Yes folks the classic square off: The "creativity" of the Mac vs the popularity/gaming power of the Personal Computer.

This thread can be used as both debate and for positive discussion about both operating systems/computers.


To start, I would like to do a quick written review on my brand new MacBook:

Specifications:
2.0ghz Core 2 Duo
1gb RAM
80gb Hard Drive
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ()
Mac OS X Tiger

So far I absolutely LOVE my MacBook. Sometimes it is just the littlest things that catch my eye. One of the first features that I personally saw about the MacBook was the MagSafe power adapter. You know, it was on those cute "PC Mac" commercials. I have had a laptop fly off the table before... problem solved. More little things like scrolling on the trackpad simply by putting two fingers on it instead of just one certainly appealed to me as I messed around on the in-store MacBooks. And of course, moving up the totem pole to bigger stuff, the software that Macs run are amazing. OKAY, Macs don't run that much software but the stuff it does run works very very well.

Getting more internal, I like the way that Apple utilizes the hardware. Apple seems to do a much better job with power effeciency because they make all their own stuff. PC's are more universal and some of the only things in common about ALL of them is that they mostly run Windows (no I am not leaving out you Linux people).

More stuff I love:
- Built in iSight camera (hours of fun on that)
- Frontrow (Came with Apple remote)
- FAST BOOTUP! (25 seconds)
- Design (Really thin yet reallllly powerful)


Now, yes I will actually say some positive things about PC's:
- Great for gaming! Stupid MacBooks arn't even made with dedicated graphics cards.
- Much more universal. Runs all kinds of software that my Mac cannot.
- Much easier to setup external devices like printers (still havn't figured my specific problem on my network yet).

there are another mac book called macbook pro !!!
that comes with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 128Mb
1GB ram , 120 Gb HDD and 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
thats the "pro" base options,

you can run all win application with your mac now with a emulators like "QEMU" or "iEmulator" and there are more

and with apple you can have mac osx , linux and windows without any "projects" or modifications

This post was last modified: 05-13-2007 10:11 AM by MV-Kubba.

You know what the world truly loves mac once they get used to them. It's just that there isn't as much as you can do really. For example Gaming which a lot of people do. But if everything that ran on windows was also made for mac the PC wouldn't last long.

The MacBook Pro is also two times more expensive then the MacBook. Personally I did not buy it because of money and because this is my first Mac. For what I am doing, which is mostly video editing (contact flashes, lightsaber swords), I felt that processor and memory were more important than graphics cards and went with the MacBook.

Something I didn't mention either, I am sure this is what Mktrep was build up to but, Parallels desktop is also great on Macs where you can run both Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. It creates a "virtual" computer on your Mac, sections off your harddrive, and with the touch of a couple buttons you screen flips and you have a whole different operating system to use.

Just in case that helps anyone.

thats right price is one of the most important reasons that keeps mac unpopular ,
you can have PC by the same specifications of the mac book for only 600$ (like Dell inspiron)
or you can build your own desktop sys. with a great Specifications like : 3.0Ghz 2mb cash , 1Gb ram , 256Mb Geforce 7200 , 120Gb HDD ,..etc for only 500$

thats why people now buying PCs and runs Mac OSX-project with it

Right. One of the reasons that I didn't just buy a laptop and put OS X on it is because I wanted the legendary support and quality that comes from the company who introduced the first personal computer. Apple may be expensive, but they know what they are doing. Also, all Mac's come preloaded with iLife which I use every day wether it be for fun or a project.

Hello,
The Both are best but I just switched from PC to Mac and as Bruce said I should have done it sooner. I will say there is definitely a learning curve but it is well worth the time invested. There is a Mac thread on our Forum and every question I posted was answered very quickly and was a huge help to me. I have only positive things to say about the Mac but I'm sure you will find people who feel differently.

I'm a mac person, have been for quite some time. When I first switched it wasn't too hard to get use to the different OS, but that was many version ago, lol. Now I'm totally lost on pc's and don't know any of their shortcuts. I think overall the mac is very intuitive to learn. As a developer, I think it's far more powerful. It comes with everything I need to create and test my codes. I've only downloaded a few extras (like the Interface Builder for iPhone apps). Unlike a pc where nothing is provided and you have to download everything!

Macs are often stereotyped as a designers computer, but I think programmers can get a lot out of them too.

Mac stereotyped as a designer computer because of it's early and powerful GPU back at PPC era, now with intel it's even better, you can have the best of the 2 worlds.
as i said before the only thing makes me hesitate buying a Mac it's price...

True, they can be pricey. But I've had my MacBook for over 5 years and it's still running strong. The pc laptops I had prior would only last about 3 years max. I only upgrade my software every so often and it started with enough power to run today's larger programs. Not many pc laptops can say that. I was always having to upgrade my memory & such on my old Toshiba to run the latest version of Adobe software and it always bogged the system down so. With the MacBook I haven't added any memory and it's still doing well. However, I think if I do want to install Adobe CS5 when it comes out I may finally have to look at my memory...

Also just the little things like the ports & hardware are really good. My Toshiba had loose USB ports after just a few years of use and the MacBook has had no issues with major use over the years.

So for a long term investment, it's not so bad. Figure you'll buy 2 pc's (or one with major upgrades later) in the amount of time you'll use one mac. Now how does that price look?

I will admit I like playing around with Macbook, seeing as I am a PC user. You have to check out Garage Band, you can make your own music and what have you. I also like you can control the desktop with sequences with your fingers on the touch pad. But with gaming, making music, graphic designing, web designing, and running a website, I'd always stick with Windows on the P.C.. I haven't had time to mess around with Linux.

Oh man, you need to mess around with Linux. It's easy to learn. I'll have you converted yet

Well teach me a little bit Bftrs2, I would love to learn about Linux, or at least a friendly-user distribution of Linux, one being Ubuntu.