Thread: the apple with a little bite out of it ...

I've got me the new keyboard and run it on a pc.
Its nice. Since my pc runs fine I'm content now.
Sounds kinda scary to need all new software for a mac.

Just like anything else, I feel like Macs have their place, as does Linux and Windows. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. If you actually need the computer to do something more than what the average user needs it for, then you know which system is best for you. To out of hand say that one OS is the best overall is ridiculous.

I think that, in general, the hype about Macs being easier to use is just hype. The average user gets on the internet and uses a word processor from time to time. If the browser and word processor are on the taskbar of either the Mac or Windows machine, one click gets you into the program, and from there they are pretty much the same.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Just like anything else, I feel like Macs have their place, as does Linux and Windows. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. If you actually need the computer to do something more than what the average user needs it for, then you know which system is best for you. To out of hand say that one OS is the best overall is ridiculous.

Very well put. I've used linux 90% of the time as my home OS for the last 10 years, and I can tell you that is the best operating system in the world, for me.

When I've converted people, I've always done it from the perspective of giving something else a try.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

"Never owned them" is different to "never used them."

It has been quite some time though, I'll give you that.

Back in the day, nothing would run right on a Mac no matter how much you wanted it to. Especially since I pretty much just wanted it to run games.

Every computer can be specialized, it just seemed that the Macs I used weren't good for much outside of their one assigned task.

My IT guy in college loved those things, so that's what we had. It seemed like we had a different computer for every program. Could have just been me.

I'm 25 and set in my ways. How dare you informed people try to tell me that I should keep up with the changing times and increased compatibility and performance.

Crazy kids with your Y2k and your Ipods and fancy new Macs that don't get viruses.

I use mac... Did the pc thing for years, nothing but problems. I will not be going back

I love my powerbook, but I try to avoid preaching. Some people are just more comfortable using Windows. I've tried it, and occasionally have to use it at work, but I'm sure it's comparable to Win users trying OSX.
Good luck to everyone.
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I ran mac for a while before I got into gaming. I also ran Ubuntu for about 6 months on a secondary machine, but PC is the way to go if you are a gamer - no way around it.

And if there's a way around it using Linux, I don't want to have to learn a programming language to make the stuff work. It's not worth it.

Originally Posted by 0livia

Sounds kinda scary to need all new software for a mac.

You would need the same amount of new software if you bought a new PC to be fair, generally, you just download the mac version of the same software you have now.

Hell, I ran 'office for mac' for a while

I dual boot windows and xubuntu.

Vista for when when I'm gaming, linux when I'm surfing, torrenting, playing xbunutu games or watching movies,

When I set up a new stationary machine. I will check out places like toms hardware for how differing components actually handle. Buy everything in bits and assemble everything myself.

I have a roof of ~3k usd for the innards of the machine (mb,cpu,ram,gfx,cooling,hdd).

This is speaking from the an European market perspective.
Now, when you say value for money I don't know exactly what it is you value. But to this date I have not had a computer die on me*.
When you assemble your rig this way you get really great performance. And I will bet you that I can match your macs cost and beat its performance, or match performance and beat cost if you will.

The problem with the above is that you need a certain level of understanding of computers and willingness to study up on new tech.
And, here in Denmark at least, most of the places who assemble for you charge too much for their service in my opinion.

My only problem with the S.Jobs emporium is that, currently, it seems I'm paying slightly more for the name than what I have to.
As with the graphics card war of nvidia against ati or for cpus intel against amd. I don't care if I'm playing on a personal computer made by macintosh or whoever. What matters to me is which machine will load and render frames the fastest in a stressed scenario of my current game, I will pick the one which is best at the time when I upgrade for the money I'm willing to spend.

I don't personally hate on any machine because of its maker, but I will walk past it if there is something that suits me better.
My buddies currently on teamspeak feels the same way. If jobs and Co. makes a rig which will beat ours we will gladly switch.

As for the comment on keyboard shortcuts. What does that have to do with mac keyboards vs pc keyboards?
My keyboard, a razor tarantula, has 20 macrokeys I can set up as I want, run programs or more as mentioned macros with or without delays as I see fit. On top of the 20 extra macrokeys I can remap any other key as well to do 1 or more keystroke of my choice. It also has interface buttons for my music player(only 4 to chose from winamp,windowsmediaplayer,itunes and realplayer). And interface buttons for your photoviewing program.
It has 99 different profiles so I can have my keyboard mapped out for 1 game or function and then press the profile button and select another profile for my other game that requires another layout.

Often people in both camps seem way too entrenched.

I've been away and back to the computer for hours here so I've probably mixed something up or outright missed something.

*I actually had a secondary fan on the MB die once after I had overclocked the cpu, which caused temp to rise in the cabinet. Never use stock coolers on cpu but I tried replacing the secondary cooler with another stock and it kept ticking so was probably factory problem

Edit: It seems the reason I was booted to the homepage front was because I had written out the names of some manufacturers correctly which the anti spamm filter doesn't like - fixed it with a different wording.