Mac or PC?

[complain jane]

I've had both. Planning on getting moolah for X-mas. Choosing a new 'puter. Hm. I like to surf the web 24/7 but do a lot of photography/video/After Effects graphic work & web design. I can get my hands on software for either platform.

Hm. Choices, choices.

[dazeconf]

1. Mac

I use a PC, but only because I need to for work. OS X kicks Windows XP's ass, and it's better for software development too.

[Downtown Hound]

2. If you're doing video work, get a mac

It's their specialty.

[eleonora]

3. Mac

Worked on both, I prefer the Mac for its ease of use. My old roommate die hard PC user got a Dell and had to reinstall system software not even a week after he got it, then he comes to me and tells me Macs always crash. Hmm no. Mine hasn't crashed once since I bought it months ago. (Did I mention he's a freeper too?)

edit: btw, your poll may be skewed, there ARE more PC users.

But the Mac is better for what you want to do.

[complain jane]

4. thanks, y'know I was thinking the same thing

I love both actually, but for two very different kinds of computer stuff.

The web just works better on a PC in my opinion but all graphics stuff runs smoother on a Mac in my experience.

I do motion graphics work for a tv station and this big overweight belligerent red-faced PC guy forced Dells down all our throats and they SUCK. They're great computers but the SUCK OUT LOUD for After Effects work.

The Macs just crank right along.

For Halloween I was going to come to work dressed up as my PC. I was going to go into my office, lay on the floor and die, for accuracy.

[NuttyFluffers]

8. the web just works better on mozilla ;)

;) may be my biased opinion, but sure makes me a happy camper that firefox does.

hopefully you'd make the decision based on the issues that require the most $ and quality software. seems like PC only has 'internets' on its column and the Mac has everything else. not much of a decision left if you ask me. but it's always fun to bounce around ideas.

edit: y'know, the reason that IT guy might seem so adamant about PCs is that he needs to keep his job. get macs and you'd leave him wandering the halls bored. :evilgrin:

[Systematic Chaos]

5. I voted PC but only because I'm a rabid gamer.

For what you want to do a Mac is probably the better choice by far.

[PatriotGames]

20. Same here.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Mac

Never had one break down, no viruses, no trojan horses in 15 years. Same goes for the Apple IIe, IIGS, and others. Not ONE hardware problem, ever. Every crash or software glitch was caused by me hacking the OS and screwing around. What's even more amazing is, I installed Panther 10.3.6 on my dad's old, 1998 266MHz iMac, and it WORKS! :)

Final Cut Pro HD rules!:headbang:

[politicat]

7. Games are for consoles, PCs are for solitare, Macs for everything else.

You can't beat the stability, the immunity to viri and worms and spyware and zombies, they're solid machines with good warranties (get Applecare), and you know that everything's going to work together and with the software just fine when you pull it out of the box.

Plus, the graphics tools are incredible. I've been playing with Final Cut recently on a friend's machine and let me say that drooling is bad for keyboards.

The immunity to the diseases that are on the web is really a good thing, though. I can't tell you how many times a PC using friend has gotten infected with something and ended up losing data because zie had to go back to the last clean backup and wipe and reload. That alone makes being on the "other"platform worth it.

Pcat

[leftyandproud]

9. If we needed any proof that DU is out of the mainstream..

this is it..

What is it in reality? PC owners = 98% Macs 2%?

[Marxdem]

13. Just about that

If you ask 75% of the population has never heard of a mac from a recent survey.

[lojasmo]

14. mac has around 5% of the market share. N/T

[democracy eh]

16. It is called the leading edge

:-)

[dethl]

10. I love my mac.

My iBook is my main programming machine. XCode makes programming tons easier (espically when programming native Mac OS X apps, Cocoa is a pain to program in though).

[billyskank]

11. PC, but with Linux on it

if the PC has to have Windows then I would have to say Mac.

[jdots]

12. Mac better tool=more money

[Cuban_Liberal]

15. I use both.

We have a PC at home, and a Mac a work. I frankly look forward to the day the Mac dies.

[Swamp Rat]

19. Why would you wish this on an American company that hired Al Gore?

The only thing I've ever seen die were PCs; logic boards, daughter cards, video cards, CD/DVD drives, floppy drives, hard drives, and keyboards. I've never had serious data loss in all my 20 years of computing, nor had ONE hardware malfunction.

I'll give you this: the original OS had major flaws, but now Mac users have UNIX. :)

[rabid_nerd]

22. I've seen MAC OS X fry

hehehe lol

[gold_bug]

17. Linux

:thumbsup:

[frictionlessO]

18. I drive a 1st gen imac bondi blue, its still works flawlessly!

A little slower than I really want, so Im bumpin up to the new iMac this spring. I do PC at work and its not even fair to compare 'em. Mac kicks ass all the way around, except for games and the amount of software available.
end of story

[PatriotGames]

21. Macs are very expensive. Plus, if you game, there is not much out there.