Go back
Macs

Macs

Debates

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rwingett
So you're saying that Macs are for the creative and dynamic computer Übermensch, while PCs are for the common herd who wallow in their bland mediocrity? OK, I can go with that.
If you like, but I'm actually simply saying that there are some things you can do better on a Mac. For everything else, I would go with a PC anytime for a tenth of the price.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by amannion
If you like, but I'm actually simply saying that there are some things you can do better on a Mac. For everything else, I would go with a PC anytime for a tenth of the price.
There are some things you can do incredibly better on a Mac. Everything else you can do marginally better. If there is something you can do better on a PC, then it probably isn't worth doing at all.

Now which would you rather have, a $5 cup of poison, or a $50 filet? I'll let you ponder the price thing a little more.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rwingett
There are some things you can do [b]incredibly better on a Mac. Everything else you can do marginally better. If there is something you can do better on a PC, then it probably isn't worth doing at all.

Now which would you rather have, a $5 cup of poison, or a $50 filet? I'll let you ponder the price thing a little more.[/b]
What a load of rubbish.
I'm sitting at my desk right now doing several things - including writing this.
I'm writing a paper for some students, I've just sent some emails, and I'm doing some web searches.
None of these are suffering because I'm using a PC.
Am I one of the mindless masses you spoke of earlier - or words to that effect?
Maybe, but who cares. I'm doing what I need to do.
A Mac would not help any of these work any faster or better or easier.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by amannion
What a load of rubbish.
I'm sitting at my desk right now doing several things - including writing this.
I'm writing a paper for some students, I've just sent some emails, and I'm doing some web searches.
None of these are suffering because I'm using a PC.
Am I one of the mindless masses you spoke of earlier - or words to that effect?
Maybe, but who car ...[text shortened]... what I need to do.
A Mac would not help any of these work any faster or better or easier.
You can do mathematical computations with both an abacus and a calculator and still arrive at the same answer. Likewise, you can perform your tasks on both a PC and a Mac. But on a PC they would be mindless, soul-crushing drudgery, while on a Mac they would be a sublime joy to perform. The sheer anger seething from your post bears this out. If you had a Mac, you'd be happy all the time. People might like you better, too. But then again...

Vote Up
Vote Down

I use both Mac and PCs extensively. The only reason I bought a Mac was to run Pro Tools in my home recording studio.

As far as creative stuff (i.e. recording and graphic design stuff that my girlfriend does), Mac is in a league of its own.

However, I find the PC easier to use for work related tasks (i.e. Excel, Outlook etc). And games on a Mac really struggle.

Basically, it comes down to personal preference for most people (unless you need it for creative stuff). And just for the record, my Mac has crashed on occasion which I thought would never happen.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rwingett

Now which would you rather have, a $5 cup of poison, or a $50 filet? I'll let you ponder the price thing a little more.
By the time you wade through the antibiotics, the growth hormones the exitotoxins, the stock feed cannibalism, the slaugtherhouse blues, 3D substitution and then weigh up the the carciniginatory apects of cooking, frying, grilling, not to mention the other health risks of its high fat, cholesterol producing heart disease inducing, bowel cancer contributing taste sensation that is fillet steak , and the fact that the waitress just spat on it after she picked it up from the floor, I'll have my $5 poison neat and not kid myself out of $45.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rwingett
You can do mathematical computations with both an abacus and a calculator and still arrive at the same answer. Likewise, you can perform your tasks on both a PC and a Mac. But on a PC they would be mindless, soul-crushing drudgery, while on a Mac they would be a sublime joy to perform. The sheer anger seething from your post bears this out. If you had a Mac, you'd be happy all the time. People might like you better, too. But then again...
If I wanted to be liked more I wouldn't be worried about which computer I used.
Actually, come to think of it, I'm NOT worried about which computer I use.
For me, a computer is a device to do something else - that is, a tool.
If you need a computer to make your life complete or feel joy or whatever all power to you. I have sex and family and good food and a nice film and surfing on a clean wave to do these things for me.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by amannion
If I wanted to be liked more I wouldn't be worried about which computer I used.
Actually, come to think of it, I'm NOT worried about which computer I use.
For me, a computer is a device to do something else - that is, a tool.
If you need a computer to make your life complete or feel joy or whatever all power to you. I have sex and family and good food and a nice film and surfing on a clean wave to do these things for me.
Oh deary me! Perhaps if you had a Mac you wouldn't be so defensive.