Mac or PC

23n1th

arrontdep wrote: »

I got Snow Leopard OS (Which cost £25) for my Mac at the same time as my girlfriend got Windows 7 (Which cost around £45) for her PC. We started installing the new Operating Systems at the same time onto our laptops, her laptop was actually newer than mine.
My girlfriend had to put all her data onto a CD with Windows, which took nearly an hour. Then put in a different CD to install all the new software which took over an hour. Then she had to put the 1st CD back in again to put all her data back onto the Windows, which following the instructions messed up and took her nearly 2 hours to do. I simply put 1 CD into my Mac. It installed everything onto my laptop, kept all of my data, updated all of the software, added lots of new features, gave me a simple info file telling me of the updates nad best of all it compressed all of my applications freeing up 10GB of extra space on my harddrive. It did all this in about 20 minutes.

Wow! Your relationship must be awesome!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

23n1th

Hammyman wrote: »

One option is to get a PC and then put Ubuntu on it with a Mac OS X theme and then you've got security through obscurity and not paid the Apple Tax.

Or just better security!

debitcardmayhem

arrontdep wrote: »

I don't see how any of this is to do with the relationship between me and my girlfriend. The age old debate of PC vs. Mac came up when we both got an OS update on the same day, why not test it out? Obviously because we did one thing that wasn't deemed cool by some hypocrite then we have such a boring relationship.

How seldom do we weigh out neighbours in the same balance as ourselves: I guess if you are following that quote on your signature then you are comparing my relationship with my partner to yours. I see the remark you made as a sign of jealousy.

Using other people's statements and quotes as your signature make you look stupid. I guess the 'seldom' braincells you have only understand plagiarism and jealousy. Not 2 of the best human traits. :T

Maybe I should be a hypocrite like you and come up with somebody elses quote... "Stealing from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research."

Am I as 'awesome' as you now?

Now now folks, what happened to your shoes arront, ? my signature
is my own and true to me

redcard

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Either will do, its your money, personally paying twice the price for the same outcome is something I could never understand. Feel free, its a perennial question that has popped up over the last several decades, each camp has its disciples / evangelists but at the end of the day one is half the price of the other .. .. your money you decide.

Conversely, one will probably just work, one will probably become loaded with so much spyware and other crap that it'll have be returned to PC World 3 times a year.

Big Tam down the road will probably rewire your house for £50. But wouldn't you rather get a proper electrician?

jayme1

arrontdep wrote: »

I got Snow Leopard OS (Which cost £25) for my Mac at the same time as my girlfriend got Windows 7 (Which cost around £45) for her PC. We started installing the new Operating Systems at the same time onto our laptops, her laptop was actually newer than mine.
My girlfriend had to put all her data onto a CD with Windows, which took nearly an hour. Then put in a different CD to install all the new software which took over an hour. Then she had to put the 1st CD back in again to put all her data back onto the Windows, which following the instructions messed up and took her nearly 2 hours to do. I simply put 1 CD into my Mac. It installed everything onto my laptop, kept all of my data, updated all of the software, added lots of new features, gave me a simple info file telling me of the updates nad best of all it compressed all of my applications freeing up 10GB of extra space on my harddrive. It did all this in about 20 minutes.

you are kidding me right? right?

snow leopard adding more features like what? the reason it was so cheep was because it was nothing more than a service pack, you paid money for a service pack!
whereas windows 7 was a whole new OS compared to vista or XP.
as a comparasion going from tiger to leopard was something like £110 wasn't it? now that can be classed as a new OS.

also you actually chose not to back up your data before the 'upgrade' (if you can call it that), at least with a 'transfer' disc all your settings data is preserved if something goes wrong, but obviously macs have no bugs in the upgrade process at all (oh wait)

Richie-from-the-Boro

redcard wrote: »

Conversely, one will probably just work, one will probably become loaded with so much spyware and other crap that it'll have be returned to PC World 3 times a year.

Big Tam down the road will probably rewire your house for £50. But wouldn't you rather get a proper electrician?

Maybe I should have installed a pre-emptor in readiness of your infest-iminal post and instead used the phrase .. .. bigoted, bucolic, melancholy, maladie de fin de siecle, overripe opinions sprayed here by disciples / evangelists.

See what always happens to this Mac v PC debate, the O/P's question was "" able to edit my pictures and videos?? "" Cheryl28 could do that on an old K6 with a half decent video card. Try to answer the question asked redcard, that's the helpful thing to do.

pulliptears

flexrider wrote: »

But once you have a mac you never go back

Not necessarily. I gave my PC owning husband my old macbook last year after buying myself a new MB Pro. He's used it grudgingly for the last 12 months but has eventually given up and bought himself an Acer Laptop. He can't settle on Mac at all and really doesn't like it. DD is now exceptionally happy to have inherited his MacBook and he now has the honour of being the only Windows user in the house.


Me personally, I prefer Mac, but I did my BA in Graphic Design and Mac tends to be industry standard anyway.

OP, go into the Apple store, have a play and see what you think. You can debate on here whats better until the cows come home, but ultimately its personal preference.

redcard

jayme1 wrote: »

you are kidding me right? right?

snow leopard adding more features like what? the reason it was so cheep was because it was nothing more than a service pack, you paid money for a service pack!
whereas windows 7 was a whole new OS compared to vista or XP.
as a comparasion going from tiger to leopard was something like £110 wasn't it? now that can be classed as a new OS.

also you actually chose not to back up your data before the 'upgrade' (if you can call it that), at least with a 'transfer' disc all your settings data is preserved if something goes wrong, but obviously macs have no bugs in the upgrade process at all (oh wait)

Windows 7 was hardly a whole new OS. Didn't Microsoft drop most of the feature they had promised?

You're confusing some eye-candy upgrades (Windows 7), with what was an extensive rewrite of a previous version (Snow Leopard).

Windows 7 has fooled a lot of users

redcard

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Maybe I should have installed a pre-emptor in readiness of your infest-iminal post and instead used the phrase .. .. bigoted, bucolic, melancholy, maladie de fin de siecle, overripe opinions sprayed here by disciples / evangelists.

See what always happens to this Mac v PC debate, the O/P's question was "" able to edit my pictures and videos?? "" Cheryl28 could do that on an old K6 with a half decent video card. Try to answer the question asked redcard, that's the helpful thing to do.

You didn't seem to understand why people pay more for premium products; I was just explaining.

I did answer the question. Your answer was "It's up to you". Great!

jayme1

redcard wrote: »

Windows 7 was hardly a whole new OS. Didn't Microsoft drop most of the feature they had promised?

You're confusing some eye-candy upgrades (Windows 7), with what was an extensive rewrite of a previous version (Snow Leopard).

Windows 7 has fooled a lot of users

we get it your a mac fanboi nothing any other OS does will ever be good enough for you, but anyway this argument has be argued a million times and I am not doing it again.