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You may be correct. But, how many hours of fuffing about do you need to get this stability?Quote:
Originally Posted by mowog
IMHO, you get this straight out of the box with Macs. No patches. No search for matched components. And the OS is FAR more stable than anything I have ever come across on PCs.
You can buy them online and know what the heritage of the machine is.
It's worth the extra dollars in the end.
I am sick of 'playing' with P.C.s.
Unfortunately the PC software I use every day won't run on my Mac... the antivirus software haha.
Jokes aside, the OP made lots of good points, it's horses for courses. Have to say that Ubuntu on my Atom-based netbook boots with incredible speed, faster than my MacBook Pro, and my PC is way slow in comparison.
My kids love the 4yo iMac, they are music students so it worked for them. Ex-wife uses the PC only so that kept the family from arguing.
Have to say that now that Steam is available for Mac I am happy! Yay! Now if only the ATO would port e-Tax, which sadly does not work for me under Crossover.
e-tax is being dumped now anyway...
im a computer numpty and upgraded to a mini mac and have never looked back. . .no more pcs for me. . .have not done a thing since taking it out of the box apart from upgrading to snow which was easy as
I've got to inform the industry I'm in to start using mac. They sound like the bee's knee's :o
:-PQuote:
Originally Posted by stuee
Thats what Apple does though, they grab an existing product and innovate.
Take the latest Mac Daddy gadget, the iPad.
iPad is a tablet PC, a concept thats been around for years and many of the Laptop makers had/have them.
Well Steve jobs and co made it better, trendy and cheap!
They did the same with PDA's and the Apple Newton, Sony Walkman/Discman and the iPod and in regards to out of the box computer solutions for both Numpties and PC savvy users you still cant beat Apple and yet many have tried.
Dell are still trying, IBM tried for years and gave up, Gateway had a cow trying and died for their sins and yet Apple still does it day in day out.
I personally find it hard to explain why I became a convert without foaming at the cakehole and that's because my level of experience is unique to me having been in at out of I.T. since the early 80's and DPS systems.......
But what I do tell people is to TRY the product, go and chat to the local Apple authorised dealer who will sit you down and talk to you while you test drive a system in the store and provide you with a sales and after-sales service.
I also tell them that Ive rebuilt my laptop and friends PCs on 20 different occasions this year due to viral issues or issues caused by anti viral/Anti Spyware/anti malware/Registry cleaners etc etc and yet my old eMac running no Anti virus etc hasnt been touched since I upgraded to OS 10.4
Whoops, im frothing again :-)
Tony
ive had both PC and Mac first was the pc and it was great until it started jamming up and having to re BOOT it. then after a while 6 months it just died. i contemplated a imac when they first came out and based on value for money it was more expensive but liked the all in one system and the immunity to viruses.
if i had the choice now i would spend the extra and get a mac mainly due to i still own the same computer and have not had one single problem with it or its software. never had to reboot, no viruses, no waiting ages before it decides to start.
my new saying is "once you go MAC you never go back"
as for pcs they are great to i use them where i work and have renewed them 2 so far in 4 years. so i have found in my experience that the macs are more reliable.
just my 2 cents
dan
You can run Mac OS on a modern PC if you like, Mac hardware is essentially the same as PC now under the hood.
Most of the comments here are pretty clear. Basically Mac is easier to use for those not so tech savy (read less mal ware and virus's about, harder to change core OS settings, and an enforced consistent interface among all prgrams), those who want the perceived stability, or prefer the interface over windows. Your comment on the other hand really doesn't do anything for the Macs but make out Mac users to be arrogant.Quote:
Originally Posted by incisor
I even went as far as googling why macs are better for graphic design, and the google consensus is that now days with current software and hardware platforms they're pretty much even, and a lot of the sentiment dates back to days when the graphical tools available on macs dominated those on windows and the hardware was better tuned for a graphical design environment.
So please enlighten me as to why any "good" graphic designer can produce more on a mac than a PC?
if me stating what i have have found to be the case is arrogant than so be it..
you might want to try ringing a few decent sized bureaus and getting it from the horses mouth seeing it is so offensive coming from me ;)