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New Computer- Mac v PC?
Eldirial:
Well- the computer has been purchased, as my father lent me the money until my student loan check clears... So, thank you all for the ideas and opinions- I haven't been online as much to comment on them, but I sure caused an interesting debate. X.x
So, I did decide on a Mac, but I do have a PC to use when/if I need to (my laptop is a PC).. So I think I shall be able to enjoy the best of both worlds.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Se7en ---the fact that with a mac, support isnt so easy... If you have a mac, even your geekiest friends may not be able to help you when you run into problems.
--- End quote ---
If your friends all use PCs and know nothing about Macs then yes, I suppose this would be true. In that case though, why would you ask them for help? Me, if I need help with troubleshooting a Mac, I would ask somebody who uses a Mac.
Of course, I rarely ask other people to help troubleshoot my computer, since I am the guy other people come to for help with their computer. For example, I was recently hired to maintain a couple of computer labs for a university's art department. Macs are trivial to maintain; the only problems that require any real effort are hardware issues (Mac or PC, a broken harddrive is a broken harddrive.) PCs however require constant vigilance. It's not hard, but it soaks up a huge amount of time, and who, other than propellerheads like me, wants to spend a quarter of their computing time just dicking around with the machine?
BTW, I've used PCs much more than Macs, and am currently about to buy a Dell because the piece I'm currently working on will only run on Windows (I used DirectX.) For the last couple years however I've used Macs for pretty much everything else (eg. I am typing this on my Powerbook.)
@elderial: I just noticed your location. The aquarium is one of my favorite places.
Eldirial:
I rather enjoy mystic- and the aquarium is great. Seaport is also nice, I must say.
Only had one problem so far, but I figured it out with a little time. Gimme a week or so with the OS, and I think I shall have it down.
est:
locking this because you've already bought the new computer.
also, every single time anything is ever said about any kind of Apple anything people come out of the woodwork to bitch about it. it ends up being annoying roughly 100% of the time.
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