Absolutely loving my imac!!! Fantastic!!! Never breaks or crashes, unlike PCs! I could never go back to PC now! What's everyone else think?
I was always anti Mac (no real reason why) but a lot of people I know either have one or are getting one soon. They all seem really impressed and have said they wouldn't go back either
Both have good and bad points I've used and owned both over the years but don't favour one over the other.</p> I've come across many Macs that crash and my current PC hardly ever crashes.</p>
PC Don't believe the Mac hype... It's a complete myth that Macs don't crash. They do (in the case of MacOS9, often). It's not true that they're easier to use. Maybe for a light user but if you want to get into the guts of the thing then it can be frustrating. You tend to pay a premium for a Mac. Macs are well designed, sure, but long gone are the days when PCs are ugly beige boxes. A one button mouse? How was that ever a good idea? I couldn't do without my 5 button mouse! Less software available because there's a smaller developer base. The PC has the excellent Visual Studio suite. MacOSX is just a form of Linux anyway, which you can get for your PC if you don't like Windoze (maybe a duel-boot setup?). Windows really isn't that bad these days. Macs are becoming more like PCs anyway, with Intel CPUs and the like (does this mean they have lost their musical timing advantage?) Macs do have their good points though and are well respected in music, dtp and graphics industries. Less viruseseses too.
Use both. PC (laptop) for work. Mac for home entertainment. Much prefer the Mac, because I don't do work on it basically, it's all play. I think I would run into problems with my laptop if I tried to do half the things I can on the mac, without investing ridiculous amounts more money into software.
Depends what you want to run on it email and word processing - doesnt really matter though unfortuately for web browsing Safari doesnt work properly on all sites wheras IE usually does. Publishing and media -everyone uses MAC's so all the software is geared that way Anything else has to be a PC - better games, many more applications etc. I couldnt do my job with a MAC not all the software I need runs on them
RE: Depends what you want to run on it Safari is pretty good at standards stuff, so usually if it works in firefox it will work in safari. Its the crap that uses IE's non standard crap that doesn't work, and people who write that should be banned from using the internet. I could probably work part time and do the same amount of work if it wasn't for IE.
Always been a Mac person On top of the relative lack of crashing/viruses, I just find them faster and more user-friendly. PCs do have some good points tho, so I'm not particularly a Macgeek. Altho most of these good points, for me, are due to software availability, which reflects the market dominance that PCs have rather than any technical shortcomings in Macs themselves.
The only reason I still use IE sometimes Trouble is people always check a site works in IE but not the other browsers Also microsofts drm rubbish only works in IE I use firefox for just about everything though
Difficult call I have a Macbook for home and some office use but do all my developing on a Windows XP box. From now on I don't think I'd get a laptop that wasn't a Mac - they are safer, crash less often, much much faster, have beautiful screens and as they are Unix based I can get into the guts and do the difficult stuff if I have to. But I need a PC for the development software I use, they are pretty stable nowadays (apart from Outlook which sucks), I am far more familiar with Windows and they have a huge range of software and are much better for games.
Leopard (Mac) versus Vista (PC), only one winner Vista is ****, fancy releasing a bad OSX rip off (Vista) that doesn't even work properly Youtube has loads of funny vids poking fun at Vista and what a total rip off it is.
Our contracting IT company, practically refuses to network Windows Vista because it's so unstable and by that, I mean in terms of normal technical support contracts. It'll cost you a stack more if you're company uses Vista.
RE: Mac or PC you dont have to choose because With the new Macs you can run PC and Mac from the same computer with a dual core. I use PC for my origination and the convert to Mac for the printers works a treat, best of both worlds.
PC Dual boot 64-bit Ubuntu Linux for general web surfing, email, office, video and photo editing. 32-bit Windows XP for games and watching video streams infested with Microsoft DRM, like Virgin highlights. Gets the speed and security of a Unix OS with the fallback of the software availability of Windows. For all its faults, Windows is actually quite a stable operating system. The main problems with stability come from poor quality memory and badly-written device drivers for low quality hardware. That and the copious malware attacks that come with being the most popular OS. Since Mac OS only comes on Apple-built machines, there is more control over the hardware said OS has to work with and therefore less scope for problems. Macs are fine but represent very poor value for money in my opinion.