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View Poll Results: What computer are you using? @ home
we have, ummm... 5 Macs here. started out with the PC's (i remember when i was 7 or 8... we had an old 20Mhz 386 that had a WHOPPING 80Mb harddrive... oh man, the Prince of Persia... )
Originally posted by fxdsconv2000 If you want reall power go Linux!!!
PC w/ linux if u need power
Apple w/ OSX if u need Graphics!
If you just wanna surf the internet go with a dell!
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'00 Mitsu Galant ES 4dr Auto (boring)
'97 FBP Honda Civic EX Auto (RIP)
'92 Pontiac Grand Am SE Coupe (RIP)
The wife uses a Mac G4 cube on her desk and an iBook laptop, and I have an old Thinkpad 760XL running Win98.
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2004 RX-8 Winning Blue Sport Ordered 1/8/03; Delivered 7/25/03 ; Returned 10/21/03
2005 RX-8 Velocity Red Sport delivered 12/05 returned at lease end 12/07
Originally posted by fxdsconv2000 Why the hell are you running web/ftp on a Windows box? Do you want to get hacked?
You would be better off running Apache and VSFTP (just IMO)
Because I'm a Lotus Notes Administrator by trade, so I use the product I'm familiar with.
(Well, Notes provides web, email and calendaring; I had to look elsewhere for an ftp server. But there's no way I'd ever run IIS, if that's what you were afraid of. )
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1973 RX-3
1975 RX-3
1979 RX-7
1985 RX-7 GSL-SE
2004 RX-8 Winning Blue Sport Ordered 1/8/03; Delivered 7/25/03 ; Returned 10/21/03
2005 RX-8 Velocity Red Sport delivered 12/05 returned at lease end 12/07
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Originally posted by wakeech we have, ummm... 5 Macs here. started out with the PC's (i remember when i was 7 or 8... we had an old 20Mhz 386 that had a WHOPPING 80Mb harddrive... oh man, the Prince of Persia... )
Prince of Persia rocked! But I had that on my Commodore 64, which was the 'PC' I was weened on (Vic20 first actually, then C64, then C128). That was the early 80's though- PC's were horrible, and the Mac wasn't born yet (and I wasn't an Apple II fan).
That PC you describe above was the first one I bought new- 386/40, 1mb ram, 80mb HD = $2500. Oh the pain... : )
a Mac and a PC here....but didnt turn on the PC for months:P
intel now cares about IBM, in fact, intel started to care an year ago. Intel is relying on IBM's technology, which is also a major cost for intel.
it doesnt matter if intel cares about IBM. but pretty sure sony, samsung, M$, apple etc care about IBM
M$ care about apple,that's their R&D department:P
M$ cares alot on IBM.
M$ cares about apple becox of xbox2 (they are going to use G5s+OSX to make games)
apple will survive. M$ is walking back in the old days of apple... endless loop.
Apple has 5%(+/- 1~2%) of market. but actually thats huge.
Apple has 40% of the mp3 player market already. Sony, samung, creative, rio and 50+ firms care about Apple.
apple owns 70%~80% of the online music store market.
BMW owns less than 5% of the marketshare, and they still survive.
and i am pretty sure gateway will be screwed up (bankrupt) by hp, dell these firms within 5 years.
If you want the best of graphics - get a Mac. If you want to be compatible with the other 99% of the world - get a PC
Not entirely true any longer. Last year I setup an art department in a Corporate setting. I picked out Macs for this department and I had to fight our IT to order them (I am a Marketing Director). They tried to talk me out of it for the usual compatibility reasons and that they couldn't support the Macs. Well, they can't even support any graphics/ page layout software in the first place, so what does it matter what platform that we use?
The Macs were so easy to setup on the Windows network. I plugged in the Ethernet cable and turned them on. They immediately recognized the Windows network. I did connect all of the Macs to one ethernet hub, and then connected the hub to the network. I found that the Macs were much faster being directly connected to each other then going through the network in the building (it's a big big building and transferring large files can be slow). Setting up the printers was easy. Macs use only one driver for all printers, so no need to install multiple drivers and deal with incompatibility issues. With MS Office being on the Mac as well, it is easy to share Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files with the rest of the company. Plus, we use Lotus Notes... which IBM has Notes for the Mac. Originally our IT knew that Notes was available for the Mac but did not tell us as a way to try to stop us. They do have web mail, but web mail just didn't have all of the features that Notes has (calendar, spell check, etc.). I ended up having to order Notes directly from IBM because IT wouldn't give it to us. Notes works perfect on the Mac!
So our IT has been ticked off that the Macs have worked so well. They wanted us to fail so that they could say, "See we told you that it wouldn't work!". OS X never crashes. They are so stable and our graphic artists are very happy, and produce a lot of work. I am thinking of getting a PowerBook myself. But I am going to ask for a computer allowance so I do not have to go through IT to order a PowerBook. I am on their black list as you can imagine.
Plus, all the virus problems that we have had with Windows PC's, the Macs have not been effected.
They are beautiful. Ordered three dual G4 towers with 20" Apple flat screens, and one 12" PowerBook (this was right before the G5).
Think how cool a PowerBook would look in your RX-8.
Last edited by grogiefrog; 03-13-2004 at 06:48 AM.
Mac's suck- especially those G5's. I highly suggest anyone with a G5 that wants a real computer sell me theirs at a good price, and go and get a real compuer. I'll take that dual g5 dog off your hands.
SERIOSULY I have both platforms, and I really do like the mac's better. The PC is faster at surfing the net, BUT I often have "this page cannot be displayed" issues with only a 5 or 6 IE windows open. Surfing the net on a G5 is a little slower, but I almost never seem to have memory issues (like if a QT movie loaded in an IE page on PC- seems to have taken up too much memory and cant display other pages.
Also FInal Cut simply rocks on a g4 or G5- so many editors have switched over- I even do high def editing on my MAC.
Originally posted by emailists Mac's suck- especially those G5's. I highly suggest anyone with a G5 that wants a real computer sell me theirs at a good price, and go and get a real compuer. I'll take that dual g5 dog off your hands.
SERIOSULY I have both platforms, and I really do like the mac's better. The PC is faster at surfing the net, BUT I often have "this page cannot be displayed" issues with only a 5 or 6 IE windows open. Surfing the net on a G5 is a little slower, but I almost never seem to have memory issues (like if a QT movie loaded in an IE page on PC- seems to have taken up too much memory and cant display other pages.
Also FInal Cut simply rocks on a g4 or G5- so many editors have switched over- I even do high def editing on my MAC.
umm if you have so much problems surfing the net with IE then why are you still using it??!
there are other alternatives. I mean from Opera, Firefox, Netscape, or Mozilla there are other browsers out there. Many of them make IE look like a piece of crap. Just because you have windows doesn't mean you have to use microsoft's other products.
man I remember when netscape was a major browser.
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On a related note, they were showcasing a Mac on the SAE Technology Congress. Incredible 21 inch flat display and they were running so many applications at the same time that it was mind blowing.
As far as I could tell it was a dual G5 with dual display capability (but only using one) connected to some server. They were running a very high end 3D graphics program, two real time 3D water wave movement simulators, a Finding Nemo DVD movie, a streaming video from the internet (DVD quality, I only found out it was streaming when the guy there told me). 5 or 6 internet pages, and like 5 other programs WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST HICCUP!! I was impressed. He said it was running 2.4 terabytes memory, maybe he was BS'ing but he minimized everything and there was an icon displaying the memory used and available, hmm is this possible? Maybe this was the HD size? I don't know. But I was really impressed.
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As you can tell from my avatar I am a mac user. As my employer is a PC entrenched organization - I use Virtual PC on my mac to fullfill work obligations when I am not in the office. I use both platforms daily and must say that PC's are great for the Micro$oft suite of applications. Not snazzy or blazing fast, but rather ho-hum. And ho-hum is how I summarize the whole PC experience. My 17" G4 Powerbook on the other hand is much like my RX-8 - svelte, fast, and functional. It is a joy and priviledge to own both!
I have used most home computer systems out in the past 23 years and while in the 80's Macs where the popular solution for graphics (Amiga's never made it mainstream enough in thet regard), today it's about what software you run and the usage you give it. Neither is "better" than the other in any apreciable way. Try them both and use what ya like. That being said, I use PC's at home since I cant buy a new Amiga, I like a lot fo online games and I like to tinker with my stuff. And since Apple is NOT tinker friendly, well, there ya go.
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