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I personaly hate macs, I have never once been on a mac that has satisfied me at all. It seems to me that the simpler something is the less it can be configured. Sure it may be easy to set up but you really don't get much of a choice of what you get. Just my personal thought

i prefer PC's for what i do with them, but i'm fully aware that Macs are more powerful...

Exactly what is it that you want to configure?

haha


fallen... macs are just as easy to configure as PCs... you just gotta know how to do it

they were never built so you couldn't configure em... they were meant to be friendly in doing it... and they've succeded in spades

macs are easier to configure.... if you know what you are doing. i have no preference over the 2. it really depends what you are using them for. i us my pc for games, internet and listening to music. macs are far better for various werk. if you want to do video, image, sound editing..... i would never use a pc. it just doesn't werk that well... you can do it with a pc, but it is much more user friendly to use a mac. i use a mac on a regular basis for digital sound recording, mixing and editing. i use a pro tools setup w/ a titanium g4 powerbook to do multi-track live digital recordings of bands. it would be a major pain in my ass to do that with a pc. pro tools is not really pc friendly. you KAN use a pc but it is not worth the head ache.

actually, with video, i'm working with a PC... scary thing is it's a 5 year old PC with 6 year old software... this doesn't do any rendering, but it does all the cutting... It's made by a german company, and it's a full solution, dedicated cards, and a piece of software called Video Machine

BTW, Adobe has switched the preferred platform on Premiere (a really shitty program anyways), Photoshop, Illustrator, After-Effects, and Pagemaker from Macs to PCs... i used to have the link to the press release, but it does seem Macs are losing ground... FAST

like i said, you can use a pc for that stuff.... but i think it is much easier to use a mac. but as long as you aren't having a problem with you pc i wouldn't change a thng.

no, i meant to throw in that this is seriously better than the Macs I've seen doing the same thing...


more powerful, faster, more control, better gui, everything... and it's a 5-year old computer running 2 dedicated boards on ISA and windows 95

it does things better than any solution with Adobe Premiere or Incite... hardware or not

i haven't used a setup like that, so i will just take your word on that and believe you. i'm quite impressed that you get that good of performance using a pc for video editing.

To start off macs blow dogs for quarters..........

The PC is so much more advanced its and cost efficient its not funny, and im talking especially if your a hardcore gamer. The mac has the worst system specs for the money that you pay, and just as well as difficult to upgrade. The PC may be a little more complex than a mac but proves to have more possibilities.

I'm a PC guy... just cus it's all I've used scince like uhhh grade 6(got my 486 that year w00t!) and well I didn't really like the mac os then and even tho I know it has changed probably asmuch as windows has changed from 3.2 -> xp/2k/ect. even tho I am looking at buying the laptop....

PC's for me

Been using PCs since my dad bought a XT when I was 10 or so...

Never touched a Mac in my life, not saying I don't want to, but I afraid of being the Uber-n00b when it comes figuring it out how to work with one ;)

That's a load. Been hanging around too many of your mac-basher friends. The Mac is FAR more advanced in both software and hardware than any PC. The processor is way faster:

http://www.apple.com/g5processor/architecture.html
http://www.apple.com/g5processor/executioncore.html


The system bus architecture is better:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/architecture.html

Which, of course, means you get better overall performance:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

The expandability also is better than most PCs:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/expansion.html

They even go to the length of designing a better overall case for optimum cooling:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html

As for your games:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html

All backed up by a UNIX, open source operating system that has ALL of the developers and programming professionals I know, and I'm in a business so I know a lot of them, switching:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/architecture/

Macs are the only TRUE plug and play computers, also. I haven't installed anything on my mac in over a year that required anything more than plugging it into a USB or Firewire port. By that I mean, the SECOND I plug it in it is ready to go. No hardware install wizard, no software install wizard. No disk to insert. No restart required. Plug in that brand new scanner and when you take your hand off the cord you can scan. I even bought a brand new JVC reciever a year ago. It has a USB port on the front of it. It came with a PC disk and instructions on how to install the software and configure your PC to play through the receiver. There was no mention at all of a mac in any of the documentation. Didn't matter, though, 'cause I just plugged it in and it worked as soon as the plug hit the front of the receiver. Not only that, but I opened up the sound control panel and it said it was playing sound through a JVC RX-9010V receiver. By that I mean, I grabbed the USB cable, plugged it in and it worked the moment the plug was in the port and my Mac knew exactly what it was in that milisecond. No software to install. No disk. Hell, I doubt the people at JVC even thought about Macs when they designed it. But it worked right then. Same with my digital camera. No mention of a Mac in any of the documentation. Not even in the system requirements, but it worked the second I plugged it in. Mac's rule PCs. Anyone who doesn't think so has never used one and is a victim of PC propaganda. I'll leave you with this joke:

On all the viruses out there:

PC User: "God damn all these viruses!"
Unix/Linux user: "Damn. Got a virus. I'll type this and 'poof' it's gone"
Mac user: "What viruses?"

But all your propaganda is from the apple.com site......
I've used both, and just don't like Macs. I've seen the specs. I know they're more powerful, faster, etc, but I don't like the OS as a whole. Personal opinion solely. Call me a fool if you will, but IMO, the Mac vs. PC debate might as well be Republican vs. Democrat.