PC or MAC ???

[tip top toker]

Apple like to use proprietry components and firmware, just to try and ensure that you upgrade through them, and not through ebay. Then on top of that they throw a couple hundred bucks, just to make it seem like there must really be a difference between Apple RAM and any other stick of ram on the market.

But you want to know just what a ripoff a mac is?

Add a 1Tb harddrive to your PC - £50
Add a 1Tb harddrive to your MAC - £120

The difference between a 2tb drives is £75 as opposed to £240

I could then compare the RAM, displayus, optical drives, mice etc, every single one is overpriced cus they know that the buyer has NO clue on real life so will pay whatever apple tell them makes them cool as candyyy

 

[sn00ze]

Quite a high proportion of MAC users (37.5% when i voted) relative to the world (about 5% os users in world are mac).
Draw your own conclusions.

 

[tip top toker]

Quite a high proportion of MAC users (37.5% when i voted) relative to the world (about 5% os users in world are mac).
Draw your own conclusions.

That lots of stoners are vain and image concious?

 

[BoomerBloomer57]

pc since 87.

MacBookPro 15 since 08

The money dumped into p/c's for this and that far outweighs the cost of my Mac.

3 Desktop's with vista and two laptops running vista.

and yet I'm on the MacBookPro 98% of the time.

Publishing, photos and movies is what I use the MacBookPro for and it kicks arse.

I spend more time "fixing" the pc's cause the wife ain't a real whiz.

In three years all I've done is upgrade to the latest OS X 10.6.7
It's never crashed. Never been in the shop.

Yeah, I like my Mac.

Every pc i own has been to the shop at least twice.

bb57
Mac me Baby,,,,,,,,,

 

[see4]

Mac - hands down winner. And Im not an Apple snob. In fact I don't like Apple as a company at all - But I have never had an issue with my Macs and at least once or twice a year have to either reconfigure or reinstall Windows on my PCs. The only PC that runs consistent for me, is my Windows 7 Ultimate that I am using as an HTPC. And even then, I can't get it to do exactly what I want.

 

[see4]

Apple like to use proprietry components and firmware, just to try and ensure that you upgrade through them, and not through ebay. Then on top of that they throw a couple hundred bucks, just to make it seem like there must really be a difference between Apple RAM and any other stick of ram on the market.

But you want to know just what a ripoff a mac is?

Add a 1Tb harddrive to your PC - £50
Add a 1Tb harddrive to your MAC - £120

The difference between a 2tb drives is £75 as opposed to £240

I could then compare the RAM, displayus, optical drives, mice etc, every single one is overpriced cus they know that the buyer has NO clue on real life so will pay whatever apple tell them makes them cool as candyyy

Nope. You can install your own HD or RAM -- I recently bought the Macbook Pro with 4GB ram -- I spent $80 and bought 8GB corsiar RAM and installed it myself. And now I has 4GB RAM I can sell on craigslist for probably the same I paid for 8GB --- If you know what you are doing, you can spend virtually the same to get a top notch Mac as you can get an equivalent PC....

 

[see4]

Now its not even a question of os .... Plus no-one has ever used a mac case to grow in. lol

That's because the older Mac's still work and are usable, whereas the older PC's are only good for one thing; gutting and turning into a grow case.

 

[tip top toker]

MAc: quad core 2.8ghz cpu, 3gb ram, 1tb hdd, ati 5770 - £2041 that's not even with a display. That is the abse model mac pro, you can't do it cheaper than that no matter how much you know unless you snag a deal on ebay.

£2000 would get you one of the fastest home or office computers money can buy. The above apple computer is a pile of utter shite, £2000+ and you don't even get 4gb of ram or a worthwhile graphics card?

Good to hear that more parts are possbile to be installed without having to buy specific apple certified models.

 

[see4]

MAc: quad core 2.8ghz cpu, 3gb ram, 1tb hdd, ati 5770 - £2041 that's not even with a display. That is the abse model mac pro, you can't do it cheaper than that no matter how much you know unless you snag a deal on ebay.

£2000 would get you one of the fastest home or office computers money can buy. The above apple computer is a pile of utter shite, £2000+ and you don't even get 4gb of ram or a worthwhile graphics card?

Good to hear that more parts are possbile to be installed without having to buy specific apple certified models.

Holy cow! Apple is really taking it to the British!! ~$3000US will get you a 17 Macbook Pro with all the bells and whistles including 2tb hdd, 1gb video, 2.8 i7 qc, 8gb ram

but yes, I hear what you are saying, you could take $3000US and build yourself one bad ass PC -- but it wont be as nice looking and it wont be built as tight -- and for me, the OS makes all the difference.

 

[BlackBuddha]

I've been using nothing but PCs so far but my next laptop will be a Mac (this summer).
Just need to try it and I can get good prices for them. I am actually checking if all my softwares work on MAC (especially my games).

If I don't like it I'll just sell it when necessary.

 

[BL0TT0]

I'm interested to know how many people voted PC, and are still using the same PC they voted on. I am still using the same mac book I voted with.

 

[tip top toker]

Holy cow! Apple is really taking it to the British!! ~$3000US will get you a 17 Macbook Pro with all the bells and whistles including 2tb hdd, 1gb video, 2.8 i7 qc, 8gb ram

but yes, I hear what you are saying, you could take $3000US and build yourself one bad ass PC -- but it wont be as nice looking and it wont be built as tight -- and for me, the OS makes all the difference.

This is for a mac not macbook, think the macbook you mention comes in around £2000 so still a touch more although i imagine your price is before sales tax?

As to building it, well, i think mine kicks the arse in looks, both of them, it is as solid as a rock, i could happily stand on it without a single issue, i mean 5mm single piece aluminium, doesn't come much more sturdy than that. as to the OS, well i can install apple onto all of my computers so i've never seen a reason to buy apple hardware. And the pc, including the watercooling didn't come in at anywhere near £2000, more like £1000. With regard to a laptop, you can buy a laptop for significantly cheaper with specs that will utterly and totally anhialate the macbook pro, i mean just look at that graphics card on the macbook, i'd swear it was a mistake if i din't know what apple was like.

Why would i not be using the same pc? pc#'s don't just break unless the user is mentally challeneged or you tried to be a cheapskate and bought the cheapest thing you could possbily find. The whole concept of pc's always breaking is amusing as fook, if you research what you're buying you get what you purchase. One of my laptops is a decade old, another is even older than that, they both work exactly as they did when i got them.

 

[see4]

This is for a mac not macbook, think the macbook you mention comes in around £2000 so still a touch more although i imagine your price is before sales tax?

As to building it, well, i think mine kicks the arse in looks, both of them, it is as solid as a rock, i could happily stand on it without a single issue, i mean 5mm single piece aluminium, doesn't come much more sturdy than that. as to the OS, well i can install apple onto all of my computers so i've never seen a reason to buy apple hardware. And the pc, including the watercooling didn't come in at anywhere near £2000, more like £1000. With regard to a laptop, you can buy a laptop for significantly cheaper with specs that will utterly and totally anhialate the macbook pro, i mean just look at that graphics card on the macbook, i'd swear it was a mistake if i din't know what apple was like.

Why would i not be using the same pc? pc#'s don't just break unless the user is mentally challeneged or you tried to be a cheapskate and bought the cheapest thing you could possbily find. The whole concept of pc's always breaking is amusing as fook, if you research what you're buying you get what you purchase. One of my laptops is a decade old, another is even older than that, they both work exactly as they did when i got them.

I hear ya man. I used to be the same way, strictly PC. But gradually I've become lazy, and I find myself having to do less work with Mac's than I do with PC's -- in fact, my house now consists of 2 PCs, 1 of which is a perm HTPC, the other is a debian box that I use for local development. But then I have 3 mac's, 2 ipads, 2 apple tv's, and 2 iphones.. never had an issue with any of them. ( Oh crap.. Im starting to sound like an Apple fanboy! )

 

[tip top toker]

Haha, quit while you're ahead before i start ridiculing you you sound like a normal person who just uses what works best for them, not what looks best althouhg i'll happily admit apple macbook pro's look the dogs nuts, regardless of how useful they actually may be. I don't use computers for anything more than internet games and media so i just can't find any justification in the OS or the hardware. at the office i worked in up until yesterday, the whole setup was pc, all systems setup and working across the network, then surprise surprise the lady boss who is just a "look at me look at me look at me i'm so fashionable and glamorous" type, decided that she had to have some iphones and a macbook in the office. Needless to say all the systems ended up totally fucked while we re-jigged with software that was compatible over both, and essentially start from scratch. A female collegaue who's not too computer savvy broke down into floods of tears because she couldn't cope with all the software changes women and electronics, entertainment, was pissing myself laughing yesterday watching a posh trophy wife battering a self serve supermarket unit wwith her loaf of bread because it wouldn't scan

 

[tinyTURTLE]

yes, still using the same PC

though, i will upgrade this summer for battlefield 3.
6 cores with 12gb of ram and this gtx260 to start.
then i'll get a gtx 560.

 

[tip top toker]

yes, still using the same PC

though, i will upgrade this summer for battlefield 3.
6 cores with 12gb of ram and this gtx260 to start.
then i'll get a gtx 560.

I'm waiting on battlefield 3 as well hasn't been a decent game worth upgrading for or waiting for in years. I still run donkey dick hardware in terms of what is now available, and even when new it was middle of the range stuff, but i can't find a game to stress ti with, even crysis 2 runs just perfectly at 1080p and max settings. Even removed my watercooling and gave up on overclocking as the cpu could do everything it needs to at stock.

 

[medicalmaryjane]

oops, I accidently voted mac. I am a PC personf or sure. nothing wrong with macs and I will use them here and there but I don't see a reason to own one myself. I have an awesome Sony Laptop that totally kicks ass and I wouldn't trade it for any mac!!

In my home, fiance and i have 2 PC laptops, 1 PC server, 1 Mac G5, 2 Mac Book Pros... even

 

[mckitteh]

Linux????any one?

 

[neosapien]

Linux????any one?

Me... Ubuntu for the past 5 or so years. Untouchable.

 

[mckitteh]

yeah! i use #!cruchbang check it out its kinda like a stepping stone for ubuntu its a less bulky os and still usr friendly