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Get a Mac.......
You'll never look back..........

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Mac vs. Windows, I say who cares because it's all about Linux yo'.

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macs are the best

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Mac vs. PC = Obama vs. Mccain :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaLvGGMpGFg

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Ok, for all those that seriously care. I was a big mac head in the mid 90's. Then I began to realize that as graphics programs were being ported to the PC in effective ways, PC hardware was becoming cheaper pound for pound. In other words, I could get a PC as powerful as a mac for much cheaper and by Windows 98 or so, the OSs were becoming effectively the same. In fact, Windows was adopting the good Mac attributes while it seemed the Mac was adopting the bad ones.

Flash forward to this year, where, for the first time in over 10 years, I bought a mac pro BUT i also installed vista on it.

Why?

The mac pro can take an insane amount of ram.
Photoshop cs4 will be the first 64 bit enabled version of the program plus it will be able to allocate more than 4gb of ram. BUT it will only be available on Windows for the frist six months or so due to Apple not supporting a 64 bit version of one of their programming languages.

Best of both worlds, yo.

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Mac is better, way better than the PC.

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Hey Tommy--

Nowhere in your series of articles did you mention that Macs can run XP or Vista.

Also, the Mac mini, iMac, MacBook, and Mac Pro have three year warranties for less than $349.

How about the time wasted when you do / don't update virus and spyware protection? That's a real tangible for Windows chusers.

Nice job...

A brief story: I had a 4X DVD burner that had only a "Windows" badge on the box. It worked fine in my Mac. Then I sold it to an XP bud for $20. He had a 2GHz rig, Pentium 4. After a week of it not working in his rig and coaching via phone, scrounging the internet for firmwares, flashing via DOS (all horrors I had to endure while I coached him), the best we could do is burn at 2X and eject the disk after the burn. Otherwise his rig would lock up. The Windows Rage I went through for about three weeks total was not worth the $20 at all.

Remember. the iPod is the number one mp3 player on the planet not because of Mac users. Think about why. Nothing else worked / works quite as well, despite "all those options" out there for Windows users.

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Mac zealots are some of the worst out there, which makes it painful to even read comments when either Macs are pitted against the PC or someone talks about Macs in a bad light. They seem to come out of the woodwork, as though they have some system to monitor the internet and save their precious Macs name.

I also find the blind Mac sheep, the people that buy Macs just because they are "cool" or "hip" and just add comments like "Macs are better" or "PCs sucks" with out backing up their claim at all.

I don't really care about Macs or PCs. I support most Windows based systems at work, because lets face it, in the corporate environment, Windows is really the only choice. But we do have some Macs that we have to support also. I could pull stats from our issue tracking system, but I am pretty sure we have as many calls per computer for the Macs as we do the PCs. This whole false bubble of Macs just working or being more secure (one of the stupidest claims since it will give people a false sense of invisibility) is just myth.

At the end of the day, I don't care what type of computer I support, I just care about getting the job done. At home is another story, I run linux on on my computers since I don't want to have to do extra work or worry. While some may say that not having to do extra work is a oxy-moron with linux, and some cases it can be. Overall, I know I spend less time supporting it then I do with Windows or OSX.

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I've installed Mac OS X 10.4.5 (First Intel version), on a Fujitsu Scaleo Pentium 4 with 512 Mbytes. Intel or Via Chipsets.

Although Linux sounds great, You can't play with Linux, Ubuntu gives some chance. You can play with both Mac and Windows. You can use Photoshop with both Mac and Windows.

if you want Unix, use Solaris, HP-UX. If at home... Mac OS X.

Granny wants Word? you have MS Office 2008 for Mac

And what's better, it is steadier than a PC!!!

Changing parts in a Mac Workstation is easier than in a PC, no matter if it is self built or from Dell or HP.

I'm not happy with any Support from any Company. Worst, maybe ACER, and it doesn't matter if it is for home or a company with a 24/7 Gold Support with Dell or HP, or even SUN.

You'd rather know first the Company's support in your city...

good luck!!!

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A Movie sent to me this week had a dot mov suffix.. it will NOT play on my great Dell 530 vista loaded pc... sorry, Mac.

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Ah, the drivelings of mac fanboys... better than Comedy Central.

The biggest selling point of macs are you can boot both mac and windows, but *shock* you can do the same with pcs if you really want to. Why would one do this? Don't know or care. Another is the "unbeatable security" and "invulnerablility to viruses"

CAD says it best: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513

As for the security and whatnot, Apple is laughable. The only reason they don't have (many, if any) viruses is because they don't have very much of the market share, and Apple has a "nice company" facade, but I wouldn't expect that to last long, especially since Apple pulled out of the Black Hat convention.

" ...scrounging the internet for firmwares, flashing via DOS ..."

Umm.... what was he using, WIn3.1??? Are you sure you know very much about pcs, let alone computers? I can tell you the problem you had, you didn't just look for the drivers or let windows install them itself (thats what xp does).

@Zargon - Good point and well made.

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PC is better for gaming, to hell with Mac. Mac is more of a work comp and who works on a computer?

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LOl, Macs suck, if you are serious then get a PC, Macs can't do gaming. Those Mac commercials are a bunch of bull too, my PC never freeze or errors, if your PC freezes or errors then you must have a piece of crap!

My PC blows Mac away.....

Specs!:
3 Gig of ram
NVidia GeForce 8600 GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Silence 610 Watt power supply
Intel Pentium 4 processor 630 with HT technology
200 GB of memory

And mah PC is 5 years old too :)

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Okay, here's what it all comes down to:

First, let me just say this. Computers are computers. Macs, PCs, Linux, whatever you use. And when talking about capabilities, it all depends what kind of hardware a computer has. The processor speed, the memory, the video cards, sound cards, etc. Now here's one thing that really cannot be argued with.

Now with that being said, Macs are overpriced. You'd be lucky to get 1/3 of the specs that you would with a PC for the same price. Instead of getting a PC with 4 gigs of RAM, a 500 gig hard drive, a core 2 quad, and a geforce 8800 gtx, you'd get a Mac with 1 gig of RAM, a 120 gig hard drive, a core 2 duo, and a geforce 8600 gt for the same price. It's ridiculous.

Not only that, but PCs have way more compatibility and support software-wise. So with that being said, I think I'd have to agree with the idea that Macs are nothing more than a trend. Their main emphasis is on cosmetic design. People go with Macs because they have the trendier-looking OS, the "cooler" look, and because they are led to believe that Macs have superior video and editing quality (which you can get on a PC anyway given you have a good enough graphics card). And to all you Final Cut Pro fanboys, if you want superior video editing, you would use Adobe Premiere Pro anyway, which works perfectly fine on PCs.

I'm not gonna be a hypocrite and say that Apple doesn't make good products, since I own an iPhone 3G. But the iPhone is definitely Apple's strong point, not its computers. And even then, I only own one because Apple really has no good competition in the cell phone industry yet. I'm still waiting for a better phone to come out (hopefully the Xperia X1 from Sony) seeing as the iPhone 3G, as good as it is, still has many flaws and missing features it shouldn't, similar to Apple's computers. Those flaws being no video calls, video recording, tv support, flash support, MMS (which is totally lame), replaceable battery, copy and paste, stereo bluetooth, voice commands, camera flash, zoom, focus, no joystick, no stand, no landscape keyboard, and no call recording options.

I know this is about computers and not about cell phones, but the point I'm trying to make is that when it comes to Apple products, don't judge a book by its pretty cover. Instead, focus on what exactly it is your getting performance and spec-wise.

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