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PCs or Macs?

I used to be a Mac person, but then for some reason I got PC and after a while I decided I liked it better. Now I only use PCs (but I still have like seven old Macs from the 80s/90s in the garage).

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Depends what you're going to use it for...

If yer gonna use it for gaming and stuff, definately go PC.

If you're gonna use it strictly for word processing, spreadsheets, email, web surfing, researching, etc (and if you've got the money to spare), you might want to go with a mac...

But with macs being based on intel x86 architecture, you can get a PC and install macOS on it and have yourself a mac for cheap(er)...

Or there's always linux... which macOS is based off of anyway...

My vote goes for a PC w/macOS and linux installed on diff partitions...best of all 3 worlds

If you don't wanna do something that crazy, I'd vote for PC just because it's totally compatible with everything out there these days... and you can build them yourself if you know what you're doing...

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HTH

Macs are cool and do what they do well, but i like my right mouse button.

Heh, macs use Intel processors now.

yep. now that the macs have "intel inside (tm) (c)" they will do everything pc's do, only better, prettier and faster. and you can always put the mouse of your choice (within reason) onto a mac. they also come with a mouse that will do right click without a right button. so the only reason not to buy one now is because of the cost, but the mac mini has taken care of that for the most part.

this is the way i look at it. now that the mac has intel chips running them, there is no reason to rely on windows at all anymore. you can get ms office on mac, IE on mac (for those backwards sites that still require IE ), and in the last 7 years of osX there are a grand total of 8 viruses for the mac, and only 2 or 3 of these have made it "in the wild". and when a security flaw is discovered in the OS, it only takes them a few days at most to release a patch for it. as opposed to two weeks, or whenever M$ decides they feel like fixing it.

and one last thing, even with intel cpu's that mac will still be usable after 4-5 years. maybe less so than when they still used the powerpc chips, but apple has a tendency to have a very very long shelf life. sure it has a high initial cost, but it's a higher quality computer than a similar spec pc.

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac.

I'm a complete Mac convert after years of unstable, easily outdated PCs. Of course, this is mainly because I am a graphic designer, and the Adobe suite is basically designed for Mac and converted for PC, as i understand it.

At work I use a Mac which is about 4 years old, with a 10gb hard drive, 448mb RAM and a 400mh g4 processor, running OSX 10.2.8. At home I have a two and a half year old HP laptop with a 20gb hard drive, 256mb RAM, 2gh processor running XP home. The laptop, although newer and with mostly better specs, gives me endless problems, and I can't run any of the newer Adobe suites at all. My Mac at work, on the other hand, runs Abode CS with no problems, and in general works day in day out with only a few issues in the last two years.

Finally, Macs are just so much better looking! As are most Mac stores - I went to one in NYC recently which was just jaw-dropping.

Very, very soon I'm going to be closing up my laptop for everything except a few PC games, and replacing it with one of the new Imac G5s with the Intel processor. I'm salivating for it.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

I'm more PC.... I used a MAC back in the day but it was wicked slow and kind of annoying.

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"it's the neck, it creaks under the weight of too much heavy thinking."

PC...but I dont have a valid reason other than that is what has been provided for me.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Use Boot Camp.

Now that Macs are using intels, you can dual boot XP and OS X on an Apple!

Though I like the look and feel of the top end Macs, they're too pricey at the moment for me. So, because they're cheap, I'm using a PC.

One beauty of my PC is that it's now a dual boot. Windows and Linux.

The only reason I hang on to Windows is because many of the apps I use for serious work are Windows apps (PhotoShop being a big plus point here). I know that The Gimp does a lot of things on Linux that PhotoShop does, but I'm holding out for a proper Linux version of PhotoShop. Which may happen one day, who knows?

Can't say I'm a fan of OpenOffice on Linux though. It's a tad clunky.

However, the programming utilities for Linux are WAY better than most of the Windows ones. And they're free!


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