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Mac vs PC

rmhop81 said:
yeah maybe that's a MBP and magsafe???
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No, it's a Dell. The Macbook warns you long before it does that by swelling to the size of a grapefruit. :p I'll be waiting for the Rev B thankyouverymuch. Or C.

Dell sucks BTW.
 
i've been using windows xp for 4 years now, but myself a macbook knowing that i could use windows.... but for some reason im on os x all the time.... now why is that? could it be that is a perfect pr0n machine because you get no spyware or ****? could it be because is pretty? could it be because itunes rules on osx? could it be because it boots in 10 seconds? i have no idea.
 
thanks a lot people, another question,

on apple mac book

mac os boots in 10 seconds,
anybody know how long it takes to boot windows xp pro on mac? thanks
 
CNU182 said:
haha, but no really. i'll defend the macbook to end over any dell notebook.
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me too. my last laptop was a dell. i gave that to my mom. and now whenever i help her with stuff on it, i am completely disgusted that i ever used something so primitive.

(man i really hope i deleted ALL the porn. hmm...)
 
Since pahanorlando lives in the United States, where Apple stores abound, the best advice we can give him for starters is to head on over to an Apple store and try out a Mac for himself. There he can also talk with the salesmen one-on-one. There are too many differences to simply list or even begin to explain if he has nothing to reference them with.
 
Bill Gates said:
Since pahanorlando lives in the United States, where Apple stores abound, the best advice we can give him for starters is to head on over to an Apple store and try out a Mac for himself. There he can also talk with the salesmen one-on-one. There are too many differences to simply list or even begin to explain if he has nothing to reference them with.
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Probably a good idea! :)
 
Bill Gates said:
Since pahanorlando lives in the United States, where Apple stores abound, the best advice we can give him for starters is to head on over to an Apple store and try out a Mac for himself.
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I knew you used Macs. :p Quitting to do philanthropic work. Ha!
 
markkk! said:
thats actually a video, and the guy says its a Dell, and you can see it is too.
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how's ur MBP doing again? i'm sure since you're an owner of one you'd be aware of magsafe melting....but i guess not
 
rmhop81 said:
how's ur MBP doing again? i'm sure since you're an owner of one you'd be aware of magsafe melting....but i guess not
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I bet anything that magsafe melting thing didn't even happen. Somebody probably just held a lighter to one.

It wouldn't surprise me that someone hates macs enough to do that to a relatively new computer. Does anyone else remember the shooting of the iMac G3 video from back in the day? That video was circulated when those things were still relatively new.
 
pahanorlando said:
mac os boots in 10 seconds,
anybody know how long it takes to boot windows xp pro on mac? thanks
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Here is something to think about. If you need Windows XP and have no use for Mac OS, then buy a PC. Mac hardware hasn't been anything really special for quite a long time. What gets most of us excited is how user-friendly and stable the OS is.

On another note, I imagine a Mac running Windows XP is just as vunerable to Windows virsus as a PC is.
 
ejb190 said:
Here is something to think about. If you need Windows XP and have no use for Mac OS, then buy a PC. Mac hardware hasn't been anything really special for quite a long time. What gets most of us excited is how user-friendly and stable the OS is.

On another note, I imagine a Mac running Windows XP is just as vunerable to Windows virsus as a PC is.
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what about the pc games?

what about pc software? can I use them in mac?

and still, how long would it take to load up windows? thanks
 
pahanorlando said:
what about the pc games?

what about pc software? can I use them in mac?

and still, how long would it take to load up windows? thanks
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Once you get Xp on a Mac, its the full XP just like any other PC(all games and software will run if its specs are high enough_
 
dejo said:
Among a number of other differences, it's also refurbished. Maybe you need to compare the price with a refurbished MacBook. So, I admit, I don't get your point. You're not making a fair comparison.
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Differences:
-MagSafe
-iSight
-Front Row
-Apple Remote
-Magnetic Latch
-Screen? (It doesn't say on that
-New vs. Refurbished
-iLife vs. seven copies of AOL
 
ejb190 said:
Here is something to think about. If you need Windows XP and have no use for Mac OS, then buy a PC.
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totally agree with this. it's dumb buying a Mac when what you want is to install Windows on it. I mean if you're used to Windows and want to use Windows, i don't see a point in switching.
 
pahanorlando said:
Can you explain me difference between Mac and PC? thanks:)
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It is a different mind set, the computers although relatively close in terms of hardware, it is the OS that separates them. The Mac OS just works, period. No worries about infection, crashes or lockups are rare, no driver issues, no registry issues, no BIOS. The Mac is an extension of yourself, a computer that waits for the next job and handles it with ease. The Windows PC is a nasty animal that is waiting to bite you in the ass and take you down with it. OSs aside the design of the Mac is well thought out, the PC is a off-the-shelf, cheapest bidder parts, ugly machine that I would be embarassed to have in my living room.
 
It is true you can purchase other brand of PC that are cheaper than a Apple but you will never have the built in software that ships on all macs that mac it usefull. I used iPhoto, iTunes (i know it runs on windows) all the time, and the cool thing is front row rocks.

The other factor is that those Dell will not last aslong. I used to work for 100% dell shop and the dell are not tough like the Mac. Also Apple look good.
 
okey, thanks a lot,

so I think that I should get mac then, since its easy to switch from windows to mac os, but I was thinking if I download windows there too incase i would need to use some programs,
so if I put also windows there, will mac os downloading longer?
 
I switched from being a 4 year XP user, 6 mo.s dabbling in linux, to OSX with every intention of installing boot camp and XP on there, and for *some* reason, I haven't gotten around to it.

OSX is awesome when you first get to it from XP, free from all them headaches.

OSX will start up just as fast as it used to if you install XP. However, keep in mind that XP may start up slower because of where it is on the hard drive disk. They write from outside in, so the XP partition would probably be a little more than halfway in if you divide it evenly half and half, which means that there's not as much data per rotation as there is on the outer tracks, thus, loading XP may take like a second longer based on that.
 
JurgenWigg said:
I switched from being a 4 year XP user, 6 mo.s dabbling in linux, to OSX with every intention of installing boot camp and XP on there, and for *some* reason, I haven't gotten around to it.

OSX is awesome when you first get to it from XP, free from all them headaches.

OSX will start up just as fast as it used to if you install XP. However, keep in mind that XP may start up slower because of where it is on the hard drive disk. They write from outside in, so the XP partition would probably be a little more than halfway in if you divide it evenly half and half, which means that there's not as much data per rotation as there is on the outer tracks, thus, loading XP may take like a second longer based on that.
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thanks, so you think that on 2 ghz mac xp will load up about 15 seconds?
 
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