Your opinion on the mac vs pc argument

[gnome]

Sure the lady's attractive but with a pc you're free to lay her out and still have enough cash for room service.

Hi I'm a Mac.

Hi I'm a PC...You can lay me out and still have enough cash for room service!

[Rickmansworth]

ive used both, mac is better.

[the dub lemon]

I like macs but I can't find a valid reason to get one when I can get something with far more power for half the price with a PC. Both are solid and both work well. The one thing I will say though to all those people who say macs are more stable than pcs for music answer me this one question...how comes I've seen several instances of logic crashing on the computer music videos yet I've still not seen a cubase or any other sequencer on a pc crash on them?

[Mad_EP]

Can I just say that as a life-long Apple user... I hate with a violent passion, any & everything to do with Apple Stores and the "geniuses" they supposedly employ to work there. I don't buy Apple RAM (you can get it just as cheap as PC ram from 3rd parties)... I know how to trick out my box inside and out (my 450 mHz G4 tower from 2001 is still banging away like a pro) and I simply find those fuckwits incredibly annoying. I have only been to an Apple Store once... and I almost got thrown out.

Basically, I understand PC users' stereotypes of Mac users because they are largely based on those idiots... the same way many Brits base their stereotypes of Americans on what they see on Ricki Lake & Jerry Springer.

However - like most things... just cos you saw it on TV doesn't make it true.

[kaiori breathe]

I don't think it matters how you feel on the issue. Personally I'm for the PC, but there's a switchover happening slowly but surely. So, eventually I don't think you'll really have a choice when it comes to compatability of software and what not. We'll eventually all be forced into using macs whether we like it or not.

I think anyway. Just starting to see the signs of the switch over now, but generally when it starts there's no stopping it.

[vertx]

In my experience the strong point of Macs is the OS and software while they charge a premium for the nice packaging.

Another thing you might want to look at is running a Mac OS on PC hardware

Heres a quick google

http://www.hackintosh.com/

[JBE]

I think a lot of it, at least for me, comes down to price and availability. As a pc user I can readily upgrade anything in my pc with absolutely no issues, and won't cost me barely anything. Now a days you can build a pretty decent pc for pretty cheap.

When it comes to laptops though, I'm a bit divided on this. Laptops are harder to build and for the most part are non-upgradeable since everything ends up getting soldered directly to the motherboard. A good laptop, whether it's mac or pc is gonna end up running you a pretty penny depending on where you do your purchasing. Not to mention since it's difficult to upgrade them, they tend to not last nearly as long and become obsolete much quicker. Therefore you end up having to buy new laptops a lot more often than you would a desktop. So when it comes to a laptop I tend to set my eyes on both a mac and a pc model and then weigh my own preferences against them and make my choice. I have found that my macs tend to last a bit longer than my pc laptops though.

The Mac OS for the most part is undoubtedly more stable than windows. Few viruses, if any. Utilizes much less cpu and to be honest, there's just less clutter, at least in my opinion. Not to mention it seems to do a much better job at cacheing and allocating memory. I find myself having to defrag and clean my pc on almost a weekly basis. I personally don't think there really truly is a "Better than" matter of fact. It's just a matter of opinion and some people just feel more comfortable with one over the other and therefore decide which one is the best.

I think there is a completely overlooked OS when considering a PC for specific purposes. I know many people will probably roll there eyes at this, but Ubunto is a pretty awesome OS. It also seems that a lot of VST programmers have been creating a lot more linux compatible versions as well. Even if they didn't, ubuntu has a built in Windows Emulator and you can get most windows based programs to run on it. There's tons of people out there using Ubuntu and are constantly testing software and figuring out the ins and outs of them to make them work on ubuntu as well, so if you can't get it to work chances are someone has, and has most likely created some sort of thread somewhere about it. Ubuntu is extremely stable. Same as the Mac OS, there's almost no viruses, it does a cleaner job of allocating and caching memory, never seems to require defragging or general OS maintenance, and it requires damn near none of the cpu to run. So, just a suggestion there if you want to give something else a shot.