Originally posted by mac_mogul
Oh goodness...
Macs are WAY better than PC's because of their stability. If your computer isn't allowing you to do anything, what good is it?
my pc allows me to do 20x more stuff than i can do on a mac, and i have used XP and 2k about 50x as long as Mac OSX, but yet i have crashed mac OSX 100x more than XP or 2k, now, OSX is more stable than OS9, but it is not more stable than XP or 2K so saying that OSX is "more stable" is a fallacy
Mac's are better at graphics work i.e. photoshop, illustrator, maya, etc...
ill give you that, Macs do have more graphic software than PCs, but most of that software eventually makes it to PC, and not every1 in the world only does graphics with their computers (most people i know that do graphics use Macs for that and that only, they have PCs for everything else) why have a computer that costs twice as much, but is only good for 1 thing?
Macs have better standard equipment i.e. Nvidia and ATI cards, High quality monitors (built in or not)
so youre saying that pcs dont come with Nvidia or ATI graphics cards? rofl this is so funny, have you ever heard of Nvidia's partner company, ALIENWARE? they macs PCs and come standard with things like RAID or SCSI hard drives, Nvidia graphics cards, and all of the other latest technology, also check out
www.vprmatrix.com this is the place that built my last PC i bought from a store, and they almost all come with Nvidia graphics cards and sound blaster audigy sound cards
And Macs have more software tailored just for macs.
here youre saying that macs have more software for macs, wow, thats great, PCs have 50x more software available than Macs do, any software arguement in favor of macs is crap, because
1) its more expensive for macs
2) it takes longer to come out for mac
3) most companies dont even release software for macs, as they only hold 10% of the market share
PCs, are way better than macs due to their compatability. das about it...
Macs are worse than pcs due to their lack of compatability, however, Mac OS X "panther" is attempting to solve that by coming loaded with more drivers and such.
who wants a computer that most hardware wont work with? i thought you said Macs have better equipment?
Macs are harder(nearly impossible) to modify. And sometimes, even though i'm against taking your computer apart and messing with it, mods can do wonders fer yer health. Macs also cost alot more, and i beleive this is the biggest reason of all that more people don't have them. Their philosophy is why buy $6,000 worth of computer equippment that's just gonna be bested in three months when I can build a computer with the same stats for less than half of that?
exactly, why waste all that money on something that doenst even have much software available for it? and is not even worth it to upgrade?
It's all about quality
thats why most people go with PCs
And finally, PCs are worse than Macs because they freeze. Often. More than I would expect from something I payed cash money for.
not true, i use my PC for at least 7 hours every day (i do my school work on my PC) and i have yet to lock it up since i installed my new OS (XP PRO), and that was over 6 months ago, the reason people freeze up their computers is because they try and run win XP with 128MB of RAM or something, the reason most peoples PCs freeze is beacuse they are running with too slow of a system, if you have the proper hardware and keep your machine running good (ie: defrag, virus scan, ad-aware, personal tweaks) then it will be fine, and youll never have those problems and with windows, you can set up an event scheduler to make it do that stuff automatically at night (mine does a virus scan every night and a defrag every thursday night at 1:55 am, followed by a restart)
And, the PC world is full of third part hardware/software and that is good to a point.
it is always good to have a lot to choose from, and the more competition there is, the more prices go down
But not everything works the way it's supposed to. i.e. recently, i bought a 512mb keychain flash media doohicky. And when I tried to move pictures from my computer to the Yearbook computer, I got an error message saying that the media card was not compatible with all versions of win98. How many are there? I thought there was only one.
ever heard of WIN98SE? (2nd edition), all you have to do is get an update, and youll take care of that problem
And, face it. More people use PC's for games and entertainment than anything else.
and word processing, and email, and CAD, and bookeeping, and call centers, and pretty much everything else except for graphics, have you ever seen a call center where they use Macs? a Walmart that uses an Mac system? nope, they are all running win 2k or XP, on PCs, why? because they are more stable
In my opinion, computers were designed for working. The first computer was not built to play pong. It was a calculator that just happened to take up an entire room. But it was still a calculator. They used it for working purposes.
So this is why I choose to use a Mac.
-end my 2nd rant-
saying that Macs are for work and PCs are for play is just laughable, how many businesses (outside of the graphics industry) do you think use Macs? not many, why? because of software availability, stability and support, i had to call Apple the other day, because our Mac server was down (not a good thing) and i was on hold for 45 minutes waiting for someone i could tell that i need a new motherboard becuase the onboard gigabit NIC went out, on the other hand, i had a hard drive fail on a Dell PC and it took less than 5 minutes to get it on the way, and most of that time was beacuse i had to give them a bunch of numbers and such, i was never put on hold at all, with our dell servers, we have a 10 minute guaruntee, that we will never have to be waiting on hold for longer than 10 min (time=money) with apple, who knows, it could be days, lol
