complaining.

Druid:

--- Quote from: CamelFilters ---i agree that they're hardware actually works better (faster and stabler
--- End quote ---


I'm not sure if the hardware is faster or more stable then quality PC components. I think it's more that the OS and drivers are tied to the hardware and as such optimized to a very high degree.

One program highly optimized for the nuances of one specific piece of hardware is going to perform better then one program that is written for a broad base of hardware. Apple has two standard sets of hardware, and as such they can optimize to that narrow base. The same thing can be found in the PC world where multimedia applications are written specifically to take advantage of the instruction sets and quirks of the Pentium 4.

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