Mac or PC

[bluemonkey321]

Which is better mac or windows
Im on the side of mac

[ckyfreak22]

PC

[Baron]

Maddox and I say PC.

[Joey_Redd]

I like being able to play games so pc , though i could always run windows on a mac if i wanted to

[Goblin]

Well Justin Long rules, so I'll say Mac...


Nah, PC. But if I was a video editor or had a need to edit videos, it'd be a Mac.

[ckyfreak22]

thats def the case... i have to use Final Cut Pro for school... and thats the only way i'll use a mac

[Dick]

Pc.... but for professional video/audio/image editing... definitely mac.

[sega saturn x]

Since I actually enjoy playing games on my computer, I'm going with PC.

[sonic]

I use both.

[Dan_L_James]

I say PC because it is simple and MAC because it has nice Animation!

[BJK]

I say PC all the way, even for the professional software, which I have.  Professional=
Audio-NTrack Studio
Video-Sony Vegas
Pictures-The Gimp, but to keep it simple I use Paint.NET.

[kevinski]

The Gimp is far from being professional-grade software. Really, I've tried using it, and everything just feels so restrictive when compared to any version of Photoshop that's been released in the past eight years. I love Paint.NET, but it, too, is still just feels too restrictive in comparison to Photoshop.

Anyway, I'm on PC's side. Really, most things Mac-related just make me want to punch someone in the throat. The damn things are really no different from PC's, aside from the fact that Apple has so much control over the actual hardware aspect of things that the machines are certainly more reliable from a software stability standpoint. Still, Windows' reliability and stability certainly isn't anything to scoff at. I blame third-party software vendors, personally, as Vista support is pretty much inferior to that of XP, with most developers just throwing together unoptimized garbage and hoping for the best. Plus, despite 64-bit Vista being very solid, device drivers from major companies such as NVIDIA are just horse shit, and 64-bit versions of certain software is just completely missing. (Really, Adobe, getting your fucking heads out of your asses.)

Even the game performance in Vista is disappointing. Still, I use XP, and I've never found myself unable to find the software that I need for it, whether it be for image/sound/video editing or gaming, among other things. Macs (and Apple in generally) really just garner too much praise. Yeah, of course it's more stable. Apple has complete control over the hardware side of things that it's just sick. The only thing keeping Mac OS from running on anything other than Macs is Apple's insistence on keeping it that way. Mac reliability and stability would turn to complete shit if it supported even a quarter of the hardware that Windows does.

[Dick]

Photoshop=the shit.

I used to be a fan om Mac for it being so much better looking then XP. But then came Vista. I'm running the 64-bit version on a monster computer now and I love everything about it. I never had any driver problems so far and I have a Geforce 8800GTS 512 installed. I run everything on the highest settings no problemo (except for Crysis).

Game performance in Vista isn't so much worse, not if you have a fast computer. It's the only way to play games in DirectX10 anyway, so there isn't much point in sticking to XP in terms of games.


People seem to bitch a lot about vista, but I'm very happy with it. It's the best Windows version so far. I would never install vista on a non-recent PC though. It's really made for the fast dual- and quad cores with plenty of RAM (I have 4GB) and a fast video card.

[kevinski]

Photoshop=the shit.

I used to be a fan om Mac for it being so much better looking then XP. But then came Vista. I'm running the 64-bit version on a monster computer now and I love everything about it. I never had any driver problems so far and I have a Geforce 8800GTS 512 installed. I run everything on the highest settings no problemo (except for Crysis).

Game performance in Vista isn't so much worse, not if you have a fast computer. It's the only way to play games in DirectX10 anyway, so there isn't much point in sticking to XP in terms of games.


People seem to bitch a lot about vista, but I'm very happy with it. It's the best Windows version so far. I would never install vista on a non-recent PC though. It's really made for the fast dual- and quad cores with plenty of RAM (I have 4GB) and a fast video card.

Dick, I assure you that my PC is more than capable of running Vista. I, too, have 4GB of RAM, and I have a 3.01GHz Athlon 64 X2 processor and a 768MB GeForce 8800 GTX, and Vista isn't very stable on it. Even games that aren't terribly demanding will eventually crash. And 64-bit Vista is a freaking nightmare. I bought Ultimate, and it's pretty much sitting on my desk unused, since something as simple as opening up my Start menu can often cause the screen to go black, with no option but to reset the system from the tower. Really, I'm quite disgusted with NVIDIA.

[Dick]

What you tell me here is exactly the opposite of my experience. It's perfectly stable, and games run smooth. The graphics card and processor you own are both known to get quite hot, is your case properly ventilated? My graphics card gets a lot hotter too when I run DirectX 10 games.