Off Topic So what brings you here? Mac or PC

[peterd79]

Me a teacher, no. I just work in a school. I'm the techy, website, do everything guy. The stories about the education system that I could tell. yikes.

sounds a lot like me...

my favorite was when i got a call about a computer not turning on... here's the run down of that call (swear true story)
ME: IS this is Peter how can i help you
STAFFER: Yes my computer is turning on, i've wigged the mouse and hit the space bar... i get nothing
ME: OK Let me ask a few questions and i'll be right over... When was the last time you remember your computer working properly
STAFFER: Ummm... Yesterday afternoon, i was entering grades, and then i shut it off before i went home.
ME: Out of curiousity did you try turning it on this monring...
STAFFER: silence... and then the phone hangs up
ME: kicking back in my chair laughing

 

[GWDavis28]

Hey thanks for that article.

Q: how does one get hip to this Linux Red Hat thingy?

I mean, I use the net and some word processing . I use tax software and can maintain a PC for that I guess.

Anyway, way to make some lemonaid Mr Ball !

HCB, the great thing about Linux is that you can rip a Linux ISO CD, put it in your CD drive, reboot your computer it will run Linux from the CD and you will be working from the CD. It's a great way to try out the different variants of Linux. There are 2 main build, Gnome and KDE. I personally prefer the Gnome, the look and fell. Though the newest KDE isn't bad, it still looks a little to unpolished, but that's my take.

I can recommend that you start reading, that's what I did. I know Chewie @ EBMM is a huge lover of Linux as well.

Glenn |B)

 

[e.mate]

MacMini here (which is at home); converted from winPC, because absolutely pi**ed off by MS commandment sh*tware for years

However, PC at work, because I have to....big global company, won't change I guess

 

[petruccirocks02]

Its neat to see how many Mac users are here. I'm using a 15 inch MacBook Pro. I love it. Prior to buying my Mac I was using a 6-7 year old Dell (ugh). Needless to say, I'm glad I went and spent the money on the Mac.

-Phil

 

[Eilif]

A Mac usually brings me here. Sometimes, it's an iPhone...which would qualify as a Mac, I suppose.


I've been using Microsoft since 1984.

I've been using Macintosh since 1987.

Macintosh is better for over 90% of everyone who uses a PC. Studies have shown that Macintosh lets people get work done more quickly and with fewer problems.

Mac users "evangelize" Macintosh for the same reason that EBMM players evangelize Music Man.

Windows and Linux users who look down their noses at Macintosh usually, in my experience, have not really tried Macintosh and don't qualify to make the criticism. You can't fairly bash something you don't really know.

People who complain that Macs are too expensive are missing the point.

I choose Macintosh over Windows because, for me, it is the better product. But to each his own. Nobody should begrudge another's choice of computer.

Or guitar.

 

[ProtoChicken]

3 self built PC's and a laptop all with dual boots of Windows and Ubuntu. One runs Leopard as well via the OS86 project. All are on 24/7 which explains why I always appear to be logged in. Yeah I know, it's not environmentally friendly but for what I do they need to be on non stop.

I love Macs but enjoy building and tweaking my own machines so PC is the way to go for me.

 

[Slav123]

PC at work
PC at home
Samsung Omnia w/ Windows Mobile in between

Thinking about a MAC in the future...

Slav

 

[browndog]

Slav, I’m not one to preach about the Mac but I’m on my 5th Mac at home. I’ve worked on them for 20 years and on a PC for the past 3. Any questions about getting one... shoot me a PM.

 

[patpark]

PC at home and work and slowly getting sick of it. Been eyeing a mac for some time now.
I do use an Ipod Touch sometimes but miss having flash for some sites.

 

[Smellybum]

PC mostly - but thanks to Chewie helping me on Facebook I run a Dell Mini 9 on Hackintosh.

 

[Slav123]

Slav, I’m not one to preach about the Mac but I’m on my 5th Mac at home. I’ve worked on them for 20 years and on a PC for the past 3. Any questions about getting one... shoot me a PM.

Thanks bro! Will do...

Slav

 

[GWDavis28]

PC mostly - but thanks to Chewie helping me on Facebook I run a Dell Mini 9 on Hackintosh.

Smelly, nice man!!!!! I'm running an Acer Aspire One, with an 8Gig SSD. You try Moblin on the Dell Mini 9?? Pretty fast man, boots in like under a minute.

Glenn |B)

 

[Smellybum]

Smelly, nice man!!!!! I'm running an Acer Aspire One, with an 8Gig SSD. You try Moblin on the Dell Mini 9?? Pretty fast man, boots in like under a minute.

Glenn |B)

Yeah I bought a g4 to get into macs (been a PC guy for 19 years) and my old mac plus is still in the garage!
I got the mini 9 - hackintosh'd it and it's OSX with 2gb - I can't fault it - and it was £150 (About $270) - so can't be bad! - I'll get roud to mobin - one day !

 

[Jimmyb]

At home it's a mix of Vista (hateful thing) and XP home on the netbook.

Away from home it's XP pro or Linux.

 

[GWDavis28]

Yeah I bought a g4 to get into macs (been a PC guy for 19 years) and my old mac plus is still in the garage!
I got the mini 9 - hackintosh'd it and it's OSX with 2gb - I can't fault it - and it was £150 (About $270) - so can't be bad! - I'll get roud to mobin - one day !

Cool, you can try it out from the a usb thumb drive without even loading it.

Join the moblin development community | moblin.org

Though I had to change the IM package to Pidgin, love it much more than Empathy, which it comes with.

That's a pretty good deal for the Dell Mini 9. I got the Acer refurbished from Tiger Direct for like $250, best $250 I ever spent.

Glenn |B)

 

[Spudmurphy]

PC
Just like my guitars I rarely change my computer. The last one I had for close on 8 years.

Just upgraded using my son's cast offs - I just don't like spending my money on computers cos I work with them most of the day, used to train people on them a lot too when the training packages went from "Chalk n Talk" to inane "on line learning".

I don't play games on them, I just use it for interweb & photo manip.

 

[MikeVt]

People who complain that Macs are too expensive are missing the point.

Please enlighten 'us'. What point did I miss? It's the same hardware, especially now that Apple has given up on PowerPC. What makes the Mac HARDWARE worth more? I agree the OS is nice....I just can't personally justify paying 3X the price of the hardware for the right to run it.

Incidentally, that is exactly what makes Linux so attractive. It's free, and it runs on nearly every preloaded Windows or homebuilt machine. I love the fact that I can buy a bunch of parts, put them together to make a machine and then spend $0 to legally download and install a full fledged, extremely capable and slick OS.

Mike

 

[Astrofreq]

AMac users "evangelize" Macintosh for the same reason that EBMM players evangelize Music Man.

People who complain that Macs are too expensive are missing the point.

I understand why I like Music Man better than Aria Pro II. I know I'm ignorant in the Mac world so let me know what the point is. I'm not trying to be fecitious, I want to know.

 

[Colin]

I'm a Mac user now after being a PC guy for a long time. I do hate the elitist attitude that some Mac users have.

 

[Eilif]

The "point" is that one is getting a premium operating system.

If one compares hardware specs only, Macs will almost always be more expensive. Apple's processors, chipsets, memory, graphics, etc. are standardized, off-the-shelf components for the most part. What one is paying for is the OS.

If Windows is the standard--and I think everyone would agree that it is--then MacOS, compared to that standard, is a superior product.

Comparing Apple PCs to Windows PCs and complaining that the former are too expensive ("Hey, they're both computers") is like comparing EBMM to SBMM (sorry Pat Park, no disrespect intended) and saying "Hey, they're both guitars, so why should I pay more for EBMM?"

Now, Macs are not for everyone. In my earlier post, I said something like Macs are better for 90% of users. The other 10% would be, for example, accountants or heavy CAD users, who need specialized software which just doesn't exist for Mac. Hardcore gamers would also fall in this category. For these users, Windows is the better--if not the only--solution. But for everyone else, there's the Web, email, calendar, phone book, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, music, and video, and these are available for Mac.