Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
My Tech Sensei will hopefully be able to look at this cursed thing tonight. (Yeah, thanks for all the Apple digs. I’m trying to pay my bills with no freaking job, and you’re telling me I should get a Mac. Very helpful.)
I might be down for a while, just so you know.
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Play th lotto, its what I do. Its tough not having a job and getting your ambitions crushed twice a week. (Wednesday & Saturday) If I won the lotto, I’d buy a nice house and invest the money and live off the interest and/or winnings in the stock market, mutuals funds, etc. Then after I earned a degree in political science I’d go to law school. From law school I’d go kick some conservative Republican ass!
If I win tonight I’ll give ya a big donation.
for an apple computer.
Would someone please tell me the reasons a Mac is better than a PC. I’ve gotten different views from assorted computer gurus. Mac is much more expensive, and I’ve never used one, so I don’t know how difficult it is to use it. Also, if I get one, what is the best Mac to get? Thanks, Jerry.
When I win the lottery, I’ll buy Susie a G5 dual 2.7! Anyways, Jerry, in my layman’s understanding: the basic difference is that the Mac OS was designed from the beginning as a GUI (graphic user interface, which means you can move a mouse around on the screen and point and click,) whereas Windows built a GUI on an older OS which was text based: anything you wanted to do had to be typed in. In consequence, Windows needs more CPU speed to do the same thing as a Mac, and has a lot of possible conflicts leading to the famous “blue Screen of Death”. A second point: Windows are designed for office environments where many units will be controlled by the tech dept. Macs are more single user oriented. This means that Windows PCs by default, allow authorized people on the same network into them. Macs don’t. Since many home PCs are on cable modems, they are on a huge network (the internet), and have a lot of vulnerablities, leading to the installation of spyware, etc. The convergance of operating systems has made a Mac and a PC about the same to operate (I should get flamed by some Mac supporters for that…) If you’re just doing usual home stuff, an I-Mac or E-Mac are fine. If, like me, you do heavy graphics, G-5 towers are the way to go.
send me your address and I will send you a check. I am unemployed and soon to be homeless, but you, my friend, need to be heard. I am serious, I could give a crap about all the rotten things in my life if I can help you. I am not desperate yet. Maybe I will ask for the favor to be returned someday, but I doubt it.
Goodpoint, Azbob.
There are millions of people starving & homeless yet we are discussing computers and trivial shit. How naive of me. Sometimes it is nice to express your ambitions loosely with strangers.
Perhaps if I did win that money I would be greedy and keep it to myself because the world is a cynical place and from prosperity comes a lessening of human kindness, sometimes. If I did win that money though, Azbob, and I knew you personally, I’d help you.
It’s a cynical world and we’ve all contributed our cynical remarks to encourage it.
Macs are better, from my experience with them, because they crash and freeze much less than Windows-based machines. A Mac at a particular chip speed will download things and just do things faster than a Windows machine at the same (or even faster) chip speed.
I bought a G4 running at 566 MHz in 2001. It lasted with constant usage until this year (2005), then something happened and the only thing we could see on the monitor was a shiny flat-line. I don’t know what the problem could be, but because I’m low income and the Mac’s warranty is long gone, I went to Goodwill and spent $250 on a used refurbished Windows box running 98. I had to keep my roommate supplied with Internet somehow, since as the network guy for our three-roommate place I have that responsibility.
My roommate who was using the Mac misses it terribly and wishes I would spend money on another Mac. I wish I had it to spend.
Macs have better design, and are made of better components that don’t break down. It is incredibly easy to open a Mac, for example. Most PCs are a pain in the ass to open.
The downsides to Macs are: sharing software with non-Mac users (you have to have Mac software for Macs-most PC software doesn’t work on Macs), and Macs are expensive. But they are expensive because they are more user-friendly, more powerful, better looking, and last longer.
If we weren’t poor we’d buy Macs, but we’re poor, so we buy old PCs from Goodwill, and I spend hours and hours on tech support phone calls when the dang things break down, trying to get routers and stuff to work. With Mac it’s easier — just use Airport. Much easier than any PC router.
If you buy a Mac, do not ever buy extended warranties from CompUSA. Their extended warranty for Macs is more expensive than the Apple Care warranty and is terrible.
True. Macs crash less often. But PCs have become much more reliable, especially with Windows 2000/XP Pro. Current PC up-time is 39 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 5 seconds.
False. Macs are not always faster than Windows PCs. It depends on what you’re doing. If it’s creative stuff like photo editing (PhotoShop), audio editing (Pro Tools, Logic), video editing (Premiere, Final Cut Pro), desktop publishing (Quark, InDesign), etc., then a Mac is still a little faster. For other stuff (games, office stuff, etc.), a PC is probably faster. But with dual core processors now available, Apple’s starting to lose the speed race. Explains why Apple are moving to Intel processors next year, because PowerPC chips are losing their speed advantage.
Better desgn? Yes. Better components? No. Macs and PCs use standard off-the-shelf components now (i.e. hard drives, RAM, video cards, etc.). The only thing different is the CPU and motherboard.
The real reason Macs break down less often is because Apple has complete control over the design of their computers… From the chips that go in them down to the software. With PCs, you have different drivers from different companies, and they can conflict with one another. Since Apple controls everything, there are no conflicts.
Partially true. While a PC cannot run Mac software, a Mac can run PC software if you have Virtual PC (albeit slowly).
Expensive? You can get a Mac mini for only $499.
Macs have been historically more expensive because:
1) Apple gets away with charging more for them.
2) Apple’s the only player in town (i.e. You can’t run Mac OS on any other computer).
3) Of the design.
4) There are less companies manufacturing components that go inside of Macs (i.e. Mac sales are less than PC sales. As a result, Motorola and IBM have to charge more per chip because they can’t make money from volume sales like Intel can).
Longer lasting? Not really. I have a Dell from Feb. 1999 (Pentium III @ 500MHz) that’s still running strong.
My reasons for preferring a Mac:
1) No viruses or spyware to deal with.
2) Macs are more secure
3) OS X is a much more stable OS (crashes less often) because of it’s Unix foundation.
4) Macs don’t have a registry.
5) Macs just work (thanks to Apples tight control over their computers, the manufacturing Q&A, etc.)
6) The beautiful design.
Thanks very much for this information.