I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I am a Mac user, have been all my life, but I hate zealous "fanatics." It seems both systems are tremendously out of date. Time to upgrade buddy. I'm able to render 2 HD movies at the same time (while posting on GameSpot). But simply copying a file is a simple mundane task for any system sold in the past 10 years.
I like my Mac, and I've used Windows for a very long time. I have a right to dislike Windows. Most Mac haters probably haven't used one longer than an hour or outside of school.
In my experience, people prefer pc because of the games. Also alot of the time I get "macs are for computer illiterates". Macs are bad because they're easy to use? What kind of argument is that?
Going by that my Mac is a crash happy piece of **bleep** - okay, it is anyway. It's an old 6100 that gives you the bomb way more often than it should. My Mac Classic doesn't crashas much.
Pretty much any mac made before 2002-ish (Pre-G4) is a POS. I hated macs with a passion (still think OS9 sucks) until my XP laptop almost gave me an aneurism and I bought the 15" Aluminum Powerbook (first gen al-book, bought right after it was announced) to try out macs. It was the best computer I've ever owned (6 Windows, 3 Macs to date) and going from windows laptops that had to be re-imaged or repaired every 3-4 months and sold for 20% of original MSRP after 1.5 years to a mac that lasted me 2.5 years with no problems and sold for 80% of what I bought it for (therefore overall cost of ownership is much lower) locked me in to Apple. Plus OSX is a little more efficient than Windows when you know how to use it to it's fullest. So in my experience the mac is faster, cheaper, and more stable, but I'm not a fanatic, I'll buy a windows computer if anyone ever makes decent hardware and MS builds a better OS.
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