macs vs pc what would you choose and why?

Question

what would you rather have for your home computer and why would you want it. pc referring to windows XP/Vista/ME/2000/'95.

Answer 1

now I could choose windows vista, but mac os x is rather good. But mac's are more reliable than pc's, havin no viruses, and have no problem of requirements.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Mac software works together much better than any Windows OS. What I mean is that the software and most of the apps were designed by the same company (apple) so they work and flow together much more easily.



Windows, on the other hand, lets you do more. But you have to know how to troubleshoot bad programing (overwriting DLL files when it shouldn't, not completely uninstalling when you try to unintall a program, etc).



So ask yourself what you want to do? Do you want to do the things that a mac can give you (iLife, iPhoto, iTunes)? OR do you want to burn/rip DVDs, etc which will cause you to know much more about the Operating System and programs just to get them to work properly.

Answer 4

Microsoft (PC) is better than Mac. I say that because Microsoft makes good computers, and Macs are complicated. I wouldn't go with Windows Vista though. Microsoft made good Windows until they came up with Windows Vista.

Answer 5

You can't quite choose one or the other, it depends on your needs.



If you want a customizable os with many downloads and applications, games, etc., then windows all the way.



If you want a simpler interface, and video edit, photoshop, etc, then a mac is more efficient.



I like windows better, because:

1.) You aren't getting a very powerful computer when you get a mac, a lot of it is paying for the brand name.

2.) I use games a lot.

3.) Sometimes macs seem "too" simple for me, it seems like features are very limited.



I would go for windows, just because I have got to know it, and it suits my needs.

Answer 6

windows vista & XP are acceptable. Other versions of windows are to useless fr a person to use in this modern world.



Well if you take MAC, well I've never tried it so i don't know much about it...........

Answer 7

It’s such a simple question, but everything I do with technology for the next

three or four years hangs in the balance. Which path I take affects the productivity

software I’ll be able to buy, or not buy, it affects how easily I’ll be able

to collaborate with coworkers and authors, it affects the availability of games

and peripherals, it even tends to drive whether I buy a PocketPC or a Palm;

the impact even extends to my cellphone.



Many have been faced with the same dilema, I’m sure.



Apple makes cool hardware, and their new, Unix-based OS X operating system

is, in my mind, a good thing. On the other hand, my first notebook computer

ever was a Macintosh Powerbook, which I bought back in the 1992-1993 time-frame.

I well remember the feeling of walking into a CompUSA and finding that 90%

of what they stocked didn’t apply to me. I remember not being able to buy

games for my daughter, because they were Windows-only. Apple is still a small

percentage of the market today, and its future seems a bit shaky from where

I sit. They sure don’t seem to have a competitive CPU offering, and that bodes

ill for their future.



Related to all this, I just today upgraded the family PC from Windows 98 to

Windows XP Home. My first task was to reformat the hard-drive. When installing

an operating system, I find it best to begin with a clean slate. That left

me in a rather interesting predicament: because my hard-drive was clean, the

Windows XP Home upgrade required me to prove ownership of a prior version of

Windows by inserting my Windows 98 CD. Only I didn’t have a CD for this particular

box, because I’d bought it after Microsoft forced resellers to stop including

such a CD with their systems. Temporarily flummoxed, I inserted Hewlett-Packard’s

(this is an HP box) recovery CD. Perhaps that would work? After all, Windows

98 is on that CD somewhere. But no dice. I couldn’t prove to Microsoft that

I owned a previous version of their operating system, and the reason I couldn’t

prove this to them is because they themselves deprived me of the means! They

deprived me of the very CD for which they were now asking me. How ironic!



Dreading the thought of having to restore Windows 98 and all of HP’s bundled

software (all useless junk) from the recovery CD, and then installing XP Home

on top of that mess, I recalled an extra Windows 98 CD in my basement. This

was from a Dell I’d bought before the ban on distributing operating-system CDs

with new computer systems (I run Linux on that Dell, by the way). I found this

old CD, shoved it into the drive, XP Home was happy, and I went on with the

install. Good grief! The things we have to put up with sometimes.



Now, the people who work for Microsoft aren’t stupid. They know full well how

inconvenient it is not to have an operating-system CD, and they surely know

customers like me would be greatly inconvenienced after reformatting our hard-drives

in preperation for installing XP only to find that we then needed to reinstall

the operating-system we’d just erased in order to upgrade it. By getting their

customers, by getting me, into such a confusing morass, Microsoft shows

a complete and purposeful disregard for the people who buy their products,

for those whose money keeps them in business. I’m insulted by, and resentful

of, such nonsense.



By the way, have you actually sat down and read a EULA lately? I hadn’t, so

I read through the one for XP Home today, and it’s horrible. It actually prohibits

me from connecting to my XP HOME PC via my network for anything other than file

or print services. Technically, that seems to mean I can’t install something

like Apache and run a small website in my own house. It also probably means

I can’t install Oracle on my PC for learning purposes, because then I’d be accessing

a database service, which the EULA doesn’t appear to allow. The only

saving grace is Microsoft does not yet have the technical means in place to

enforce such draconian terms, but it sure does seem like they intend to head

down that path.



So what do I do? Mac or Windows? I feel like I’m faced with something close

to a Hobson’s

choice. On the one hand, I’m very annoyed with Microsoft right now, so I’m

inclined to start moving away from them by making my next computer an Apple.

On the other hand, the Windows/Intel platform is the clear winner when I look

at performance-for-the-buck, and also in terms of knowing that I’ll be able

to buy the software and hardware that I need two and three years down the road.

For that matter, software such as Visio, that I depend on now, is simply not

available for OS X. And then there’s that hidden cost of switching: I’d need

to buy again software such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks,

and Microsoft Office, software that I already own for the Windows platform.



Maybe I just won’t buy a new computer at all.

Answer 8

because PC's are much better and compatible with more things then mac. macs crash all the time because they dont take the time to fix all the bugs out. now i understand that microsofts new operating systems (windows vista) has lots of bugs even thoe its out to the public. microsoft takes more time to put more features and better features into windows operating systems then mac will ever do. i am a graphic arts desginer and we cant use macs to do our jobs because they are not compaitble with our software.