leap from dell....TO MAC!

sweet_hitch-hiker said:
i consider a mac if they werent so darned expensive. i can just build my own pc that will do everytihng i want for a considerable amount less
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when I hear this I always liketo usetheexa pleof me and my brother he's gone thru 3 pc's and I'm still on the same mac I bought at about the same time !! Whats more expensive now!! I prefer quality over quanity :) and apples customer service is the best and local , and the same company designed the hardware and software right here in the good old USA!!!
 
I have a Mac and a good PC same price. All the parts are similar. The only difference imo is the OC. on the Mac and the custumer service is USA. The rest is made the same. You need to compare a same price PC. I like them both but I game on the PC
 
ironmike86 said:
I have a Mac and a good PC same price. All the parts are similar. The only difference imo is the OC. on the Mac and the custumer service is USA. The rest is made the same. You need to compare a same price PC. I like them both but I game on the PC
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Well Alien ware is the best game comp- or they were i don't really remember anymore, but i just use the xbox360 to game, let the comp be internet and work: )
 
Yeah I have an xbox360 and Ps3. I online game with xboxlive. I like gaming consoles because it makes an even game play. $4k cpu vs some one withe a $1k can make a difference with equal players. But Alienware uses good parts which someone can put together themselves easily. Alot of ppl I know build theres so they can upgrade them all the time slowly when the parts get cheaper
 
dosidania said:
Well Alien ware is the best game comp- or they were i don't really remember anymore, but i just use the xbox360 to game, let the comp be internet and work: )
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alienware is overpriced imo. you could take a list of the parts in their unit and substitute another tower and have the same thing at a cheaper price.
 
I just tossed my 8 year old Gateway laptop and bought a cheap Toshiba laptop ($439.00)

I don't do anything particularly heavy duty (no cad, no video processing), so maybe I'm different from most. I just use MS Office-tye applications and surf the net.

I used Macs at work back about 15 years ago when worked in marketing. Now, pc does everything I need and does it quite well. Stability has never really seemed to be an issue for me.

I like the looks Apple products, but otherwise, I can't justify the expense (although, I would probably be better received if I wanted to go to Starbucks and fire it up on line).
 
I switched from Windows to Mac earlier this year
grabbed a 13" unibody macbook, specced it out with 4gb of ram, 7200rpm drive, and it flies (i use it to edit pictures on)
also bought a 24" Apple cinema display.
I love my mac, never going to go back to PC
 
I worked in an office once where they gave us G-5's to work on. I hated that machine. I've never used a more unstable piece of crap in my life. Give me a good PC any time.
 
Switched in 2003 and I've never looked back - I used to use Windows at work on a "high-end workstation" everyday [right up until a year ago] and that confirmed I made the right choice. I cannot fathom why people are insistent upon using Windows - none of the old arguments stand-up anymore ...
 
Kbrasmodeler said:
I worked in an office once where they gave us G-5's to work on. I hated that machine. I've never used a more unstable piece of crap in my life. Give me a good PC any time.
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Funny ... for three years I said the exact opposite. :D My quad-core G5 has been ridiculously reliable and insanely fast [for CAD, 3D modeling, Adobe CS Suite etc.]. In that time, I was given three brand new "high-end PC workstations" and they were all garbage. There was absolutely no comparison. The G5 would run circles around any one of those PC workstations with the crappy OS [XP], 3GB RAM limitations, and untested components.
 
If you use a computer to do CAD, 3D modeling, Graphic Design, Graphic intensive tasks etc. and have a lot of money you don't mind throwing away (every few years), get a MAC.

I prefer to build my own PC's and laptops and I'd put any of them up against a MAC for EVERY other application other than those listed above. When the hardware lags behind a generation or two, I'll upgrade it myself rather than replacing the entire kit. But again, when your MAC lags behind, feel free to throw it, and a bunch more money away to buy a new MAC. I'll continue to dual-boot my PC to a Microsoft OS and Unix thank you.

MAC = an over priced "graphics screwdriver".
PC = "the rest of the entire tool box" for less than half the cost.

Sorry if the truth is uncomfortable.:p:D
 
I've used PCs at work for years but used Mac's at home since my first Power Mac 100 (MHz!!) back in 1987. I only know that our IT Dept at work was always busy overhauling broken and infected PCs and I have yet to have one of my Macs fail or need any service that I, an untrained electronics dumbkoph, couldn't perform.

I still have my 1987 Power Mac 100 running on OS 9.4 (with its huge 1 Gig Hard Drive) and it starts up just like magic the few times a year that I use it. My new iMac and MacBook Pro have been running without a hitch since I got them. The switch to Intel processors and OSX has made them even better.
 
Well, it's been a few days now.

I have not broken the iMac ... and the iMac has not broken me.:D

We may yet make a team.:)
 
timcsaw said:
If you use a computer to do CAD, 3D modeling, Graphic Design, Graphic intensive tasks etc. and have a lot of money you don't mind throwing away (every few years), get a MAC.

I prefer to build my own PC's and laptops and I'd put any of them up against a MAC for EVERY other application other than those listed above. When the hardware lags behind a generation or two, I'll upgrade it myself rather than replacing the entire kit. But again, when your MAC lags behind, feel free to throw it, and a bunch more money away to buy a new MAC. I'll continue to dual-boot my PC to a Microsoft OS and Unix thank you.

MAC = an over priced "graphics screwdriver".
PC = "the rest of the entire tool box" for less than half the cost.

Sorry if the truth is uncomfortable.:p:D
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Does not bother me at all.

In my day (long ago), I did much the same. Simply haven't the time anymore. The price of Macs has declined dramatically. I had little difficulty finding one for a very reasonable price.

Of course, upon my inevitable final retirement -- I've no doubt I'll revert to my youthful behavior and simply "roll my own" again.;)
 
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