Ok so I'm talking to someone i just met over car forums and when someone mentioned how their comp crashed and they lost everything i made my little switchers post and i get this in response. I just wanted yo uguys to see it and maybe see your thoughts on what he has to say. Please read and respond. Thanks!
Can't let the Mac fanboy go...
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You guys should get Macs.
Unless they have a need for a fast, full featured web browser and a lot of software. Especially if they game which is very common in the 20 something crowd now. All of us that grew up on Nintendo are now financially secure and still into gaming.
Or if they're an engineer in which case they won't be able to run anything they need without X11.
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I used to hate macs, and would make fun of the people who bought them.
Only idiots insult people for the choice of a tool. Computers are nothing more than that. Some tools are better for certain problems than others. Macs are a perfectly valid tool in the context of what they are used for.
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Then I had had WAY MORE THAN ENOUGH of windows and Dell and Gateway (which I've had two of so I feel for you chaz).
That wasn't a PC issue but a crappy manufacturer issue. Mainstream PC vendors use less than spectacular OEM components that fail. Anyone with half a brain can build their own for far less money, far more performance and significantly better reliability. It's the lack of tech support that is an issue, but that's why we run sites like http://www.arstechnica.com http://www.hardocp.com http://www.anandtech.com.
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I got the new flat panel iMac 15" 800Mhz G4 with superdrive and 60GB HD in march of '02 and i swear to you it was THE ABSOLUTE BEST decision I have made to date.
Don't make many decisions, do you?
Only teasing, of course.
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I've never had it crash ever, and just in case I have a backup stored on an external firewire 120GB La Cie Harddrive.
Windows 2k and XP are every bit as robust against a hard crash as OS X. Any suggestion to the contrary is merely an expression of ignorance. Windows 95/98/Me on the other hand is terrifying in this regard, just like Mac OS 7/8/9.
If you use an OS without memory protection, it will crash.
IEEE 1394 is OS agnostic and your backup solution would work on a PC too, though it's not a particularly good solution. HDD's make for very poor protection. There's a reason all the HDD manufacturers have cut their warranties down to 1 year from 3...
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I've burned countless DVD's and CD's with the wonderful software that comes free.
Much like Windows XP...
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It really is like professional grade software and never fails me.
iTunes is indeed a killer app once you turn off that idiotic brushed metal interface.
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The speed is just as good or better than most pc's.
If by most you're refering to all those people on old machines that haven't upgraded, you're right in raw CPU performance. Of course, throw OSX's ridiculous GUI overhead on top of that and you're still wrong. If you're talking about anything released in the same time fram as your iMac, your comment loses all validity.
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As I'm sure most of you know, mac computers make better use of their speend than intel processors
Totally untrue. In the simplest sense, a PPC is faster than an x86 chip at equal clock speeds because the PPC has a shorter pipeline. Basically the PPC takes seven steps to accomplish a task. The Pentium 4 takes 20. However, the Pentium 4 is running compared to the PPC's jog. This isn't making better use of speed. This is simply a different philosophy for the design engineer. And since Mot has been totally unable to raise the clock speed of the PPC, thereby letting it run so to speak, Intel has proven its philosophy superior to Mot's.
Similarly, an Athlon XP 2800+ running at 2.25GHz is roughly equivalent to the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 (depending on the application) for much the same reason.
Now the IBM PPC is a whole different scenario.
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thus an 800mhz G4 (mac) is comparable to say a 1.5 ghz intel.
You're a little off as a 1GHz G4 is typically around a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 (though this isn't true of the Athlon XP), but the point is moot as the Pentium 4 is at 3GHz now.
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The ONLY drawback is price, but think of it this way.
False:
Software availability.
Performance.
Cost.
Upgradeability.
Accessory availability.
Compatibility.
There are more...
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Sure you can buy two PC's for the price of one mac, but in the time it takes for your one mac to die on you, you would have had to have bought at least three or four pcs.
Pattently false if you use good components.
Nothing personal, and I hope that doesn't sound too abrasive as I have a tendency to become detached when debating online. I just don't like to see misinformation passed off as fact.
