Do you like Mac or PC or both

[pocaracas]

My 2 cents... for what they're worth...

PC
- Desktop version: upgradable and not that expensive. Some brands cater the all-in-one crowd and have a niche market price tag to go with it.
- Laptop version: not really upgradable (on some you can add RAM, change HDD and... little else), more expensive than a desktop. Several brands from where to choose, meaning that it's available to more people's wallets.

- OS:
windows » still the one with the most games available
linux » If you don't do games, this free open-source OS is the perfect choice!

MAC
- Desktop version: all-in-one, large high-def screen with a price tag above a similar PC, but the specs are never on par.
- laptop version: pretty box... for the hardware inside, you can find similar specced laptop from another brand for a nicer price.

- OS: MacOS » a unix port. had the merit of being one of the first to offer a windowed environment and did great graphics processing... nowadays, it's a fool-proof OS that even your grandmother can use... given a bit of training and no prior habit on another OS. This makes it a bit harder to have control over the HDD usage, partitioning, etc...

As it is with everything, humans get used to something and find it a bit hard to shift that habit to something else. I've always used windows... since 3.0 and before... DOS 3.11. Windows has changed a bit with time, but win95 was the one great interface change.
So, whenever I have to do something on a friend's mac, I feel a bit awkward, not knowing where anything is... which leaves me a bit frustrated at that OS.... I assume the same happens to someone who is used to MAC and has to use windows on occasion.

For most people who are starting to use computers, either would work... although... if you're budget conscious, you'd do better going for a PC running linux...

[Napoléon]

Nike shoes are universally more expensive than any subset within the entire set of all shoes?



Compare the specs between this (max out cpu, maxed memory, 512gb ssd):

$2,799.00

REF: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macboo...tep=config

With this (a member of the non mac set):
$2,799.00

REF: http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/us/p/a...c=dkcwg30h

Not different, eh?

PC vs Mac my ass.

Nobody said that.

You're using Alienware to prove a point? Seriously? Everyone knows they are just as expensive as Mac's. The point is not that mac's are necessarily more expensive than every pc out there, but rather you can get a pc for much less than what a Mac would cost you and it would still do twice as much. I think you're just butt hurt that people subscribe to the whole mac vs pc thing. I get it, sure it's pretty stupid as Macs are actually pc's. But generally when people have the argument they're talking about Microsoft PC's vs Apple PC's. Generally. It's all just semantics dude. People know what is meant when they talk about a mac as opposed to a pc. That's just the way it is. Get over it.


And for the record, mac's are pretty different to the majority of other pc's. They have compatibility issues, they tend to be a lot more expensive than other pc's, for gaming they are TERRIBLE and hell shops even have their own sections for "MAC" and their own sections for "PC". Go into PC world. Go into Comet. Go into Curry's. They're all the same. Then you have the Apple stores themselves, that seem to enjoy promoting this fashionable ideal that Mac's are different to pc's. But you're still getting hung up that someone said "PC or Mac"? Get over it dude.

*edited for grammar, which is probably still shit*

[orogenicman]

I build my own, and always have.

[Tonus]

And why?

I like both because they're computers and I am a computer geek. First computer I owed was a Mattel Aquarius. If I could use that and not hate computers forever, I was pretty much going to love computers forever. And that's what happened!

[Tiberius]

I like the Apple OS X operating system so I use a MacBook Pro (have one for work and my own personal one). True you can get cheaper laptops / PCs from other suppliers, but I like Apple products because they are usually well designed and often have useful features years before other manufacturers.

Case in point, the MacBook Pro I bought 4 years ago (almost 5) had a unibody case which made the thing much smaller and compact than other laptops on the market. It also had a large touchpad which supported multi-touch gestures and was itself a huge button so you could click the entire touchpad down anywhere, rather than having separate buttons at the bottom. That and the backlit keyboard, trayless CD drive, magnetic power cord, etc. made it a really nice machine to work with. Plus, for a small fee it was insured under Apple Care for three years.

That said, I also have a netbook which runs Linux, and a server which also runs Linux. I haven't had a tower PC in a number of years because at the moment I don't have a need for one.

[Rahul]

The last Mac I owned was in 1989.