Mac vs. PC 6

I just made the switch from PC to Mac and I cannot tell you the difference it has made. From starting to running programs without the freeze ups. On my PC I had so much trouble it was at time unbelievable because the PC laptop was not even a year old. I hate vista and I will not turn back from Mac, I had always heard that mac's were better, but they are expensive (at least for me they are) well I have figured out that by the time I bought my PC laptop and paid for all of the repairs, I could have bought a mac the first go around. I recommend anyone looking for a new computer to really check into a Mac. Go to your local apple store and tell them what you are looking for and they should be able to help you out. I know mine sure did!!!

What I dont under stand is why we are being forced to go to vista when it is clearly worthless even companys are taking it out and going back to windows.Bill Gates is not going to force people to take this vista.He may find people will go to other comp.and different programs

Although I can work in a cross platform environment, my platform of choice has been Macintosh ever since 1987. There are things I can do on my Mac that I've never been able to figure out how to do on a PC, although I'm told through a complex number of steps that some of them can be done. Must log off the Mac Mini and start up that XP box at work that can only dream of becoming a Mac.

Wow, I still am amazed at how many simple people there are out there who believe that they are "forced" into purchasing Vista. This is the definition of an uneducated and near-sighted comment. If you purchase a vehicle that is a 2008 model, and that company has released a new engine in it that particular year, then you get the new engine with the vehicle. No one "forced " you to purchase the vehicle. Even better, you can still purchase a Windows XP set and WOW, install it yourself!

As for the comment about a Mac being the overall "less-expensive" purchase, this is just downright ignorant. A Mac has and will always be far more expensive to own that an PC, plain and simple. For instance, I just purchased a Vostro 410 from Dell that has a Q6600 processor, and a 22 inch widescreen monitor, 250gb hard drive, and 128mb video car with Dual DVI capability and a DVD burner for $759. After the computer got here I purchased the Microstar motherboard that is capable of holding 16gb of ram with a 64 bit OS, for $218, and then purchased the 16gb of ram from Kingston.com for $828 dollars. And since I already have a copy of Vista Ultimate, it came with the x64 version of it. Installed, wallah! I now have a computer that will absolutely smoke any computer built by Mac that hovers in the price range of $15000 or more, all built for $2000. Now, what was that about a Mac being overall the less expensive and better performing purchase?

Wow, I still am amazed at how many simple people there are out there
who believe that they are "forced" into purchasing Vista. This is the
definition of a near-sighted comment. If you purchase
a vehicle that is a 2008 model, and that company has released a new
engine in it that particular year, then you get the new engine with
the vehicle. No one "forced " you to purchase the vehicle. Even
better, you can still purchase a Windows XP set and WOW, install it
yourself!

As for the comment about a Mac being the overall "less-expensive"
purchase, this is just downright wrong. A Mac has and will always
be far more expensive to own that an PC, plain and simple. For
instance, I just purchased a Vostro 410 from Dell that has a Q6600
processor, and a 22 inch widescreen monitor, 250gb hard drive, and
128mb video car with Dual DVI capability and a DVD burner for $759.
After the computer got here I purchased the Microstar motherboard
that is capable of holding 16gb of ram with a 64 bit OS, for $218,
and then purchased the 16gb of ram from Kingston.com for $828
dollars. And since I already have a copy of Vista Ultimate, it came
with the x64 version of it. Installed, wallah! I now have a computer
that will absolutely smoke any computer built by Mac that hovers in
the price range of $15000 or more, all built for $2000. Now, what was
that about a Mac being overall the less expensive and better
performing purchase?

If Mac had its way, No poor person on the planet would be allowed to own a computer, and I love that the same people who would condemn an OS that they feel “forced into” are eager to pay 400$+ for a 30gb "portable" hard drive..
Both company’s have issues, and until the market is penetrated by viable competition to both brands they will continue to stifle us with either inferior or incomplete products or insanely high priced fashion devices.
In the past, it could have been said Macs cost more because they have a higher quality build, and better parts.
Well, now that Macs have Intel chips Nvidia graphics and Samsung monitors why on earth is a Mac vs. pc comparable model 30-60% higher in cost? Is it so you can look “cool” in the library? Or so when your swigging down your starbucks latte with your Gucci sunglasses people will look at your Mac and know you must be a good person! Or is it for when you talk to your friends you can talk down to them for being lowly PC users, because you have a MAC!
It’s an operating system not an extension of who you are..

The VISTA OS drove me to a MACBook. Now I am so much happier and the machine does not crash. Since Vista is on SP3 -- that should be a hint that it is not ready for prime time.

Vista just has a negative pressure coefficient.

I was not talking about a mac. I run win xp.And if you read microsofts home page and also it was on tv that next year all microsoft is only going to suport there vista program and windows up dates will stop or be very limited with no security patches.So thay are forceing us to change to apple or mac or what ever.So thay are doing what that so called protecting all of us with the out of line and poorly managed HOMELAND SECURITY. Is controlling All we do.To bad thay are watching the 0nes thay should be watching.It just like the tv change .Go on to 60 min and see what Rick Springstine had to say about how the gov is trying to controll all we do.Man votes dont even matter anymore Remember when thay called the election and florida was still voting.

I think that you need to revisit your statement that says that Macs are more expensive than PCs. Mac hardware has been is in excess of 95% identical to its PC counterparts since 1996. The only significant differences have been in these areas:

1. The CPU (which is now identical to its PC counterparts)
2. A few ASICs created by Apple (long since gone when Apple
moved to Intel Processors)
3. BIOS is still on PC logic boards.
Intel Macs use EFI. only 64-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista
and Windows Server 2003+ and some LinUX versions
support EFI on PCs.

When you compare Macs to PCs you need to compare a Mac to an
identically configured PC:

- Intel Core2 Duo T5600, T7200, T8300, T9300 processors with identical
FSB, L2 Cache.
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600MCT graphics card with 512MB
- built in web camera (iSight is on a MacBook Pro)
- On Laptops, same size LCD Displays with support for 1440x900 native
on a 15.5 inch display and support for 1920x1200 native on a 17 inch.

- same number of USB Ports
- same number of Firewire 400 and FireWire 800 ports
- DVI support
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 802.11n (draft)
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

A comparable Dell Studio 15 costs $1600. A comparable Sony Vaio costs a lot more. Apple is definitely in the ballpark on costs.