Boston004681 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hey Guys. Do you guys like Macs or PC's better? I prefer Macs for Garageband. PC = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 PC. I prefer a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellion102792 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MReynolds Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 You needed one more classification: Both. I have one of each Mac and PC so I didn't vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Mabye if Macs werent white cause i dont like to see my finguer prints on its body, also u cant really play much games on that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I built my last PC myself - and I mean my last PC! I kicked it to the curb. It's been all Apple ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Macs are for kids. Schools, marketeers and advertising folks use macs. The business world is 90% PC based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I've owned nothing but PCs in the past. But about three months I got my wife a new (unibody) MacBook and it blows away a PC in all respects. Last week she called me and asked for the password because she forgot it. You see, that was the first time she turned it off since we bought it. It never crashes and runs smoothly no matter what program is running. Let's see, I've had to reboot my PC laptop oh about 50 times in the last three months! The days of PCs are numbered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 The business world is 90% PC based. Which isn't necessarily a good thing. Our entire school system ran on Macs without IT people in the schools. As soon as they bought every teacher a PC we needed a full time IT guy to keep the pieces of crap running! Talk about your waste of taxpayer money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 ... The days of PCs are numbered... I worked for Compaq Computer Corp. from 1984-1992...I've been hearing that since at least 1985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar slinger Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I like Exposé and Spaces and the way everything works in mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamienAzrael Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I've got one Mac and on PC (Piece of Crap)...The Mac runs great and the PC has always given me problems....So yeah....I prefer the Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MReynolds Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Mabye if Macs werent white cause i dont like to see my finguer prints on its body' date=' also u cant really play much games on that thing.[/quote'] They're not all white. Some come in black and mine is brushed metal....and if you want games buy an X-box or PS2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MReynolds Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Macs are for kids. Schools' date=' marketeers and advertising folks use macs. The business world is 90% PC based. [/quote'] Macs are for kids?...yeah I guess Harvard Medical School, COLSA Corporation (working on Hypersonic Missile Technology) and Structural Biology and Genome work are for a bunch of kids. Seems COLSA didn't like waiting 2 months for results so they went with Mac. http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/ Too bad people insist on perpetuating the old wives tales about Macs. http://www.apple.com/science/whymac/myths.html And did you hear about one of the fastest supercomputers?...yeah...it's Mac http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech/ For those that are interested... http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/#title When you want to game...get a PC. When you want to do real work with a REAL operating system* get a Mac. *pssst...(yeah Mac OS is based off of the UNIX platform...very stable). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I make a living with PC's but for personal use it's a MacBook all the way I don't want to work on it at home period the mac is almost an appliance truly plug and play even running PC software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarJunkie Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I'm in the graphic arts/digital imaging business, so I've been working on Macs for almost 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 The days of PCs are numbered... I've been hearing that from the Linux crowd for over a decade. The biggest problem I have with Macs is that, if you're a power user, everything is hidden to keep people from hurting themselves. With a PC, it's easier to hurt yourself but it's also MUCH easier to get to "advanced" features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyH Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 PCs cost less, which is an important consideration for something that only lasts a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Allen Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I currently have a Dell laptop. It's a piece of %^$^, this damn thing ^&^%^%s up on me all the time. I swear the next computer I get will be a Mac. That's because Dells SUCK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I use PCs. I probably have 15 or so around the house. I build high end gaming systems on the side. PCs rock. Having said that, I found myself on a service call as a Xerox color technician several years ago, at the TSU photo lab. The guy proctoring the lab took a few minutes to explain the difference between MACs and PCs. He took a picture from their recent departmental pic-nic... it was almost all department personnel, save for one girls boyfriend. So, he took the guy out of the pic, using the same application, on both the PC and MAC. The results from the PC were good. You'd really have to look to see where the photo had been "doctored". The results from the MAC were flawless. Even enlarged you couldn't tell he was ever there. It's inherent in the way the hardware works together with the software. The folks in the graphics (and music, to an extent) world have known this for a long time. I've decided there is a Mac in my future. Besides, I don't have much time for games anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I use both, but prefer PCs. It hasn't always been that way. Before Win95, I preferred Macs. During the Win95-Win98 era both were about equal. Now I prefer PCs. If you buy a quality PC and don't use trash software, both are as dependable. Quality is no longer a problem unless you go for a cheap PC. I play music for a living (one-nighters), and a laptop computer bounces on my keyboard stand all night, bounces around in the van from gig to gig sometimes in either sweltering hot or cold (for Florida) temperatures and runs all night without a rest. My 2002 ThinkPad has given me one problem since then, a noisy hard drive which I replaced myself guessing the bearings must have been wearing out. I don't even know if that was necessary, but thought it was a good idea. And it is still working today and hasn't crashed once. So much for the quality issue. Software is one defining factor for me. Most of the apps I want to run are either not available on Mac or work better on the PC. PCs cost less money to buy and maintain, and since most computers are obsolete in 5 years or so, that's a big factor. Ease of use is subjective, and depends on what you do and how you work. For me the PC OS is superior for a couple of reasons. 1) I can delete single files from the trash on the PC. Sometimes when working on huge audio files, the trash gets filled with old versions. I can selectively nuke the oldest versions without deleting the most recent old versions. On the Mac it's all or none. 2) Copy and paste between two applications. I do this hundreds of times per day both with Band-in-a-Box and while copying data from my shopping cart sales to both my customer database and accounting programs. On the Mac it takes an extra click, open both programs in half the screen each (1) Cmd+C (2) Cmd+V only transfers the menu at the top of the screen to the other app (3) Cmd+V again to paste. On the PC, step # (2) is eliminated saving me hundreds of mouse clicks per day. 3) More keyboard shortcuts on the PC. When I'm mousing, I keep my hands on the mouse, when I'm doing something keyboard intensive I don't want to move my hand back and forth from the mouse back to the keyboard back to the mouse back to the keyboard again and again and again. 4) Backwards compatibility. I still use a couple of apps that were written for Win95 on XP. They are no longer available and do just what I want them to do. Nothing purchased in 95 still works on the Mac. In 95 Macs used Motorola CPUs, then they went to PowerPCs and everything before became orphaned. Then they moved to OSX and everything before became orphaned. Then they moved to Intel chips and everything before became orphaned. One thing Apple is good at, it's milking new money out of it's loyal fan base. 5) Other minor issues like context sensitive right click sub-menus built into Windows apps, the ability to get a computer with a pointing stick in the keyboard (ThinkPad), both a backspace & a delete, and so on. Now I know I'm going to get flamed for this, because there is a core group of Mac people who treat it like a religion. So be it. The computer is a tool, and right now the best tool for me, using the applications that I use daily, and for the way I work is the PC. YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary). On the other hand, if the Mac leap frogs the PC to become better for the way I work, I will switch my preference. Like I said, I use both, but right now, the PC gets my fingers on it 90% of the time. BTW, a point of clarification, the Mac is not a PC. The PC is an IBM term for the computer standard they introduced. Technically they are both microcomputers. Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston004681 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 Macs are for kids. Schools' date=' marketeers and advertising folks use macs. The business world is 90% PC based. [/quote'] True. They really aren't business computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston004681 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 I use both' date=' but prefer PCs. It hasn't always been that way. Before Win95, I preferred Macs. During the Win95-Win98 era both were about equal. Now I prefer PCs. If you buy a quality PC and don't use trash software, both are as dependable. Quality is no longer a problem unless you go for a cheap PC. I play music for a living (one-nighters), and a laptop computer bounces on my keyboard stand all night, bounces around in the van from gig to gig sometimes in either sweltering hot or cold (for Florida) temperatures and runs all night without a rest. My 2002 ThinkPad has given me one problem since then, a noisy hard drive which I replaced myself guessing the bearings must have been wearing out. I don't even know if that was necessary, but thought it was a good idea. And it is still working today and hasn't crashed once. So much for the quality issue. Software is one defining factor for me. Most of the apps I want to run are either not available on Mac or work better on the PC. PCs cost less money to buy and maintain, and since most computers are obsolete in 5 years or so, that's a big factor. Ease of use is subjective, and depends on what you do and how you work. For me the PC OS is superior for a couple of reasons. 1) I can delete single files from the trash on the PC. Sometimes when working on huge audio files, the trash gets filled with old versions. I can selectively nuke the oldest versions without deleting the most recent old versions. On the Mac it's all or none. 2) Copy and paste between two applications. I do this hundreds of times per day both with Band-in-a-Box and while copying data from my shopping cart sales to both my customer database and accounting programs. On the Mac it takes an extra click, open both programs in half the screen each (1) Cmd+C (2) Cmd+V only transfers the menu at the top of the screen to the other app (3) Cmd+V again to paste. On the PC, step # (2) is eliminated saving me hundreds of mouse clicks per day. 3) More keyboard shortcuts on the PC. When I'm mousing, I keep my hands on the mouse, when I'm doing something keyboard intensive I don't want to move my hand back and forth from the mouse back to the keyboard back to the mouse back to the keyboard again and again and again. 4) Backwards compatibility. I still use a couple of apps that were written for Win95 on XP. They are no longer available and do just what I want them to do. Nothing purchased in 95 still works on the Mac. In 95 Macs used Motorola CPUs, then they went to PowerPCs and everything before became orphaned. Then they moved to OSX and everything before became orphaned. Then they moved to Intel chips and everything before became orphaned. One thing Apple is good at, it's milking new money out of it's loyal fan base. 5) Other minor issues like context sensitive right click sub-menus built into Windows apps, the ability to get a computer with a pointing stick in the keyboard (ThinkPad), both a backspace & a delete, and so on. Now I know I'm going to get flamed for this, because there is a core group of Mac people who treat it like a religion. So be it. The computer is a tool, and right now the best tool for me, using the applications that I use daily, and for the way I work is the PC. YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary). On the other hand, if the Mac leap frogs the PC to become better for the way I work, I will switch my preference. Like I said, I use both, but right now, the PC gets my fingers on it 90% of the time. BTW, a point of clarification, the Mac is not a PC. The PC is an IBM term for the computer standard they introduced. Technically they are both microcomputers. Notes[/quote'] They have MS Office for Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston004681 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 Macs are for kids?...yeah I guess Harvard Medical School' date=' COLSA Corporation (working on Hypersonic Missile Technology) and Structural Biology and Genome work are for a bunch of kids. Seems COLSA didn't like waiting 2 months for results so they went with Mac. http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/ Too bad people insist on perpetuating the old wives tales about Macs. http://www.apple.com/science/whymac/myths.html And did you hear about one of the fastest supercomputers?...yeah...it's Mac http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech/ For those that are interested... http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/#title When you want to game...get a PC. When you want to do real work with a REAL operating system* get a Mac. *pssst...(yeah Mac OS is based off of the UNIX platform...very stable). +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSG Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I have a Mac and I personally prefer it for the iLife suite only thing I like about the PCs is that 'when' they go wrong I can fix em quicker and programs are real easy to download in a hurry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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