Anyone here a Mac user?

I'm a future one tbh. Kind of doubt it though at a gaming forum lol.iJeff32

[QUOTE="iJeff32"]I'm a future one tbh. Kind of doubt it though at a gaming forum lol.Nibroc420

Lol, you can play Battlefield on it....Just most people use Windows.

no and proud of it :P lol do you need some help, I work at my school's tech center and might be able to help? if not have fun over paying for your comp(that only comes in white) lol Petermannc31

I design, and mine is going to be a black Macbook lol. They come in black and white, I think another is in silver?

i hate macs.... i never understood what makes them so much easier to use... ive never had a problem using xp/vistah575309

I'm not sure, but they have better interfaces for design (not just Photoshop, Photoshop is just the beginning). I like Windows, I just use Macintoshes because I am going to design is all.

I was looking at some adverts yesterday, and I saw that Best Buy was selling macbooks now. There was a macbook with a 2.4GHz processer, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, and a few other features for $1500. Just a little further up on the page was a laptop from Toshiba with a similar processor, 3GB of RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, and all the same features for $800.

I hate macs. I have used OS X (for audio production, none the less), and I don't understand what the big deal is. As for the 'macs don't crash' line of thought: I can assure you they can. And they are pretty adept at doing it after you've been working on your final project for a couple of hours.

The only justification, in my mind, for buying a mac, is that they make computing simpler. Well how much simpler does it need to be? I taught myself everything I know about computers, and I am doing just fine. Also, they're hella expensive.

[QUOTE="h575309"]i hate macs.... i never understood what makes them so much easier to use... ive never had a problem using xp/vistaiJeff32

I'm not sure, but they have better interfaces for design (not just Photoshop, Photoshop is just the beginning). I like Windows, I just use Macintoshes because I am going to design is all.

it makes no difference for photoshop since the design is all up to adobe. the start menu is more useful than the dock, macs lack view options compared to xp and the amount of view option in vista just destorys mac osx. mac windows can't be fully maximised which is annoying when you happen to click out of it. why no thumbnail view in windows? and why does a 2.66ghz core 2 duo run windows faster than a dual 2.66ghz xeon run osx? osx is demanding eye candy. photoshop runs way better on pcs that the dual 2.66ghz mac pro. mac notebooks look great but their desktops are overpriced pretty boxes.

I was looking at some adverts yesterday, and I saw that Best Buy was selling macbooks now. There was a macbook with a 2.4GHz processer, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, and a few other features for $1500. Just a little further up on the page was a laptop from Toshiba with a similar processor, 3GB of RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, and all the same features for $800.

I hate macs. I have used OS X (for audio production, none the less), and I don't understand what the big deal is. As for the 'macs don't crash' line of thought: I can assure you they can. And they are pretty adept at doing it after you've been working on your final project for a couple of hours.

The only justification, in my mind, for buying a mac, is that they make computing simpler. Well how much simpler does it need to be? I taught myself everything I know about computers, and I am doing just fine. Also, they're hella expensive.

The_Fell_One

mac just love to crash when you have been doing lots of work and at the most unexpected time. macs are the king of giving you the spinning wheel of death when you do the most basic thing. osx crashes or apps lock up way more than xp/vista

PC = Gaming Computer. Mac = Digital Editing and Business Oriented Computer.

I was a Mac user until I burnt-out the logic board in my eMac. I could get a replacement for it free (there were some video issues with the eMacs), but I'd feel bad about that since I destroyed it in the first place and don't actually meet the criteria for a replacement.

EDIT: Lol, I never actually considered the fact that the eMacs are dead and they aren't making money off the parts anyway. Maybe I'll call-up the apple repair place around here sometime. Though, the issue was about bad caps, not a burnt-out video chip from overclocking. :o

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many bad things with mac's, where do i start.....bumsoil

Yeah, everything in that list sucks. Oh, wait. You didn't actually list anything because you're an ass.

Of course, you know you're going to get some seriously anti-Mac viewpoints on this board, since it's a PC Hardware board.

That being said, I absolutely love my Macbook Pro, but I don't use it to play games. It works better than any piece of hardware I've ever owned (no crash problems here) and I wouldn't trade it for another laptop.

I stick to my PC for gaming - most likely always will. As great as my MBP is, I'd never assume that it's a gaming rig, and I (and other Mac users) would suggest you don't as well.

I am a mac user and I like it a lot. The main reason is that it doesn't expereince slow down like PCs. After a while PCs slow down no matter how many times you reformat/defrag (not to mention its a big time sink to do all that). I do play WoW on it when I'm not at home and it runs fine.

I do have an intense gaming computer (quad-core, 8800GT, etc) and all that for is gaming (literally all I have is WoW, CoD, Crysis, AIM, and firefox) and that works fine too.

Mac is for work, school, and a little bit of play. PC is for play.

Points for PCs though: you can build and upgrade them - that's fun.

PC = Gaming Computer. Mac = Digital Editing and Business Oriented Computer.

Digital_DJ_00

no pc = gaming and office computer. mac = graphic design and video editing

I cannot stand the argument "macs are better for editing or design..." rob1101

neither can I, the only reason to own a mac over a pc is if you are into pro video editing and want to use final cut pro, for gd its a joke as photoshop etc runs better on a pc with similar specs. and you talk about design yet macs only run junky cad software, not soildwork, the industriy standard on a mac and 3d animation is pc based

I am a mac user and I like it a lot. The main reason is that it doesn't expereince slow down like PCs. After a while PCs slow down no matter how many times you reformat/defrag (not to mention its a big time sink to do all that). I do play WoW on it when I'm not at home and it runs fine.

I do have an intense gaming computer (quad-core, 8800GT, etc) and all that for is gaming (literally all I have is WoW, CoD, Crysis, AIM, and firefox) and that works fine too.

Mac is for work, school, and a little bit of play. PC is for play.

Points for PCs though: you can build and upgrade them - that's fun.

OriginalWangstr

as do macs. mac pros at uni just love to run slow. photoshop often give you the swod every so often, browser james every so often, swod on logon every few times, windows take ages to open. macs are just as easy to break and run slow as pcs