A Mac always. When I saw that most local newspapers, schools, and graphics departments were using Macs, I wanted to find out why budget-conscious companies were spending more to buy Macs. The answer was that they were easier for employees/students to operate and the yearly repair and operating costs were much less than Windoze computers.
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I'd used a Silicon Graphics Onyx Extreme Unix workstation for years so I know Apple did far more with OS X and Unix than what you'd claimed.
My bad for going simple. given not tech thread for computer people, going into the internals of the whole hfs variants, ufs variats, throw in sun zfs for giggles and grins seemed a bit much.
You and others know what your terminal window is. You also have to admit most unless given instruction will never see that unless they needed to go there. Knowing the shell they were running...Hell tell them installing korn might be better for them and they would say I hate/like that band. From a user perspective and one of the main points of apple unix for your ordinary every day user is when they have to go to terminal they will not see the message we all love so much when we fat finger an ls to Ls buried deep in a in piped command. Why I went simple. Not a knock against the apple people, I deal with windows system admins gui zombies who get lost in the sauce after typing 3 simple letters in start-->run. CMD
Also don't get me wrong, not a mac hater. Actually a Mac Pro is on the short list of new puters for me if I decide to no go diy this next upgrade. One of the better OEM prebuilt puter makers out there. Give Jobs credit, he makes some good stuff. But if you know what you are doing, a mac can be upgraded. Guess I am rephrasing earlier statement for clarity. Now your friends mac who is your normal user (and you aren't around) out the blue wants to run an exotic video card, sound card, whatever. May not have drivers. That is what I was getting at. You and I know a driver is gonna be somewhere. Maybe not on their site, but some tech geeks or in a repository somewhere. My comment was made based on user expectation and ability though. Some tweak a driver to work on *nix, Most like their setup.exe.
Basically think we can all agree to disagree. On my laptop every new ubuntu distro requires some new fangled way to get wireless to work. Some would say that is stupid and too much work. I say its okay and say its still one of the best things to run on any puter once you get the bugs out. All a perspective thing as with most things.
How about this one. Current PC user but will be making the switch just as soon as I have the $$ - which probably won't be for another year
I absolutely DREAD using PC's - they have been nothing but problems for me and since I pretty much know ZERO about computers makes it that much more difficult. I routinley would get "The Blue Screen of DEATH", spent days on the telephone with our overseas tech support and pretty much wiped out everything and started from scratch - Nice! worked fine for a week or so and now we're back to where we left off - Blue Screens of DEATH! I've been dealing with this for over a year and if Someone gave me the $$ I would buy an Apple today.
exclusively PC for the better part of 15 years until last december. i build my own Windows XP (just say no to vista) machines. They are extremely stable and I process large batch photo operations on them. I just bought a MacBook Pro last winter and love it. I still love my custom PCs, too. One thing I want to point out after buying my wife a Vista machine: it was easier for me to use the Mac, never having used one in my life, than it was for me to use Vista. I LOATHE vista (and the new MS Office, too). My MBP is primarily used for portable applications and personal use.
Once you go mac, you never go back. Or at least, I didn't. Unless there is some massively horrible departure from the awesomeness that is currently Apple. Yeah, I'm a fangirl. I can't help it. For the first time in my life I actually *like* using my computer.
I currently use a PC and always have. I did almost buy a MBP recently, but opted for a newer camera body instead. Once I pay that debt off Im seriously going to be looking into the MBP again. Hopefully will have one by Christmas.
