why do apple users have such a stick up their asses? i respect that the computer is a great design, but why must they constantly boast about it? they mock pc’s and how crappy and unstable windows is. Granted windows has flaws, but apples aren’t exactly flawless either.
People who buy Apples are generally the arty type who are have a natural predilication for bitching. They use Apple therefore they are…... and so on. I just rabble on about the benchmark test, powerbook vs centrino and they soon shut up!
Don’t tar us all with the same brush. I love ALL my computers, mac and pc. I did in truth used to slag off pc’s. That is before I started using them. XP is a robust system, and I now tell all how cool it is to use both xp and os x. :mrgreen:
My x-roomie had bought an iBook and the only reason he bought that was because he wanted to watch movies, chat a lot on MSN, use word (I think staroffice is the MSoffice replacement) and play the occasional game and obviously for its looks.
Well, Apple is considered the underdog in the computer industry with its market share lagging far behind than that of PCs. I guess it’s in the underdog mentality to mock one’s competitor in order to seek attention. Apple makes great machines, but the lack of software support has kept me from switching over.
Love the little bruce lee movie qua77ro. How did you do that?
The big difference between the two is that microsoft decided long ago to sell it’s OS to vendors. Hence the mass of biege boxes, mac decided right or wrong to retain the licence (although we did see clones a few years back, but that did not last) This means that apple is able to make these great looking machines selling at a premium. If it had gone the same way as microsoft we may not have the win dominance that we now see, but we probably wouldn’t have great designs like the powerbook, ipod, and imac.
It is great that some pc manufacturers are now thinkiing about style and design such as Sony, it gives those with an eye for design another option.
Eh, Apple had its own idea and its not paying off in the way Microsoft was paid off. Considering what and when they both started Apple still has a long way to go, and at the rate they are going, they will never get there.
Apple is more stable because the OS was designed around one type of hardware, its not versitle at all, where Windows is designed to run on a ton of system variations with a wide range of processors and motherboards…which makes it unstable to a degree.
Apple’s use of proprietary software/hardware will always keep it in a niche market and the lack of third-party support (full support) will keep it from ever becoming main-stream. Once people stop falling for crazy colors and weird designs the sale of Apple computers will slip once again.
Steve Jobs single handedly saved the company in the past few years starting with the iMac which was nothing more then a cute PC. The iPod brought Apple sales into a new area, but they still are not a major player in the PC industry with less then 10% of the market…nor will they ever be unless they rethink their strategy.
Oh, btw, Apple doesn’t have the stronghold over graphic designers as it once had, and their relationship with Adobe is growing weaker by the day.
Well I have a mac, but dislike it (maybe because im used to using windows?). Like I said I like to download stuff and play games. I can’t do that much on mac. Most of popular games are on pc only unless you have virtual pc, but still it will only be slow or worse freezes. And most free download on the internet are for windows user, you have to wait long time for mac version to come up, and sometimes they dont create one for mac.
because Mac’s rule. I’m a dual user, have 3 Mac desktops, 1 Mac powerbook, 2 subnotebooks (PC), and 3 PC desktops and a server. And basically everything is easier, faster and more secure on a MAC - period.
[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]because Mac’s rule. I’m a dual user, have 3 Mac desktops, 1 Mac powerbook, 2 subnotebooks (PC), and 3 PC desktops and a server. And basically everything is easier, faster and more secure on a MAC - period.
damn japimportscomaussiman, we actually agree on something! do u sell them? i have never actually owned a mac, just worked with them when i had a real job and have used a lot of my friends powerbooks and love them but WOW u gotta be rich, for both the box and softwares. so what i did was just turn my TR into an OSX look-alike. the best of both worlds. kinda…
[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]And basically everything is easier, faster and more secure on a MAC - period.
Almost nothing is faster on a MAC, and if you think so, come up with benchmarks, they always lean towards the PC, even products such as Adobe now run faster on a PC.
[quote author=“tifosiv122”]Almost nothing is faster on a MAC, and if you think so, come up with benchmarks, they always lean towards the PC, even products such as Adobe now run faster on a PC.
If you know the strengths of a CPU/architecture, you can design a benchmark to make it look great. Intel does well with highly parallel tests (due to HT) and the EE version’s cache helps it out, Opteron’s strength is its memory bandwidth and FPU while the G5’s RISC architecture and Altivec instruction set (when software is compiled for it) gives it an edge. Apple’s lying and highly misrepresentational marketing dept does this all the time. Things get even messier if we consider things like SSE2, x86-64 and Windows vs OSX. The only real apples-to-apples benchmarks can be performed across similar architectures. Here is the 2 GHz G5 holding its own against the Opteron 246 (2 GHz). I’m sure the 2.5 GHz version of the G5 would hold its own against the 2.4 GHz Opteron 250 and the 3.6 GHz Xeon in most real-world programs you toss at it.
Like many ... am too am a dual user. Both MAC & PC have their advantages ... but personally, I’d go with PC specially when it comes to stealing ... errr I mean ... sharing softwares
