Mac vs. PC: Just bought a new imac

I know this doesn't belong here but over the past few years I've become some accustomed to the judgment of my fellow KMC comic book posters that I trust their judgment above all. So Digi if you could allow this to remain open for a short while so I can gather some information that would be great.

So I just bough the new imac 20 inch with the Leopard operating system for $1600. It looks great and it runs better. I'm just running if it's worth the price or if I should have stuck with a PC and the windows operating system.

Do Mac's live up to the hype?

Spoiler:
Yes. truth is they're pretty good, and have thier many advantages. some people (like me) just don't like em.

hell nah. should have stuck with a PC.

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The Mac/PC fight is a mostly irrelevant one.

Macs are more 'user friendly,' PC's are more versatile and, most of the time, more powerful.

Doesn't matter.

Originally posted by Soljer
The Mac/PC fight is a mostly irrelevant one.

Macs are more 'user friendly,' PC's are more versatile and, most of the time, more powerful.

Doesn't matter.

Well I had a year old Dell, but after it crashed for the 50th time I needed to replace my computer for school. After being told by a trillion people that Mac's were better than PC's I decided to grab one. Just wondering if it's worth the price tag.

Originally posted by Larceny
Well I had a year old Dell, but after it crashed for the 50th time I needed to replace my computer for school. After being told by a trillion people that Mac's were better than PC's I decided to grab one. Just wondering if it's worth the price tag.

If you're not a 'computer person' - as I mentioned, they're a lot more user friendly. They're easier to handle and what not.

Originally posted by Larceny
I know this doesn't belong here but over the past few years I've become some accustomed to the judgment of my fellow KMC comic book posters that I trust their judgment above all. So Digi if you could allow this to remain open for a short while so I can gather some information that would be great.

So I just bough the new imac 20 inch with the Leopard operating system for $1600. It looks great and it runs better. I'm just running if it's worth the price or if I should have stuck with a PC and the windows operating system.

Do Mac's live up to the hype?

😖hifty:

This is the kind of stuff that should go in a team thread.

Originally posted by Bransolute
And you want to connect it to your scanner so you can scan images of comics, right?

😖hifty:

I bought a scanner as well...... pretty pictures. 🙂

Originally posted by Larceny
I bought a scanner as well...... pretty pictures. 🙂

Originally posted by Bransolute
See, it's comic related after all... 😖hifty:

Nope, purely school related. 🙂

IMO, Macs don't crash nearly as much as other computers. And they almost never get hit by viruses.

The downside is that certain programs don't work as well, or at all. Good news is, thanks to bootcamp, you can run PC programs on a mac with no problems. Leopard is still being worked on, so you should stick with Panther until they fix all the bugs.

The virus argument is a very poor one unless you're completely computer illiterate, for the record.

Originally posted by Soljer
The virus argument is a very poor one unless you're completely computer illiterate, for the record.

Quiet you. ermmhappy

i dont get it really a computer is a computer too me all i do is burn music/watch video's/look up stuff

PC is far more durable, stronger, more versatile and has shown more feats than Mac. The only edge that Mac has over PC is faster speed and is always bloodlusted in the use of its graphic capability...

PC FTW all the way...

Originally posted by Soljer
The virus argument is a very poor one unless you're completely computer illiterate, for the record.

Lesson learned.

Originally posted by Roldz
PC is far more durable, stronger, more versatile and has shown more feats than Mac. The only edge that Mac has over PC is faster speed and is always bloodlusted in the use of its graphic capability...

PC FTW all the way...

Originally posted by Soljer
The virus argument is a very poor one unless you're completely computer illiterate, for the record.

Which is most people . . .

Originally posted by Larceny
Well I had a year old Dell, but after it crashed for the 50th time I needed to replace my computer for school. After being told by a trillion people that Mac's were better than PC's I decided to grab one. Just wondering if it's worth the price tag.

I think I may help in this, as I have two macs (24" iMac core 2 duo) and about 6 PC's (most of them are old and need to be sold off, but the newest PC is a dual core PentiumD, 2.8 Ghz, with a 8600 GT card).

The macs have become immensely more versatile with bootcamp, as mentioned by trickster. Install Bootcamp and you can install Vista, XP, or whatever other OS you want, even Linux or BeOS, etc.. What's funny is that some applications are actually much faster on windows XP on a iMac Core 2 Duo then they are when running a Universal Binary version on the Mac OS.

Plus side of the Mac OS: crashes less, less security risks (unless you're a jackass and put in your admin password when a drive-by install tries something), and very simple to use as far as driver support. Downside is mostly that there aren't that many universal binary games at this point, which is why you need to install BootCamp.

Personally I'm a PC guy, as I like to mess with every driver and hardware device on my system, and can name off the top of my head what almost every service does in XP, and work my way around the registry, etc.. Macs however are just plain easier to use and don't crash as much. Everything is designed with asthetics in mind.