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thechosen29 16 years ago

Do you have a PC or a Mac ?

PC, Give us hell Microsoft!

72.22% (26)
Mac, We think, therefore we are.

27.78% (10)

Votes: 36

Here we go for november!

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Kanzen 16 years ago

Where is the option for people that own both?

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thechosen29 16 years ago

Quote:
Originally posted by Kanzen

Where is the option for people that own both?

Darn it! I knew I forgot something

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daytona1990 16 years ago

I can't really see why you would want to own a Mac. I've been a part of the computer industry and IT world for about 18 - 20 years now and I've never found myself wanting or needing a Mac. Sure it would be nice to own both if you can or be Mac Certified but other than that I would never waste my money on that stuff.

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ArtieLange 16 years ago

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Originally posted by daytona1990

I can't really see why you would want to own a Mac. I've been a part of the computer industry and IT world for about 18 - 20 years now and I've never found myself wanting or needing a Mac. Sure it would be nice to own both if you can or be Mac Certified but other than that I would never waste my money on that stuff.

I've worked with computers since 1985, started on CADAM running on an IBM mainframe, the next job was Cadkey on a Compaq 286 and bought new PC's along the way until 2003. I bought my first Mac, a PowerMac G5 in 2003 to edit videos of my kid. The machine has run flawlessly and I'm posting this from that machine. I also have a MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.5 and Windows XP Pro SP3 running on a Boot Camp partition and also on VMWare Fusion. I also have virtual machines of Unbuntu Linux and Solaris 10 running on Fusion. I find the Mac to require a lot less maintenance then Windows and just a generally more enjoyable computing experience. Old hardware doesn't seem to take a hit when upgrading the OS either, I have a 4 year old PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.5 that I have given to my kid, it runs better and faster then it did on 10.3 that it came with. Try upgrading a 4 year old PC to Vista without any hardware upgrades, you're gonna take a huge performance hit if it will even run. I'm not a Windows basher or hater, I still use Windows XP Pro everyday at work and also at home for certain tasks but given the choice I'll take the Mac OS every time. Give one a try sometime if you live near an Apple Store, I think you'll find them to be worth the little extra you have to pay plus now that they have Intel processors you can run multiple OS's without issue.

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thechosen29 16 years ago

A pc is what I have right now, but i'm actualy considering getting a mac when this one dies. I'm not as much a gammer as I used to be so loosing my pc games isnt so bad.

Still trying to work out the pros and cons.

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