[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Mac Vs. PC (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 8/21/2008 5:24:01 AM EDT
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I know there are MAC lovers on here, but I HATE their ad campaign. I wish that hipster shit would shave then get his ass kicked. (by SEINFELD)  ETA: Oh and Apple, BTW. Some of us go to work with a fucking haircut and wearing clothes that we did not buy at Goodwill. Damn hoody and ratty jeans wearing shit. "i'm so hip" Did I mention I HATE their ad campaign. |
Only difference is the Mac costs 4X's more, and won't run 90% of the programs out there, unless you have a newer one that has windows on it. If you're going to run windows on it, why not just get a PC? My wife's side are all mac users. I personally don't like them. I think the commercials are funny. |
Because macs runs windows better. |
No they don't |
Hah, far from it. Mac is the most proprietary hardware / software company in the industry. Doesn't even compare to most current Linux distros. Nice try though. |
Yeah it does. I have some work applications (proprietary software) that I must run on a windows platform. I run XP on my macbook and it is smooth as silk. No errors, crashes or hangups. The same program on my desktop (New Dell) crashes like Lindsay Lohan after a night at the Viper Room. 
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Several various sources have run benchmarks on this. A few show that Macs run Vista better. None show that Macs run XP better. |
FAIL. TREMENDOUS FAIL. *BSD is a Unix originally developed at the UNIVERSITY OF BERKELY. It's a faggot hippy OS. Linux is a Unix developed by whoever wants to tinker with it. |
FIL is corporate at apple, I've used them a lot, and seen the problems with them. They blow at running windows, even worse than a PC (windows sucks). Also, their quality control must suck. My wife had TWO apples die within a few months (ibook and iMac). Mines 5 years old (Toshiba), and still running fine. They (my wife's family) as had at least 3 computers a year have to go back to apple or be thrown away since we've been dating/married. They're pretty, and are great for multi-media stuff, but I still think they're crap. My wife's iMac crashes at least 2-3 times a night (can't handle multiple applications being open at once I guess). Also, as far as market share, they're ALMOST into the double digits, after how many years? |
Because the world is full of sheep who buy into the idea that Mac's are impervious to viruses and spyware apps. 90% of the people I know who buy Macs, name these two reasons as their #1 reason for buying a Mac. |
No they don't and you saying they do does not make it so... Apple computers come off the same production lines as PC and are made by the same people… ASUSTeK for example makes stuff for Apple. Apple computers ARE PCs… Intel PCs. Now considering Apple computer cost 2-3 times as much as comparable PCs do you really want to compare machines in the same price class and see what happens. |
I know a guy who bought a Mac because his wife owned one, and he wanted to make sure he'd be able to read emails from her. They're on AOL, BTW. 
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Does he also look for the "any" key? |
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www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200832/1690/Apple-prices-now-twice-that-of-comparable-PC-systems
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I know correlation doesn't equal causation but most of the douchebags on campus, the ones you just wish would STFU, have apple laptops. Personally I've tried macs at work and school but I just don't care for the feel or the whole layout. I did used to love to throw down some Oregon Trail on apples back in the mid '80s though! 
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Sounds like my IT guy. I have both a MAC and a PC on my desk and I told him I wanted to network them together so I could share data. He gave me a USB thumb drive.
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You understand how clueless about computers this makes you sound right 
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I hate the ads too, and I was die hard Pc . . . I even ran a business building custom systems. I switched this year to Mac. I am shocked by how much free time I have now that I don't have to trouble-shoot computer problems. Macs are more expensive, but do you know how much I charged people per hour to do troubleshooting when I was in the business? Sometimes it pays to spend more up front. I hate the ads, I hate it when "Mac people" go on and on about how hip and cool they are. The Mac store at the mall makes me sick. But Macs are the best computers out there, thanks to the Mac OS, and some intelligent engineering. . . . and I really don't care what benchmarks may or may not say - I run Windows XP on my mac with VMWare Fusion for some proprietary Windows-only software, and it is noticeably more stable and faster. If all Mac software suddenly disappeared from the market and I had to run Windows, I would do it on a Mac. |
It is kind of ironic, people here that think you must spend $$$ to get a quality firearm, turn around and flaunt a cheap PC, and complain a Mac costs more $$$. |
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From some of you I'd have to gather that you have really shitty PC's, or you work on really shitty PC's. Either you download too much shit, or look at every email you get. In two years with my latest PC at work (a Dell) it's crashed zero times. My laptop at home, crashed once in the two years I've owned it. PC's don't crash because they aren't Macs. Mac's aren't stable because they are Macs. |
This isn't about cheap vs expensive. It's about mac inflating their prices and PCs staying at around the norm. PC vs Mac is more akin to McDonalds coffee vs Starbucks
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I'm not a mac fan, but your reasoning is screwy. The reason macs don't suffer from virus infections as much as PCs isn't because people don't write viruses for macs. It's because the OS in itself is much, much more secure than Windows. This is due to its BSD heritage. |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Mac Vs. PC (Page 1 of 3)
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