Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Chief Pride

Macs ARE NOT better than a PC in every way.

Seeing as a Mac is a PC, I'm not too sure that this statement makes any sense. Please elaborate.

Originally Posted by Chief Pride

It's well known that a lot of what Apple boasts in its commercials are blatant lies, such as being impenetrable to viruses. They do have some benefits though... Apple is very good at taking complicated software, and dumbing it down to be able to be used by anyone.

To rebut this, I will use some actual statistics:

About 71000 Viruses for Windows - 0 for Mac os X (there are total of 579 viruses for the mac, 553 of them are word/excel macro viruses, and all of them are for the older non-os x based system)

All of the "viruses" for Mac OS X have been "proof of concept" devices, and have never been spread to more than 50 computers.

Have fun using another 300-700MB of RAM running your anti-virus app!

With regard to the "dumbing it down" comment - I would like to add that all of the BUILT-IN software provided on your mac is simple enough for ANYONE to use it (not just the snappy-minded people - have you ever TRIED to use Windows Movie Maker? Is it even possible to put text over video?) Regardless, at least a Mac comes WITH some software, as opposed to Windows, which comes with Solitare, Minesweeper, Calculator (ooh fun!), and Windows Movie Maker (the worst video editing software... ever.) Your mac will come with fun and useful things, like, Photo Booth, iChat, Chess, iTunes (runs best on a mac ya know ) Dashboard, etc... And MANY awesome utilities like Time Machine (automatic subversioning and backup), iCal, Grapher, and a bunch of Unix tools (part of that whole no-virus thing )

Originally Posted by Chief Pride

Windows 7... Rocks, probably one of the best operating systems I have ever used. It is everything Vista promised to be but actually working. It also runs GREAT on a laptop. I don't know much about the new MAC os though.

Hmm... I'm not too sure how strongly I feel about my OPERATING SYSTEM using a gig of my RAM.....

In all honesty, t41w4ne5ef0b, I have used the Windows 7 beta and RC - It's just as bad as Vista, and in many ways, worse. It uses more RAM, has many of the same driver issues, has locked up on me numerous times, and things just.... Fail to work! Applications, hardware, it's a disaster. IF you decide to go with a Windows-based laptop (I hate to call them PCs.... All computers are PCs) please use Windows XP, SP2 (SP3 is garbage, and breaks way more things than it fixes. In my opinion, SP3 is a ploy to get you to upgrade to Vista after your machine stops working from the broken update.)

Originally Posted by blaxbb

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