Mac Vs. Pc Commercials

[tonym]

Is it just me or is that hilarious in light of the commercials being discussed?

That is funny. But probably not uncommon. My household is like that: the Mac is for work and internet; the PC is for play.

Speaking of commercials, the new ones for Hewlett Packard computers are really good--the ones where you don't see the guy's head as he moves his hands around, creating new files and stuff.

Tony M

 

[TogaMario]

I tried to let it be that way, but every Mac I've come in contact with (but one) has been unsuitable for the work I do. 100% of the game art I do for clients is on the PC, and seems to go so much more smoothly (no program delays / save errors / crashes without the ability to recover) than any of the pre-print graphics work I have to do on the Mac. If I could get all the fonts for Windows instead of the Mac, I wouldn't have the Mac at all.

What kind of work do you guys do on your Macs?

Edit: Oh yeah, that commercial is pretty cool.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I am a long time windows user, and build my own systems type guy. I owned a Power Mac for awhile and it was cool. Macs are decent computers, have thier uses, and OSX is nice. However I didn't find it anymore stable than my XP system, which like the 2000 Pro system before that is rock solid.

I eventually ripped the Mac system apart and used its parts to put together a Ubuntu Linux box, the OS that I think I will migrate too after my XP machine becomes obsolete.

 

[Simplicity]

That is funny. But probably not uncommon. My household is like that: the Mac is for work and internet; the PC is for play.

That's how it is with my wife's computer. Mac for work... PC for games.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

OK, my first PC was a Timex-Sinclair with a cassette drive and a membrane keyboard. An'd I've used punch cards. I looked at color Tandys and Trash-80s with envy. Does that make me old?

 

[Dimwhit]

OK, my first PC was a Timex-Sinclair with a cassette drive and a membrane keyboard. An'd I've used punch cards. I looked at color Tandys and Trash-80s with envy. Does that make me old?

Yes. Yes it does.

 

[drothgery]

I looked at color Tandys and Trash-80s with envy.

My dad brought one of those home when I was in second grade. And I was writing BASIC code not long after that (or at least copying it out of a magazine)

 

[tonym]

...What kind of work do you guys do on your Macs?

Digital art and cartoony stuff. I do the "Zogonia" strip in Dragon and the "Mt. Zogon" strip in Dungeon.

Tony M

 

[TogaMario]

Digital art and cartoony stuff. I do the "Zogonia" strip in Dragon and the "Mt. Zogon" strip in Dungeon.

Tony M

Cool!

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac.
PC: And I'm a PC. Anyways, let's get right down to it. You, Mac, are an a-hole.
Mac: Whaaaaa?
PC: An expensive, featureless, one-button-mouse a-hole. How is that one-button thing working out for you, anyways?
Mac: Oh, it's so much simpl--
PC: SHUTUP! SHUTUP! SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! It's not simpler to hit the apple button or ctrl button or for god's sakes the apple plus control button plus the mouse button to get what you want done. I thought you were some sort of UI whiz or something... Did you cut class on mouse design day or something?
Mac: But the Mac operating system--
PC: Is crap! And if it weren't crap, it'd be supported by companies. Which it isn't. So, suck it, Mac.

(Reposted from Memory after IE on this PC crashed going to the Apple Store, hmmm).

Uh, actually Macs can support two and three button mice, they just don't come standard. But the new wireless Mighty Mouse is an exception. And now the new Intel Macs can run Windows XP without need for an emulator.

I have had fewer problems with Macs than anyother computer out there and I've used them since the day of the TRS-80. I currently have an Athlon AMD homebrew 850, a G4 ibook (my baby), a custom built Gateway a friend of mine gave me (he paid way too much money on it two years ago by clicking every option, it needs a new hard drive), a G3 iMac, and a 540c Powerbook running system 7.1.1 which still works 11 years later (the batteries are long dead though). I wrote 98% of my thesis on a G3 ibook (except for a few graphs I needed from Origin 7.0).

Its also the chosen computer for the scientists at NASA. Part of the reason is that you can run UNIX/Linux applications like IRAF and TEC without installing Red Hat, Mandrake, Ubuntu, or Knoppix on your computer. And part of it is the same problems I've had, its far easier to transfer pictures and graphs from Mac to Mac or Mac to PC than it is to transfer them from PC to PC.