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you are in the same boat as me, thats why i switched to macs last year, i got tired of putting up with windows and all of its problems, i couldn't nothing done... so i decided to take that chance and bought me a mac, lemme tell you this is my 1st mac ever and i can never be in love so much with a computer ever in my life, this thing is beautiful! and i can say the same goes to OS X, the most advanced, beautiful elegant OS i evered used before, windows can't even compare to it, i been a PC/windows users all my life... i can't believe i didnt switch sooner, yes definetly get a mac... you will enjoy using it, i love using my mac, i am so addicted to using this thing, the user experience on OS X is much more higher than windows...
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Posted: 2003-03-09 13:50:00
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Well.. I have one Windows XP PC, one Imac and one PC running Unix (FreeBSD) And the way i see it is:
Unix/Linux: Great for web servers, sucks as desktop OS
Mac: Way too expensive software (This depends on if you actually pay for all your apps and the OS itself)
PC/Windows: Best compromise really, fastest CPU´s available (sorry Mac-fans, PC IS faster, get over it. Both Intel and AMD are using basically the same CPU arcitecture as Motorola nowadays. The only reason some apps run smoother on Mac is that they were originally ported for Mac.
Bottom line: If you have loads of money and don´t care about new games and loads of apps, go for MAc otherwise PC/windows is the way to go..
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Posted: 2003-03-09 14:01:00
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Mac is faster Bull$hit
this is my laptop
3.06 Ghz Pentium 4
1024Mb DDR RAm
I can beat any mac
oh and also look down
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii2.htm
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Posted: 2003-03-09 14:29:00
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whatever, faster wow, is that all you PC users care about, who cares if your machine is like 6GHZ, it may be fast but look at the shitty OS, windows, whats a fast computer if you cant even use it w/o crashing and having to reboot, i rather be productive any day over having just a fast machine... your machine might beat mine, but then crash during the process, while mine is stable and finishes... but lets not turn this into a pc vs mac war...
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Posted: 2003-03-09 22:42:00
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If I'm honest,
1) by comparing the pure processor power, high end PCs are a lot faster then high end macs, however if you're not doing professional video cutting or photoshop with many effects, you'll never see a difference in speed when working with applications. As the OS and most applications are better in usability, you'll do your jobs faster on a Mac.
2) Desktop Macs are very overprices, thats real. At this time (till the IBM 64bit Processors will be introduced) I would never buy a Desktop Mac. Opposite Situation on the Laptop Front: If you compare Powerbooks with equal equiped PC Notebooks, you'll see that there are a very good deal (exept the GHZ issue). The 12" Powerbook is from my point of view one of the best Laptops on the market at an competitve price. If you decide to switch then get the 12" PB.
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Posted: 2003-03-09 23:20:00
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Well, i strongly believe PC's are the way to go at the moment as you can so many more programs for them and many for free off the net. Also about you saying windows crashes all the time, what windows are you running? I run XP home and have ahd it for about a year, it's only crashed like 2 or 3 times. It runs smoothly as long as you keep it running smooth, if you make sure you're cleaning your system and getting rid off the mass amounts of spyware people have on their computers. I must admit though that macs are good to look at, especially with two of those big flatscreen monitors, but they are way too expensive....
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Posted: 2003-03-09 23:32:00
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Ok we all know PC's may have very high mhz processors available, get higher and cheaper everyday.......they lose their value like crazy, and like others said, having that mhz running windows is not that great due to the crappy OS, but having even less mhz on a mac running os X is going to be smoother and more reliable. I just got my 12'' ibook and couldnt be happier. I have been using windows for around 8yrs and wish i would have switched sooner. Seriously though, i have the 640mb of memory and the 800mhz, and its faster than my friends 2.4ghz PC with 512mb memory, and just d/l all your software with aquistion for mac! Everyone thinks mac sucks, even i did, UNTIL I USED ONE. I walked into the store and immediatly loved it and started saving up that very day
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Posted: 2003-03-10 19:57:00
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wait till you've had it a while, they start going crappy like PC's do too in time, all brand new systems work amazingly fast, but then they just tend to slow down. You will see, and then realise a re-install is needed to get back up to good speeds.
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Posted: 2003-03-10 20:05:00
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"wait till you've had it a while, they start going crappy like PC's do too in time, all brand new systems work amazingly fast, but then they just tend to slow down. You will see, and then realise a re-install is needed to get back up to good speeds."
Well this is exactly what will NOT happen because of the OSX system architecture. Spend a few minutes at
http://www.apple.com/macosx and you will get the grep of it.
The way i see it, Macs are fast, stable and stylish. Go for one !
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Posted: 2003-03-10 21:33:00
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no need to visit the site, i have first hand experience. I understand that macs are designed faster and their architecture is faster, it's just in reality, well in my experience they aren't and they do crash, but then again that is on my freinds computer and he aint no fanatic so he probably doesn't keep it running as smooth as i keep my PC.
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Posted: 2003-03-10 22:22:00
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