I would really like to get a new mac but I just can't bit the bullet and spend twice as much for the same specs as a pc. I could under stand when there was a real performance difference but those days are long gone. Of course they look amazing and I like the OS better but twice the price? why? 2009-03-05T04:08:13-05:00 51 2009-03-03T13:05:23-05:00 true 0 15063 false false 11807 3168 1 2009-11-20T23:26:14-05:00 762 it's like buying name brand clothes - if you want to look cool, you've got to spend a little extra. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:06:17-05:00 390949 7069 2009-03-03T13:06:17-05:00 i thought the same, but once you use it, you will know why 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:07:04-05:00 390950 5678 2009-03-03T13:07:04-05:00 <blockquote><cite>levi! said:</cite> i thought the same, but once you use it, you will know why</blockquote> I use both. I have a pc at home and a mac at work they both get the job done. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:08:57-05:00 390953 3168 2009-03-03T13:08:57-05:00 the mac user interface is better than windows and linux, plus apple is the new windows :) duhhh 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:09:55-05:00 390957 9658 2009-03-03T13:09:55-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Robb said:</cite> plus apple is the new windows :) duhhh</blockquote> <img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/hahaha-wut.jpg" /> 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:11:47-05:00 390959 9051 2009-03-03T13:11:47-05:00 <blockquote><cite>DrewGliever said:</cite> it's like buying name brand clothes - if you want to look cool, you've got to spend a little extra.</blockquote> a little? I can understand a couple hundred bucks but it's twice the price if your pc cost 1500 bucks it would be a crazy powerful machine! 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:13:01-05:00 390961 3168 2009-03-03T13:13:01-05:00 because macs cost so much. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:14:21-05:00 390963 9980 2009-03-03T13:14:21-05:00 yawn. age old question. just suck it up and pay more. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:15:16-05:00 390964 2961 2009-03-03T13:15:16-05:00 <blockquote><cite>curiouserandcuriouser said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>Robb said:</cite> plus apple is the new windows :) duhhh</blockquote> <img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/hahaha-wut.jpg" /></blockquote> ouch... im still burning from that one 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:16:07-05:00 390965 9658 2009-03-03T13:16:07-05:00 <blockquote><cite>edword said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>DrewGliever said:</cite> it's like buying name brand clothes - if you want to look cool, you've got to spend a little extra.</blockquote> a little? I can understand a couple hundred bucks but it's twice the price if your pc cost 1500 bucks it would be a crazy powerful machine!</blockquote> I was makin' jokes.. I think the price of apple's products is ridiculous. not even that.. for $800 you could get a good dell/hp machine with quad core, 8gb ram and a 1TB hdd 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:16:28-05:00 390966 7069 2009-03-03T13:16:28-05:00 <blockquote><cite>110specialblack said:</cite> because macs cost so much.</blockquote> hahaha true. I guess they would lower the price if they had too. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:16:39-05:00 390967 3168 2009-03-03T13:16:39-05:00 <blockquote><cite>molasses4masses said:</cite> yawn. age old question. just suck it up and pay more.</blockquote> Yeah I know. I just don't like parting with my cash. My next computer will most likely be a mac, it would just be easier if they didn't cost twice as much. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:21:16-05:00 390970 3168 2009-03-03T13:21:16-05:00 <blockquote><cite>levi! said:</cite> i thought the same, but once you use it, you will know why</blockquote> I agree 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:24:49-05:00 390978 4552 2009-03-03T13:24:49-05:00 OS X is a better operating system than Vista. I love mac, but for the price you can get a super powerful computer running windows. Plus Macs are less likely to get viruses and spy ware 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:25:25-05:00 390980 8884 2009-03-03T13:25:25-05:00 i think you pretty much always get what you pay for. I used a pc for many years and was always saying the same things about macs: "too expensive, whats the big deal, etc." Then I started using one at my new(er) job and I got hooked. The operating system is way better, everything is so much more intuitive and cleaner and sharper. Plus, it doesn't hurt that they look and feel amazing, and as a designer I can appreciate that. I still have a pc that I use as well when needed, but recently I splurged on the new 15" Macbook Pro and have not regretted it one bit. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:27:09-05:00 390981 11602 2009-03-03T13:27:09-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Robb said:</cite> the mac user interface is better than windows and linux, plus apple is the new windows :) duhhh</blockquote> Mac isn't better than Linux. It's easier, but not better. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:27:22-05:00 390982 3114 2009-03-03T13:27:22-05:00 <blockquote><cite>xDerekx said:</cite> OS X is a better operating system than Vista. I love mac, but for the price you can get a super powerful computer running windows. Plus Macs are less likely to get viruses and spy ware</blockquote> the virus thing is a big reason why I like my mac at work. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:27:56-05:00 390983 3168 2009-03-03T13:27:56-05:00 i have 2 macs and i dont really see the big fuss about them ,They are pleasing to the eye and are nice to use but i think the price tag is not justified . also wireless mighty mouse is the biggest waste of money ever 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:31:23-05:00 390990 1486 2009-03-03T13:31:23-05:00 OS X is a lot lighter than windows so it can actually take advantage of its resources a lot better. You might not have the same specs with a mac but you can rest assured a mac is going to utilize the resources it has a lot better than windows can. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:32:41-05:00 390992 4171 2009-03-03T13:32:41-05:00 <blockquote><cite>mattaplomb said:</cite> i think you pretty much always get what you pay for. I used a pc for many years and was always saying the same things about macs: "too expensive, whats the big deal, etc." Then I started using one at my new(er) job and I got hooked. The operating system is way better, everything is so much more intuitive and cleaner and sharper. Plus, it doesn't hurt that they look and feel amazing, and as a designer I can appreciate that. I still have a pc that I use as well when needed, but recently I splurged on the new 15" Macbook Pro and have not regretted it one bit.</blockquote> what u said, + in my experience with PCs: having to run anti virus software all the time and crashes and viruses and shit breaking down and not working seems to be a problem. im no computer genius whatsoever, and im not good with dealing with that stuff. ive never had a virus or bug or whatever with macs, and i dont need to constantly run anti virus software. plus PCs seem a whole lot more convoluted. i hear PCs are way faster and whatnot if you are intelligent when it comes to computers but im pretty ignorant outside video games, internet, and adobe software, so the ease of use with macs is attractive. although i will say, a good portion of that heftier price does have a lot to do with branding and advertising. i would say macs are worth the extra price over pcs, but not to the extent of the price difference they are at now. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T13:35:46-05:00 390994 5409 2009-03-03T13:35:46-05:00 im running linux on mine to do windows stuff i love it 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:07:19-05:00 391029 5678 2009-03-03T14:07:19-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Robb said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>curiouserandcuriouser said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>Robb said:</cite> plus apple is the new windows :) duhhh</blockquote> <img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/hahaha-wut.jpg" /></blockquote> ouch... im still burning from that one</blockquote> not a burn.. just wasn't following you 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:09:18-05:00 391031 9051 2009-03-03T14:09:18-05:00 No blue screen of death, no viruses, better security, less issues with drivers and installs. The only thing that annoys me and its a small annoyance is that the screens are nice and brite which is great for designing colors really pop, but the downfall of that is you need to keep this in mind when going to print. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:13:34-05:00 391037 3764 2009-03-03T14:13:34-05:00 I say... It depends on what you need it for... Some things macs cant do, somethings they do better. Using a PC I couldnt juggle photoshop, and illustrator, while listening to music and what not, but with my mac I can easily. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:17:05-05:00 391042 8810 2009-03-03T14:17:05-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Kevvbo said:</cite> No blue screen of death, no viruses, better security, less issues with drivers and installs. The only thing that annoys me and its a small annoyance is that the screens are nice and brite which is great for designing colors really pop, but the downfall of that is you need to keep this in mind when going to print.</blockquote> you need to calibrate that shit homie 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:17:38-05:00 391045 1106 2009-03-03T14:17:38-05:00 I scored a 2.6 GHZ duo 300GB-HD, 4gb ram Macbook pro 15 for 1200 last week. you can get refurb or used machines still under applecare for a decent price It was kinda a downgrade cause I have the 17" 2.1 GHZ macbook pro already - but the added speed is TITS 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:19:59-05:00 391046 7336 2009-03-03T14:19:59-05:00 because Mac's come with Gisele... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnX6XRQBec 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:20:23-05:00 391047 2973 2009-03-03T14:20:23-05:00 I think if you don't care about those extra money you should go for the Mac, otherwise definitely a PC.Like u said,'I guess they would lower the price if they had too' but since there are enough people who to them.... 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:20:59-05:00 391048 4661 2009-03-03T14:20:59-05:00 for the most part, windows and macs will function the same. macs DO have spyware and viruses. This urban myth came about because far less of the market was using macs than pcs, and then the internet boom hit. People who develop malicious software have no provocative to develop for a machine with a much inferior user base. As more people, and more importantly businesses, are switching over to macs, development of spyware and viruses is increasing. The price difference, as stated above, is the result of branding and advertising. Macs are more user friendly out of the box, so if you aren't very bright when it comes to computers, macs might be the ideal choice. If you really wanted to, you could buy a pc and run osx on it, or you could modify windows to look and function similarly to osx. You could also use windows xp if you are afraid to use vista. Vista's problems will not readily affect you if you aren't a power user. If you are going for a desktop, the best bet is to build your own for a handful of benjamins, and install xp. Spend the rest of the money on shitload of coke and hookers. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:22:39-05:00 391050 9440 2009-03-03T14:22:39-05:00 I love it how people talk about getting a virus on windows machines like it'll just infect you if you don't have anti-virus software. Unless you're going to weird porn sites and opening every exe that comes to your inbox chances are you're not going to get a virus. All it takes is a little fore-thought. Also, I haven't seen a blue screen of death since like 95. That's like me complaining that Macs only have one mouse button, it's not really an issue anymore. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:23:17-05:00 391052 1555 2009-03-03T14:23:17-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Johnny D said:</cite> I say... It depends on what you need it for... Some things macs cant do, somethings they do better. Using a PC I couldnt juggle photoshop, and illustrator, while listening to music and what not, but with my mac I can easily.</blockquote> sounds like you just had a slow computer. Right now I have Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape, Utorrent, Winamp, Trillian, Dreamweaver and Firefox with four tabs open and I'm not experiencing any slowdown at all. Of course with all that shit open I'm not actually getting any work done, instead I'm posting on the internet. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:27:47-05:00 391056 1555 2009-03-03T14:27:47-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Enclothe said:</cite> I love it how people talk about getting a virus on windows machines like it'll just infect you if you don't have anti-virus software. Unless you're going to weird porn sites and opening every exe that comes to your inbox chances are you're not going to get a virus. All it takes is a little fore-thought. Also, I haven't seen a blue screen of death since like 95. That's like me complaining that Macs only have one mouse button, it's not really an issue anymore.</blockquote> <blockquote><cite>realitydestroyer said:</cite> for the most part, windows and macs will function the same. macs DO have spyware and viruses. This urban myth came about because far less of the market was using macs than pcs, and then the internet boom hit. People who develop malicious software have no provocative to develop for a machine with a much inferior user base. As more people, and more importantly businesses, are switching over to macs, development of spyware and viruses is increasing. The price difference, as stated above, is the result of branding and advertising. Macs are more user friendly out of the box, so if you aren't very bright when it comes to computers, macs might be the ideal choice. If you really wanted to, you could buy a pc and run osx on it, or you could modify windows to look and function similarly to osx. You could also use windows xp if you are afraid to use vista. Vista's problems will not readily affect you if you aren't a power user. If you are going for a desktop, the best bet is to build your own for a handful of benjamins, and install xp. Spend the rest of the money on shitload of coke and hookers.</blockquote> And on Mac ,Photoshop crashes way more often then on PC,(personal experience) :) 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:31:15-05:00 391059 4661 2009-03-03T14:31:15-05:00 <blockquote><cite>DrewGliever said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>edword said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>DrewGliever said:</cite> it's like buying name brand clothes - if you want to look cool, you've got to spend a little extra.</blockquote> a little? I can understand a couple hundred bucks but it's twice the price if your pc cost 1500 bucks it would be a crazy powerful machine!</blockquote> I was makin' jokes.. I think the price of apple's products is ridiculous. not even that.. for $800 you could get a good dell/hp machine with quad core, 8gb ram and a 1TB hdd</blockquote> they make good dells? 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:32:24-05:00 391060 324 2009-03-03T14:32:24-05:00 i hate this question. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:37:27-05:00 391069 1208 2009-03-03T14:37:27-05:00 <blockquote><cite>molasses4masses said:</cite> yawn. age old question. just suck it up and pay more.</blockquote> Agree... You will find the extra cost for the MAC is well worth it... =D 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:43:33-05:00 391079 10341 2009-03-03T14:43:33-05:00 Because they're nice. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:44:31-05:00 391081 1028 2009-03-03T14:44:31-05:00 i have both, and honestly, macs are pretty, and thats about it. my PC destroys it as far as power and multitasking and it's about 3 years older than my mac. i've just been able to upgrade my PC for cheap over the years and have never gotten a virus or anything. i'm still running XP though, i have no plans on going to vista any time soon. so my mac is pretty much a media center now, and thats it. the doc gets big when i mouse over it. that's cool. oh and itunes runs WAY better on a mac. i tried UBUNTU about a year ago, and it was awesome, BERYL!!!!!!! 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:55:41-05:00 391094 5570 2009-03-03T14:55:41-05:00 <blockquote><cite>molasses4masses said:</cite> yawn. age old question. just bend over and pay more.</blockquote> fixed it for you 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:59:22-05:00 391099 1555 2009-03-03T14:59:22-05:00 dunno, they're over-rated really......<img src="http://www.wcoh.ac.uk/workplacement/andy/images/bigmac.jpg" /> 15063 Post 2009-03-03T14:59:30-05:00 391100 7372 2009-03-03T14:59:30-05:00 <blockquote><cite>Fat Mouse said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>levi! said:</cite> i thought the same, but once you use it, you will know why</blockquote> I agree</blockquote> i concur 15063 Post 2009-03-03T15:07:55-05:00 391117 3515 2009-03-03T15:08:06-05:00 i dont think steve jorbs makes enough moneyz 15063 Post 2009-03-03T15:16:28-05:00 391122 5409 2009-03-03T15:16:28-05:00 I have a Mac and a PC...I use the Mac for surfing the net and general dicking around, I use my PC for work. In my personal experience 3D Studio Max, Maya, Photoshop, Mudbox are all my stable running on PC. Seeing as that's the shit I use most often its just sensible to use the PC. The only real upside to having a Mac is I can visit pretty much any deviant porn site, whereas i might have to think twice if i was on my PC. 15063 Post 2009-03-03T15:22:24-05:00 391126 1280 2009-03-03T15:23:33-05:00 <blockquote><cite>noFunk said:</cite> The only real upside to having a Mac is I can visit pretty much any deviant porn site, whereas i might have to think twice if i was on my PC.</blockquote> SOLD! 15063 Post 2009-03-03T15:31:56-05:00 391131 3168 2009-03-03T15:31:56-05:00 Hackintosh. End of story. 15063 Post 2009-03-05T00:21:56-05:00 392701 8092 2009-03-05T00:21:56-05:00 you could build an insane machine if you built it yourself for the price of a mac... and for the virus thing.. i dont know about you guys.. i have a desktop that i do all my work on not connected to the net.. and a laptop for the internet.. and i dont really care about the operating system.. OS windows.. whichever works fine. 15063 Post 2009-03-05T00:54:37-05:00 392724 2870 2009-03-05T00:55:12-05:00 the support is pretty sweet 15063 Post 2009-03-05T01:03:33-05:00 392729 2712 2009-03-05T01:03:33-05:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khohf1p8RMY&feature=channel_page 15063 Post 2009-03-05T01:20:37-05:00 392748 2940 2009-03-05T01:20:37-05:00 i bought my imac 5 yrs ago and it still runs great without problems and is going strong. id have bought 2 pc's easily in that time. 15063 Post 2009-03-05T01:35:20-05:00 392763 1271 2009-03-05T01:35:20-05:00 I am a Mac. I will tell you what, I bought a maxed out 17" Powerbook a few years back and I have never looked back since. Yea it is expensive but it runs great and doesn't slow down with large files. I had an issue with the old laptop a few months ago and Apple replaced it for FREE with a new MacBook pro. Now I have an Apple Display to go along with it and you know what? Worth every dime. 15063 Post 2009-03-05T02:23:01-05:00 392787 11186 2009-03-05T02:23:01-05:00 2 reasons Macs are more expensive 1) Style/Reputation 2) (i'm no expert on this) The monitors are greater quality, i believe theyre S-IPS Panels. Most sub 400 dollar monitors are TN Panels which means poorer viewing angles, and jst in general; the colors vary on the angle u are looking at them from. 15063 Post 2009-03-05T04:03:27-05:00 392842 7863 2009-03-05T04:03:27-05:00 once you go mac you never go back 15063 Post 2009-03-05T04:08:13-05:00 392845 11807 2009-03-05T04:08:13-05:00