The Apple urge.

[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?

Well...

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

So that's a yes?

[a-4-year-old]

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

Irony much?

you are a jenius when it comes to sarcasm.

If i got a mac, i would only use it to boot windows to play games.

So that's a yes?

nope, they don't have any known ones now, but honestly, hackers feel sorry for apple users, and their virus wouldn't be at all successful because nobody has a mac to spread the virus.

[iDante]

DO NOT GET A MAC YOU WILL REGRET IT!
Now that I've gotten that out of me, here is why:

1. No soldat! And there never will be. Sure you can use bootcamp and all but then you've just got a mac with windows = no good.
2. Bugs. All over the computer. I had the random shutdown bug for forever... that was annoying.
3. Lies. Apple says they don't crash, and thats true. What they don't tell you is how approximately every 3 hours a program you have open shuts down for no reason. Just... BAM and its down.
4. Nothings made for it.
5. It looks good but thats it.
6. The programs that come with it are nice, but not needed. (And iMovie is a piece of crap)

Sry but I detest my macbook...

EDIT: Go to newegg.com get a bunch of computer parts. Put them together (google it for help) then go to ubuntu.com and get it. You can even play soldat on it and its FREE! Plus I saved $300 on my comp by building it.

[The Specialist]

Well said iDante.

[blackdevil0742]

The next computer i'm going to buy will be a mac for sure. The MacBook model looks so sweet and the screen is so "glossy" and everything looks good on it. A class mate has it and it was so beautiful.

[SDFilm]

 
"The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign."

"Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui. PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension."

Charlie Brooker, www.guardian.co.uk

[Mistercharles]

Why macs are awesome:

video editing - FinalCut Pro
image editing - Adobe Photoshop CS3 (far better on mac)
music - Reason (same as above)

All programs are extremely professional, and work beautifully on a mac.

I'm not saying macs are better, I'm just saying if you work in media (comercially), macs are the better option. For everything else, there's Windows or a flavor of Linux.

[mxyzptlk]

DO NOT GET A MAC YOU WILL REGRET IT!
Now that I've gotten that out of me, here is why:

1. No soldat! And there never will be. Sure you can use bootcamp and all but then you've just got a mac with windows = no good.
2. Bugs. All over the computer. I had the random shutdown bug for forever... that was annoying.
3. Lies. Apple says they don't crash, and thats true. What they don't tell you is how approximately every 3 hours a program you have open shuts down for no reason. Just... BAM and its down.
4. Nothings made for it.
5. It looks good but thats it.
6. The programs that come with it are nice, but not needed. (And iMovie is a piece of crap)

Sry but I detest my macbook...

EDIT: Go to newegg.com get a bunch of computer parts. Put them together (google it for help) then go to ubuntu.com and get it. You can even play soldat on it and its FREE! Plus I saved $300 on my comp by building it.

Dante. Duelboot. Windows and mac at the same time. Best of both worlds.

Why macs are awesome:

video editing - FinalCut Pro
image editing - Adobe Photoshop CS3 (far better on mac)
music - Reason (same as above)

All programs are extremely professional, and work beautifully on a mac.

I'm not saying macs are better, I'm just saying if you work in media (comercially), macs are the better option. For everything else, there's Windows or a flavor of Linux.

I'm glad someone supports my will to switch.

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...

As I have said repeatedly, the primary reason is to run linux (Music Graphix extrordinare) and windows (everything else) on the same system. If I could do this on a pc, I might consider staying.
The other reason is leopard. It's vista smoothness without the resources being used up by the assload.

DO NOT GET A MAC YOU WILL REGRET IT!
Now that I've gotten that out of me, here is why:

1. No soldat! And there never will be. Sure you can use bootcamp and all but then you've just got a mac with windows = no good.
2. Bugs. All over the computer. I had the random shutdown bug for forever... that was annoying.
3. Lies. Apple says they don't crash, and thats true. What they don't tell you is how approximately every 3 hours a program you have open shuts down for no reason. Just... BAM and its down.
4. Nothings made for it.
5. It looks good but thats it.
6. The programs that come with it are nice, but not needed. (And iMovie is a piece of crap)

Sry but I detest my macbook...

EDIT: Go to newegg.com get a bunch of computer parts. Put them together (google it for help) then go to ubuntu.com and get it. You can even play soldat on it and its FREE! Plus I saved $300 on my comp by building it.

1: Yes, boot camp. Why is that bad?
3: So? Can't be any worse than XP. At least once every hour I get a (Error: program does not feel like working) or (Error: you screwed up bigtime), or, in really bad situations, (Error#71484666 found in part 41995:a87714f; Contact god for support).
4: ...Bootcamp.
6: I'm not entirely sure about the whole "ILife" concept, IPhoto, IMovie, IMusic, and all the other parts.

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 ****.

I will bring up one problem with it: System Reource Usage.

Any other questions?

[iDante]

Dante. Duelboot. Windows and mac at the same time. Best of both worlds.

Thats iDante to you.

Really there's nothing a mac can do that windows/ubuntu. In fact the only reason I could see anyone getting one (I never will again) is if their buisness requires it (my uncles does).
If you do this and duelboot and stuff you will find that you never use the mac side. Just screw it and build a PC.

[Psycho]

The other reason is leopard. It's vista smoothness without the resources being used up by the assload

and what will you do with those extra resources? play pac man? (if that even works on mac)

Check out this video. its not all that serious but I have been using a mac for 2 years at school now (and I hate that piece of **** iMac) and this video hits the nail on the head from my experiences.
The freezes, the random shutdowns, its all there.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=na9FEUVO2FU

[Graham]

Spam by dapaperboy deleted.

[iDante]

That video speaks the truth. If this didn't cost so much money I would burn it...

[Valorman]

Better than sinking to vista.

why would you say that? my dad has vista on his laptop and lemme tell ya, the smoothest/slickest/quickest computer interface I have ever seen

[a-4-year-old]

I can't seem to quote mxyzptlk's huge post...

So You want a mac to do everything a pc can do, while still using windows... What?

oh, and with vista, you can still upgrade your hardware instead of buying a new machine.

[SDFilm]

Why macs are awesome:

video editing - FinalCut Pro
image editing - Adobe Photoshop CS3 (far better on mac)
music - Reason (same as above)

All programs are extremely professional, and work beautifully on a mac.

Adobe Premiere for Windows is pretty much exactly the same as FinalCut Pro.

My old collage uses PCs, and my new collage uses Macs. I prefer to use PCs as they can handle more formats, FinalCut Pro has some odd bugs and personly I'm much more used to using PCs.

[ChromedGun]

Let's say I would rather be a Linux-wiz. Until I am, I'll stick to Windows.

[NK Soldier]

Linux + Windows XP = Ownage.

There are certain reasons why people buy a computer.

Wanna put all your photos together, edit pictures? Making websites with Iweb?

Get a Mac.

Are you a business kinda man? I have projects to do? Have papers to type?

Get a distro. of Linux.

Are you a all-rounder? Like games? Like photos? Wanna everything to be in one?

Get windows XP/ or what ever version you like.

[Mangled*]

For what they are, Macs are too expensive.

You can do anything on a PC that you can do on a Mac.

You can't do everything on a Mac that you can do on a PC.

Macs are intended for specific industry purposes like making movies and audio tracks.  Alot of graphic designers also use them, but they don't realise that a PC can run Adobe programs as well as a Mac.

In actual fact Photoshop CS runs as fast on windows than it does on a Mac providing you have a decent amount of RAM (256 - 512) ... if you have more than that you can even get photoshop to run faster than it does on any Mac.

[mxyzptlk]

You all put up a very convincing arguement. I will seriously consider what you have said.
Also, I have found another "Con", as it were. The inability to upgrade. You are stuck with the Mac you have until you buy a new one, which is just rediculous.
Thank you for your opinions in this matter, and keeping me from making a hasty decision.

[excruciator]

For what they are, Macs are too expensive.

agreed. Maybe Mac are better than windows in every way, but its the prize that makes them less popular than Windows. + there arn't as many games that run on Mac than Windows. and we all agreed that everybody here is a gamer.