Poll: At home, do you have a modern PC as well as a modern Mac?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: At home, do you have a modern PC as well as a modern Mac? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=120&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[TiMacLover]

I sold my ibook 600Mhz for a 1.6Ghz PC custom I made, Nomad MP3 Player and motor scooter :D But I will always prefer macs, I fight the war still for them, and I will buy a new one when I ether get money or they fall from the sky!


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[yosoyjay]

I use both.

[mac15]

Nup, I have only a modern MAC :)

[iWantAMac]

I use a modern PC (Toshiba Satallite 2400) at the moment. I've been wanting to get a PowerMac for a little while now (mainly for audio work), and think I will as soon as I can put some cash together (which may take a while... being an 17-year-old, unemployed student and all ;) ).

[BeigeUser]

I don't have anything modern. Only a beige G3.

[Centris 650]

I've got my iBook and my wife, who is a CPA and works from home, has a clunky old PC. The PC is about to make it's way out the door and my wife will be "switching" to a mac.

[AmigaMac]

I'm just a Mac user... I also have a BeBox in my collection!

[mrjamin]

I'd used mac's for design work in the past, and wanted one for years, I finally scraped together the cash to get myself a G3 800 iBook in december - best buy of my life? oh i think so!

Next purchase is going to have to be an eMac. I'll still keep my pc should i need something to make me laugh.

[Caravaggio]

I have a mac and a PC.

Keep your enemies close to you:D

[iShater]

Originally posted by Macrumors

Vote: Poll: At home, do you have a modern PC as well as a modern Mac? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=120&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

One of the options should have been "Neither?" :p dat's there I'm at!

[medea]

nope just a mac.

[jrv3034]

Self made $300 Duron 1Ghz PC.

For now...;)


This Fall I'll be getting a brand new shiny PowerMac & display. Hopefully the PPC970 will be out by then:D

[lmalave]

Yes, in addition to my new iBook I also recently built a modern (Athlon XP 1700+) PC for $175. Just got an 80GB 7200RPM HD and a 256MB DDR RAM stick for it, so I guess I've spent a little over $300 on my PC. Hehe - but guess which computer I use 90% of the time :D

[Das]

Yup, built a custom 2000 XP box, overclocked it as much as was possible. Sure, it blows more hot air than a spokesperson for Iraq, but it's fast. Plan on selling my 450 tower soon, so I pretty much wiped it clean and haven't used it in a while, but as soon as Apple ships my pb, I don't think I'll be using my PC much aside from the usual round of BF 1942 or if perhaps it gets cold and I need a heater...ahhh, triple exhausts..

[vniow]

Wouldn't call either of them modern, but I own both.

[WinterMute]

Just Macs, I run VPC on the eMac so my daughter can use her school software and play a few old games, and I use it to run an acoustic measurement package called ETF 5

My wife wanted to get a cheap PC, but I wouldn't have them in the house:D

[lmalave]

Originally posted by WinterMute
Just Macs, I run VPC on the eMac so my daughter can use her school software and play a few old games, and I use it to run an acoustic measurement package called ETF 5

My wife wanted to get a cheap PC, but I wouldn't have them in the house:D

How well does VPC run on an eMac? I've only seen it on a Beige G3 with 500MHz G4 upgrade. It was OK but some applications (like Visio) ground it to a halt...

[AssassinOfGates]

I have always ran macs in this house. My dad once got a cheap and horrid compaq presario back when the beige g3s were still hot in order to use a transcribing program, but thats all it was ever used for. That and playing Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight once. Now its a dust magnet

[Billicus]

Not exactly modern, but just Macs for me. :D

[kzoonut]

I've got both at home -

867 Dualie MDD (DoubleTrouble)
Athlon 1700+ (who name's their PC?)

I have to admit the Athlon is probably the last PC I will buy - and the only reason it's around now is to play EQ (but that will change when the OS X version of EQ comes out). The only drag about the Mac - is that I never get any time on it - the girlfriend has taken it over!

[MacFan25]

I've got a 17" iMac and a Dell Laptop. But I almost never use the laptop.

[Dont Hurt Me]

Whats a PC? -- oh yea its one of those machines anyone can build that uses billy gates crappy software. No aint got one of those!:cool:

[Dazzler]

When I bought my iMac 800 and iBook, I also picked up an Athlon XP 1800+.

Why?

I'm a home theatre buff, and a lot of the ROM material they stick on DVD's isn't Mac compatible - so I needed a PC to watch it back on.

That and because my old Pentium 200 was getting long in the tooth and about to be shipped off to my mother. (Hey, it's a way of cleaning out the old hardware!)

[scem0]

2.4 GHz pent 4.

333 MHz g4 classic iMac.

So only a modern PC.

[wdlove]

My wife uses an iBook & I have a Power Mac G4. Both hoping to update soon!

[Nermal]

I've got a PC and no Mac at the moment, but in a week I should have a Mac and no PC! :)

[GeneR]

No. I like myself too much to own a PC...



:D

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by lmalave


How well does VPC run on an eMac? I've only seen it on a Beige G3 with 500MHz G4 upgrade. It was OK but some applications (like Visio) ground it to a halt...

Runs well enough to play low level games, I haven't tried any heavy graphics, but it handles the Maths and reading programs from my daughters school well. I run games under OSX and have a PS2.

ETF renders its plots slower than the dedicated PC's at the Uni, but they're all fairly decent machines.

Overall I'd say it was alright, but I wouldn't want to run a video editing app on it!

[barkmonster]

PC

120Mhz Pentium, 32Mb RAM, 2Gb HD, windows 95.

A hand me down.

Mac

300Mhz Beige G3 Desktop, 6Gb + 60Gb HDs, 320Mb, OS 9.2

Other

Atari 1040 STe, 2.5Mb, TOS 1.62
Neo Geo AES system (UK Spec), a few games

[tcolling]

Originally posted by jrv3034
Self made $300 Duron 1Ghz PC.

For now...;)


This Fall I'll be getting a brand new shiny PowerMac & display. Hopefully the PPC970 will be out by then:D

Built my 1.1 Celeron for $160.00 (The hard drive I got from work, though)

I also have a Dell 8100 laptop which I need because I am a budding .Net developer (I know - evil, EEEVILLL, but that's what my company does, and it beats working the warehouse, if only slightly)

But my love is my old 8600, updated to a G3/400, 1G RAM, 2 (count 'em, two) 4G SCSI HD, FW, USB, 8MB Graphics, soon to be updated to a G4/700, 120G HD, 32MB PCI Radeon 7000. I think I may paint the case, too.

[yzedf]

g/f has the new iBook 800

me has the old ThinkPad 600X (P3 500MHz)

and I am the one that cruises the forums... :rolleyes:

[g30ffr3y]

15" powerbook <- my baby
933 quicksilver <- her big brother

xp 2400+ for games and kazaa

older celeron not hooked up

self built duron running red hat 7.2... well till my roomate
kicked it...

333 p2 laptop i used as a live sequencer in my old band...

that would do it... im an addict...

[danielgrenell]

i'm surprised how many people use both! my hose uses three imacs, three ibooks, a tibook and a mac classic, along w/ many periferals

[bousozoku]

I was really thinking about buying a PC prior to buying my dual G4/800. Today, my decision was justified (more or less).

My almost new PC (1.8 GHz HP Vectra P4) at work with WinXP re-booted itself a total of just over 30 times. We still haven't figured out what happened, but it may be that the 512MB memory sticks aren't compatible with the 256MB stick which HP installed. I removed the 256MB stick 30 minutes prior to leaving and the machine started to work well. Of course, I wasted all but about 3 hours of my day. Why the thing decided to do it all today...we'll probably never know.

[pimentoLoaf]

Mac for graphics and PC for number-crunching, programming, databases and crashing.

[uhlawboi80]

there is my 15" powerbook (the MAIN computer i use)

my old old old dell laptop (12.1" screen, 333mhz AMD, 128ram) runs win 98 and SuSe dual boot

and a computer i jacked from my step dad's company (he owns it) which is an empty box with an AMD 2200+ and a 120GB HD and 512. Runs 2000 pro and caldera linux as dual boot

the PCs stay home all day and run kazaa and Folding. and such

the tibook goes with me everywhere...class, court, library...:D

[hvfsl]

I own quite a lot of hardware and I am only a student, it is just I get grants for new computers every few years from school/University because I am dyslexic.

PowerBook G4 550
PowerBook G3 233 (my brother uses this now)
Mac Classic (more of a decoration really)
Performa 5200 (I have given this to my mum)

2000XP PC with Radeon 8500 Win2000
1700XP PC with Geforce 3 Win2000
1200AMD PC with Radeon 7200 Win2000
800AMD PC with ATI ALLinWonder Radeon Win2000

Plus a load of 486s, AMD K6s etc that are in storage.
The computers are all networked for multiplayer gaming and Internet.

Nintendo GameCube
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance (The train journey to Uni takes an hour)

[uhlawboi80]

thats nice of your school system...i dont think US schools give away computer grants for dyslexic students....though im not sure why you would need current computers more than anyone else...but hell, if they are giving it away, take it;)

[Flowbee]

Just bought myself a G4 Cube a few weeks ago and intended to use it for video/graphics and continue to use my PC for MSOffice/Kazaa/Quicken. But it turns out that since transfering my files over, I haven't touched my PC. (I've even reformatted my Win iPod to Mac.)

So I guess I have a Mac and a PIII paperweight.

[bbarnhart]

I have an old Mac and an old PC. I use Microsofts Remote Desktop Connection on the Mac to connect to the headless PC. The PC is running Windows 2000 Server (not lisenced). This works fine for running the two PC apps that I can't find for the Mac (not graphics intensive).

My wife also has a PC and an iBook 466.

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by uhlawboi80
thats nice of your school system...i dont think US schools give away computer grants for dyslexic students....though im not sure why you would need current computers more than anyone else...but hell, if they are giving it away, take it;)

Dyslexics in the UK get free computers because they find it harder to spell and write than other people, so using a computer generally improves a dyslexic persons work.

[jhershauer]

My computers:

1. WinXP machine - Barebones Shuttle SS50 kit with P4 1.7Ghz, 512 ram, USB Bluetooth adapter, and 100 gig HD. [current primary machine]

2. WinXP machine - Self-built "silent" PC (insulated case, seagate HDs, and Zalman flower heat sink) in the family room with Athlon 1.1Ghz, 512 ram, and two 80 gig HDs. [multimedia machine...Creative Video Blaster for video recording, and it's controlling my SliMP3 MP3 player (www.slimdevices.com) for audio]

3. Win2K/Win98/Mandrake Linux machine - Compaq 600Ghz Athlon with 256 ram and 60 gig HD. [kids primary computer]

4. Mac OS X machine - 1Ghz iMac with Bluetooth and 768 ram...should arrive next week. [soon-to-be co-primary machine used for general web browsing and email, as well as processing tons of home video, and will take over for processing digital still photos]

It'll be interesting to see how the iMac fits into the mix, and whether it takes over as the "primary" machine. I don't plan to get too emotionally attached to one platform over the other. I also have Palm and Pocket PC handhelds and make good use of both.

[kiwi_the_iwik]

I'm a Mac man - through and through...

It's bad enough that I have to use a PC at work (still running NT4), but it'd be just sheer torture to have to use one at home too...

;)

[trebblekicked]

all my modern machines are macs:
867
TiBook 1ghz
Sawtooth Dual 500 (work)

all my pc's are history
gateway destination p2 350
acer aspire p1 100
AST 386

and my other computers are funny
commodore 64 (w/5.25 floppy drive)
Ti-82 (it's got a self-made OS)
non-functional bondi blue imac (soon to be an aquarium)

i guess i'm an addict too.

[jywv8]

Unfortunately, I have a 1 GHz Dell Inspiron laptop that I have to use for development purposes.

Luckily, I have a 466 MHz Mac tower (Digital Audio) that I can use for everything else.

[SilvorX]

i have both mac and pc, pc cuz i had it since like 3 years ago, and mac cuz i like macs for years :D
pc: 466mhz celeron processor, 192 megs ram, HP Pavilion 4638...i think

mac: 800mhz iBook with 640 megs ram

[FelixDerKater]

I have a 400MHz AMD based PC that I bought over 2 years before the TiBook, which is 500MHz.

[charboneau]

I have a 1 ghz Athlon PC that I got from a guy at work September 14, 2001. His brother had an internet cafe that failed. I didn't use it too much and haven't even plugged it in since I moved to my new apartment in July.