Mac users & PC users

[furie]

Mac users, why do you use a mac? Did you have a bad experience with windows that turned you off?
And PC users, why do you not use a mac? is it too alien? Afraid of the bright colors, prefer just beige?

I'm just wondering. I mainly use a mac because it's what I've always had. I'm just used to them. I find them more comfortable and the OS more stable.


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[DJEvelEd]

At my job we have always had problems projecting the image from macs. We needed to use an adapter with dip switches. The newer models have fixed this glitch. My friend uses Final Cut Pro on mac and says I can't use it on pc. Why not? Arent pc's as good? I have a love/hate relationship with my pc. I use it for MIDI

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[TooCute]

I use a mac becasue I have always used a mac.

The only times I have ever really used PCs are when people
I know who are computer retards can't figure out how to
do things like add a mouse or get programs to work and
shit. It's a pain in the ass on PCs. I guess it is easier now
though. But why do I want to use something that was
made to look like a mac when I can use the real thing?

Also in a world where people use PCs and Macs, it is a lot
easier to be a Mac user when I occasionally need to get
things onto a PC than vice versa.

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[FollowThisLogic]

I don't use Macs because of screwy posting problems, as shown by TooCute's post directly above. :)

Actually, I've just been using PC's forever, since my dad's 8086. I have used Macs, but never really got into them, because every MacOS before OS X was horribly crash-prone. I used to work in a shared cubicle with 3 Macs (dual G4's running OS 9.1 I think) and they'd crash all the time, while I'd be happily working on my 266-MHz laptop running Windows 2000, without a crash.

However, if I did have a bunch of free cash floating around, I'd think about looking into a new TiBook. Not before buying a laptop PC, though. :)

Another thing about PC's over Macs - PC's have a wider range of software made for them, especally games.

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[furie]

odd. I never had a crash problem with my old G3 mac. I was running OS 8.6.

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[TooCute]

I don't know about the newest powerbooks, but the first
couple of incarnations of them were total fall apart piece of
shit piles of crap. I still use my powerbook and it is the
sturdiest computer I have ever used which is pretty
important to me at least because I have dogs and shit that
are always drooling on it and stepping on it and knocking it
on the floor and stuff. It doesn't seem to mind too much. I
also don't play games on my computer so that's not an
issue.

Since I've been running OS X, it's never crashed on me.
But my old OS's never really crashed on me that often
either.


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[FollowThisLogic]

Well, maybe it was just because these guys were doing high-end graphics work... not uncommon for them to have Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark Xpress all open at the same time. Add in the fact that they were working with huge files over a network, and I guess it spelled disaster. I can't remember a day going by without a reboot somewhere in the middle of it. So I guess that turned me off - but as I said, OS X, being FreeBSD-based, got me interested again.

On OS 9 and below, did you guys notice that if you were working on a file over the network, and that network connection was interrupted - even momentarily, like a quick unplug/re-plug of the cable - the whole machine would crash? I ran into that one a few times.

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[TooCute]

Hm, no I never noticed that. My computer would get
confused but I don't recall it crashing. The one thing I
remember that ALWAYS made it crash was trying to play
Beyond Dark Castle. But taht's because it was a game for
like the Mac II and I was trying to do it on a Performa (back
in the day when that was like top of the line).

My mom has a iMac, a grape colored one (so it was like the
second generation) and it likes to crashes if you try to do
something like open an app or a file while it is trying to do
something like save a big photoshop document or
whatever.

I've had a few websites that crashed my browser, and my
VCD player has a tendency to stall out on me, but it
doesn't crash the system.

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