Why I Went Mac But Still Keep My PC

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Looks like THG has followed up w/another "provocative" Mac vs PC article today. I think that they got so much response from this one that they wanna do it again! This time it's about how Macs don't really cost that much more than PCs...Yeah, ok. It took 9 pages to show that they're not really that much more.
 
[citation][nom]gxsolace[/nom]wow that is a great argument here. not. no basis what so ever. I suppose all people who drive porsches, bmws, mercedes, ferraris and such belong to the same class of people you are talking about. Bet you are one of those folks who say "i just get a beater because it gets me from point a to point b" on an internet forum or talk as if you're the shit, but in reality you'd love to pick up one of the above cars if you had the chance.[/citation]

That is the stupidest comparison I've ever seen. Macs are not faster, nor do they do much of anything better than a PC, so where do you get off comparing a Mac to a Ferrari? Yeah, I'd love to pick up a fast PC, but a Mac is not enticing to me at all. A Mac is much more like a polished turd than a Ferrari.
 
[citation][nom]apache_lives[/nom]Wow this article felt like a total ego tripheres what hardware i was using two years ago:Intel Idontgiveacrap-eron 4 with HT16 giveacraps of rambla bla blaon a totally different note, the computer i use the most in my house is a ~8 year old windows 98 based pc - Tutalain Celeron 1100a @ 1.46, 512 SDR, Voodoo2 SLI, SB AWE32 etc - more fun in old classic games then the newer modern games i think, CARAMAGEDDON NUT!!!!!!I know for a fact that nether MAC's nor XP/Vista machines can play these games![/citation]

The fact the author starts talking about what he had years ago is a major fallacy in his logical argument. Its basically what is referred to as a red herring. It has nothing to do with the point of the article. He should be able to make his case on the merits of his Apple. Whether his hardware was an old Packard Bell or a some overly expensive hardware is not relevent.

I suspect he tossed that in there because he was never able to make a real case that I could determine, except maybe he bought a Computer because it came with software that worked well with his cell phone.
As far as I could tell, that was the only reason given. The rest was mostly about how the Apple did other stuff "ok".
 
So having a mac is great if money isn't an issue and if you already have a state-of-the-art windows PC... I didn't need a twelve-page article to tell me that :l
 
Tuan, do yourself a favor; instead of paying out the ass for a Mac Pro and/or keeping your old PC on standby, go Hackintosh. You've got some perfectly awesome hardware; why give it up for a new OS?
 
You neglected to mention that Mac forces you into an icon-based initial navigation system (the Doc - it's changing so you can get a hierarchical word-based menu system, but it's still icon after icon on the dock) while Windows actually gives you the option (quicklaunch = icon, Start menu = menus). Personally, I hate the dock and icons - I started programming back in the day with a Z80 processor and have just gotten used to menus. Doesn't mean it's right. . .just that I don't like being treated like an illiterate child who can't read hierarchical menus.

We joked about XP being the "Playschool" OS but dang if OSX isn't even moreso.

My big thing - and I have a Mac with a 24" monitor on my desk right next to my Dell with 3 17" and 1 20" monitor - is that unless I get the incredibly expensive Mac Pro (which my budget won't support), I'm limited to 1 or 2 monitors. . . my Dell has four and I use all of them quite heavily - and would feel quite stripped if I were to lose even one of them (one gets used for diagnostics on a separate machine - dual input - so while that's going on, I work on three. . .) - to move me down to one (God forbid) or even two. . .crippling, even with Expose or Spaces.


So sorry - I see this article as just another biased editorial trying to persuade other people that his opinion is fact (which it's not) and that Macs are superior to Windows (which it isn't - that's hyperbole - it's Apples and Oranges. . .)

I've been reading THG for years - and I'm extremely disappointed with this so-called article. . . editorial, yes; article connotes fact which this is not.
 
[citation][nom]socalboomer[/nom]The article neglected to mention that Mac forces you into an icon-based initial navigation system (the Doc - it's changing so you can get a hierarchical word-based menu system, but it's still icon after icon on the dock) while Windows actually gives you the option (quicklaunch = icon, Start menu = menus). Personally, I hate the dock and icons - I started programming back in the day with a Z80 processor and have just gotten used to menus. Doesn't mean it's right. . .just that I don't like being treated like an illiterate child who can't read hierarchical menus. We joked about XP being the "Playschool" OS but dang if OSX isn't even moreso. My big thing - and I have a Mac with a 24" monitor on my desk right next to my Dell with 3 17" and 1 20" monitor - is that unless I get the incredibly expensive Mac Pro (which my budget won't support), I'm limited to 1 or 2 monitors. . . my Dell has four and I use all of them quite heavily - and would feel quite stripped if I were to lose even one of them (one gets used for diagnostics on a separate machine - dual input - so while that's going on, I work on three. . .) - to move me down to one (God forbid) or even two. . .crippling, even with Expose or Spaces. So sorry - I see this article as just another biased editorial trying to persuade other people that his opinion is fact (which it's not) and that Macs are superior to Windows (which it isn't - that's hyperbole - it's Apples and Oranges. . .) I've been reading THG for years - and I'm extremely disappointed with this so-called article. . . editorial, yes; article connotes fact which this is not.[/citation]
 
(Trying to be objective) If the Mac is so much better than the PC, and runs so much better, why is it that in order for Mac to have appeal is things like bootcamp and MS Office. Let us not forget that it wasn't until mac went "Posix" and became the ultimate dual-boot platform that it started to sell. Also, why is the hardware so beefy and expensive? I need to spend so much more for things I can get for almost half the price PC?
 
Oh and btw, you can install third party Expose-alike applications in Windows, so that's not a problem 😉
 
I cannot understand why a "hardware nut" would even consider a hardware closed system such as the mac... Why have Mac users not rebelled by making custom drivers for hardware? I imagine it is not impossible. I am convinced that Apple is employing some kind of hypnotic color emission to get and keep people addicted to them much like WOW.
 
So you use a mac, who cares?

Why did you write this long article, when it has not much of a point to it?

It gives no reason why anybody else should switch.......

Maybe its just the fact that macs are overpriced outdated hardware sold to people that care more about how long it takes to open calculator or switch windows. They are not in some magic way better than PC's (even though they are both Personal Computers, one is just white and uses a different OS)

I dunno, maybe i'm biased because i know you have to go through hell to play games on a mac, and they are more or less un-customizable. Or maybe I would rather build my own PC for 1/3 of the cost and still get more performance.

Congratz on wasting 5 minutes of my time =(
 
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