Thread: Mac or PC?

Originally Posted by 250967

dont see me spending money on anti virus this and anti spyware that,

Who the hell pays for security software? The best way to not get duff security is to download the official setup files of the official site. Then download the keygen on to a VM or a seperate PC. Then generate a key using it. Manually copy the key into the security software activation. This means that you have a randomly genarated correct key & the keygen couldn't of messed around with the software.

Originally Posted by Asherpotter

I've never tried Linux but I don't really have a drive to do so.

Run it in a VM. No extra drive needed. I currently have 98SE, XP Pro 64x, Vista Ultimate 64bit, ReactOS & Ubuntu running all in VMs, all on 1 HDD.

I don't really want to spend the time though because I don't care enough.

Originally Posted by Asherpotter

I don't really want to spend the time though because I don't care enough.

Fair enough.

My Mac runs perfectly fine for me as it is.

Mac all the way for me, I found PC's horribly clunky, slow & unreliable to say the least. Windoze is an unwieldy lump of bloated toss. Switched to Mac many moons ago & would never turn back, sorry but they just work.

I've had a first generation dual core G5, running 24/7 in the studio for almost 5 years & apart from the normal software updates, one (Seagate) HD failure & a problem caused by an audio interface which meant re-installing the OS, it's still going strong. There is no better recommendation than seeing something do the thing it's designed to do, day, after day, after day, after day. Almost every single one of my friends & family have since switched over after seeing my fast, sturdy, reliable & virus free workhorses in action.

Yes, Apple's proprietary stance can be seen as a negative thing, but isn't it also a really effective way of making sure everything works? I know I'm perfectly happy handing over that little bit extra for the sake of not having to go through the inevitable keyboard throwing frustration, disappointment & lost hours which, in my experience, come hand in hand with PC ownership.

Sorry to bang on, but as a footnote, I'd also like to add that (shallow as I may be) aesthetics are extremely important & Macs are beautiful & the fact that you can have form AND functionality is very appealing to my sensibilities... </essay>

Whoever made this thread should have made a poll so we can see who wins because I don't think I can read through 13 pages of text.

Originally Posted by Asherpotter

Whoever made this thread should have made a poll so we can see who wins because I don't think I can read through 13 pages of text.

You don't need a poll. Mac wins. PC's are crud. End of story.

But we need to tally votes or else it's less than official. After all the people are the ones who buy the computers, who but they should decided which is better?