Mac vs. PC

Are you kidding? maybe if your comp doesnt suck... mine has 128mb of ram and a 300mhz cpu, this thing is ready to explode! I would take a mac that never has to worry about shit over this old piece any day!

 

Try Linux Mint on it! You can run it off a CD without it touching your hard drive to try it out. Awesome! Linux loves machines like yours!

 

Neither, go with Linux. Personally, I prefer Fedora or Ubuntu.

 

I'm sure I've said it before so I'll say it again: Hail Slackware Linux!

I've been running dual boot for a few years now but a few weeks ago I decided to go Linux full time and I am very happy with it. Took a little while to get everything working (namely my webcam, MP3 player and printer - all the actual PC hardware was supported from the get go).
Linux isn't hard or anything, you just have to be willing to learn a new system.

 

As I didn't see an answer to your question (and it is a good, oft-asked one).
Software that is been ported accross OSes will share a common file type.

Many linux (that are not ported to / from windows) programs have their own file types, but will let you out put to a windows type.

GIMP (the open source to photoshop) has full support for photo shop formats and will let you output to photoshop's format (the source files and not just a finished jpg.)

 

Gardener, to answer both of your questions, yes. There are many different image editing programs that work on Linux. All that I have used support the same output formats as Photoshop and other popular image editing software.

As far as printers, easier than Windows. I have a network printer I use to print HTML, office, and images on. This network printer is connected to multiple Linux computers, multiple Windows XP computers, and 2 Mac computers. I have never had any problems with printing from Linux over a network or locally.

If you are really hardcore about Photoshop, you can actually run Photoshop from within Linux. There are many ways to do this, but my favorite is Wine. You just need to install Wine, then you can use any Windows program you want on Linux.

 

Here is a little article to explain the Linux phenomenon.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EEDF1F3CF93BA25755C0A9649C8B63

That is written by The New York Times, thusly, you can't argue with the source.

Basically, Linux is the top choice for creating media and digital artwork. It is slowly edging it's way into desktops too. The oddest part is, this is by choice, not by force. M$ has always done things by force, but Linux has no "The Man" to force anybody into anything.

 

samba is made of win.

I would also have to say gimp is.

 

Samba, what do you mean?

 

Well i prefer PCs over Macs. From my experience there is really no reason to buy a Mac unless you do a fair amount of Music, Photo, and Video editing. Course you can do all those things on a PC but Macs seem to be a lot more user friendly in those areas. I my self use my PC for mostly gaming (gaming on a Mac sucks, they get like most of the games PC gamers get like a year or two later IF they get it), browsing the web, and word docs and some programming. Also PCs are hell of a lot cheaper to buy/customize, and customizing with a Mac is probably gonna cost you a arm and a leg since everything you buy hardware wise is from Apple so they can charge w/e they want. Far as maintaining a Mac or a PC, I would still have to go with a PC just because if you know what you are doing you will never get a virus/ spyware etc and even if you do they are fairly easy to remove. If Macs were the majority of the market I'm sure they would have tons of viruses and other harmful programs, it's not impossible to do that to a Mac its just no one cares to. There is this sense of freedom when I'm fooling around on my PC that I don't have whenever I play with a Mac.

Over all Macs are good in some areas but not the areas I'm interested in, therefore I prefer a PC. The fact that Macs are expensive also makes me lean toward a PC over a Mac.

 

PC hands down.
1. More functional - you can choose between a wider range of programs rather than having to relying so heavily on the stuff that comes with a mac.
2. Right clicking. What can I say, I like it.
3. Lower price, easier to maintain and upgrade.
4. Users aren't annoying (The Mac commercials are gay and they piss me off.)

Viruses and spyware aren't a problem unless you're a dumbass. If you have a 10 year old computer then of course you might struggle with modern day viruses but let's be honest, a) What do you expect? and b) Would you really give a shit if a virus killed it?

Windows XP with my own range of programs - which eliminates pretty much all microsoft apps and modifies Windows XP to my liking - is the king of the hill, baby.

 

Well it's more like Windows vs OS X, as the new Macs are all PC's as well.
My MacBook pro is the best Vista Laptop I've used.

I prefer OS X because it's a better OS, but XP's got speed and support on its side. Vista is a damned wasteful hog of an OS.

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...684&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

 

Vista does suck. MS still can't get a 64-bit OS working well, most PC's with 64-bit chips are shipping with Vista 32. Vista 32, may as well be using XP which consistently requires less resources for the same apps to run well. Plus I loathe that damned winsys folder or whatever it's called that bloats to 10+gigs in no time whether you add or remove programs. It's like Vista's got a built-in hard disk stock broker that gains no matter what.

 

PC, because I'm young, poor, and a gamer who likes to tinker with my machine.

 

I've been a PC user for about 15 years, now. Anybody know what Windows ROT is? That's where the OS works quite snappy when you first install it, but after a couple months of use...Windows starts to rot. It gets slower and you get to see the spinning hour glass more and more. So, you have to reformat and reinstall.

I have a business partner that owns a Macbook. His Sales Manager has a PC laptop. Both are top of the line for each. The Sales Manager is angry because the Macbook runs Windows faster than the PC.

In our house...we're going Mac.

 

Windows rot is the horrible way that Windows handles resources and memory. You'd think after all these years they'd learn something. It's why you HAVE to reboot so often.

Macs and OSX blow Windows away. Easily.

 

i'm trying to get a new Mac - i think i'm going to get a desktop this time instead of a laptop so that i can have more memory and install more fun programs.

 

*laughs* Macs are for people who have no idea how to use computers.

People seem to think macs have carte blanche when it comes to media creation. That's true, if you have no real understanding of how to run a computer.

I'll stack my system against a mac any day of the week. It's a highly tweaked, overclocked, dual everything system. Two cores, dual channel ram, dual raid0 striped hard drives, dual video cards, and dual LAN.

Like I said, macs are for people who really don't have a lot of knowledge how a computer works. When I go over to people's houses and fix their computers, I am always astounded how unoptimized them have them. In a lot of cases, I am able to almost double the perceived performance for them.

 

ROTFLMAO!

The only people that need a system like yours are gamers and people that do high end graphics/video. "Joe average citizen" doesn't need anything remotely close to that. Most Mac users have COME FROM WINDOW PCs. Get a clue young one!