My apologies then, i interpreted differently than you had intended. Linux FTW!
My apologies then, i interpreted differently than you had intended. Linux FTW!
Mac only has 2% of the market share. Even a crappy brand like Acer has 6%. PC all the way.
I use both now, and to be honest, I would say back in the day Mac would be best for design, but now pc and macs are = I'm a digital media designer and have to deal with both day to day, and my pc workstation kills our g5s here
I spend money on HP not Brand Names.
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Originally Posted by green91
You clearly have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Not only is Apple's US market share over four times what you so matter-of-factly claim it is, it also just so happens to be higher than Acer's.
...and even if you WEREN'T wrong, which you obviously ARE, I still fail to see how market share deems how good a product is. They're more expensive and a lot less traditional, of course the market share is going to be low compared to the PC world's big guns.
You should probably stop posting.
Ive used, Powerbooks, Macbook's, Macbook Pro's, HP's, Compaqs, Asus eeePCs, Toshiba, Lenovo, Pre Lenovo Thinkpads, and Acer.
I currently own a quad core Aspire Desktop , maxed out completely and absolutely love it. Quality is top notch compared to previous year Acers. If I had to buy a laptop it would be a MBP. Only if money was no option.
I work for Red Hat as well, so Im around a lot of different style machines.
I think a conversation like this is as idiotic as Ford vs. Chevy. Everyone loves what they have and will swear by it and defend it till its death. Bottom line is, almost any manufacturer has quality equipment if you spend the money, quite the contrary to late 90's early 2000s. The QC bar has been raised IMO.
LOL thats the truth, back in the late 90s and earky 2k's acer's quality was on par with *shudder* packard bell.
haha back when Pentium I 90Mhz was the standard for new upcoming PC games. LOL
NOOOOOO!!!! Gateways are TERRIBLE! Dell or HP are both pretty good and IBM's (I guess actually now they're made by Lenovo, not IBM) are solid too, but they're also kind of expensive. Alienware laptops are powerful but they have crappy battery life (it's a trade-off). It really depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to play games, I'd say skip the laptop and just get a desktop. If you're gonna do multimedia stuff, go Apple. They're expensive, but totally worth it. For basic computing or running engineering software, a PC laptop will be fine, but stay away from AMD processors. They were better than Intel for a little while, but I'd say Intel's back on top again. More importantly, AMD's run really hot and I had an AMD laptop that overheated and fried itself. Bad news bears.So answer me this..... what kind of laptop should i get??? im leanin towards a dell , gateway or hp...cuz the macbooks r xspensive as hell......
PS - GET A WARRANTY. Even if it's the most limited one. It may end up saving you lots of money (as in the case of my fried AMD).
Ive had extremely good luck with AMD processors. In fact the ONLY time I've heard of them getting damaged due to heat is when people block the fan's cooling vents, which is also a problem that an intel chip is succeptable to.
PowerMac G5 owner checking in
As a Graphic Designer (heavy PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, & Flash usage) & a wannabe producer (Logic Pro & ProTools) my Mac perfectly suits my needs. I have a PC but I haven't even turned it on in about a year or so. I think that the price I paid for my G5 was right in line with the amout of computer I purchased. Besides, I simply prefer the Mac OS to Windows. I say use what works best for you. i choose MAC
I used to be NOTHING but a PC, PC advocate all the way, then I got 3 visus' in a row that trashed 3 PC's. While on the last PC, I inherited a MAC. OMG! I absolutely love it. It does everything my PC can do and then some. It has all the applications that the PC does and on top of that it works with Itunes and the media is second to none, Crystal clear display. It also is self recognizing with attachments. Meaning when I plug up a Printer, Fax, Scanner, or Camera I don't have to load a driver, cause it already knows what to do with it. Oh and the photo editing is awesome too.
Just this week my wife got this thing called APPLETV for her B-Day. That thing is SCHWEET! Basically you connect it to your HDTV and can play all your music, all your video's on your TV via WiFi PLUS you can watch any Youtube video remotely on your TV and even more, you can download TV shows from today and WAY back in the day(Welcome Back Carter to the Smurfs, to Old School Nickelodeon for the kids to watch what you watched), and you can download HD Movies for rent and you can see HD previews of movies due to be downloaded in High Def.
Basically, anything you can download to Itunes, you can access remotely to your HD tv which also includes Podcasts anywhere in the house.
I also set it up to where I can unplug the little 6"x6" APPLETV box from one TV and easily plug it into any other TV in the house. I just got an extra power cable for those TV and just plug it into either a HDMI to DVI cable or to the Component cables. Absolutely sweet. What will Apple think of next.
I'm also thinking of downloading a HD movie and then take the box with us to the boat to watch a movie while we're out there. It just endless.
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Payed 500 bucks for my Compaq laptop that runs faster than a Mac and has everything I need. Let's face it, most people who own macs are just Apple nutswingers. All my friends were talking so much **** about my laptop, but they were really just mad that I paid less than half for mine and I get the same performance. Haven't had a single problem with Vista or Itunes compatibility. One of my idiot friends claimed that I was going to have problems with Itunes, what a ****squeeze. I'm not downing Macs, you get what you pay for if you actually need/know how to use the programs it comes with, but that includes about 1% of Mac owners. For me, it's my PC all the way. I just love seeing a bunch of kids sitting outside Starbucks with their MacBooks that mommy and daddy bought them sipping their overpriced coffee they didn't pay for acting like their all sophisticated.
Actually compaq's are known crap since back in the day. . I am a MAC owner but when it comes to PC I would never go with a Compaq and I can guarantee that my laptop outperforms yours hands down. oh and I paid for my book myself along w/ the hardware add-ons. Plus as I see it you either pay more now or your gonna pay for it in another year or 2 (based on how my Dell is at work compared to your compaq I'd give it a year for the problems to start popping up)
Compaq is definitely not crap, but I guess I'll find out in a year or so. You have to take into account how the market for computers has changed recently, sure they may have been garbage a few years ago but it's harder to find a ****ty computer now than it is to find a good one. Pretty much every brand has stepped it up big time, with Compaq being made by HP I have full faith in this thing. And I can guarantee you yours doesn't outperform mine hands down, there's no notable difference between this and a Macbook Pro other than a bunch of **** I dont need.
lol lets just settle all of this with 3dmark06 scores
All I know is that my PC went down and had to go get fixed three times from late '03 to '06, my PowerMac G5 has had no problem from '04 to today. The PowerMac has dual 2.5 processors and three gigs of RAM, so it isn't slow at all. I even upgraded my OS and it loads up in about 15-20 seconds. The day my girlfriend bought her Imac, my PC went down and now my dad is using it for parts, he's happy that he gets two monitors. Now his PC is down and is trying to get them to work by piecing them together.
By the way, her Imac is awesome, it loads up fast as hell and it is perfect and simple, the thing has one power wire, that's it. It's nice to see a monitor and only one wire, it's refreshingly uncluttered.
This is almost like the argument that a Harley is the best motorcycle because, when it breaks down, you can find parts for it anywhere. That is when the Honda guy asks, when your bike breaks down, when does that happen?
Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...
bwahaha very true I've had little to no problems w/ macs that i have/had but tons w/ pc's
I think most of your guys problems are user error. I never have any problems with my systems even the ones running windows.
Why do you think apple based their newer o/s off a platform that developed from an operating system thats older than macs themselves?
If it was user error, then wouldn't I have the same problems with my Macs as I did with a Windows PC. I constantly had popups and USB ports would stop working for no real reason, I had to go buy a sound card because the old one died, these weren't normal little errors that occurred. All I know is that I'm using an outdated Mac and it works fine for my applications. I edit HD video and it rarely gives a hiccup.
Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...
So hardware failure is an inherent problem of pcs but not macs. interesting.
Good point, the only things I've added to my Mac's have always worked properly, but that is a benefit of Apple and their overpriced proprietary crap.
Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...
Now they are mactel its actually just selective hardware support.
2 years with my Macbook pro and 0 issues. My wife has a macbook. 1 year and not one single issue.
Her sisters got HP's for graduation one year ago. After her father forked out 1900 for two laptops and about 400 for software and another 200 bucks per computer for extended warranties, both of those computers have had failures.
We paid 1300 for my wifes macbook with an Ipod and 3 year warranty. He paid about 2700 ish for the computers and has put in a little more since then for software. Cameras going out, system crashes, lost memory, one of them had to have the hard drive replaced after just over 30 days. The other had to have the fan replaced.
So in just over a year they have only had access to their computers about 8 months and about 9 months respectively and they are still having issues.
I told him to go mac. They wanted macs. Sticker price shocked him into buying PCs because he never really checked out the macs. He would have paid less and had much less of an ongoing headache in the end.
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