Post #376787 by thejab on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 12:53 PM

On 2008-04-28 11:32, Swanky wrote:

On 2008-04-28 10:43, Digitiki wrote:
Love the Specktone speakers!! oh, and its not arrogant to say Macs are better than Windows PC's, becuase its true. I've used Mac's since 1990 and I work with PCs in my office. I can say (having worked with both side by side) Macs win hands down.

Nice point there Digi. You work with Windows at your job. Big difference. Sort of like you surf the internet which is based on primarily Unix machines. So, if a MAC is better, why aren't your offices full of Macs and the internet run on Macs? Hmmmm...

I also work (and manage IT) in an office of PCs while using a Mac at home. Where I work, in an engineering firm, you can't give all the engineers Macs because they wouldn't be able to run their AutoCAD, modeling programs, GIS, etc. - you are quite right Swanky in that case. But Microsoft Office works just as well on a Mac as a PC (and probably better than in Vista). So we're kind of stuck with PCs at work. My boss likes Macs so he got a $2000 Powerbook, while the equivalent Dell laptop with more features would have cost almost half that price. And he only uses it for email and the web. But he's the boss.

I may be wrong, but isn't Mac #2 most common (after Unix) for web servers? Not PCs.

I still use a Mac Cube G4 at home. It's 7 or 8 years old but runs like a charm. I boot the system to an external Firewire hard drive, which speeds it up quite a bit. I mostly run iTunes, Entourage, and Firefox. I wouldn't run Photoshop on it but it still suits my needs.

I think both Macs and PCs have come a long way. My work PC with XP rarely crashes (except when I tried to run the Beta version of Opera), and my Mac never crashes. Once and a while a program freezes but you don't have to reboot a Mac in that situation.

In my opinion Macs are designed better but PCs are catching up, looking more sleek and doing more with multimedia. I still prefer the OS on a Mac to Windows.