Mac or PC

[Spyke]

Model Name: MacBook Pro (15")
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Just got the same - awesome laptop. Now I've just got to save for Photoshop CS5 I see Adobe is living up to its international pricing differentials, even though the exchange rate is so much more in our favour.

[Smiggle]

PC because it's cheaper and more powerful.

I mean, you can spend 2.5k for i7 + 6gb RAM + 5870 + other stuff and macs hardware won't be anywhere near as better. Would be even cheaper if you went AMD.

If you like OSX so much you can boot it of a pc as well.

My pc consist of the following:

Q9550@3.4ghz under water
8gb Corsair Dominators
4870x2
DFI T2R
64gb G.Skill falcon
1.5tb HDD
NZXT Khaos
1xDell 2407
1xAcer 24"

This only costed me around 3k back in the day.

[ricktas]

PC because it's cheaper and more powerful.

I mean, you can spend 2.5k for i7 + 6gb RAM + 5870 + other stuff and macs hardware won't be anywhere near as better. Would be even cheaper if you went AMD.

If you like OSX so much you can boot it of a pc as well.

My pc consist of the following:

Q9550@3.4ghz under water
8gb Corsair Dominators
4870x2
DFI T2R
64gb G.Skill falcon
1.5tb HDD
NZXT Khaos
1xDell 2407
1xAcer 24"

This only costed me around 3k back in the day.

So how about showing us some photography?

[andrask]

Have always been a PC user although many in my circle have gone the Mac way. The large array of available apps will keep it that way.

[bigdazzler]

So how about showing us some photography?

BOOOOOM ....

Oh and I use macs .. 24" 2.8 imac, 13" 2.0 macbook

[Calxoddity]

Have always been a PC user although many in my circle have gone the Mac way. The large array of available apps will keep it that way.

... ah yes - quantity has a quality all of its own...

[nick351]

Ive got a new Macbook Pro on the way!

[Erin]

ARGH. A Mac IS a PC. PC is "Personal Computer". What you mean is Mac/Apple and Windows/Everything Else.

Sorry, pet peeve which I am #### about. I also hate wet towels left on the floor and beard shavings left in the sink.

Anyway... I have a Windows set up... specs, I couldn't say, I let my IT husband talk and practice technical geekery. All I know is that I have oodles of space and it goes really, really fast when working with the Adobe CS3 Suite. My baby is my professional grade monitor, though.

I use Mac at school and apart from the pretty colours (have to admit that the monitors are lush), it's not really any better from my point of view. Just a different bit of technology packaged in boring white.

[Tannin]

^ Wrong.

The term "PC" derives from the original IBM PC. Just as every PC made today owes its design heritage to that landmark system of the early 1980s, so too does the term.

[SnowA]

PCs here (just for Erin )

1 Dell XPSM1330.
1 DimSum PC at work - just had an involuntary upgrade to a Samsung 20" LCD.
1 self-built HTPC with an Athlon dual core CPU, lots of tuners and a few TB of storage.

All running different flavours of Windows - XPH/XPP/Vista.

[Calxoddity]

^ Wrong.

The term "PC" derives from the original IBM PC. Just as every PC made today owes its design heritage to that landmark system of the early 1980s, so too does the term.

Yes, and for completeness the term "personal computer" predated IBM's trademarking of the term IBM PC to describe their line of personal computers. Having said that, the generic use of PC is broader in its meaning (qv Erin).

Regards,
Calx (who had a personal computer before IBM had a clue).

[bigdazzler]

Check out the poll results .. seems more and more are making the switch

[grw46]

dual post sorry.

[grw46]

Home built PC
Processor Intel core 2 e8500
Ram 4gb DDR
HDD x2 1.5 Tb total
If only I could build my own camera and save the same amount of money.

[Tannin]

Check out the poll results .. seems more and more are making the switch

No. Apple users are self-conscious about their choice and go out of their way to promote it. PC users tend to just get on with their work. Only a small proportion of them bother to visit stupid threads like this one (which, by the way, should not be in the "technology" forum - it's a religious question and should go in the off-topic forum so that readers can avoid seeing the damn thing pop up in "new posts" all the time.) Apple almost went out of business for a while there - their market share was tiny but Vista saved them. Lots of people went Apple after Vista came out. And to be honest, who could blame them? Vista was terrible!

[Calxoddity]

No. Apple users are self-conscious about their choice and go out of their way to promote it. PC users tend to just get on with their work. Only a small proportion of them bother to visit stupid threads like this one (which, by the way, should not be in the "technology" forum - it's a religious question and should go in the off-topic forum so that readers can avoid seeing the damn thing pop up in "new posts" all the time.)

hmmm.... my irony meter just went off the scale.

[Gavvvvvin]

So how about showing us some photography?

What does photography have to do with this thread?

[mikew09]

Yes, and for completeness the term "personal computer" predated IBM's trademarking of the term IBM PC to describe their line of personal computers. Having said that, the generic use of PC is broader in its meaning (qv Erin).

Regards,
Calx (who had a personal computer before IBM had a clue).

Hmmm, actually Mac/Apples , Windows is maybe not quite the deal either. I might suggest that Mac / Apple is more a presentation of the hardware rather than OS. Windows is the generic term for OS provided by MS. So should it be, MAC or Intel. If we were to allow the term of Windows to be used loosely it could infact mean either Mac or Intel as both products use the same style UI.

Actually, if you can beleive the stories told when I first started in IT, if the MAC (Apple) exec's had not been on a team building fishing day MAC would have been the hardware placeform Bill G's code would have been based on and maybe the IT world might have been a whole load different :-).

Me, I look after Unix / Linux systems so either or for me. I almost bought a mac resently until I seen the cost of setting up dual screens. For now the good old Dell and Samsung 22" monitor will do the job.

Crikey, now even I am confused.

[bigdazzler]

No. Apple users are self-conscious about their choice and go out of their way to promote it. PC users tend to just get on with their work.

No. In fact I think its quite the opposite. Most of the noise about Apple products comes from the PC/Windows users that wanna spend half their lives bashing them. In a non-Apple-specific forum such as this one, I rarely hear any Apple users spruiking the products other than to say that they are happy theyve made the switch, and I certainly dont hear much PC bashing from them. So in reality, it makes me wonder who the more "self-conscious" group is mate ??

[Tannin]

^ You have worldwide and Australian sales figures in the rough order of 95% to 5% (long-term average; been as low as 1% and as high as 10% but average is around 5) and a forum vote in the rough order of 50-50, and you don't think it's out of whack? You're dreamin' sunshine.

Oh well, believe what you please and never mind looking at the evidence. No skin off my nose.