Anyone got a Mac on here?

i would think your mistaken. Unless your referring to something specific.

 

I was under the impression that such as music is quite restricted on what you can get on to an apple device? Flash not supported? Trouble syncing a non apple branded device.

And they're expensive in comparison.

All based on what I've been told over the years. As I say it could be wrong, no personal experience (except 2 years at college in 91-93). My impression from afar is the pc is best for the majority. Mac best for anything creative.

Shoot me

 

They are more expensive but they're worth the difference IMO. And you can interchange between MAC and Microsoft although not everything is as easy as it should be.

 

im a developer and treated myself to a mac a year or so ago. Love it. So much nicer to use than any laptop ive ever had, runs muti screen, multi desktop, multi app, VM, IOSX etc all at once and doesnt miss a beat. Expensive but its a tool of my trade. If a plumberor mechanic skimped on their tools their work would suffer. I see it like this also.

Its also small and lightweight - even with a 15" screen compard to the windows laptops ive had before. And the resolution a lot better also with the retina screen.

Integrates with my iphone etc and above all just works. The gestures etc for moving round the apps is also quality.

Oh and the OS is FREE unlike M$ - although i did jus have to upgrade Parallels to run the latest OS for my windows VM.

They also hold their value much better than PC's and dont really slow down like PC's do.

I also run pro DJ software on it and again doesnt miss a beat.

Love it and will never go back to PC now.

 

you can install a mac OS on a PC just like you can PC > mac - just need the right software. But whether you would be able to work in as nice an environment is debatable. With parallels you can even run windows inside the mac environment - hard to explain but clever. I still like to keep em separate personally but each to their own. Just feels wrong running a windows app in mac osx.

 

Apple macs are not for the proletariat are they comrade?

 

I literally understand about 8% of this thread

 

It's just buffering. You'll be at 43% before you know it.

 

I actually understood (and laughed at) that!

 

I've been trying to get the North Korean version but can't seem to get it downloaded

 

I have a few Macs, the new Macbook Pro is an amazing laptop, and you wont be disappointed. If you want something more beefy, an iMac a good all-in-one system, or the mac pro is the ultimate piece of kit (but i paid over £8,000 for my Mac Pro so it's probably not worth it for most people)

If you want to develop for IOS, you have to get a mac, as there's no other way to do so properly. What i would recommend is to use Bootcamp (which comes with the OS) and install windows on a partition, rather than through a virtual machine. Virtual machines are good, but you'll never get the full experience of the OS and it'll cause frustration.

Another option is to use Wine, which can run quite a lot of windows executables within a wrapper, but it's not reliably able to run 100% of programs so be warned.