Mac vs Microsoft..What's your choice?

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Posted by gdj^ on Feb-25-2004 23:03:

Mac vs Microsoft..What's your choice?

In your opinion, what's better? Mac or Microsoft?,and why?

Posted by Dr. Cfire on Feb-26-2004 01:45:

I choose ORANGE.

Posted by malek on Feb-26-2004 01:47:

what do you wanna do with it ?

I would choose a windows because of its versatility.

If I would have some extra cash, I would get a mac to do some video editing.

Posted by Salem on Feb-26-2004 01:52:

heh, acid disco phonk

microsoft all the way fiends

Posted by alanzo on Feb-26-2004 02:03:

MACs WERE good back in the day when there stability ran circles around windows.. but not windows has (For the most part) caught up and are almost as stable as MAC OS.. the only reason why so many studios use MACs is becuase they are still used to it from the days when MACs were more stable than windows..

Posted by Dr. Cfire on Feb-26-2004 02:11:

Mac still has the edge in digital photography. The Macintosh version of Photoshop is about a version or two ahead of the windows version in features.

Posted by NooKLeaR on Feb-26-2004 02:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Cfire
Mac still has the edge in digital photography. The Macintosh version of Photoshop is about a version or two ahead of the windows version in features.

That's one of the main reasons I have a Powerbook. Also, I have had many less problems w/ my Powerbook as I have had with my PC. I also love the sleekness and GUI of OSX.

Posted by conk on Feb-26-2004 02:39:

Both...I have a desktop PC for games and such while I'm gonna be getting a Powerbook G5 for Final Scratch and such.

Posted by alanzo on Feb-26-2004 02:41:

quote:
Mac still has the edge in digital photography. The Macintosh version of Photoshop is about a version or two ahead of the windows version in features.

again, because most studios use MACs since it's an old habit of theirs and studios are the ones who actually fork over $800 for Photoshop

Posted by getfoul on Feb-26-2004 02:41:

Powerbook 17 inch, The BEST laptop on the market, and its almost a year old... Mac does everything i need to do with out any complaints, i hated doing www pub in HS on win 2000, constant blue screens.

Posted by alanzo on Feb-26-2004 02:45:

quote:
Originally posted by getfoul
Powerbook 17 inch, The BEST laptop on the market, and its almost a year old... Mac does everything i need to do with out any complaints, i hated doing www pub in HS on win 2000, constant blue screens.

blue screens? I run XP.. what are those?

I heard a quote once.. it involved two computer users debating over which OS was better:

"Well! In the new version of Windows you can customize what color you want the "Blue Screen of Death" to be!"

Other user:"....I run Linux.. it doesn't have a blue screen of death."

windows user: "..tuche"

Posted by whiskers on Feb-26-2004 02:50:

mac is pretty and good for video / digital imaging... but why, WHY in the world would you get a computer where the mouse has only ONE button?

i prefer a more complex version! (hell i once had a mouth with 5 buttons!)

Posted by gdj^ on Feb-26-2004 02:57:

Yeah, true.

quote:
One of the reasons I like Windows is because it's more complex, but still Mac is better for programs like PS.

Posted by alanzo on Feb-26-2004 02:57:

Posted by MrSquirrel on Feb-26-2004 04:00:

I have a mac and I never crash under MacOS X 10.3. I had misc kernel panics under 10.1 and one or two under 10.2 but I would usually be doing several dozen things I should not have been at once and it was after oh probably a month of uptime.

I do not use a 1 button mouse. Like most mac users I went and bought a multibutton mouse with a scrollwheel (MS Intellimouse Optical in my case). The OS recognizes and supports the right button and the scroll wheel without any extra drivers. And how many of you PC users actually use the mouse that came with your computer? Probably not all that many.

My computer is getting close to being 4 years old and it still can run 95% of the applications available (other than games) very well. And all the OS updates are totally supportive of my machine. My last mac was 4 years old when I bought this one and it was still able to easily do what I needed.

I will be getting a PC laptop fairly soon because I need to run AutoCad and some PLC software which is windows only for work. Otherwise my next computer purchase would be a new mac.

MrS

Posted by montie on Feb-26-2004 04:21:

i swing both ways

I really was no big fan off the early OS X's or anything before that.
when i ran OS 9 on my Mac which i used for video editing i found that it crashed more than my windows 98SE machine.
and there was no ctrl-alt-delete to fix things. you just get the program error with the bomb and your dead.

but the new OS X is nice.
i really want a mac G4 laptop

mmmmmmmmmmm *orgasms

Posted by whiskers on Feb-26-2004 04:37:

quote:
Originally posted by montie
i really want a mac G4 laptop

mmmmmmmmmmm *orgasms

do you?

i really want an ibook with yellow dog linux installed on it

a friend of mine has one and it's so awesome to lie back on the bed with it and type away on the forums - they got the airport card to work and he has a wireless router...

mmmmmmmmmmm *orgasms

Posted by igottaknow on Feb-26-2004 06:16:

why choose? I use both. Mac is great for digital video editing, Windows has lots more software written for it and if something goes wrong I know enough about how it works to fix it. I dont like the way mac shelters the user from the complexity underneath, making it more difficult to fix and not as easy to customize to my liking.

Posted by arctic on Feb-26-2004 08:51:

Meh, Linux all the way.

Posted by blazed it on Feb-26-2004 09:24:

i'm a pc user, but i do like the innovative stuff that apple comes out with.

however i can't afford mac's too goddamn expensive and less customizable.

Posted by Smeagol on Feb-26-2004 11:43:

I'm mostly playing games and have a limited budget. Then a PC is a lot better. But the Macs look so good! The (now old i guess) black G4 is just lovely! Same goes for the OS.
So with money I'd go for a mac. Just because it looks so good on the desk!

Posted by Pheobius on Feb-26-2004 17:54:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
mac is pretty and good for video / digital imaging... but why, WHY in the world would you get a computer where the mouse has only ONE button?

i prefer a more complex version! (hell i once had a mouth with 5 buttons!)

I've got a 3 button mouse for my mac (well, two buttoms and a wheel) and macs are perfectly happy to accomodate them, it's just a system that doesn't require you to have a second button, your just a lazy ass if you don't like it but won't buy a different one

Posted by DJ Teknique on Feb-26-2004 17:59:

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
Meh, Linux all the way.

Posted by dj willie whop on Feb-26-2004 19:10:

i made the "switch" from to PC to Mac about a year ago...and i was skeptical and a saavy windoze user..but now you coudlnt pay me to get back on a PC, its so unstable and littered with problems, plus their next big update "longhorn" isnt expected to come out in years!!!! Mac has had 4 major updates in just 2 years!!

Mac seems to really be on top things. also im a graphic designer and all of my programs were designed to be ran on a mac os

Posted by KilldaDJ on Feb-26-2004 20:18:

i would no doubt use mac, if it had compatability of some sort with windows based programs, as all my proggies on my current system run fine.

i hate 98, but its fine atm, the aston shell makes it all sexy

fairly stable too, aint had a BSOD or an error in a while, not a fatal one anyway.