Mac vs. Windows

[Woodcookedbbq]

For those of you who've had experiences with both systems: Which do you prefer?

I'm looking to get an all in one computer. I see that Macs have very positive reviews, so I'm thinking about jumping ship from PC to Mac. Is the learning curve to the Mac OS pretty hard?

[rodeo]

PC gives you double the performance for half the price. No brainer.

[Darth Biscuit]

:lol:

fwiw, I'm with rodeo... never cared for Apple PC's, too expensive... but they sure are pretty.

[The Saltman]

:leaving:

[Kitten Diver]

If money is not an issue: Mac.

but I will say that I still don't know all the keyboard shortcuts(which you need to know for manual shutdown and resets) because I work on PC all day.

If you delight in the pr0n sites I have found that I can roam pretty freely and haven't really encountered viruses on the Mac. One thing that does suck is that replacement parts are only made by apple so it is expensive and I believe once the computers says its done there is no way to fix it..but I dunno.

[g5jamz]

I've got an image that will break things down for you...but I can't get to it right now.

I'll get back to you.

[natty]

PC gives you double the performance for half the price. No brainer.

That is very much false. You do usually get more bang for your buck with PCs though(depending on your level of expertise in dealing with PCs).

The real answer is linux. Unless you're a PC gamer there's not a whole lot of reasons not to use Ubuntu. It's gotten easy enough for the masses now.

[Jase]

the new version of ubuntu is allsome

[Scrumtrilescent]

Or centOS, redhat, debian, but not a fan of fedora.

[Jase]

^^ once you go linux, testing different distros becomes somewhat of an addiction

[natty]

Isn't Ubuntu built off of Debian?

I'm trying to figure out a way to just use linux at work, but we use SQL Server. :(

[jbland]

I switched to mac about 5 years and would never go back to pc. My mac never freezes, crashes and the battery life on my mac-top is over 6 hours.

Take into account the average pc lasts about three years and the average mac lasts over 6 I think we have a winner. The experience is just better.

[Darth Biscuit]

I switched to mac about 5 years and would never go back to pc. My mac never freezes, crashes and the battery life on my mac-top is over 6 hours.

Take into account the average pc lasts about three years and the average mac lasts over 6 I think we have a winner. The experience is just better.

Everybody's got a different experience... my current main stereo (3D) PC workstation running Windows XP was built in 2003 and is still running strong.

[Jase]

I find that 3 year figure to be questionable.