The Apple urge.

[mxyzptlk]

I have been a long time Windows owner, I have become used to the way it's made, the way it handles.

Now, I knew for a long time that windows wasn't exactly the best out there, but it was the lesser of the two evils.
 

But after the recent barage of announcements by apple (Leopard update in october, Bootcamp able to run windows), I honestly find myself compelled...

Hell, I'm using the Safari browser for god's sake.

I feel like getting a mac.

All the low points have been assessed and fixed. I no longer see Mac as inferior. In fact, from where I'm standing, it looks far superior.

I don't know...

Is apple just listening to the nay sayers, or am I going crazy?

[Twistkill]

Saying one of the OSes is superior over the other doesn't really accomplish anything other than quarrels. I have never used a current generation Mac, (I had one in the mid 90s... ooh.) so I cannot really say what its usefulness is to me. I'm just used to Windows, and I really don't even use a lot of stuff on here. I just play a few games like Max Payne 2, Age of Empires 3, the C&C series, or Soldat, go on a few forums, play just a bit of music, and make my desktop image flashy. (I love abstract images.) Other people have a tons of music they listen to, go to to like 100+ websites a day, edit images and create videos, and play games that my computer can't even handle.

So you see, whether or not you think Macs are better or worse than Windows is all relative to your needs, regardless of what other people say.

Although, I suppose if you can dual-boot Windows and Mac on partitions, then you've got it made in the shade.

[mxyzptlk]

Exactly, and as of now, only mac allows that without a bit of hacking.

[The Specialist]

Macs are good computers, they are fast and very stable.  The only concern I have for Macs is that many programs aren't compatible with them and they are somewhat annoying to use.

[mxyzptlk]

Thats what BootCamp is going to be for.

It allows you to dualboot with windows.

[a-4-year-old]

Macs are good computers, they are fast and very stable.

Wait until you find out you have to buy a whole new computer instead of just upgrading.

Macs are expensive, especially when:
1. you can't upgrade them.
2. developers don't give a shit about mac users.

Macs are just peachy if all you want to do is stare at pictures, which you can do with windows.

don't let the blatant lies of the mac ads fool you.

[The Specialist]

Also, another thing I forgot to list about Macs is their prices on their products.

[mxyzptlk]

Macs are good computers, they are fast and very stable.

Wait until you find out you have to buy a whole new computer instead of just upgrading.

Macs are expensive, especially when:
1. you can't upgrade them.
2. developers don't give a **** about mac users.

Macs are just peachy if all you want to do is stare at pictures, which you can do with windows.

don't let the blatant lies of the mac ads fool you.

Let me direct you to a thread I made about the mac:

http://forum.animexpansion.com/index.php?showtopic=18622

When I made it, I didn't think there was any point I didn't know.

Mac just sounds so much more appealing to me now.

[SDFilm]

I've posted it before and I'll post it again...

Re: the Mac adds- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

[a-4-year-old]

ooh, a pc can't run osx? so? why would any windows user use osx ever?

Macs are the same as PCs when it comes to editing, Graphic Design favors mac because the entire industry is full of mac fanboys.

True Color? True color is the same thing as Adobe Gamma, in photoshop... Which is also a graphic design industry standard, which also runs on a PC.

Mac and PC are the same in every way, except you can skip the whole mac part and go strait to a PC full of games.

[mxyzptlk]

The thing is-

I'll still be using windows.

Freaky, huh?

Stop acting like I've gone to the dark side, I've weighed my options, and Mac is the lesser of the two evils.

[a-4-year-old]

The thing is-

I'll still be using windows.

Freaky, huh?

Stop acting like I've gone to the dark side, I've weighed my options, and Mac is the lesser of the two evils.

what you don't seem to understand is that an apple is just a shitty overpriced version of a PC, that, as of October; can do what a PC can do and could already do since it's creation.

[Dascoo]

I've had to use macs for my elementary school for 3 years.....and there's nothing special about them. They suck actually. I'd rather use Windows. Crashed on me 4 times, froze like 10 times and this is on a Mac with OSX. Yay.

[mxyzptlk]

Better than sinking to vista.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

I've had to use macs for my elementary school for 3 years.....and there's nothing special about them. They suck actually. I'd rather use Windows. Crashed on me 4 times, froze like 10 times and this is on a Mac with OSX. Yay.

I don't usually ever get into discussions about computers, cause to me, a computer's a computer. But I did hear that apparently Macs can't get viruses, is that true?

[mxyzptlk]

I've had to use macs for my elementary school for 3 years.....and there's nothing special about them. They suck actually. I'd rather use Windows. Crashed on me 4 times, froze like 10 times and this is on a Mac with OSX. Yay.

I don't usually ever get into discussions about computers, cause to me, a computer's a computer. But I did hear that apparently Macs can't get viruses, is that true?

Well...

They could if people bothered to make good viruses for it, but they concentrate all their resourses into windows.

[a-4-year-old]

Better than sinking to vista.

I stick with XP, but I would rather have a Direct X 10 problem then a crash on an operating system that doesn't do shit.

[Vltava]

Why the fuck would you use Safari on Windows? Seriously, it's like Firefox in its early alpha stages.

[Rhombus]

So you're taking a mac because it's "just like a PC"? who cares if it's a little more expensive... you can do the same stuff as with a real pc... zomg...

[Twistkill]

who cares if it's a little more expensive... you can do the same stuff as with a real pc... zomg...

Irony much?