Posted on 05/26/2009 11:04:51 AM PDT by Gomez
I’ve never had a problem with a PC.
Macs are nice, but expensive for what they are.
And, candidly, their commericials bother me.
Kids and grandparents, actually - or anyone willing to trade scalability, flexibility and cost for simple computing
...or, yes, people who just want to make a statement and be different, like many homosexuals.
PC’s power the world.
>and I’m through with Windows.
Windows Vista is a great example of how to make an unusable system... heck, it almost rivals the Linux machines the CS department had a few years ago.
I use a PC, but think that the right tool should be used for the job. Anyone who has a religious fervor about a piece of hardware needs to have their head examined.
That, and I'd love to see whoever came up with that pompous, snarky, "Hi, I'm a PC / I'm a Mac" set of commercials get tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
PCs are losing steam ...
Religious fervor is your characterization. But I do like to have a piece of machinery which works reliably.
That is NOT a PC. I’d love to kick my office PC out the window. It’s a piece of cr*p.
Have you been to an Apple store lately? One just opened near me, I went in and needed to leave. They're all drinking the same flavor of KoolAid.
It's a computer, for Pete's sake. Not a "lifestyle" or "religion".
I’d still like it to work reliably. A PC simply does not.
“I use a PC, but think that the right tool should be used for the job. Anyone who has a religious fervor about a piece of hardware needs to have their head examined.”
Amen!
>That, and I’d love to see whoever came up with that pompous, snarky, “Hi, I’m a PC / I’m a Mac” set of commercials get tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
LOL - Awesome.
>I use a PC, but think that the right tool should be used for the job. Anyone who has a religious fervor about a piece of hardware needs to have their head examined.
I think you and I agree on this. The reason, IMO, that people can say that PCs are “losing steam” is because OSes are, quite frankly, disappointing.
The Macs did one thing right: they designed the OS with the end-user in mind. However, they kept the hardware closed and disallow you to use your own hardware.
Windows, with it’s Vista releases, shows the folly of embracing the style-w/o-substance or “just make it look good” mentalities to OS design. {I mean it’s pretty sad that to bring a new laptop to a grinding-slow pace is just to open two instances of Windows Media Player.}
Unix/Linux show very good examples of how NOT to design the OS. They’re labyrinthine and convoluted as only that with utter disregard to interfaces can be. (I’m speaking as a programmer here.) The “everything is a file” mindset is horrible; your monitor is not a file, nor is your hard-disk.
Maybe Windows is losing steam - PC’s are not. You have a multitude of options for what you want to run on a PC. Hell, they can even run MacOS (Hackintosh), if you want. Try that on a Mac.
Mac’s are the democrats of the computing world - “Do everything for me and don’t bother me with the details, however much I have to pay”, while PC’s give you the freedom to use it however you see fit for a bargain price.
that is the problem with mac. it has one “theme” or style and that is it.
Yes, I know. The one thing I know about PC owners is they are tight wads ,,, cheap skates!
Sometimes you don’t always get what you pay for. Look at the porkulus bill, and health care is right around the corner. :-)
MAC’s rule! MAC is the original work horse.
PCs are advancing somewhat.
“Macs are overpriced and a closed architecture.”
Well I can crash anything, believe me, my PC shudders when I even enter the room, I have ‘crashed a program or two on my Mac, but NEVER had to do the ole “ctrl, alt,Del dance on it yet. As far as overpriced, I have a 2.4gig Macbook with 4 gigs mem, 150 gig harddrive, got Fusion software and a laptop bag, and IWork 09, and Ilife 09 upgrade for about 970.00 after rebates..soooo..And yes I still run XP on it, and it runs better than ever..but to each their own.
Macs will never beat PCs straight up in market share because of the closed hardware. No IT department in the world will give a vendor the kind of control Apple wants with macs.
Except with Macs, you do. Great machines. I still have all 5 I’ve bought and they all still work.
Our office is PCs although we may try a conversion to Macs dues to Pc’s vulnerability to viruses.
A PC is a hideous thing to work with. I work on them 8 to 10 houes a day. And sigh with relief when I come home to my Mac. Bet you don’t work on both platforms 8 hours daily.
You sit, content with your Bill Gates box.
“IWork 09, and Ilife 09 upgrade. “ You just made the point. Why should you need to buy an “upgrade” just to do normal work?
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