Windows or Mac?

Stephentlig · 25-03-2010 10:16PM #1

Hi folks, which would you rather buy and why?

I'm not that good at computers to be honest, but my wife has a mac and I have windows vista, I find the macs very troublesome, and diffilcult to use, which one do you think is best and why?

Pax Christi
Stephen

stovelid · 25-03-2010 10:17PM

PC.

This is why

ejmaztec · 25-03-2010 10:22PM

Definitely Windows, but I do have an old Mac that I wear in the bushes at my local park.

starbelgrade · 25-03-2010 10:24PM

I don't know what the new Vista is like, but the last one is absolute muck.

ejmaztec · 25-03-2010 10:27PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I don't know what the new Vista is like, but the last one is absolute muck.

Vista was complete and utter total sh1te, but that new 7 does good windows.

Earthhorse · 25-03-2010 10:28PM

stovelid wrote: »

This is why

Oh no, you can get The Onion on Macs now.

Herbal Deity · 25-03-2010 10:29PM

Some people are 1337er than others

Fizman · 25-03-2010 10:31PM

Avoid Windows 7 at all costs. Windows 2000 is close to three hundred times better.

starbelgrade · 25-03-2010 10:33PM

Fizman wrote: »

Avoid Windows 7 at all costs. Windows 2000 is close to three hundred times better.

Can you still get 2000?

5uspect · 25-03-2010 10:34PM

Pfft, 3.1 is where it's at.

+1 for Tux.
Ubuntu is a nice Linux distro.

5uspect · 25-03-2010 10:34PM

BTW Win7 is excellent.

iMax · 25-03-2010 10:36PM

PCs for 12 years, bought a mac four months ago & loving it. Trying to figure out how I can get rid of my laptop now and get an MBP instead. Never going back to PC (if I can help it)

Mars Bar · 25-03-2010 10:39PM

Mac and will never be going back to PC. Have had my Macbook for 18 months now and haven't had one ounce of trouble with it. It takes a while to get used to the layout but once you have that down, you will never look back.

Anyway, you should go to the Mac and PC forums as there is many a debate on PC v Mac.

EDIT: Oh, and I do have a Windows XP and used Windows for 7 or 8 years. My sister hated the Mac at first coz she couldn't use it but now she only uses the Windows because it's at home when I have the laptop for college. But the Windows one has been broken for the past 3 weeks and no one wants to go near it to fix it. It's like it's diseased. I think it's my sisters cunning plan for getting a mac.

partyatmygaff · 25-03-2010 10:43PM

Windows 7 for compatibility. Mac OS X for flashy looks and not much else.

Vista wasn't all that great or bad. Windows 7 though is a masterpiece of an OS. Microsoft did an excellent job with it.

anothernight · 25-03-2010 10:45PM

I much prefer mac. Can't actually see myself going back to windows. But at the end of the day, as long as your OS does what you need it to do...

littlefriend · 25-03-2010 10:45PM

I have a pc and a macbook laptop. Love, love, love my laptop and am trying to figure out a way to ditch the pc and replace with mac desktop. I'm broke though so not getting too far with that.

ejmaztec · 25-03-2010 10:46PM

Fizman wrote: »

Avoid Windows 7 at all costs. Windows 2000 is close to three hundred times better.

That's nearly as old as CPM 2.2:eek:

chopperbyrne · 25-03-2010 10:49PM

Fizman wrote: »

Avoid Windows 7 at all costs. Windows 2000 is close to three hundred times better.

Or just completely ignore what this guy is saying because Windows 7 is excellent.

RichTea · 25-03-2010 10:51PM

Was PC all the way until I got my MacBook for college this year. It's all sleek and I'm a big fan of the layout and Apple's software. So it's Mac for me.

bnt · 25-03-2010 10:54PM

If you ask me, the answer is Neither. However, your applications should be the deciding factor. The operating system is primarily there to make your applications work, a fact that some people tend to forget ... :cool:

SadieSue · 25-03-2010 10:56PM

I have a second hand dell but I have Ubuntu on it. It just works a lot better for me than windows did.

25-03-2010 11:00PM

Mac for one big reason... It separates work and play since I use Windows in the office.

Naikon · 25-03-2010 11:00PM

stovelid wrote: »

PC.

This is why

I am a Linux man myself. Nothing wrong with Mac or Windows if they work for you. I just prefer using Linux for my own reasons. Each to their own and all that.
Oh, and a Mac IS a PC. Sometimes I feel like banging my head off the wall when someone claims a Mac is not a PC. If it's got a generic X86 chip in it, it's a PC.

25-03-2010 11:04PM

Naikon wrote: »

I am a Linux man myself. Nothing wrong with Mac or Windows if they work for you. I just prefer using Linux for my own reasons. Each to their own and all that.
Oh, and a Mac IS a PC. Sometimes I feel like banging my head off the wall when someone claims a Mac is not a PC. If it's got a generic X86 chip in it, it's a PC.

Eh, isn't Mac Unix based? Terminal and all that lark..

Creamy Goodness · 25-03-2010 11:06PM

every computer is a bloody pc, it's a personal computer. it's yours, it computes things, it's a PC.

5uspect · 25-03-2010 11:06PM

yep it's basically a heavily modded unix kernel.

Naikon · 25-03-2010 11:12PM

bnt wrote: »

The operating system is primarily there to make your applications work, a fact that some people tend to forget ... :cool:

WHAT? Everyone knows Linux is not for "real work" like messing about with spreadsheets and word files;)
Here is one of the reasons Linux is fun to mess around with: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/
Who woulden't get a buzz out of writing code that has the potential to hose your box:D

/sarcasm *KMP still fun though*

tipperaryboy · 25-03-2010 11:20PM

windows for compatibility with almost everything.mac nice to look at and takes a while to get familar with the layout also there is a lot of software that just wont work on it.

Twilightning · 25-03-2010 11:21PM

Oh boy! I've been waiting for this thread!

DON'T DO IT!

BLAM!

Designed for the human hand... kinda!

True story!

No games! ):

Naikon · 25-03-2010 11:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Eh, isn't Mac Unix based? Terminal and all that lark..

I don't use the Mac because it does not feel like a traditional Unix box to me. Sure, it's fully POSIX compliant because Apple can afford to pay the royalties, but it feels a little foreign to me. I was more than
a little freaked to find that some of the Unixey traditions are lost in the process of moulding Unix into a "consumer friendly" commodity. The day I will take Mac systems seriously is the day they decide to get
off their moral highground and release a version of OSX for non Apple machines. The whole "Apple can make a more stable platform by only allowing apple hardware" is mostly bull.

RoadKillTs · 25-03-2010 11:35PM

Computer says no

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