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Why do PC users hate Macs?

I look at Macs and PC's like the Car companies
Like sure a Kia can have the same size engine
and be the same thing as a Jaguar except the
price And people would still rather have the Jaguar
even if it is more exspensive.
 
For a long time, PC users had reason to hate Macs.

I've been a Macintosh fan since the days of the Mac Plus. Also used various UNIX and Window OSes along the way for work and (occasional) play. Prior to OS X, the Mac froze - a lot. I love the Mac, wouldn't give it up for anything. But then I know the Mac. Most PC users don't. And unless they've had experience using one, their PC experience is usually just fine. Why would you spend more for something that crashed as often as a PC? And prior to OS X, it pretty much did just that. And why would spend more for a box that had half the processor cycles of a PC? Poor education and marketing by Apple on that one because the PC user didn't bother learn why.

With OS X, the PC snobs ask why I use it. I say it's UNIX. <quiet> Oh! But then, why not Linux? Well, if the person has any perspective on the software development world, I mention that Bill Joy can choose whatever he wants and he chooses to use OS X. This usually causes more silence and head scratching. Sometimes even acknowledged understanding.

It all boils down to ignorance. Ignorance of PC users who don't take the time to understand on their own. And ignorance of Mac users in understanding that conformance is comforting to the vast majority of folks.
 
If your Mac crashed that often then there may have been an issue with your RAM, software, or something. I used Macs with Mac OS before X for way longer than I've ever used X and I never had issues with instability.
 
If only it were as simple as RAM. But alas, six Macs since 1989 (not counting parents' Macs) don't all have bad RAM. Granted, the Mac has generally been more stable (particularly since 9.x), but it still crashed way too much to gel with Steve's reality distorition field. Don't mistake my comments as bashing the Mac, I'm just sayin' as it is in my opinion. Gee, if I felt the Mac wasn't worth the (extra) coin, I wouldn't still be an Apple customer from the days of the Apple //e. And Apple certainly did enough to piss off customers back in the days of Scully, Spindler, and Amelio. It's a miracle we can buy a G5!

I frankly can get more done at higher quality with my Mac than I can with a PC. That pays for the price difference very fast. And now I don't crash much at all.
 
crashing, my experience

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win 3.1 vs os 7.x...i will take os 7 any day over windows 3.1

win 3.1 vs os 8.x...i will take os 8

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win 95 vs os 8.x...that's a toss up

win 95 vs os 9...i will take os 9

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win 98 vs os 8.x....win 98 more stable

win 98 vs os 9...os 9 more stable

win 98 vs os x...os x more stable

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win nt vs os 9...nt more stable

win nt vs os x...os x more stable

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win 2000 vs os 9...2000 more stable

win 2000 vs os x...os x more stable

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win me vs os 9...os 9 more stable

win me vs os x...os x more stable

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win xp vs os 9...xp more stable

win xp vs os x...that's also a toss up
 
After fixing 4 XP computers in the past couple of months at school, I'll have to say that OS X is much more stable. If only you knew how ugly the coding is in XP and how terribly aggravating it is having to deal with it and device manager and control panels that seem to be of no use and wizards that seem to be of no use and having to crawl through every dark corner to get rid of viruses, spyware, and dialers that keep getting installed of these computers. Just a few days ago I had to fix the Toshiba laptop of my girlfriend's roommate and she literally had 42 different spyware programs, ads, and other nasty files on her HD that I had to agonizingly clean up.
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
After fixing 4 XP computers in the past couple of months at school, I'll have to say that OS X is much more stable. If only you knew how ugly the coding is in XP and how terribly aggravating it is having to deal with it and device manager and control panels that seem to be of no use and wizards that seem to be of no use and having to crawl through every dark corner to get rid of viruses, spyware, and dialers that keep getting installed of these computers. Just a few days ago I had to fix the Toshiba laptop of my girlfriend's roommate and she literally had 42 different spyware programs, ads, and other nasty files on her HD that I had to agonizingly clean up.
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And i have about 1 kernel crash (I use 10.3.2) a month. I have yet to see our XP Pro PC crash - we have had it about three months.

Each computer is different and a unique individual. Treat them like that.
 
Originally posted by benixau
And i have about 1 kernel crash (I use 10.3.2) a month. I have yet to see our XP Pro PC crash - we have had it about three months.

Each computer is different and a unique individual. Treat them like that.
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being a pc side tech, teacher, tutor, and salesman in the last five years, i thought i had seen everything strange that could happen to microsoft windows

yesterday, i saw the strangest problem ever with windows xp

when i boot up, i have the choice of logging on as my client, his wife, and "guest"...for a couple of months there was no issue there and one could log in as any one of the three, two out of the three, or all three

now when one boots up and logs into guest, the computer automatically logs the person off and restarts...before that, i thought there were no real major quirks with the operating system except for its vulnerabilities, even with NTFS and DoD level 2 security assurance
 
Originally posted by benixau
And i have about 1 kernel crash (I use 10.3.2) a month. I have yet to see our XP Pro PC crash - we have had it about three months.

Each computer is different and a unique individual. Treat them like that.
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What are you doing at the time of the kernal panic? Those are generally rare so if you can pinpoint either a certain program or activity or possibly a hardware issue, then you could get that taken cared of. I'd be annoyed if my computer crashed once a month.
 
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