What are some of your thoughts and/or opinions about Apple/Macintosh vs PC?
Please give me your thougths because I was thinking of getting a new computer. My main focus will be for creating graphics, Gaming, and Compiling.
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andy206uk posted this at 16:42—29th July 2006.
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I'm an obsessive mac user. The operating system is very freindly and efficient. Once you've been using it for a while you'll never want to go back. Also because it's unix based it's ideal for running a test web server as well (plus before you know it you'll be learning unix basics like command line n stuff which is always helpful for web designers/developers).
OSX isn't so great for playing games but the beauty of macs is that now they run on intel processors you can duel boot into Windows and it runs as fast as a normal PC.
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timjpriebe posted this at 12:36—31st July 2006.
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A few months back, I switched from using Windows since Windows 3.1 to a Mac. It's fantastic! Applications tend to integrate together much better and there are much, much fewer crashes. Plus Apple tends to go that extra mile with their software. The only real downside is that third party support, while there, is much less than Windows. ie There are fewer apps overall. But I still have yet to have any real problem finding an app to replace some functionality I had on my Windows machine.
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Renegade posted this at 23:33—31st July 2006.
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Interesting position there, with graphics, I would definitely recommend a Mac but you also want it for gaming so I'd be more leaning towards a Windows PC although, it really does depend on what games you want to play. Do you know of the games that you want to play are available on a Mac as well?
For you, your best bet might be a Windows machine as you can do your graphics and still game as well.
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timjpriebe posted this at 18:02—1st August 2006.
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Don't forget, now you can run Windows on your Mac through Boot Camp or Parallels. So you can use the Mac's OS for stability, then boot up Windows just to play games.
That's what I do.
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cnun posted this at 08:25—3rd August 2006.
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use PC for games , use MAC for design
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Nerz posted this at 14:13—4th August 2006.
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Was upon a time i would have said a Mac was outta the question, because I was a gamer. Now I dont play games much anymore so its back in play...There damn expensive though for what you get still, hardware wise, and to be honest, i dont think the problems that plague PC land are anything like most people make out...to the average user I mean.
Id like a Mac though, care to donate one?
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red_devil52 posted this at 12:10—6th August 2006.
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Well, since you want it to play games then a PC would be the better choice but if you don't find it too difficult to get Windows running on a MAc then I'd reccomend that you get the mac.
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bew4194 posted this at 09:08—7th August 2006.
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A PC would be much better for gaming.
waffles posted this at 15:59—7th August 2006.
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Check this out and decide. Nice little comparison chart I saw on Life Hacker, who found it there.
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andy206uk posted this at 00:02—8th August 2006.
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Whoaaa! that's thorough! but it proves that OSX rocks!
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waffles posted this at 01:18—8th August 2006.
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What it proves is that you need to look at what you'll be using the computer for.
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bigjohnuk posted this at 14:25—14th August 2006.
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Check out these ads from Apple.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
Great fun... I am a PC user mind, not a MAC. I guess it comes down to what it is you want to do.
technostick posted this at 00:34—17th August 2006.
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I'm a Mac person
I don't really do much in the way of design, video editing, etc. but I generally find that Mac applications integrate better. Plus they are usually faster. (slightly)