Gaming Mac Vs. PC

[Originality]

Hackintosh. End of thread.

Or, just get a PC and if you really want to see what all the fuss is about, turn it into a Hackintosh.

 

[nutella]

Anyways, the only advantages a Mac has over a traditional computer is that it's great at video-editing.

And Windows isn't, right? Hrmm... I wish people would start praising their respective OS of choice for actual reasons, not just BS claims that they hear from others.

 

[Urza]

Anyways, the only advantages a Mac has over a traditional computer is that it's great at video-editing.

And Windows isn't, right? Hrmm... I wish people would start praising their respective OS of choice for actual reasons, not just BS claims that they hear from others.

For one, Thunderbolt is going to revolutionize the prosumer editing market.

 

[YetoJesse]

this is sooo simple... PC > Mac anytimes... just by one thing: .exe ....
nothing more than that is what makes windows so lovable... .exe....
online gaming and what not... bummer windows scks so hard that they usually crash too much :S
Imho: Linux(ubuntu) > PC > Mac (PC has everything a mac has and linux has a lot of that stuff aswell, just no .exe :S)

 

[Urza]

this is sooo simple... PC > Mac anytimes... just by one thing: .exe ....
nothing more than that is what makes windows so lovable... .exe....
online gaming and what not... bummer windows scks so hard that they usually crash too much :S
Imho: Linux(ubuntu) > PC > Mac (PC has everything a mac has and linux has a lot of that stuff aswell, just no .exe :S)

That is absolutely some of the worst reasoning I have ever heard concerning this argument.

 

[nutella]

Anyways, the only advantages a Mac has over a traditional computer is that it's great at video-editing.
And Windows isn't, right? Hrmm... I wish people would start praising their respective OS of choice for actual reasons, not just BS claims that they hear from others.

For one, Thunderbolt is going to revolutionize the prosumer editing market.

Fair enough. But correct me if I'm wrong, can't you have a thunderbolt port on a PC (in the future that is).

QUOTE(Urza @ Aug 11 2011, 07:26 PM) QUOTE(YetoJesse @ Aug 11 2011, 01:22 AM)

this is sooo simple... PC > Mac anytimes... just by one thing: .exe ....
nothing more than that is what makes windows so lovable... .exe....
online gaming and what not... bummer windows scks so hard that they usually crash too much :S
Imho: Linux(ubuntu) > PC > Mac (PC has everything a mac has and linux has a lot of that stuff aswell, just no .exe :S)

That is absolutely some of the worst reasoning I have ever heard concerning this argument.

I know right, you've got to be kidding me. .exe? Really? That's your argument?

 

[tiggerlator]

Personally, i'm a pc person, never had a mac and probs never will. Also i never get bsods on my pc running win7 x64, but then again thats because i know how to set it up and maintain it properly.

 

[Chikaku-chan]

GUYS, GUYS. PC shall always win

 

[Deleted User]

I dont have a problem with Macs, I have a problem with Apple, they over inflate their prices.

 

[Minox]

A Mac is a Personal Computer.

 

[Apex]

OSX, I don't care for the machines, build yourself a Hackintosh if you want, but OSX is just as capable as any Windows computer, only minus all of the nonsense. Feels good man. I can't tell you how many times I've had to reinstall windows on my Macbook just because I always transfer virus stricken files from my OSX partition over, if you do a lot of dirty work, OSX is fantastic.

 

[Originality]

If viruses are a factor for you, you're doing it wrong. Get a good AV suite, learn a little about how viruses work, and they'll never bother you again.

 

[kevan]

Yeah viruses are no prob if you know what your doing on Windows.

 

[The Pi]

Well I've only ever seen a blue screen twice, first time was during a wee experiment (my fault, actually laughed when it happened)

Second time was yesterday for no reason on a new laptop while just browsing o_0

Without bringing Linux and/or BSD into the thing.

OSX actually does excel windows as an OS; support-wise Windows wins.

Do you prefer pepsi or coca cola?

 

[Nujui]

Well I've only ever seen a blue screen twice, first time was during a wee experiment (my fault, actually laughed when it happened)

Second time was yesterday for no reason on a new laptop while just browsing o_0

Without bringing Linux and/or BSD into the thing.

OSX actually does excel windows as an OS; support-wise Windows wins.

Do you prefer pepsi or coca cola?

You should have seen my computer couple months back, it blue screened every 5 mins (And that was because Damoen Tools was installed :/)

As for the Mac Vs Pc....

I prefer PC, though I like mac.

 

[0ddity]

OSX, I don't care for the machines, build yourself a Hackintosh if you want, but OSX is just as capable as any Windows computer, only minus all of the nonsense. Feels good man. I can't tell you how many times I've had to reinstall windows on my Macbook just because I always transfer virus stricken files from my OSX partition over, if you do a lot of dirty work, OSX is fantastic.

And games.

 

[Fishaman P]

Well, for starters, Macs cost $1000 more than comparable PC's, they don't work with a lot of devices, they use a proprietary disk partitioning scheme, you can't customize them or build one yourself, only about 4% of all programs work on a Mac (not counting Wine), and... no options but white.

 

[TheDarkSeed]

Mac computers are good for video editing/production and Audio. I hear that they're also user friendly.

Windows computers have the advantage of being a platform that is widely developed for.

 

[ninditsu]

i personally haven't used an AV in days and haven't had viruses in years.

if you really wanna try Mac, look into hackintosh.

you will learn so much about an OS doing it and you can almost choose any hardware you want.
best support is Intel CPU however.

 

[Urza]

Well, for starters, Macs cost $1000 more than comparable PC's, they don't work with a lot of devices, they use a proprietary disk partitioning scheme, you can't customize them or build one yourself, only about 4% of all programs work on a Mac (not counting Wine), and... no options but white.

Oye. In this thread which has been so civil up until now, we get our first glimpse of the typical ignorance we see in the frothy anti-Apple fanatics. It's one thing to dislike a specific product or platform, another to spout utter nonsense sound bites you heard from someone else who also doesn't understand what they're talking about.

Every year the price difference becomes less and less. At this point you really can't find comparable machines in the same price range of say, a MacBook Air. You can find less expensive thin form factor laptops, by some small amount. However they won't have comparable build quality, or even the same hardware feature-set, almost strictly inferior machines. This is really a hold-over of the biases from the 80's and early 90's, where Microsoft pushed for the commoditization of PC hardware to sell their OS. At that point Apple resisted the change, keeping their machines in the price range of several times their Windows-running counterparts. The Apple of the early-90s is of course not the same Apple we have today, and now on most of their products they offer competitive price points.

I'm not sure what devices you're referring to, but from my experiences OSX has always had better plug-and-play support than Windows. Even first-party Microsoft peripherals which weren't plug-and-play in the XP era worked flawlessly out of the box in the OSX revisions available at the time.

As for building yourself, since apparently you aren't particularly proficient at reading, I'll point out that several posters in this thread have working hackintoshes.

4% of all software? Who cares? I'd rather have 15 great Twitter clients to choose from than 150 terrible ones. There are a plethora of great options on OSX for almost any application-based workflow.

tl;dr computer choice isn't a holy war. Veil your ignorance and cease this pathetic attempt at Jihad.