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Why go Mac?

Which notebook to go with?

  • MacBook

    Votes: 25 25.3%

  • MacBook Pro

    Votes: 44 44.4%

  • MacBook Air

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • Keep the pc notebook you have now.

    Votes: 28 28.3%
  • Total voters
    99
#141
Im a PC fanatic for gaming but I love my iMac way more then I liked any PC... It's just plain simple, I've never had problems.

The only thing you *NEED* (you must get this) is the Apple Care program, because if you EVER need your mac repaired expect to pay like 1/3 of what it cost... Unless you get the $100 apple care plan, where they pretty much fix any issue you could possibly have for 3 years.
 
#143
The term "PC" is a consumer term. Hardly hear it or use it in IT circles, where the term "Desktop" or "Workstation" is more common. PC implies some home user, sitting there with a laptop, downloading every little thing that pops up begging them to download it. Those are the things that cause the problems. On a Mac, you don't get those popups because people aren't writing crappy programs like that to snag Mac users cause there just aren't very many of you in the grand scheme of things. If you do download it, it won't install and run on a Mac. Crisis averted. Crashing has nothing to do with the superiority of the hardware or the OS. I would bet a years salaray that I have laptops and desktops running both XP and Vista that have run just as long as some of your Macs without crashes or failures.

In reality, you can't really compare PC's with Mac's as the playing field is so different. For every malevolent Mac hacker, there are 10,000 PC hackers. But take a look at the history for many of these hacking contests. It's typically the MAC machines that get trashed first.

And the whole update issue is exagerated. Mac releases as many updates for their OS as MS does for theres. Running updates on either platform is equally as easy. If you have a hard time runnikng updates on a Windows box, well it's probably because you have loaded way too much trivial crap on there. The more software, the more .dll's, the more surface area you provide for an issue to occur.
 
#144
Rakie said:
It's just plain simple, I've never had problems.
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Right, which is why it has limited appliation in business circles. It's simplicity makes it inferior. Apple has been trying for years to break into IT for corporate use. The fail miserably every time. The whole iPhone 1.0 debacle with lack for true mail integration was an attempt by Apple to lure some companies away from their Microsoft Exchange platforms. It was laughable and now they've admitted defeat once again by adding Exchange Activesync into the new version.

Simple might be superior if that's what you want. No problem with that at all.
 
#148
Nublet said:
Mac's are superior, more secure, and Windows sucks.
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Thanks for finally agreeing.

Go to Hollywood / LA and check out some real studio's, and no... I mean REAL STUDIO'S. Not little rat traps, they pretty much exclusively use macs, their reason ? It's more stable and way more reliable.

Your argument is that PC's and Mac's are comparable. OK... Most people have ZERO technical savvy, therefor an idiot proof Mac is usually a much better option.

You have to go OUT OF YOUR WAY to harm a mac, PC's you don't. Mac's do have less viruses, maybe you're right... Maybe it's because there aren't as many mac users, so viruses for mac aren't in demand... OK, so what ? That only further proves that a Mac is a better choice (Even if only for a few years) I mean... There are less Viruses and hackers that go after mac's, right ?
 
#149
Eublet. I'm running 350 macs on my campus. All are managed remotely using apple remote desktops, all updates, and back ups, etc. I'm one guy doing this part time while I teach. I know for a fact, that an equivalent middle school in our district is running Windows. They have hired two guys to tend to the demand and that's not enough. It's all the school can afford. They're looking to start shifting over to Mac in the next 2-5 years. I know that the industry standard is one support person for 10 PC's. Many companies run 1-20 plus now, but this is mostly for economical purposes. Doesn't mean the demand is there. District wide we run servers that are Mac xRaid servers. They are dual platform and can serve the needs of the PC's in the district as well as the macs. Without going into a lot of details, I do come from your side of the fence. Before I was a teacher I worked as a website developer and coder for 8 years, and at that time (Mac was OS 8-9), there were many things PC's did better, especially for coding and server-side stuff. However with OS X, and the capability to run dual platform, I no longer saw a need to run two machines. I'm not just a consumer, although, happily, I am more of one now. With that said, if a PC suits your needs great. You don't have to go out on a mission and defend all PC's. It's ok. We get it. You like PC's. Good on you brother.
 
#153
I wonder how many people that love PC's also love Xbox... I've found a lot of people who dislike windows refuse to play Xbox (I am one of them, Xbox's are junk in fact... windows gave a free 5 year warranty with them all because they are *ALL* defective, and *ALL* of them *WILL* get the red ring of doom, as stated by *MICROSOFT*)

Thats crap, they can't even fix their own systems... I wonder if they ever got this resolved, this was like 8 months ago maybe.
 
#155
moomoocajoo said:
I like my 360 :)

Built like a peice of crap but it has a great games catalogue and live is very good.

And they repair/replace all RRODing xboxes for free, though as you say it should never have happened in the first place.
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At least they give them out free, the first few people who got them were basically told "That sucks". I guess when it started happening a LOT they noticed something was funky, haha.
 
#156
All I'm saying is that the decision to choose one over the other is case specific. There are places where it would be stupid to implement PC's. Graphic Arts CAN be one such place, as is recording.

Maki - I totally believe you. I've seen that many times. But the types of networks you are describing are small and very specific in nature. Not to sound degrading at all as I'm glad you've got it all worked out. Screwing around fixing stuff is no fun, regardless of the platform. But that's a far cry from a corporate data center running a multi-billion dolllar industry. And I certainly don't agree that is industry standard to have 1 support person for every 10 users. 1 for every 100 perhaps. I work with organizations that have thousands of windows desktops, with hundreds of servers on the backend. The list of applications they have to support is mind boggling. Even they don't have 1 support person for every 10 users.

But this thread was all about an end user experience on a personal computing platform. I'm fine with someone choosing Mac for that. There's just no need to call it superior as if it's some kind of fact. It's an individual choice.
 
#157
Eublet said:
All I'm saying is that the decision to choose one over the other is case specific. There are places where it would be stupid to implement PC's. Graphic Arts CAN be one such place, as is recording.

Maki - I totally believe you. I've seen that many times. But the types of networks you are describing are small and very specific in nature. Not to sound degrading at all as I'm glad you've got it all worked out. Screwing around fixing stuff is no fun, regardless of the platform. But that's a far cry from a corporate data center running a multi-billion dolllar industry. And I certainly don't agree that is industry standard to have 1 support person for every 10 users. 1 for every 100 perhaps. I work with organizations that have thousands of windows desktops, with hundreds of servers on the backend. The list of applications they have to support is mind boggling. Even they don't have 1 support person for every 10 users.

But this thread was all about an end user experience on a personal computing platform. I'm fine with someone choosing Mac for that. There's just no need to call it superior as if it's some kind of fact. It's an individual choice.
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I agree. :)
 
#159
I've been running both Macs and Windows machines for several years now, and the big selling point for me is flexibility. Macs use a LOT of proprietary components, in my experience. It seems with every consecutive release, they tighten the handcuffs just a little bit more. Windows is a lot easier to play with. There are far more things I can change about it, and there are more options. More options means more things I can change and more customization, making the end product more comfortable for my specific needs. Beyond that, I guess it's case specific.

Granted, Linux is even greater for that purpose than either, but I don't want to be that guy, so I'll leave Linux out of it. :ninja:
 

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