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So today I got a new macbook pro. Its my second Mac so far, the other is my iMac. What do you think of Mac?
Too expensive compared to what hardware you can get for the same price. Cut like 30% of the price, and you would get the same hardware :S It does come with some other benefits though, but personally I don’t think the extra cost is worth the money.
Depends on what you need to do really. If you’re heavily into graphic design, video editing, photoshop, etc. then I’d say Mac is the better option. If you just want to surf the net, download stuff, use word processing etc. then I reckon a PC is a better option. Plus, if you build your own pc you can choose all the parts and assemble a better machine than buying one from say Dell or HP. You’ll probably end up saving money too.
As for the OS, I don’t really have much experience using Mac OS apart from a few times on my sisters Macbook pro. I’ve been using Windows ever since Windows 95 so I have alot more experience with that. Currently using Windows 7 and will upgrade to Windows 8 later this year.
As a gamer, I prefer using PCs more so than Macs. Though both operating systems have their downsides, I think, like kanjiman said, Macs are good for one area whilst PCs are good for another. Plus, there are a few things that you can only do on one operating system and not the other. iPhone and iPad programming is a good example.
Don’t forget Linux! Though I don’t have much experience with it, I love dabbing around with it in a virtual machine. :3
Mac laptops are worth the extra price, very few Windows laptops cram in a good battery, good screen, good keyboard and most importantly – a fantastic trackpad.
As for the desktops…then I prefer a PC. I only really like OS X on laptops because the gestures are what make that OS for me.
@kanjiman8 that’s not really true because most of the video/photo editing software is available on both OS X and Windows, so you’re not actually gaining anything by buying a Mac, it’ll still run roughly the same too. Final Cut is now kind of loathed so a lot of people have shifted to Adobe Premiere which is multiplatform
Actually, with the prices of Apple products in Japan, its cheaper than a computer of roughly equal spec in my country.
I agree they aren’t great for gaming, but I mainly play games on Xbox, and the mac app store will eventually become good for games.
I plan on making an app or two, so thats another reason I bought a Mac. I agree with kanjiman that they have different specialties and it depends what you use the machine for, but I find the mac os more streamlined.
Mac is not worth it in my opinion. Even for graphic design and video editing it’s still way over priced. Out of curiosity I went to look at a Macbook pro to check it’s hardware specs. I within the last 2 months built my first desktop and it cost me less than this Macbook. http://goo.gl/XefEs
Mac can’t do silly stuff like this though. http://goo.gl/n57ZF :D
On the other hand, if I had Mac I probably wouldn’t get distracted from homework so often.
Of course you can build a desktop better and cheaper than a MacBook, you can do the same with Windows desktops and laptops…any Alienware laptop for example can easily be beaten by a custom desktop machine for cheaper.
They’re worth it for the laptops unless you are seriously tied to certain apps on Windows. (that you couldn’t just run in a VM)
@Mark I don’t think the App Store will ever be good unless they add DirectX to OS X. Games on OS X run so bad compared to Windows, SC2 on my old MacBook ran very smooothly on high under Windows, then on OS X even medium was a struggle.
mac is much cleaner and easier to use, virus free, much better for musicians/photographers/video editors/etc… for me, i HIGHLY prefer mac over windows
but its understandable if some people just wanna play games on their pc…. then windows will be better. or if you dont wanna spend as much
@yggbert yeah i use my windows partition for SC2, then my osx for everything else
Mac ain’t virus free – sadly
From just 6 days ago:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/04/mac-os-x-report-virus-infects-600000-computers/“People used to say that Apple computers, unlike Windows PCs, can’t ever be infected — but it’s a myth,” Timur Tsoriev, an analyst at the Kaspersky Lab in Russia, told the BBC.
That is true, I don’t mind not running an AV on my Mac, mostly because I never do any downloading from newsgroups/torrents so the chances of me getting a virus are pretty slim, so long as you use a decent web browser eh.
tbh I could probably just remove my AV on Windows and get along fine, but as there’s sooooooo many more viruses out there for Windows I’ll keep it just in case.
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Luke.
I’ve owned Mac, Windows, and Linux computers, and they each have their own place. I think people like to play up their differences a lot, but it relies so heavily on personal preference that I don’t think it really matters. Heck, I’m not really sure which is my favorite!
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