Mac or PC

[Belakor]

... People say windows crash a lot more than OSX? I've heard of people saying their Mac's crashed 6 times in 3 hours...

There would have to be something seriously wrong for it to do that (conflicting software or something)
I've had my 1.42ghz Mac Mini for about two years now and have had it crash/reset about six times and have powered down/reset less than 20 times, I can't think of a single time I've heard a windows user saying they've done anything remotely like that

As you can tell my vote is for Mac, as Vrogy and others have said, if you have a newer Mac and parallels you can do any of the things you'd normally need to do on a Windows machine

 

[beast29]

Get a mac then use boot camp for any pc programs (like pepakura)

I didn't know that mac could download pepakura because the Mac store told me that I couldn't download pc programs it doesn't matter because I mold but that is cool that you can use pepakura on a Mac.

 

[Vrogy]

Whats the specs on your mac and what did you use for parallels
Its so nice i run it most of the time with know problem but im tempted to put Linux on it

20" imac. Pretty pedestrian, 2GHz, 1Gb.

Parallels seems to run better in full screen mode- I usually use it that way- but for shock value I switched to Coherence mode

 

[TheRob]

Well it all depends on what you are looking for, you are a mac user so why would you want to change?
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Casual user; uses computer to access internet, check email, pictures. Mac
Advanced user; internet, email, calender, movies, pictures, occasional prosumer software (photoshop, adobe products) Mac
Super user; internet, email, calender, movies, pictures, web production, media design (pictures, movies, films) Mac
Gamer; casual internet, downloading, must have the best pc money can be, always updates hardware and gets the newest games as they are released. Windows PC

New pc's come with windows vista, troublesome OS with pretty OSX qualities. Not all guaranteed to work on your system. New macs come with leopard which has its bugs, but hasn't once crashed on me and gets frequent updates. Macs can be used as OsX/Windows/Linux computers. Your operating system is your choice. Want to run just windows, load up boot camp install windows (Xp/Vista) and run only windows. Need to use a Windows only application? Run parrales and quickly launch Windows inside of your OSx and run the application, cross platform information if need be.

Oh and did I mention at the end of last year PC World declared"Fastest Notebook for Vista is Macbook Pro"

So yeah there ya go. I love my mac, use my old PC's as media servers to my computers and xboxes, but don't touch them after that.

 

[Spartan 051]

20" imac. Pretty pedestrian, 2GHz, 1Gb.

Parallels seems to run better in full screen mode- I usually use it that way- but for shock value I switched to Coherence mode

then what did you configure your ms os? I slit mine like 1 gb for xp and osx but i find it really laggy

 

[browncoatgandalf]

my school bought macs for the middle school when i was in 2nd grade and replaced them every few years. in 7th grade we ran across some of the old PC's that had been around since before i was in kindergarden. they were the old ones that only had the big floppy drive and came after the screens stopped being green and had color, and they ran faster than the brand new macs. so from my experience i would choose PC over a mac any day. also, my dad fixes computers for the d.o.t. and he runs his computer with linux and he knows his stuff. so there's my two cents.

 

[beast29]

I think that I am going get my mac fixed and make a custom built desktop PC with both Mac and PC programs on it.

 

[WheresDaChief]

I think that I am going get my mac fixed and make a custom built desktop PC with both Mac and PC programs on it.

To battle the Mac (Oh I can install Windows and run parallels crowd)....you can also install OSX Leopard on a PC and run it just fine as well. It actually runs better on a PC.

http://uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacke...an-ordinary-pc/

 

[beast29]

To battle the Mac (Oh I can install Windows and run parallels crowd)....you can also install OSX Leopard on a PC and run it just fine as well. It actually runs better on a PC.

http://uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacke...an-ordinary-pc/

Thanks for the link

 

[Zaso117]

yeah only good thing about Windows is that everything comes for it
what OS you have? I'm recently got Ubuntu 7.10,and i love the GNOME desktop, it loads in like 3 seconds on my (old) machine, same cannot be said about windows

Ive been running my 1.5GHz machine 24/7 and hasnt crashed once, im never using windows again :-X

I use Ubuntu 7.10, but if I had to switch distros, i'd go with Fedora Core
It will be interesting how SuSE does these days with microsoft support too.
GNOME is better in my opinion. More professional

Plus, with Ubuntu, you get Wubbi ;]

 

[rowan]

personally, i use a PC and i always will, it really comes down to personal choice.
unless you want to play games, if you want to play game then get a PC no questions asked.
Macs are way more expensive, PC's you can customize to your liking and exact specifications.
I have found that a PC makes for a better media machine, you can connect your 360 to it, and i find that WMV's are a lot easier to manipulate and play around with than MP4's or whatever it is that apple use.

remember this is only my opinion, in the end it does come down to what you prefere
(But the MC SO would have chosen a PC )

 

[AoBfrost]

Halo runs on a PC, so does 90% of the other epic worlds best games for computers.

The only thing I really really want from a mac is the text to speech software used in the old old old macs. The software they use if the voice many people use on tv as "Stephen hawking"

 

[Ph4de]

Halo runs on a PC, so does 90% of the other epic worlds best games for computers.

The only thing I really really want from a mac is the text to speech software used in the old old old macs. The software they use if the voice many people use on tv as "Stephen hawking"

That thing is fun to mess around with, especially if you you find the bugs in it.
I choose PC but i guess its all personal preference. But I agree PC=gamer.
I've had PC's for as long as I remember and it barely ever crashes on me.

 

[AoBfrost]

I've never seen a bsod in real life to tell you the truth, I know they do happen for many reasons, but I myself on PC's i have fixed and such, I just run a few programs to fix stuff, manually check some registry values which can commonly be screwed, and other small checks, and the PC runs fine again.

I know PC's have problems, but if you take care of them and get to understand them, you can make them run for many years, my gaming PC is 6 years old, and I havent had a single reinstall or problem with it, and It's my families everyday PC too, they all use it. My only problem though was hardware, new parts come out, your old one is outdated, so i've replaced ram, cpu, and video card with newer ones and the PC still runs just like it should.