Macs are better period. I never thought they were. My dad always said Macs suck since i was a little kid. Now that I am older and i tried out a Mac it's been amazing.

• They hardly ever freeze. I think i have had mine for about a year and it has frozen up like 2-3 times.
• Applications are simply copied into the Applications folder and to delete you just throw that folder in the trash. No uninstall then finding out you can't for some dumb error.
• There is almost no errors except no responding applications once in awhile and that is almost always due to not enough RAM. I sometimes have BBedit, Fetch, Firefox, safari, opera, netscape, fireworks or photoshop, textedit and more all open at one time and there is fewer crashes then when i have 3-4 programs on my PC.
• Comes with great applications such as iMovie and even little apps like Dictionary which are so basic yet Windows doesnt even have that except for in Word.
• Looks great on the outside and in the GUI.
• Never EVER had a virus, spyware, or anything like that problem and i have Limewire!

 

 

 

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I must say that i hate microsoft and all that trash !!! Apple mashines is more reliable but it much cost ok




haha its right !

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I used to use a Mac myself - my dad used to have one of the first "fat" Macs (512K RAM?) back in 1984 and a Power Mac in 1994. For some reason, though, I've been using Windows for the next 10 or so years. Now I'm considering switching back to Mac; they've certainly come a long way since the early days. Trouble is, the price is a bit too high...perhaps if I make monthly payments....

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It depends on what your doing Mac's are for more design. But windows runs more programs and a lot of programs are supported on Mac.

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For me its windows. Its easier for me to use, even though I like Macs too. But I just hate how you kind of have to update a lot for vista if you don't have that great of computer. Thats why im just going to wait until the new computers come with vista or might just get a custom made computer off the internet with a free home premium upgrade for vista or something. But its 50.50 for me.

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I have never tried mac before. I have always been a windows kinda guy. One of the reasons I wouldn't want Mac is the compatability problem with a lot of softwares. That Boot Camp thing sounds complicatex and many others may think so too and that may be the reason they wouldn't want Mac. As Windows Vista has come out, a lot of people would rather have that because of all the new offline features it has.

As for iPod and iTunes: I HATE IT - or i dislike them. I'm not really fund of Apple products, and the iPod is one of those wich I like the least.

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If boot camp is too complicated for you, you probably dont even know how to install a video game. All you do to install Windows on a mac is

1. Download boot camp
2. Install Boot camp
3. Partition your HD
4. Restart your computer

And there you go! Next is all Windows installation. You know, that icky, horrible, disgusting blue screen? Yep thats all you have to do on the Mac side.

And why dont you like iPods? if you HATE them so much why didnt you give at least one example why? I "HATE" WMP because its bulky and not as slim line and clean as iTunes. It has cover flow which is a nice touch also Plus, iTunes you can download for BOTH mac and PC, yet PC hasn't released a WMP except for WMP9 and thats only for Power PC and i have an intel so your screwed.

 

 

 

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Windows, because Macs are a major hastle. I use a mac twice a year when I go to my cousin's house (that's all he has) and it's really annoying. We wanted to play 2 player starcraft, but we only had 1 game, so we were going to make a disk image on one of the comps. Should be easy, right?

Well, it wasn't. Mac's disk utility would go through the entire process of making the disc image, only at the end to say the file could not be used. Apparently this only applied to one disc, since disk utility would make images of every other disc he had. Fantastic.

So I went online in hopes to find a better image writer for mac. Since there's almost no third party software available for a mac, it took me a while to find it. I finally found one though, but there was another problem. For some reason Safari decided to name the program .dmg.txt (instead of .dmg, which the file was), a text file, and did this no matter how many times I tried. There was nothing I could do to fix this, since on a mac, changing the extension does not change how the comp tries to read it. Great =/

We never did get to play starcraft. He ended up having to download an iso image for the game so we could play next time I was there =/

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Mac is great as what everybody says and I think its true, but when it comes to selling itself to the market and the users it is poor. To run Mac u need a different set of hardwares. Meaning you have to buy it as a package. And when it breaks no one can help you. Too few people knows how to repair it or diagnose it. With pc, I can customize the hardwares and stuffs. If only Mac runs on pc machines . Here in my cuontry Mac is a ghost. To own a Mac here for personal use is being stupid. You can not find stores that sells software for Mac, not even in the black market. Too few softwares to work with. For businesses its bad also becuase there are no good programming tools for fast system development like Visual Basic for Windows. THe only option I guess is using Java in creating programs. Mac, when it comes to entertainment, its boring, too few games. In WIndows I can even play arcade game using emulators. Play Marios Bros, Battle City and other arcade games or even gameboy games.

To cut it short, Mac is for selected users (5% of all the computer user heheheh) while Windows is for everybody. And the winner would be the OS which everybody can work with easily. When I said everybody not all of us but most of us.

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I have to say one thing about Macs because people always bring this up and it sort of makes me mad because i never bought a mac because of this. People always say 5% of people have them and that is it. Well lets say 1% have them. Does that make it a bad thing? No. I want to compare it to a car. Think about this. How many people have a Ford or Chevy compared to a Ferrai? I can tell you right now its not even close. I can also tell you a Ferrai is a hell of a lot better them so ford car or truck. Percentages don't matter it's about performance.

My Mac at school (i have a laptop and a personal desktop mac at school) froze today. The first time all year. About 5 months. Every USB device i have ever plugged in has had no problems. I can list tons on my PC.

PC
1. The mouse sometimes gets choppy
2. My external HD somtimes freezes the entire computer and doesnt read at all
3. I can't get my printer to work at all with the software even.

On my mac:
1. Never, ever had a problem
2. Takes a little while to start up compared to my PC, thats when it even does, but it always works
3. I didnt even need to install the software included and it worked. Not only that i have plugged it in to more then one printer and never needed the software.

Those are only three. Also if you think its a problem with my computer. I have a 2 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 100GB, DUO processor AND is brand new laptop. Bought in July of last year.

Kidding? Apple.com has thousands and thousands of freeware. Thats on THERE site even. Microsoft doesnt have thousands of freeware from third parties. By the way i'm only talking about Apple.com



Ok that is for sure a joke. Calling restart after every installation, whole uninstaller to delete a program that doesnt even work every time, freezes, plug and play isnt really plug and play, blue screen of death, ctrl+alt+dlt over and over again to turn one non-responsive program off, or how about amazingly fast search feature that works like *BLEEP* (by the way that was sarcastic) Macs MAYBE a hastle to someone who doesnt know how to use them or to Gamers.



If it were actually Safari why not try, Camino, IE 5, Firefox, Opera, or just any other browser if you really were trying. And just to let you know, I just tried changing an extension to see if what you said was true, and it isn't. I just changed .jpgs to .pngs and a .mov to a .wmv and both of those said "Unable to read tha data" But when i switched them back they worked fine. Plus, each time i went to change the extension it gave me a warning that you changing the extension and could make the file unreadable.

I'm a little hostile of people saying Macs are bad because i have used Windows, Macs, and Linuxs and i love Macs the best. That is not the main reason why i hate people who hate macs its because the are ignorant and they speak out there *bottom*. They all have had no real practice on macs and grow with propaganda about how Macs are so bad and dont work and freeze up and turn off at random times in reality they do not what so ever. If they did would 90% of designers use them? Would Adobe make Photoshop and Illustrator and programs like that, FIRST for the mac?

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