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smarties

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Hello,

I have no experience in Mac but I am interested to know what you would suggest between buying a PC and a Mac.
 
smarties said:
Hello,

I have no experience in Mac but I am interested to know what you would suggest between buying a PC and a Mac.
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You are in a Mac forum? what do you think we are going to suggest? Get a mac. it is better.
 
haiggy said:
There are millions of these threads... try to search for them.
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With that kind of help I think he might thing that the mac community is full of virii and difficult to use.... like windoze.

To the original thread starter: What do you want to do on your new computer?

If the answer is "Play all the cool new video games"... get a PC. Macs have some games, but not as many as the PC.

If it's ANYTHING else, it will be easier and simpler on a mac. Office, Surfing, Music, Video Editing, Pictures, sound, digital studio...etc... and 99% of the time it's all fully compatible with the PC counterparts.

They just work better..... they don't crash ... they keep running.... they don't get virii, they stay fast (don't slow down), and are just reliable and simple.

If you want to play a lot of brand new computer games - get a PC, and it will do it for cheaper...

...or do what I did. Get a Mac, and have a PS2, N64, Atari, Intellevision, Sega Nintendo, and SNES for your game playing fix.
 
fartheststar said:
With that kind of help I think he might thing that the mac community is full of virii and difficult to use.... like windoze.

To the original thread starter: What do you want to do on your new computer?

If the answer is "Play all the cool new video games"... get a PC. Macs have some games, but not as many as the PC.

If it's ANYTHING else, it will be easier and simpler on a mac. Office, Surfing, Music, Video Editing, Pictures, sound, digital studio...etc... and 99% of the time it's all fully compatible with the PC counterparts.

They just work better..... they don't crash ... they keep running.... they don't get virii, they stay fast (don't slow down), and are just reliable and simple.

If you want to play a lot of brand new computer games - get a PC, and it will do it for cheaper...

...or do what I did. Get a Mac, and have a PS2, N64, Atari, Intellevision, Sega Nintendo, and SNES for your game playing fix.
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well I can think of some other reason to go PC. It all comes down to what you are using it for. I can give valid reason for going PC that is not playing game. There is some high level software that is only advabilly PC side and the mac side lags years if it even in there at all. But mostly that has to do the engineering stuff I do and want to do. Mac are really weaks in the engineering, CS, and math side compared to PC. There the lack of software hurts them but it also like less than 5% of people even will be using the software in that area.

All in all to answer your question we have to know what need the computer for
 
Mac, all the way Baby! 😀


Sorry couldn't resist

But seriously like the above posters said, it depends on what you are going to be using the computer for; if you are seriously considering buying a mac, go to an Apple Store near you.
 
if you want to play games, im afraid i have to suggest the peecee. but if you want it for anything else, MAC!
 
God. And the machines look so fierce, too...


(At London Apple Store way earlier this evening. Am positively evangelical...)
 
Fierce?

Blue Velvet said:
God. And the machines look so fierce, too...


(At London Apple Store way earlier this evening. Am positively evangelical...)
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Cool - yes, possibly even sexy, but fierce?

Care to explain 😕
 
We need more info

smarties said:
Hello,

I have no experience in Mac but I am interested to know what you would suggest between buying a PC and a Mac.
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In order to better help you, you need to give us more info on exactly what your needs are, or exactly what you intend to use your computer for.

As others have already pointed out, if you play a lot of games, you might prefer a PC. If you want it to *just work* and don't have the time or the inclincation to fix it, then you'll probably prefer a Mac. Also, some schools hand out tests/assignments that only run on Windows.

Until you tell us more, this about the best advice that we can offer.

Good luck 🙂
 
there is tonns of p2p mac software, acquisition limewire bit torrent. most of the major networks work on the mac.

as for vpc it have found that it runs at about half the clock rate of the mac cpu (aka a 1GHz g4 would be like a 500MHz pIII)
 
Get an iBook & Dell Desktop combo. Then you don't have to choose. Eventually you will want to sell or give away your Dell after a year or two. At that time you will have answered your own question.
 
It's more difficult to find a good bag for the 17"; I put up with the extra weight because I like the extra screen real estate (and it plays widescreen movies rather nicely).

The PB power supply is auto-switching, so all you need is a set of plug/socket adaptors.
 
Thanks 🙂

Blue Velvet said:
Fierce: occasional London slang for cool, sexy, hot, as in:

You look fierce, baby!
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Thanks for the definition - and hopefully I don't look too fierce as my wife wouldn't be pleased with me having to fend off all those hotties 😉
 
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Of course, some games run quite well on the Mac -- Neverwinter Nights is available for Mac, though there was a bit of delay. It's standard practice for Myst to come out Mac and PC on the same disks at the same time.
 
I'd say get a mac. I've been a PC user for years now, and I like Macs a lot better. I've found some games that I want will work for Mac, if I get a fast enough computer. Expose is my favorite thing. Do a search for it, you'll fall in love with it. Right now I'm deciding what used Mac to get. If I were you, I'd get a used one, see what kinds of things you can do on it (unless you have the money then get an iMac G5). If you don't like it and you bought a brand new one, you can sell it on the forums here for about $200 less than what you bought it for. My experience with Mac has been more prouctive than with a PC. BTW, I might buy a $200 PC off from Walmart.com, it has Xandros on it, but I can always put XP Pro. on it and upgrade the RAM and use it for other games.

You know what, buy a Mac. There, thats all there is to it, just buy a Mac. You'll feel better in the end. + You have so much stability, you can never crash OS X (well you can, if you're me, but thats me)
 
The iMac doesn't have an auto-switching power supply. Apple ships it with the right PSU depending on where you say you live.

Get the Mac, in 6 years you will say, "Hmmm... I could get a new one but then again, PowerBook G5s next Tuesday....." 😉 🙄
 
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