tlarkin

Styrak

I was just trying to say that if Apple does get a decent market share (and their market share has grown every year since OS X was released) you will still see more exploits, hacks, and viruses for the windows side of things because it is just plain easier to exploit. This is of course because of its design. Vista could have changed a lot of what was wrong with it, but I doubt it. Though, in Vista's file structre they finally put all user files under a \Users directory instead of that lame ass documents and settings crap. I don't think you will ever see the amount of viruses on OS X than on windows by the sheer structure of the OSes.

Now my final input on this thread, then I am done arguing over retarded things and misinformation.

Complaining about not being able to build a Mac is along the same lines of complaining how you can't do any work on your Porsche. They are designed to be a high performance high quality machine. I can tell you right now at my work we have over 10,000 computers with about a 6 or 7% mac population. Every single day I have to repair a PC (we have HP business class desktops and laptops, and Gateway laptops). Granted yes there is more of them, however, I maybe have to repair a mac like once every 3 months on the hardware level. Most of the time it is due to a power outage or powersurge that fried several things, or its a part that goes out after a while, ie a Hard drive. When you go buy a brand new high end import car, you can't build it or modify it yourself, unless you want to void all warranty to it. The thing is, Mac computers are the Porsche's of the computer world. There is no such thing as a low end mac.

entry level is the mac mini, and out of the box the mac mini has a core 2 duo processor. They don't even bother making a celeron system. Their mid range system is the iMac. Here is the only mistake I think apple makes when making their mid range system an all in one machine. I think they should make a barebones Core2Duo desktop that would allow the user some minor upgradeable options like video cards, amount of ram and what drives to put in. I really wish they made that. On to the king desktop, the Mac Pro. Now, not every user will need the power of quad or oct core processing from Xeon processors. No, that is ridiculous even to me and I consider myself a power user. If I ever got heavy into audio/video rendering/editing then yes, the mac pro would be totally sweet for that. They also have standard features which cost extra to add on to a PC that you build. Things like built in 802.11 A/B/G and some of the newest ones are pre N as well, built in bluetooth, Firewire and FW800, isight FW camera, tons of bundled applications that are actually decent, and they are built with high quality parts.

Obviously, some people just want to game, and some games have high demands from the hardware so I can see how some people build powerful systems just for gaming.

However, making statements about things you obviously know little to nothing about is just spreading bad information. Someone comes to this forum for advice on the Mac platform and they get fed a bunch of bad information about people who think they know what they are talking about. This type of thing is what gives Apple a bad name, and gives them the stereotype of not being compatible. With the intel change and with boot camp now being able to run windows natively on the system (better than most PCs actually too) I could easily argue that the Mac computer is actually the MOST compatible computer you can buy today.

I saw a demo of BF2 on a Mac Pro desktop that just blew the game out of the water, so yes you can game on a Mac and it will only get better over time. As of right now though, your best bet would be a windows xp machine for gaming. I would suggest staying away from vista if you can for the moment.

jedijeff123

i hate microsoft........this is so fun listening to u guys bash windows.

WINDOWS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

i love ubuntu.........

EDIT-and XP, bcuz XP is better than ME or Vista.

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jamie_2k6

i absolutly hate windows and would love to try mac sorry if this is going off topic but could i install mac on my dell dimension or will it not let me ?

tlarkin

Jamie,

the short answer is no, the long answer is yes, but with a but....

There are several people dedicated to the OSX86 project which is trying to get OS X ported over to other PCs than the macintosh platform. I haven't ever really messed with it, and its definitely in its infancy so it won't run like it would on a Mac.

For more info: http://www.osx86project.org/