Windows can do everything a Mac can do plus a lot, especially thanks to some programs available.

WINDOWS ALL THE WAY!


I HATE THOSE TRASHY MACS!

My username may look misleading... I'm a PC guy.

HAHAHA, ok, so I just got off of bestbuy.com and pricewatch. com and I saw that a mac pro is $2,500 and I can build a PC (checked on pricewatch.com for actual msrp for parts)with the same parts, with the same specs for about $1,050 INCLUDING a monitor AND 2GB RAM

Well in all fairness, Mac's can too. A lot of the themes I use on my Windows are Mac-ports.

true, and while were on the topic of graphics, I've heard of a program that sends all of graphical processing to the GPU instead of the CPU and therefore frees up the CPU for more important things, I was wondering if anyone has heard of this program and if they know where one can find it

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Ive tried my fair share of Operating Systems, From Linux Mandrake to OS 10.4.8), XP, 2000, 98... and Vista.

If your looking for overall usability and getting the most out of your hard earned $$$ I would recommend Vista in a heart beat.

For the amount of money you dish out to get a mid level Mac computer you could easily get a top of the line PC that will handle anything you throw at it. I mean lets face it, 4 years ago OS X was good for graphic editing (it still is), but with programs like Photoshop... etc there isnt anything graphically that a PC can't do that a Mac can.
There is an arguement to be made about the cost of Vista (400$ USD for Ultimate). Well here is my arguement to the OS X owners on that; Wile we pay 400$ USD for the OS we also get free updates & Service Packs. For example it was what 5 years till Microsoft released Vista, ok then now lets say Apple releases 1 update a year, and its 120$ to buy OS X if im not mistaken? That adds up to 600$. So theoretically people who are hardcore OS X fans pay 200$ more in the long run than people like me who bought Ultimate. Pwnt?

How can you even call Apple a competition? 10% of the market is like a fly on the back of an elephant.

And I won't even get into the whole gaming scene. Kind of funny really, I've been in arguements before with Mac owners where they claimed they can game on OS X!!! When questioned they tell me they run bootcamp (basicly an emulator of XP, I dont care what people say, IT IS A FORM OF EMULATION!) and run XP inside their Mac, let me get this straight, they hate Windows so badly that they switch then fire up bootcamp and run XP? Wow, I don't mean to insult anyone but way to be a big **cking hypocrite.

In the end it comes down to your personal choice, not everyone enjoys Windows, and certainly not OS X.

It's just Mac, not MAC which is something else (something to do with computer address like an IP).

I gotta agree with Asty.

ugh... boot camp

you peoples have no idea how many arguments I've heard about using boot camp to use windows on a mac I mean, whats the deal with that? there are people out there who are die hard mac fans and absolutely hate windows but brag about having windows on their macs, besides, you can put mac OSX on a PC anyway, but I think you need a hacked version to do it

so true

the windows OS will become so much better when they get new people to run the show. The story bill puts out is that microsoft has so many product tester, but the fact is it doesn't matter how many testers you have, the product is as good as it's program, and testers can't change the program

I priced a Macbook Pro and a good gaming laptop from Dell both cost about the same.

Mac you do not have the issue with viruses.
Mac has style.
Mac you do not need to worry about missing or corrupt drivers.

And what can you not run on a Mac anyways?

Have a hard time syncing to my PDA but that and GCII would be about it.
Would not miss MS office myself.


As far as running Vista there is not that much difference from a MAC or PC so why not if you want? Parralels looks really cool.

Even in the old OS/2 days we were talking about dual booting.

Got to agree with this to a point.

They to not bother because OS X is what maybe 5% if Apple is lucky.

While I think OS X has holes I would always go with Microsoft having the buggy system.

For two reasons

1) Microsoft does not have hardware control Windows Vista has to work on a virtually unlimited combination of hardware.

2) OS X is based on Linux and contains fewer lines of code. On one the boards I read a member posted a flow diagram for and internet call on Windows and on OS X. You do not have to have a computer science degree to see OS X is clean.

Even this aside I did read on good unbiased article where the author was comparing Vista and OS X.

And Vista does many things better that OS X and the other way around OS X does many thing better than Vista.

PC...