PC or Mac?

[Wombat]

I am amphibious.

I have a PC at home ... but my sister has a Mac. At work we have both. I bounce back and forth between both of these systems and at least four different OS iterations.

So, yeah, I like to stay flexible.

 

[Obryn]

PC. I've built my own PC computer in the past (twice) for about 1/2 of what I would have bought a new computer for and gotten more power because of it.

This.

I have nothing against Macs, apart from their price. They're good, solid machines, and better for quite a few applications. For some people, they're a very good choice. I'm not one of those people, though.

I like building my PCs, choosing each and every component, and having near-total control over everything that goes into it. $800 + a single evening of enjoyable labor gave me the same quality hardware I'd need to pay well over $2,000 for, if I'd bought a Mac. I also have more upgrade paths available, have a wider variety of software at my fingertips, and can get my hands dirty in the OS if I really feel like it.

Also, while Vista was a train-wreck when it was first released due to some poor decisions and horrendous driver issues, right now it's a rock-solid, high-performance OS with immensely better security than XP. You just need a modern system for it. Windows 7 promises to be even better, right out the gate.


Anyway, building a Hackintosh also sounds like a lot of fun to me. I might do that at some point in the future, too.

-O

 

[Obryn]

Interesting: at this time nearly 24% either use a Mac, or use both and prefer the Mac. That's the sort of market share that DDI should pay attention to when deciding what to support.*

*assuming that ration holds up.

I'm not positive about that.

If I were writing programs that I know people wanted to run, I would look at...

PC + Both (prefer PC) + Both (prefer Mac) vs. Mac

and

Mac + Both (prefer Mac) + Both (prefer PC) vs. PC


I'd be a lot more interested in the possible user base than anything else.

-O

 

[Ktulu]

PC - Tried out a mac in high school and promptly started bringing my own laptop to class.

I think they're solid systems, but I grew up using PC from the latter days of DOS and early days of Windows. I'm comfortable and happy with the system I use. (That, and I don't have to dual-boot for the Character Builder)

 

[jaerdaph]

Both PC (WinXP 4evar!) and Mac, but use the PC more.

 

[catsclaw227]

I'm a PC user almost exclusively.

I don't mind Macs, but I feel like their users, in general, are more vocally anti-PC than PC users are vocally anti-Mac, and this attitude rubs me the wrong way.

I am not a huge Vista fan, but it has stabilized and improved a lot since first release, and Windows 7 is a great upgrade and should appeal to the XP crowd. I installed the RTM last night and I dig it.

I like to tweak as well. My current PC and my local server were cobbled together with parts and I was able to build TWO systems faster than my buddies new MacBook pro and for less money.

He just can't do that with his Mac. (yes, I have a PC laptop too, and that one is 2 years old and still pretty fast.)

 

[Dykstrav]

I still miss playing chickens as instruments in Jam Session for the IIgs:

That's AWESOME. I'd use an application that allowed me to improvise instruments from livestock. Too bad that turkey in the straw is the only thing I'd want to play.

 

[Belorin]

I can use either, but am a slave to finance, can only afford PC.


Bel

 

[Aeolius]

That's AWESOME. I'd use an application that allowed me to improvise instruments from livestock. Too bad that turkey in the straw is the only thing I'd want to play.

Apple is missing out, by not producing "Barnyard Animals" and "Bodily Functions" Jam Packs

 

[Mistwell]

PC, since there was such a thing as a PC. I actually learned to program on a computer that had no screen or keyboard. Just switches, lights, and eventually a printer (played Hunt the Wumpus on it). And after that, I learned on punch-cards. Old School Computing FTW!

I have nothing against Macs, except the price. They are overpriced for the components you are getting, in my opinion. I find often that, if people are wealthy enough to buy a Mac, they tend to have enough money to buy the software and/or hardware upgrades needed to be able to also run Windows on a Mac. And those that cannot afford said upgrades I think are in the minority of Mac users, which is already a vast minority of computer users.

Hence why making software that works just on Windows is a logical business decision.