Mac vs PC

[Bozos of Bones]

Dude! You're getting a Dell!
*shoots dude and the dude shouting it*
PC all the way.

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by robertthebard: The results of the poll tell the story as to why there are no Mac viruses.

But there are.....

Not many, but they are starting to crop up.

[Yorick]

Originally posted by robertthebard: The results of the poll tell the story as to why there are no Mac viruses. Less than 25% of respondants, so far, have Macs. There's so little a market on them that it's not worth a "decent" hacker's time. Ah bootcamp, the best way to buy a pc when you don't want to say you have one... [img]graemlins/hidesbehindsofa.gif[/img] I'd say an Intel Mac is probably closer to a PC, than a Mac. After all, if the vulnerability to viruses is in the actual software, it doesn't matter what hardware you're running it on.

But see this is a gaming forum. We all know there are more gamers on PC than Mac.

However, for professional creatives it's mac all the way. Music production, film/video editting, artwork, design, photography.. mac mac mac. It's more stable, the software is better, and you don;t have to be a computer genius to get things up and running. The macs have universal compatability with each other, whereas pcs have a nightmarish array of variables - soundcards, processors, video cards etc etc - so when something goes wrong it's problematic getting help easily.

When I run a session in OSX, I just turn the computer on, and at the end of the day there are no crashes. PCs crash crash crash, and when professionally running recording sessions that's not cool.

However, the other day I worked with a PC Cubase setup which was smooth, but the owner has had to become a computer guru just to maintain it's smoothness.

And it's not like I'm a mac geek. I started on Amiga, went to Atari (music) and PC (games) and only five years ago bought a mac.

There's just no comparison. Macs work better.
We have two macs and two pcs in our house, and the macs vastly outperform.
I'm comparing them everyday.

And when you say "nobody has a mac" that may be in terms of relative percentages, but not in terms of actual users. 2% of 200 million for example is still 2 million, and that's a large market. If I sold 2 million CDs (at just say...0.05% of all CDs sold in a year or something) I'd be laughing all the way to the bank.

I get pretty pro-Mac because I saw what happened to the Amiga. The Amiga was for it's time, streets ahead of PCs and Macs in terms of graphics, and music/art/video production. THe "workbench" was a windows-like program well before windows was around. It was a better computer that had bad marketing and who's company went bankrupt. I mean how does a company go from having the mpst popular computer ever - the C64 - and owning the patent on the joystick, to going bankrupt!?

And so the computer industry suffered.

The macs look, feel, run and integrate better. At least in my house.

So I would urge someone, if you're thinking of buying a new computer, to at least walk into a mac store, and check them out. [img]smile.gif[/img] What do you have to loose?

[ 12-08-2006, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]

[Callum]

Originally posted by Yorick: 2% of 200 million for example is still 2 million

No it isn't

[Yorick]

Ok. 4 million.
Thankyou Mr. Wiseguy.
Why you! Why you wise guy!

[ 12-08-2006, 12:52 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by Yorick: It's more stable, the software is better, and you don;t have to be a computer genius to get things up and running. The macs have universal compatability with each other, whereas pcs have a nightmarish array of variables - soundcards, processors, video cards etc etc - so when something goes wrong it's problematic getting help easily. When I run a session in OSX, I just turn the computer on, and at the end of the day there are no crashes. PCs crash crash crash, and when professionally running recording sessions that's not cool. However, the other day I worked with a PC Cubase setup which was smooth, but the owner has had to become a computer guru just to maintain it's smoothness.

You're talking about Windows machines, not PCs.

Linux has uptimes measured in years, and it runs on PC hardware.

[Yorick]

Originally posted by Sir Krustin: quote: Originally posted by Yorick: It's more stable, the software is better, and you don;t have to be a computer genius to get things up and running. The macs have universal compatability with each other, whereas pcs have a nightmarish array of variables - soundcards, processors, video cards etc etc - so when something goes wrong it's problematic getting help easily. When I run a session in OSX, I just turn the computer on, and at the end of the day there are no crashes. PCs crash crash crash, and when professionally running recording sessions that's not cool. However, the other day I worked with a PC Cubase setup which was smooth, but the owner has had to become a computer guru just to maintain it's smoothness.

You're talking about Windows machines, not PCs.

Linux has uptimes measured in years, and it runs on PC hardware. [/QUOTE]That's very interesting!

[JrKASperov]

I have a self-assembled PC. It runs nicely, way nicer than those premade packages.

[Yorick]

That's awesome.

[Larry_OHF]

But see this is a gaming forum. We all know there are more gamers on PC than Mac.

Then what did the poll hope to achieve if you already expected the outcome?
To make us PC users more confident and big-headed than we already are?