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Unread 05-02-2010, 01:46
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

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I guess you don't get the whole "build your car thing" either
Oh, I've built three autocross cars and one drag car. Nothing as fast as that though!
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

I drove it up to Phx a couple months ago (500 mile round trip) and ran 11.25 at 122. Then drove it home.

I get to work on all the late model junk that my wife owns...two of them are over 10 years old now, and yeah, they're kind of a pain. The old stuff is fun though.

and my desktop computer is pretty modern (core 2 duo) stuff in a 1998 vintage IBM case.
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I drove it up to Phx a couple months ago (500 mile round trip) and ran 11.25 at 122. Then drove it home.

I get to work on all the late model junk that my wife owns...two of them are over 10 years old now, and yeah, they're kind of a pain. The old stuff is fun though.

and my desktop computer is pretty modern (core 2 duo) stuff in a 1998 vintage IBM case.
Man, fastest older model car I've ridden in was a blown 69 Charger than ran the standing quarter in 12.5, and that was fun times. Then I rode a Koenigsegg CCXR in a standing 9, and all concepts of speed were shattered. That car wasn't even any fun.

But anyway, back to the topic. PC v Mac all comes down to one thing: Are the usability features in a mac worth the extra cost to you? If so, go for Mac. If not, go for PC.
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

I seem to be able to do all I need with a PC, there is some video stuff I could use a mac for, but my brother says that there's video stuff he can't do on his mac that he needs a PC for! so it's probably a matter of whether you want to pay for the perceived value. I don't, about 10% of computer users do. I admit that I'm a cheapskate.
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I completely understand the joys of playing around with it, but here's my point: Take a car metaphor. Do you really want to spend time rooting under the hood of your daily driver? What if you break something? Why not have a nice reliable car, and spend time under the hood of the weekend mobile?

Computers are like cars for me. The mac is some shiny european car: Harder to work on the hardware, don't break down too often, and a bit more expensive as a result. But boy oh boy do they drive nicely.
I sort of agree with this point to some extent, especially when things get super busy and I'm doing the 15-18 hour days, you just want the truck and then computer to just work.

I guess the thing with me is I want "one laptop" to do everything for me, so while a Mac would do everything I need from live video to everything else there was one problem even in running windows on a Mac and that was my radio systems programming software, this would mean two computers with one just for the radio stuff. with PC I have everything on one machine.

I was an a scene today and one of the camera guys from another station had an ipod touch, it blew me away! and it scared the heck out of my blackberry. No doubt Apple makes some nice stuff and I'm sure the ipad will be good as well.

A bit expensive though when compared to an Asus and Mac's are not as durable as a Thinkpad or toughbook as well.

I still for some reason and maybe it's just the nerd in me but I am hooked on PC.

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IA bit expensive though when compared to an Asus and Mac's are not as durable as a Thinkpad or toughbook as well.
The new Unibody Macbooks are milled out of a single block of 6061-T6. They're far stronger than any windows running computer on the market (except for the mil-spec ones).
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BUY MAC NOW!!!!!
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The new Unibody Macbooks are milled out of a single block of 6061-T6. They're far stronger than any windows running computer on the market (except for the mil-spec ones).
Having owned many Macs and PCs, including the Macbooks machined from solid, the AL cases are generally stronger than plastic ones, but the case is rarely the part that fails when I break my computers. Normally the hard drive goes first, or LCD screen.

I'm seriously considering buying a Toughbook or other milspec computer next time I purchase one. I am rough on my electronics.
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Having owned many Macs and PCs, including the Macbooks machined from solid, the AL cases are generally stronger than plastic ones, but the case is rarely the part that fails when I break my computers. Normally the hard drive goes first, or LCD screen.

I'm seriously considering buying a Toughbook or other milspec computer next time I purchase one. I am rough on my electronics.
Are there any Toughbook's or other milspec pc laptops that have the high end resources like let's say my Asus G51, I do video rendering which is CPU/GPU intensive and last time I checked the Toughbook didn't even come close and was very expensive.

I am very happy with the Asus but the toughbook toughness would be nice to have as working in news the equipment can get bumped around a bit at times.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

You need this pc!



Unfortunately it's a 80386 processor hiding in there....
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

Being raised in a PC world, I would recommend PCs. I find they are easier to work with.
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Unfortunately it's a 80386 processor hiding in there....
Not even a 486 in there eh? I remember when doing radio systems programming and some programs wouldn't run because the 486 was too fast!
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

they had the "turbo" button to slow them down to 4.77
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they had the "turbo" button to slow them down to 4.77
You know I vaguely remember something like that actually, when I was in school I worked one summer at a radio shop and we programmed and maintained radios for many customers including one fire department and I remember something about having to slow down those space age Pentium computers so the Motorola RSS would run in DOS, the preferred machine was a 386 and at the fastest a 486

I probably should have stayed with radio and electronics but I ended up in news which I don't regret too much to be honest, I've enjoyed a lot of it.
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

How about now shifting gears and talking about iphone vs blackberry or other similar device.

I've been with Blackberry since it was called a RIM pager up here and I have no complaints, I have see a fellow camera operator show me his iphone and ipod touch and I was very impressed but I am still very happy with blackberry.

Now my older blackberry is almost done, almost all the letters are worn off the keypad among other things and I may have to replace it in a couple of months.

Here is the problem I am facing, I can't find a blackberry app that shows weather radar with road map AND places my GPS current position icon on that map, in covering severe weather I have use Grlevelx.com radar with custom map overlays and GPS and its been great but new laws in Ontario mean we can't have laptops open while driving and while the laptop can be running with lid closed I can stop park and take a peek when needed but I came across this app for the iphone and now all of a sudden I'm not sure what to do.

http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app...5&expand=false

A storm tracker/radar/GPS app and this would be much easier to sneak a peek at while on the road.

It's just one app but if it works as advertised then all of a sudden there is this sudden temptation to look at the iphone.

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