Macs and PCs Which do you like better and why?

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:42 am

Ok this was inspice by a convo going on it Word Association thread.

Dice599 · Post by **Dice599** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:43 am

Timeless your into the polls lately huh?

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:46 am

We have had similar threads in the past..

I love Apple Computer. I use a Windows PC, but I want something better. For the field that I will be entering in the near future, I need to have experience on a Mac because some of the most powerful digital audio editing tools (ProTools), are ONLY available on the Macintosh platform. I use Cool Edit Pro 2.0 on my Windows XP Pro-based machine since that is what we use in our digital audio classes. CEP is not available on the Macintosh platform however.

For me, the best thing would be the combination of Cool Edit Pro on a Windows-based PC, and ProTools on a PowerMac for my more extreme editing. If only you could understand how long it takes to process a vinyl for CD burning..

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:49 am

I only started 3........
Ok I like PC better. Mainly because that is what the world uses. Also they are fimiler to me and in the earily days they did not tick me off like the macs I used did because those earily macs like to lock up on me all the time and they lack a defrag program which only add to the problem (which reminds me I need to defrag this computer). Also PC have more software out for them right now and since XP came out they are much more stable than they used to me.

Side story: A friend of mine is a huge mac lover. He has just gottes a G4 with OS 9 on it and he was braging to me how stable it was and how it never locks up. Well right when he open it first program it crashed and lock up on him. I just fell over laughing.

ImmortalDragon · Post by **ImmortalDragon** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:49 am

PC, I never got used to Macs

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:50 am

WEBTV ALL THE WAY!!!! w00000000!!!!

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Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:51 am

Yes I agree for art work and vidio edit it all macs but since my furture job going to be engineering which is all math and stuff PC run that world and PC are better at it than macs.

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:53 am

Timelessblur wrote:Side story: A friend of mine is a huge mac lover. He has just gottes a G4 with OS 9 on it and he was braging to me how stable it was and how it never locks up. Well right when he open it first program it crashed and lock up on him. I just fell over laughing.

OS 9 wasn't terribly stable actually. If he had OS X, that wouldnt've happened. I have a friend with OS X on his iMac, and he's never had any problems with it.

ZildjianB · Post by **ZildjianB** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:54 am

PCs all the way. More power & flexibility for less $$!!

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:55 am

Yeah I read about that and I know. The guy in the paper almost makes me sick when ever he goes on and on about Mac and OS X. I want to know more bout PC since that all I ever us. But still you got to say it funny when that happens. Kind of like when Bill Gate was introducing Window 98

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:59 am

ZildjianB wrote:PCs all the way. More power & flexibility for less $$!!

A Mac will last up to three times as long as a PC and still perform well enough to be considered fast.

More money up front, but less in the long run.

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:02 am

DADINK13 wrote:
ZildjianB wrote:PCs all the way. More power & flexibility for less $$!!
A Mac will last up to three times as long as a PC and still perform well enough to be considered fast.

More money up front, but less in the long run.

Isnt that because mac are not upgrading as fast a PC. Hell a I rember when 1 ghz was top of the line (I got my pc and a 1 ghz whe nthe highest you could get 1.2 ghz) and now I got a lap to that 2ghz

ZildjianB · Post by **ZildjianB** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:05 am

DADINK13 wrote:A Mac will last up to three times as long as a PC and still perform well enough to be considered fast.

I've never seen a Mac last three times as long as any of my PCs, but anything is possible (of course, all of my PCs are immaculate

).

Performing "well enough" is just not up to my standards for a computer

... I require the best of the best.

DADINK13 · Post by **DADINK13** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:07 am

Timelessblur wrote:Isnt that because mac are not upgrading as fast a PC. Hell a I rember when 1 ghz was top of the line (I got my pc and a 1 ghz whe nthe highest you could get 1.2 ghz) and now I got a lap to that 2ghz

Speed Comparison:
PowerMac G4 with dual 1.25GHz PowerPC chips will outperfom Intel's latest P4 chip. The 1GHz PowerBook laptop I want will outperform my 1.7GHz P4 machine--and I've had this chip for about 15 months. It's all in the way they build and design the hardware to work.

Go here for more information:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/processor.html

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:08 am

ZildjianB wrote:
DADINK13 wrote:A Mac will last up to three times as long as a PC and still perform well enough to be considered fast.
I've never seen a Mac last three times as long as any of my PCs, but anything is possible (of course, all of my PCs are immaculate ).

Performing "well enough" is just not up to my standards for a computer ... I require the best of the best.

that makes me think of the PC that they have in Feb 03 popular science. That think rock. Tommorrow I post the speaks on that thing. but all I can say it rocks and it has the best of best of most of the componacts you can get

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