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[heebyjeebys]

What is better, windows or mac? I am a windows guy but my friend adores macs and he has never had them
Quite a lot of things they say are not true anyways!

[Quaon]

Windows FTW! When people say they love macs, it is most likely because they find them easier to use. Macs simplify alot of their interfaces, but at the sacrifice of alot of advanced features. Plus, anyone that has a mac is obviously not a hardcore gamer, as very few publishers go with mac.

Also, most freeware and open sourced software is made for PC, (linux or windows) and not for mac, because apple is a proprietary bastard.

And personally, I like the look of windows more. Plus, if you get a mac, you cant upgrade it! All the hardware is ( yep, you guessed it) hard-wired into there systems. Unlike PC, where you can do anything you want with them.

There are more reasons, but those are the main arguments, and my personal reasons for staying with a windows xp/ubunto dual boot desktop.

[jd2kuk]

I have to disagree with some of that. I personally LOVE macs. Why? Well, I don't play of games, and most of the creative software I'd ever need (Cubase, pro tools etc etc.) have strong mac ports. In fact, most of the creative industries centre their workflows around mac.

Advanced features are abundant in mac. You just need to know where to look . Macs are built around unix, and any feature you get as standard on unix is available on mac.

Of course, you probably are the person who wants to play games; no problem. Just use vmware or parallels to run the game- they both have directx support, so you can run windows games.

And when you finally find you just have to use windows for a certain task, a mac will dual-boot into windows with ease, so you can be running the windows desktop in seconds- natively.

The only downside to a mac is the ridiculous price tag, but if you have the money, they're well worth it. I'm sure you want your computer to look gorgeous, right?

[heebyjeebys]

Windows rules. Mac suck. period

[jd2kuk]

A very intellectually justified comment

[Quaon]

You want a beautiful looking PC? Go with alienware!

[jd2kuk]

If I specifically wanted a PC, and had the money, then I would. But I'd rather have the option of running mac os x and windows side by side. And most new PCs still don't support EFI; all macs do out of the box

[ICT Tech]

Windows rules. Mac suck. period

I totally agree

I don't really like using them, propably just because I am used to using Windows

[TJ_2k7]

I'm split.
I love MAC OS X new layout and design and has great features and are always fast.Plus you can run Windows on them using boot camp.
BUT
I play alot of games which depend on windows and Mac's have a huge price tag which I just can't afford plus It's complicated to put Mac OS X on a pc
I'd love to have a mac, if i had the money.

They're both great!

[heebyjeebys]

NONONO macs are crap. You can't upgrate them (apart from a little memory) they have a rediclous price tag and, quite frankly, macs are CRAP for industry specific things.
PC beats anything apple can throw at them. They are upgradeable and can support thousands and thousands of hardware combinations and macs can't do that.
Think about it. Apple are trying to sell their hardware, which is 10 times more expensive than pc for the same thing. They operating system is just a side thing to boost their sales.
If apple put the mac osx on pc then they would go out of buisness, their hardware makes up most of thir profit.

I have a grudge again'st them, they allways seem to crash when i am on them. I somehow managed to get ALL the icons bouncing on the dock and then it CRASHED! it had 2 hours of work on it and then it was all gone.

So I prefer windows over any other operating system or platform.
Mac suck big time, Windows rules. period