Mac's not so good???

lowndsie · 03-06-2006, 11:17 PM

Been using my sister's mac laptop a bit lately and i'd be buggered if i can work out what is spose to be so good about them? Imho, i find them to be not very user friendly at all. Maybe they just take awhile to get used to??? but in any case, whats the pro's and con's of owning a mac these days? And now I hear that they part intel anyway!

spacedude89 · 03-06-2006, 11:27 PM

I dont think they are all that great either. They look pretty good, but just arnt as fast or user frienly as a pc.

StrangleHold · 03-06-2006, 11:44 PM

War time! War Time!

gamerman4 · 03-07-2006, 12:11 AM

Mac is not really oriented towards a residential market, they interest companies that need high performance computers for apps like Photoshop, Video Editing, etc... Since PowerPCs can get pretty beefed up (dual CPUs, 16GB RAM, etc...) they are quite fast and good for what they do. The home-user Macs are meant IMO for people who want more a more affordable solution to the super-speed and super-expensive counterparts. This would be useful if you worked at a place that used Macs and wanted to make sure everything you did could be compatible to other Macs. I wouldn't think of really ever using a Mac for general home use.

Also, I think Apple is in trouble since the main reason why they were able to beat PCs in video/image production is because it is a native 64bit OS and can handle MUCH more information than 32bit. Now that windows is moving to the 64bit world, Apple might have some stiff competition.

[-0MEGA-] · 03-07-2006, 12:13 AM

To those people that say "macs are more secure", thats not so true. Right now the Mac OS has more bugs than Windows does, and since they moved to an x86 based system, there will be more viruses written for it. So Mac is no longer the OS that is free of viruses and spyware.

Sacrinyellow5 · 03-07-2006, 12:17 AM

I like my mac and I like my pc... Both for different reasons... I think mac gets a lot of greif, because people who complain about them, dont actually own or work on one.
I like both, because I own both...

krimson_king · 03-07-2006, 03:25 AM

i always thought that owning a mac gave you this nostalgic feeling of belonging to a kind of sub-culture, like you werent afraid of stepping into the room in the gallery opening that nobody was looking at for some reason, only to find that there were more people in there just like you who wanted a different view on the world of technology. that, and nothing can beat saying you own a 25,000 dollar computer.

personally, i dont own a mac, but a majority of my time as an art student in high school was spent on an imac...i dont like the single button mouses, but i think macs are geared toward the adage about the journey as opposed to the goal. ...you know what i mean.

spacedude89 · 03-07-2006, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sacrinyellow5

I like my mac and I like my pc... Both for different reasons... I think mac gets a lot of greif, because people who complain about them, dont actually own or work on one.
I like both, because I own both...

I also own both, but i turn on the mac about every 2 months or so.

ThomasJordan · 03-07-2006, 08:23 AM

Most people who say macs suck are just biased because they've used a pc their whole life and doesn't know shit about them. I don't have very much experience with them neither but I'm well aware of their capabilities. Just because something is different from what you usaully use doesn't mean it sucks. As far as security the vulnerabilities that have been exposed they are relatively minor. Where as Windows has had many problems. No computer will ever be free of viruses, spyware, etc.

kyllc · 03-07-2006, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Most people who say macs suck are just biased because they've used a pc their whole life and doesn't know shit about them. I don't have very much experience with them neither but I'm well aware of their capabilities. Just because something is different from what you usaully use doesn't mean it sucks. As far as security the vulnerabilities that have been exposed they are relatively minor. Where as Windows has had many problems. No computer will ever be free of viruses, spyware, etc.

Sweet argument.

lol

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lowndsie Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bathurst, NSW, Australia Posts: 37	Mac's not so good??? Been using my sister's mac laptop a bit lately and i'd be buggered if i can work out what is spose to be so good about them? Imho, i find them to be not very user friendly at all. Maybe they just take awhile to get used to??? but in any case, whats the pro's and con's of owning a mac these days? And now I hear that they part intel anyway! __________________ IBM ThinkCentre P4 2.6 Ghz 250 Gig Seagate HD 1 Gig RAM DVD Burner TV Mini Ter Tuner Card Radeon 9600 256mb Graphics Card 2.1 Logictec Speakers Logitec Media Keyboard and Cordless Media Mouse 19 Inch Dell badged Sony Trinitron

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spacedude89 Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Oregon Age: 19 Posts: 1,419	I dont think they are all that great either. They look pretty good, but just arnt as fast or user frienly as a pc. __________________ Desktop: Abit AW9D-MAX ~ Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 2.4GHz ~ Radeon X1900GT Laptop: HP ~ Core Duo T2050 ~ nVidia 7600 First smiles, then lies. Last comes gunfire.

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gamerman4 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Arkansas Age: 18 Posts: 1,650	Mac is not really oriented towards a residential market, they interest companies that need high performance computers for apps like Photoshop, Video Editing, etc... Since PowerPCs can get pretty beefed up (dual CPUs, 16GB RAM, etc...) they are quite fast and good for what they do. The home-user Macs are meant IMO for people who want more a more affordable solution to the super-speed and super-expensive counterparts. This would be useful if you worked at a place that used Macs and wanted to make sure everything you did could be compatible to other Macs. I wouldn't think of really ever using a Mac for general home use. Also, I think Apple is in trouble since the main reason why they were able to beat PCs in video/image production is because it is a native 64bit OS and can handle MUCH more information than 32bit. Now that windows is moving to the 64bit world, Apple might have some stiff competition. __________________ NZXT Nemesis Elite Black Intel Q6600 @ 3.20 Ghz COOLER MASTER RL-EUL-GBU1-GP Watercooling Gigabyte DS3R P965 HDDs: 2 x 80GB 1 x 250GB 1 x 500GB 1x 750GB 2 x 1GB Patriot Extreme Perf. DDR2 nVidia 8800GT 512MB Antec Smartpower 2.0 400 Watt

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[-0MEGA-] VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,466	To those people that say "macs are more secure", thats not so true. Right now the Mac OS has more bugs than Windows does, and since they moved to an x86 based system, there will be more viruses written for it. So Mac is no longer the OS that is free of viruses and spyware. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.1GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 (800/1900) 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 960 750GB SATAII w/32MB Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 22605

03-07-2006, 12:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
Sacrinyellow5 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis Posts: 919	I like my mac and I like my pc... Both for different reasons... I think mac gets a lot of greif, because people who complain about them, dont actually own or work on one. I like both, because I own both...

03-07-2006, 03:25 AM	#7 (permalink)
krimson_king Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: connecticut Age: 21 Posts: 466	i always thought that owning a mac gave you this nostalgic feeling of belonging to a kind of sub-culture, like you werent afraid of stepping into the room in the gallery opening that nobody was looking at for some reason, only to find that there were more people in there just like you who wanted a different view on the world of technology. that, and nothing can beat saying you own a 25,000 dollar computer. personally, i dont own a mac, but a majority of my time as an art student in high school was spent on an imac...i dont like the single button mouses, but i think macs are geared toward the adage about the journey as opposed to the goal. ...you know what i mean. __________________ sí, señor.

03-07-2006, 08:23 AM	#9 (permalink)
ThomasJordan New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 18	Most people who say macs suck are just biased because they've used a pc their whole life and doesn't know shit about them. I don't have very much experience with them neither but I'm well aware of their capabilities. Just because something is different from what you usaully use doesn't mean it sucks. As far as security the vulnerabilities that have been exposed they are relatively minor. Where as Windows has had many problems. No computer will ever be free of viruses, spyware, etc.

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