Mac or PC?

[TwinBahamut]

I use a Mac. I just like them better, probably because they are easier to use and more reliable for me. I don't play games on the computer, either (that is what consoles are for, after all), so that angle is unimportant to me.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

We use Macs in the FDG office.

 

[Slider Wade]

Both. I have a simple PC for all my non-video editing needs and a Mac for my video-editing needs.

 

[Steve Jung]

Intel iMac here at home. Some sort of PC at work.

 

[ssampier]

PC. I use Windows XP at home, laptop and desktop. I am considering a Linux netbook. I use Red Hat Linux and Debian at work, but I never use the GUI.

 

[Dumnbunny]

I use a PC because I enjoy gaming and the occasional multi-button mouse.

Macs support multi-button mice. You can buy pretty much any USB or Bluetooth mouse off the shelf and use it with a Mac.

I'd only buy a PC because I want to play games and use Linux.

To play games on one of my Macs I boot into Windows XP using Bootcamp, which works quite well. I'm able to play LotRO and Warhammer with the graphics maxed out. And with VMWare Fusion, I'm able to run Windows sessions within OSX, as well as any Intel flavour of Linux. I have Ubuntu set up, as well as Arch Linux and OpenBSD. What's really cool is running all of these at the same time, including a couple Windows XP sessions. It makes testing a web application's cross-brower compatibility much easier.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I use both, but Mac is my workhorse. I only use PC based machines if forced to...and I'm rarely forced to.

Given the way I use my machines, if Mac goes out of business in my lifetime, there will still be a several year lag between Mac going under and my buying a WinTel machine.

(For the record, of the 10+ gamers I hang out with, I'm the sole Mac user.)

 

[TheLe]

I am a PC user exclusively.

That being said, there is plenty of room for PCs and MACs in this world. For the business world and gaming, the PC is the way to go. For style and ease of use, MACs are king.

It all comes down to preference.

That being said, Apple has done very well with its "I'm a Mac/PC" commercials for a while, but now it is starting to feel backlash. Those commercials ended up reinforcing elitist attitudes of mac users, making those core users very happy, but at the same time it's making the rest of us hate them for those same reasons.

I rather like Microsoft's answer (albeit very late) with their "I'm a PC" commercials. It makes people feel good about being a PC.

~Le

 

[Plane Sailing]

I use a PC at the moment (and have done for a couple of decades or so), although my next computer will be a Mac (for ease of developing websites and software for both the PC and the Mac world - it will give me a foot in both camps via bootcamp/parallels)

Cheers

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I rather like Microsoft's answer (albeit very late) with their "I'm a PC" commercials. It makes people feel good about being a PC.

~Le

Much as I prefer PC, I have to be fair: I think those MS ads are dumb. It was too late, and even if it did everything intended, all it ends up accomplishing is re-butting the other guy's ad. In other words, they're completely defensive in nature, while Mac's ads stay on offense.

Also, I think Mac did a pretty good retort with the whole "advertising, advertising, advertising, fix Vista, advertising..." money allocation commercial. Course, all the times those Mac ads air, they're clearly shelling a lot into advertising themselves, which kind of contradicts their whole attack. I have absolutely no faith in the vast majority of TV viewers to think long enough to pick up on that paradox, though, so...well done, Apple.