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PC Vs Mac

I've used Mac's in school when I was doing design works, Websites, Flash Animation, Photoshop design, Illustrator design. PC's are best used for gaming and other things. So my thoughts and opinion if you so choose to flame me for:

PC's are good for

Gaming
Internet
Music
Movies
Some Photoshop design
Some Web design
Chatting and webcamming
Etc.

PC's are bad for

Movie editing
Flash Animation editing
3D animation

Mac's are good for

Internet
Security
iTunes
Music
Movies
Picture designing
Sound Editing
Web Design
Flash Animation
Movie Editing
Flash Animation
3D Animation
etc

Mac's are bad for

Gaming
MP3 Players
Chatting

I haven't used a Mac in a long time so I'm not sure what else it's good for. But I've heard from people that chatting isn't that great unless you use services that are strictly for Mac's, unlike Yahoo not much features are available like the PC version has.
 
BrandonSBCA said:
I've used Mac's in school when I was doing design works, Websites, Flash Animation, Photoshop design, Illustrator design. PC's are best used for gaming and other things. So my thoughts and opinion if you so choose to flame me for:
Mac's are bad for

Gaming
MP3 Players
Chatting

I haven't used a Mac in a long time so I'm not sure what else it's good for. But I've heard from people that chatting isn't that great unless you use services that are strictly for Mac's, unlike Yahoo not much features are available like the PC version has.
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Not sure I understand how chatting is any different with a Mac than a PC. All the standards are supported on a Mac with the same functionality.
 
NYGACU said:
Not sure I understand how chatting is any different with a Mac than a PC. All the standards are supported on a Mac with the same functionality.
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Yeah but from what I hear they don't have a calling function and other things that the PC version does. But I could be wrong.
 
JohanLarson said:
I agree with this except for mp3 Players. Mp3 players? I'm puzzled; ipods were made for Macs first and were ported to PCs, not the other way around.

Or are you referring to the less-popular, off brands?
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Yeah like Creative, sadly their Zen MP3 Players aren't compatible with Macs. I found Creative Products to be more user friendly compared to iPod's. But I saw the list of MP3's that iTunes and Mac support and it seemed like a small list. Unless Apple's official website is pulling my chain. Compared to PC's where they work on a lot of MP3 Players.
 
Personally, I haven't used a Mac, yet, but I will be buying one sometime in the future. I am currently on my 3rd or 4th computer due to Windows crashing on me. The first time was with an old OS: I think it was Windows 98 or 95...Pretty sure it was 98. Crashed on me whenever I tried to run simple programs...Then there was my hybrid, frankenstein computer. Don't get me wrong, it was a good computer, OS was Windows XP, good processor, etc, but one glitch: it was a bootleg, unbeknownst to me. Then when I tried to download a patch for Adobe Acrobat Reader...well...it crashed...and stayed crashed. Those two computers are in the basement, collecting dust and god knows what...And I have my current computer, which is good, but slow at times...

And that is why I am going to convert to Mac. True, expensive, but worth it in the long run...
 
NYGACU said:
Not sure I understand how chatting is any different with a Mac than a PC. All the standards are supported on a Mac with the same functionality.
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Most chat functions are the same, however VIDEO is poorly provided for the Mac by most instant messaging services, including the widely used and recently updated MS Messenger for Mac 6.0.1.

I don't use Yahoo! Messenger or AIM. I prefer iChat and Skype (BETA) 2.5.0.63 which has video.

I have had varied success with others. I may get video but no sound, or the video is unable to be tunneled therefore it looks like I'm watching a flickbook comic, others I can see them but they can't see me.
 
A reoccuring theme in this thread is the availability of large numbers of business applications for windows. It has already been discussed that MS Office is available for both platforms. At one time there was a lack of accounting software for the Mac, but at last count there are 23 packages. In addition to this I got 69 pages of google hits for open source free packages.
Windows and Mac files are generally readable cross platform.
Another way either windows or Mac based businesses can save is with X-Serve server. And because an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server is included at no additional cost, you can save hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on licensing fees. Microsoft will shaft you with a fee for every user.

It is a pity that Apple didn't release a windose version of iChat along with the iSight camera. Video conferencing at 30 fps with a maximum of 4 or 5 people in the conference. Large size window and high quality too. But that may be a moot point because when Vista gets into wider circulation, I feel the number of windows users jumping ship to the Mac side will increase rapidly.
As far as pricing goes, the last published comparison I saw had equivalent desktop and laptops at $50. less for Mac than Dell.
 
The best computer is the one which: supports your lifetsyle, supports your work and play, and fits in best with your usage style. Macs are brilliantly engineered, and probably have the best integration of hardware and software, whereas PCs have the market share. For myself, I use linux, because it best supports the way I think.

OS wars - love 'em.

-T.
 
For me Windows all the way. Sure MacOS X is pretty, and functional but as a developer my primary concern is ease of development. Writing applications for a Mac is simply HARD. A much smaller percentage of developers know Coco than Win32 and ASP.Net is becoming the best way to write web-apps. Even as a web developer I have issues supporting Safari because it's got some pretty glaring gaps (eg dynamic styles) in its poorly documented api support. Given that something like 75% of software is small applications which are custom developed for business processes, this has been a major hindrance to the Mac's acceptance in the business world.

From a management standpoint, OS X made it much easier to administer lots of macs, but there's still nowhere near the level of 'Enterprise support' that Windows or even Linux has.


to address sheep's latest comments
1) Most admins worth their salt even in 100% Microsoft shops run Samba for their file & print servers cause it performs much better on the same hardware.

2) OS X cant run most of my custom-developed server applications which is what matters in a server.

3) sure you can get 1-10 Mac's cheaper than the equivalent pc but can you get 500-5000 cheaper, generally no because apple doesn't do the type of volume discounting that Dell, HP & Lenovo do.


I also dont buy the argument that Macs are somehow fundamentally better than PCs for "Media" (Graphic Design, Video / Audio editing). I've not heard of a single professional media software package which is available for the mac but not the PC. The argument that "Graphics people know Mac OS" is not honestly a consideration.
 
JohanLarson said:
It's the opposite of MSOffice, where the target is Windows users first, and Macusers have to use a ported product. (I've heard that MSOFFICE for the Mac has some features Windows users don't have, though.)
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God, I hate Office:mac. I have to use it day by day for hourse and i just want to f'cking scream every time.

The performance is not that good and I'm just not that productive on word for mac as on word 2003.

My next notebook will run windows!
 
Thyratron said:
Let me end the ancient "Macs are for video and graphic design" belief. Oh, and they're based on BSD, not Linux.
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Brandon, I see you opened a new account here at JUB!

For the record, BSD is a version of Unix.

I have a friend that has been using Final Cut Pro on his Mac G5 for a couple of years. He gave up on the Avid system because it was too slow. Also note that he is not a porn producer editing from his hospital bed.

I am not a graphic artist or desktop publisher but I do own a business which I have run with the help of Macs since 1987 when the pc peeps were running DOS. I am still using a piece of software from the early '90's and my computer is 4.5 years old and isn't about to be changed any time soon. The last OS I bought was $129.00 Canadian, a bargain considering the price for Vista. Note that every OS upgrade makes my computer faster. Also note that my computer has never needed to be repaired.

I am Microsoft free but that could change if Microsoft created anything that didn't suck. Not holding my breath tho--they have been around for over 20 years and never have.
 
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