To Mac, or not to Mac, that is the question...

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OK, I know this message has the destructive potential to cause a two-sided civil war on this board, but my curiousity is just too great. I am a comfortable PC user. My first computer was a Mac. I am thinking about shunning the Evil Empire in favour of the renegade Apples. I am teetering mentally on a knife edge here. I find PCs comfortable to use, but Macs look (and are) soooooo much better. Especially an iBook or PowerBook G4. What do other people have to say on this topic?

And please, )V(ajin \/egita, please don't delete this as non-anime related!!! I am faithful to the waning Anime Reincarnated board! I just posted a couple of minutes ago!!! (Just got kinda wary from reading past posts in boredom...)

-- Cian Johnston (cianjohnston@hotmail.com), November 23, 2004

Answers

get a mac if you want to get a something that you will not be upgradeing, get a pc if you want to upgrade.

Laptop wise i'll go with a Mac, Desktop wise i'll go with PC

also Mac's are usually more expensive

-- Dark_hand (bob_bc@hotmail.com), November 23, 2004.


I.e. a PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz proc, 512Mb RAM, 80GB HDD, Superdrive, 17'' LCD, Radeon 128MB Graphics costing around 3500 euro.

-- Cian Johnston (cianjohnston@hotmail.com), November 23, 2004.

What to buy depends on what you want to do with it. If you just type letters, e-mail and surf the web then get what ever you want. If you use it for editing video/pictures watching dvds etc get PC as there are a lot of software for that kind of thing which you can get for free.

MAC's are a little under powered when it comes to picture/video manipulation and on the software side it's weak.

So play thing get a mac as it look cool, work horse get a PC cause there are lots of free software for it.

-- Hellno (hellhas@no.fury), November 23, 2004.


Get a PC with a nicer case ;)

I don't doubt the good performance of a MAC, but mac is damn expensive. At that price, you can get a pc that can perform better...

-- Andy Tsao (rife2005@yahoo.com), November 24, 2004.


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