PC or Mac?

[resistor]

I work for a certain fruit-like company, so... ;-)

 

[Innocent Bystander]

I got my very first Macbook Pro about a month ago and the learning curve has been pretty steep. I can barely remember a lick of unix from my college days so the terminal is still very alien to me.

That being said, it's really nice to have a system that in 20 seconds from hitting the power button, I can start working on. Getting used to the OSX interface isn't much different than it was going from Windows 3.x to 95 and up. It's just different.

I have to run a Windows VM as yes, there's a lot I can't do natively on the Mac, but even Windows in the VM runs so much faster than it does running native on any PC I've gotten my hands on.

 

[billd91]

He's completely right, though. Those figures are not nearly big enough. At most they can show you a very vague tendency.

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Thanee

It's not really the numbers responding, it's the selection bias that will drive the high margin of error in using this as a statistical model of all RPG players. Good, unbiased selection of the survey population makes small numbers very powerful. Biased selection makes even large numbers fairly meaningless.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Mac.

I write software, much of which is deployed to Linux servers, and I used to run Linux as my main workstation OS. When Mac OS X was released, and was an actual UNIX, I gave it and try and liked it a lot. Apple switching to intel CPUs really cemented the deal. I still have occasional need for Windows (e.g. to work on a C# client application) and with virutalization software and an intel-based Mac I can run Windows apps right on my Mac desktop, so that's a non-issue.

I doubt I'd buy anything except for a Mac laptop, but I'd still consider putting together a desktop system with top-flight hardware and running Linux on it. It's just that right now I don't really have a need for that.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

PC desktop with a triple screen set up. G4 Mac laptop running OS 10.5.

Ahh, triple screen must be nice. I only recently started using a double screen arrangement with my MacBook Pro. It's nice, but my main monitor makes my MacBook Pro's display (it's the 17") look tiny. Still, I can definitely see the allure of multiple displays; it's great to be working on the main display and have degbugging, email, music, etc. open on the secondary.

 

[Angellis_ater]

I use 4 PCs at home and they all run Linux. And considering that a "PC" can run the Mac OSX OS, I think it's more of a question what OS you run.

 

[Orius]

PC. I don't like the way Mac markets itself no matter how much more reliable it is, and it's also usually more expensive. If I were to dump Windows, I'd use a Linux box before I'd use a Mac.

 

[jdrakeh]

Well, I understand what you're saying about not being able to freely/easily upgrade, and some of the stuff doesn't have a feature that I prefer, but the quality of the hardware definitely isn't crap.

Ah, yes, that's what I meant. Individual Apple components are fine in the quality department, it's the near total inability to upgrade or replace them that gets me. I understand why Apple computers are designed this way, I just don't like it.

 

[Jupp]

PC's all the way here, it's just not Windows that is running on them

 

[Kzach]

Ah, yes, that's what I meant. Individual Apple components are fine in the quality department, it's the near total inability to upgrade or replace them that gets me. I understand why Apple computers are designed this way, I just don't like it.

That's a generalisation and an incorrect one.

You can upgrade anything in any Mac except for the CPU.

And with a Mac Pro, you have more expansion and upgrade options than you'll ever need.