I've had PCs for over 16 years now, Macs only 2 years. As soon as the IBM dies, I don't think there'll be another PC in the house again..
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is mac better than pc ?
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I used a PC for a while, learned a lot, had problems, learned more while fixing them on my own, and then one day I said I need a new computer. I had purchased an upgrade to vista just to try it out, without buying the full thing.
Well, vista was flashy, but slow, and it fried my video card. . It also didn't work with my scanner, my printer, my iPod, iTunes, my Digital Camera, it was pretty much the worst thing I've ever seen.
Microsoft support just says "contact the manufacturer of your products, it's their problem if it doesn't work". Well screw you, Microsoft, I'm not getting Vista until you fix it.
Unfortunately for me Vista took over, XP was removed from all stores, and was a ridiculous $900 or something to buy a license from microsoft. I then noticed something in the Staples store (which at the time was the only decent place for computers in town). It was a shiny white 17" iMac with specs that blew the old Pentium 4 out of the water.
Intel Duo Core, 1GB RAM, nVidia Graphics, LCD HD Display, speakers built in, webcam too, comes with Mac OS X which also includes Install DVDs. After reviewing it, I decided to get that mac. I never regretted it, I am still on it as I type (though it will eventually die because of a problem I am unable to isolate )
When I first started OS X one of the things I noticed was right clicking was gone. That was easy to fix, another thing I noticed is animated pictures I made no longer worked unless in a web browser. That took longer but I fixed that too.
Since then I've been figuring out solutions to many problems, and no longer need windows for anything other than formatting something as NTFS (I can do FAT32 on the mac but it seems slow, windows is just "click he--okay finished".
well that and microsoft word. . I could use open office I guess or purchase Word for mac, but I don't use it often enough to bother with that.
Well, vista was flashy, but slow, and it fried my video card. . It also didn't work with my scanner, my printer, my iPod, iTunes, my Digital Camera, it was pretty much the worst thing I've ever seen.
Microsoft support just says "contact the manufacturer of your products, it's their problem if it doesn't work". Well screw you, Microsoft, I'm not getting Vista until you fix it.
Unfortunately for me Vista took over, XP was removed from all stores, and was a ridiculous $900 or something to buy a license from microsoft. I then noticed something in the Staples store (which at the time was the only decent place for computers in town). It was a shiny white 17" iMac with specs that blew the old Pentium 4 out of the water.
Intel Duo Core, 1GB RAM, nVidia Graphics, LCD HD Display, speakers built in, webcam too, comes with Mac OS X which also includes Install DVDs. After reviewing it, I decided to get that mac. I never regretted it, I am still on it as I type (though it will eventually die because of a problem I am unable to isolate )
When I first started OS X one of the things I noticed was right clicking was gone. That was easy to fix, another thing I noticed is animated pictures I made no longer worked unless in a web browser. That took longer but I fixed that too.
Since then I've been figuring out solutions to many problems, and no longer need windows for anything other than formatting something as NTFS (I can do FAT32 on the mac but it seems slow, windows is just "click he--okay finished".
well that and microsoft word. . I could use open office I guess or purchase Word for mac, but I don't use it often enough to bother with that.
Actually there is three billion nine hundred eighty four million twenty-eight thousand three hundred and forty!
And you also forgot to mention FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS and many others.
Obviously I didn't mention every OS because I don't have to. My point is that it doesn't matter what OS you ultimately end up using so long as it works the best for you.
