Have you ever used a Mac yourself, or do you just enjoy slagging Apple off?
I've used Macs since 1985, did a six-year stint as systems administrator and have sold both Macs and PCs for two years.
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Have you ever used a Mac yourself, or do you just enjoy slagging Apple off?
I've used Macs since 1985, did a six-year stint as systems administrator and have sold both Macs and PCs for two years.
That's not saying much, apple is famous in the industry for having problems with their laptops, from hard drives to paint problems to hinge problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beagle
You know why they switched to alum? Because when they used titanium before that, the paint would peel off, the monitor hinges would sheer off, and as is always the case when apple has a design flaw, they expected the consumers to just fork over another 4 grand on a new model and refused to fix the problems under warranty.
I haven't heard anything bad about the newer models, but to say its "the best apple has built" is like saying windowsXP is better than windows95A.
Yes I've used and owned Macs but will never make those mistakes again.Quote:
Originally Posted by DL_NL
It is sort of like the circumcision debate. It ultimately comes down to personal preference. Only the religious are certain of any reputed benefits. But that is why Apple promoted the Mac Evangelists.
I'm not an evangelist, as a Mac user it's simpler to install and de-install stuff and keep your system healthy even when you're not a hardcore IT geek. I prefer to use my computer for work, not to try and get it to work. I've used several high-specced reputable brand PCs and they've never been as reliable as my Macs. Also, virii are much more of a threat for PCs than for Macs.
Whatever floats your boat, though.
Macs are great for people that have jobs that require word processing, e-mail, and pretty picture making.
But you wont see as many specialty programs made for them as you would in the other OS world. Mac's are fun to use, but there still isnt' enough available for them.
Thats the only reason I use windows and linux.
People would have to care enough to design a virus for this OS. For some reason Virus designers dont really consider it beneficial to hack into something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beagle
Another reason that mac's are really stable is the requirement to use mac hardware. It's difficult to get aftermarket parts for them. But with PC's you can choose a huge assortment of boards and periphs. Hardware becomes an issue because everyone isn't always up to spec.
That was true in 1999.Quote:
Originally Posted by OEMEnemyNum1
But this is (almost) 2009, things are different now.
What can you do on the PC, that you cannot do on the mac because of software differences? I'd like to hear it.
And then to really beat that decomposing horse a bit more; now that mac's are all intels, you can have bootcamp on your machine, or VMware and just boot up windows in that once in a blue moon moment where you HAVE to somehow have access to windows or linux.
I have both bootcamp and vmware setup on my mac, and there are only two times in the past year where I -=HAD=- to boot up windows to do something. One was when correcting ID3 tags for some mp3s I wanted to use on an mp3 player (itunes has their own fictional version of id3 tags that many car radios simply don't understand), and the other was to set up the bios on some older (c2002) external drive enclosures I have (which have no mac driver/config tool program).
I do embedded software and hardware design. Though I haven't looked for any Mac software for that, I know the packages I use dont support it. So I can't design PCB's the way I was trained. I can't use the compilers designed for the chipset I work with. Debuggers aren't supported. Anything FPGA that I currently use isn't there also.
Then on the same Token, I design using Visual Studio for the PC Interface. Basically my own software doesn't run on the Mac. Mind you that is just a small part of what I design. But it's not worth it getting the software out to the Mac crowd in this case.
There's a myth that many Windows users like to believe. It's that myth that there are no Mac OS X viruses because no one has taken the time to write one - or that there's no enough Macs around for anyone to care about. The old, tired "security via obscurity" argument.
Actually, there are numerous bona fide technical reasons why Macs are essentially virus proof and it's because of proper OS design and safeguards.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Oct05.5Flaws.html
With all the attention and hoopla that would surround a major Mac virus - you can bet your ass that if it were possible someone would do it.