Poll: Mac or PC?
- Thread starter Semler
- Start date
Spinaroonie
LOOK WHAT I FOUND!
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2000
- Posts
- 17,721
Guru said:
My sig line is about IE, not Windows.
It runs on just about any system.
Traveler32
Not as bright as I look
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2002
- Posts
- 12,966
Re: Re: Re: Re: The choice is yours
ohhhh ok
sd412 said:
Woah.. I just wanted to post a link that said that you shouldn't buy a mac because "Dave Thomas (Satan) uses a mac to count his junior bacon cheeseburgers (15 so far)"
ohhhh ok
ease of expansion
One last thought. Ok, one of my last thoughts on this subject.
please see:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/expansion.html
to access the G4 towers, you pull a little lever on the top right side of the case, and the entire motherboard just swings down to the side. You can see every expansion slot, including accessing the drives with 2 of 4 drive slots open in most recent configs. One under the optical drive, one on top of the hard drive. Apart from changing the motherboard, look at the pics and tell me what you would like to customize that you can't with a PC? Want a new video card, how about the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti? Newer macs all use standardized AGP video cards. Yes, the drivers are different so not all AGP cards work, but the ATI and NVIDIA cards are fantastic. Do you want to upgrade the processor? Apple always gets tights to the fastest PPC s first, but look at the history of excellent CPU upgrades at SONNET TECH, XLR8, NEWER (back in business), etc...; do you want more memory? Three DIMM slots support up to 1.5GB
Oh, and lets see, Firewire is standard (has been for some time, even on puny iBooks), they pioneered the Superdrive with the most inutitive software available for audio or video (CD or DVD) recording...What else do you want to DO TODAY???????
GOOD LUCK ALL....off the soap box for a cool beverage....
One last thought. Ok, one of my last thoughts on this subject.
please see:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/expansion.html
to access the G4 towers, you pull a little lever on the top right side of the case, and the entire motherboard just swings down to the side. You can see every expansion slot, including accessing the drives with 2 of 4 drive slots open in most recent configs. One under the optical drive, one on top of the hard drive. Apart from changing the motherboard, look at the pics and tell me what you would like to customize that you can't with a PC? Want a new video card, how about the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti? Newer macs all use standardized AGP video cards. Yes, the drivers are different so not all AGP cards work, but the ATI and NVIDIA cards are fantastic. Do you want to upgrade the processor? Apple always gets tights to the fastest PPC s first, but look at the history of excellent CPU upgrades at SONNET TECH, XLR8, NEWER (back in business), etc...; do you want more memory? Three DIMM slots support up to 1.5GB
Oh, and lets see, Firewire is standard (has been for some time, even on puny iBooks), they pioneered the Superdrive with the most inutitive software available for audio or video (CD or DVD) recording...What else do you want to DO TODAY???????
GOOD LUCK ALL....off the soap box for a cool beverage....
MACWORLD July 15 - 19 New York City!!!
MACWORLD July 15 - 19 New York City!!!
WAIT TO PURCHASE ANYTHING!
Newbys: Apple always has great product announcements at MacWorld. this is when you can get the latest and greatest...or snag a better deal on the last latest and greatest...
so hold all purchases till after Steve gives the keynote.
MACWORLD July 15 - 19 New York City!!!
WAIT TO PURCHASE ANYTHING!
Newbys: Apple always has great product announcements at MacWorld. this is when you can get the latest and greatest...or snag a better deal on the last latest and greatest...
so hold all purchases till after Steve gives the keynote.
Last edited:
Optional Reading
If you want to know the latest dirt, there are a zillion mac info sites. Appart from sites with paper counterparts (macWorld and MacAddict), MacNN.com and MacOSRumors.com are fun and helpful. Note the word rumors in the name and take it for what it is worth...
If you want to know the latest dirt, there are a zillion mac info sites. Appart from sites with paper counterparts (macWorld and MacAddict), MacNN.com and MacOSRumors.com are fun and helpful. Note the word rumors in the name and take it for what it is worth...
Um sorry, The Mac wins.
Why? Because I said so, that's why!
OK, seriously. A computer is a computer. The fact I have 8 Macs in my bedroom alone means very little in the big picture (apart from the fact I'm a geek of the highest order)
To choose a computer all you really need to do is decide what you WANT to do, ignore it, decide on what you will want to do in the FUTURE and go with the system that does that within your budget.
I could go on about Mac OS X, the compatability myth (MS Office anyone? Office X is - and yes I AM a Mac lover - one of the best software suites available) and the percieved cost of ownership, but I'd send you all to sleep.
Why? Because I said so, that's why!
OK, seriously. A computer is a computer. The fact I have 8 Macs in my bedroom alone means very little in the big picture (apart from the fact I'm a geek of the highest order)
To choose a computer all you really need to do is decide what you WANT to do, ignore it, decide on what you will want to do in the FUTURE and go with the system that does that within your budget.
I could go on about Mac OS X, the compatability myth (MS Office anyone? Office X is - and yes I AM a Mac lover - one of the best software suites available) and the percieved cost of ownership, but I'd send you all to sleep.
TheDR4KE
Breathing the sensuous Om
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2001
- Posts
- 2,223
Mac
I've used Unix boxen, Macs and PCs (and other gear) and with MacOS X I've found the machine I love best. Oh, and I have a PhD in computer science, so I'm fairly computer literate ;-)
I have found that learning the Mac operating system comes very quickly to everyone I know who has made the switch.
If you are just surfing the web (Mozilla for MacOS X is great, and if you really wanted to you could get Microsoft Internet Explorer); doing wordprocessing and spreadsheets (OpenOffice is great and very Microsoft Office compatible, but only in beta for MacOS X so far -- but Microsoft Office for MacOS X is said to be much better than for Windows in all the reviews I've read, including PC Magazines/Sites); and emailing people, then get a Mac.
If you need some special software that only runs on PCs, get a PC. If you want to play games, get a PC for playing games.
I personally don't trust Windows due to it's problems of stability and being virus prone. I also dislike Microsoft due to it's new fleece the public for all they're worth with licensing rather than sales of software strategy and the security wanna be big brother goals they're aiming for.
If you want to be productive, I'd recommend you get a Mac.
Quack
the D
I've used Unix boxen, Macs and PCs (and other gear) and with MacOS X I've found the machine I love best. Oh, and I have a PhD in computer science, so I'm fairly computer literate ;-)
I have found that learning the Mac operating system comes very quickly to everyone I know who has made the switch.
If you are just surfing the web (Mozilla for MacOS X is great, and if you really wanted to you could get Microsoft Internet Explorer); doing wordprocessing and spreadsheets (OpenOffice is great and very Microsoft Office compatible, but only in beta for MacOS X so far -- but Microsoft Office for MacOS X is said to be much better than for Windows in all the reviews I've read, including PC Magazines/Sites); and emailing people, then get a Mac.
If you need some special software that only runs on PCs, get a PC. If you want to play games, get a PC for playing games.
I personally don't trust Windows due to it's problems of stability and being virus prone. I also dislike Microsoft due to it's new fleece the public for all they're worth with licensing rather than sales of software strategy and the security wanna be big brother goals they're aiming for.
If you want to be productive, I'd recommend you get a Mac.
Quack
the D
Similar threads
