PC versus Mac

[THEWULFMAN]

@TheWulfMan

Am I that good friend ?

No you're not, Marth is.

[[m'kay]]

Hmm Personally i will never buy a mac.
I'm actually writing this from a Mac and i freaking hate this thing

Now it all depends on what your going to use your Computer for.
Gaming-wise i would never ever buy a MAC, however i know MAC is loved for anyone making, and editing photos and videos etc....

You can't compare apples and PC's that well overall, much depends on what point.

MT

I have a mac, and use it to play battlefront, call of duty, GTA 4, etc.

Congratulations, you can play games that have been out for several years and/or are made to run on low spec settings!

How many thousands of dollars did you spend on your computer then? Cause, y'know, I spent 700 getting the parts for mine and I can max out The Witcher 2 at 1080p. I suppose if you can do that, then yep Macs are better!

[Marth8880]

Why is the Macintosh operating system better than that of Windows? (By the way, I'd just like to point out that a "PC" is any consumer-brand computer, regardless of its operating system.)


When one states something is "better" than the other, he or she is arguing in a very specific way.

Example A: There is no such thing as a GUI that is better than another; the quality of graphic interfaces is solely a mat.ter of opinion.
Example B: Processor A is better than processor B; processor A has a larger L3 cache and operating clock frequency than those of processor B. Processor A outperformed processor B on three out of four hardware/software benchmarking platforms, quod erat demonstrandum.

A user who claims "Macs are better because they're faster" presents an extremely broad and essentially unsound argument. Sure, some Mac platforms may be somewhat faster than some Windows platforms, but the keyword is some. When a user presents this argument, they imply that every Mac platform in existence is better than every Windows platform in existence; due to the fact that virtually all of the world's servers and supercomputers are run on a Windows (sometimes Linux) platform, there is no logical way that this argument can be valid. My server rack workhorse running on four Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz cores is not weaker than some hipster's MacBook.


I have two key reasons why I will never use a Mac: the advertising and the lack of need for one.

Advertising: I absolutely despise the way Apple advertises its products; they lie about their competition and label many of their products' features as "new" and "innovative" when most of them have really existed in other products for decades.
Lack of need: I don't need a Mac; there would literally be no point in me owning one; every game I own now is played on my Windows computer. There is nothing a Mac can do that my computer cannot.


Regarding viruses: Macs can, indeed, get viruses, and just as easily as Windows platforms can, in fact. Most Macs are relatively unprotected; they use the Mac equivalent of McAfee Anti-Virus software for protection, i.e., stinky garbage that just sits there and takes up space. The reasoning behind this is malicious software isn't often developed for Macs because Windows makes up a majority of the market share, so why should malware-developers waste time and resources attacking such a small population? That would be like if 49 of the 50 United States of America turned, declared war on and disconnected itself from Rhode Island, or if the European Union on Liechtenstein (which is actually one of the richest countries in the world, but that's a different scenario); the impact would be so microscopic to be noticed. (Though, to be fair, a state, being a state, is pretty large, so that is also a somewhat different scenario, but it's all I could think of that's somewhat funny.)


Rundown: Neither Mac nor Windows is better than the other. If you like doing whatever the heck you want with a computer without borders, invest in a platform that runs Windows; if you're an avid Facebook user who does not a thing more with your time but use your credit card (and use Instagram to hipsterize your petty photos), declare bankruptcy and pick up a Mac platform.


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Oh, and Macs do their own great share of problems and bugs. (See MacFixIt)

[Darth Crater]

Rundown: Neither Mac nor Windows is better than the other. If you like doing whatever the heck you want with a computer without borders, invest in a platform that runs Linux; if you're an avid Facebook user who does not a thing more with your time but use your credit card (and use Instagram to hipsterize your petty photos), declare bankruptcy and pick up a Mac platform.

Fixed. I know we're not meant to talk about Linux, but for all Windows' good points, it's terribly restrictive OS-wise. Its main benefit is that you can run pretty much anything on it. Even though most of that is just from it being the most popular OS on the market, and getting the most development, it's enough to make me stick with it.

[FaiL.?]

How do you play battlefron2 on a mac, pi?

[theavengers85]

How do you play battlefron2 on a mac, pi?

You use something like Parallels.

I've used both PC's (DOS, Windows 3.1/95/98/XP/7) and Macs (Classic 8.6/9.1/ OS X) extensively, so I feel comfortable with both. However, I first started on the Microsoft side of things, so I do prefer PCs (yeah, it's bias, but I think many people will agree with me). I feel like they are more configurable (I feel like Mac's have fewer things to set), although that is not always a good thing . Also, more games tend to run on it, though the gap is closing with stuff like Parallels and boot camp.

However, I do respect the Mac operating system (got one computer running it in my house). Anything you can do with a PC, you can generally do with a Mac, and vice versa. I think Macs tend to be better at stability due to Apple tightly controlling the hardware, but I have had my experience with a G4 tower crashing incessantly (I think it was a hardware glitch).

As far as the interface goes, Windows 7 copied stuff from Mac (somebody copied somebody, please don't start a flame war over this ) , and Linux is getting more and more similar to both, so that's not as much of a distinguishing factor anymore.

[kjeopardy]

@TheWulfMan

Am I that good friend ?

No you're not, Marth is.

I knew it...

[kjeopardy]

How do you play battlefron2 on a mac, pi?

Vmware... For me, it works better than parallels.

[Nik]

PCs Macs

[kjeopardy]

PCs Macs

That is simply untrue: you can customize a mac, it's just harder to screw up. To mess up a mac, you have to try; to mess up a PC, you just have to use it . I used a PC for many years, and got a Mac in November 2011. They are simply superior machines.