PC or MAC

[Metric1]

Do you use Windows, Mac OS X, or some other operating system as your primary operating system?

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[Dentafrice]

el Mac :]

[Samantha.]

I use Windows

[Jahova]

Windows Vista x64.

[5,5]

Windows XP

[Monopoly]

OS X :)

[Coding]

omg quick were is hoteluser, jewish bear, tawm, gommeinc and mentor

and i use win7 yh.

[Jackk]

OS X .

[[Chris]]

OSx
Windoze XP For Games.

[N!ck]

As a MacBook owner I use OS X as my primary OS, but I have to say that I prefer Win 7 :).

[HotelUser]

OS X with other WIndows machines

[cocaine]

vista home premium

[Flisker]

Vista Ultimate (L)

[Kyle!]

OS X ftw

[Jammazzz]

I use Windows Vista. (:

[HotelUser]

I bet I'll be shot for this:P


I use Windows Vista. (:

Unlucky:(

[Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)]

[Recursion]

Mac OS X 10.5.7
Windows Vista x64 Home Prem
Windows 7 x64 RC1 Ultimate
Ubuntu Server 9.04 i386

So you should have put a multiple choice poll up ;)

[Metric1]

I use Mac :)

[Robbie]

Windows XP Home SP3
Windows Vista HP SP2
Ubuntu

[StefanWolves]

Win7 and XP ftw.

Lookin to install OSX sometime though, just to see what the hype is about. ;)

[RichardKnox]

Win 7 on a MacBook, I understand it's like blasphemy for some people...

[StefanWolves]

If I was to get a mac of some sort, first thing I would do would be to dual-boot it with Win7... :rolleyes:

[xxMATTGxx]

Windows Vista Home Premium x64 :]

[iAdam]

Windows xp and vista. I'll be watching this thread, lets not turn it into a war eh?

[StefanWolves]

itll turn it a war, these threads always do. :P

[Metric1]

MattGarner is all over it!

[xxMATTGxx]

MattGarner is all over it!

As always ;).

[Teabags]

I use windows. I'd use a Mac for photo's. Because although windows has Adobe CS4, Mac can still install this software and also has apeture. Having said that, I still like windows XP, but wouldn't dream of using Vista. For the Mac I still would use the same software and equipment as I would with a PC though. E.g. Word, Notepad, NORMAL mouse (contains a right click). But still I prefer chunky keyboards to ones on a laptop. Even though I use a laptop most of the time. (Runs on Windows XP, preparing to wipe the hard-drive and install Windows XP Barebones.)

So both brands have key features to them, they are very different and it depends what you are using your system for. For the purposes of my computer, I would tend to drift towards Windows and use a Mac for photography hobbies.

[Mentor]

Mac is a brand of computer, not an operating system? Unless you conicder, dell, hp and asus operating systems too?

O/S wize i'm happy with whatevers going, mostly linux and windows as they are what i would concider true O/S's (OSX in my opinion is not a true O/S but instead ranked as just a very good console o/s - this is purely becuse like a console o/s osx has no offical support for any hardware other than its own)
I'm also not a big fan of the whole universal toolbar working idelogy, i find keeping my toolbars locked to applictions is far more productive - espeally when working in a multiple moniter set up :)

Linux atm is my fave as i can make it work how i wanted it to, the x windows system also rocks :p Vista comes nexted, followed by xp, and then probably osx for the eye candy :p
Not tried windows 7, which will probs end up pretty close behind linux :)

[MrPinkPanther]

Windows 7, Vista, OSX.

[ElliottThompson]

Windows 7 64 bit xx

EDIT: at Mentor, I really like linux since ive got a program that lets me run windows only programs on it, some compatability program, means less switching between the two now so I can spend lengthy periods of time on it :D

[Flisker]

Right updated on the same pc I have:

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Apple Mac OS X (Hackintosh)
Linux Fedora 11 (Still trying to fix again since I broke X. woops :P)

[Chippiewill]

Windows 7 64 bit xx

EDIT: at Mentor, I really like linux since ive got a program that lets me run windows only programs on it, some compatability program, means less switching between the two now so I can spend lengthy periods of time on it :D

I'm guessing that you speak of Wine....

Moi:
WinXP
WinVista (Currently not on boot loader :P as I am to lazy to restore it)
Win7 (When I get back from hols since the RTM has just been sent to manufactures and it has already been leaked to torrents, although with the beta stuff on it still and technet gets it soon as well)
Ubuntu - Jaunty Jackalope Desktop (9.04)
iPhone OS2.2.1 JB (It's still an operating system :))

[AgnesIO]

As a MacBook owner I use OS X as my primary OS, but I have to say that I prefer Win 7 :).


What an honest person. I respect you, Plus rep if possible.

[Rarelime]

OS X 10.5.7 ~ Will be upgrading to Snow Leopard when its out.
Windows Vista Home Premium ~ Will be upgrading to Windows 7 when its out.

[Coding]

What an honest person. I respect you, Plus rep if possible.
It's hardly something amazing Dom, no need to be such a *REMOVED*

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[Metric1]

At work I use Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit!

[AgnesIO]

It's hardly something amazing Dom, no need to be such a *REMOVED*

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Its 100% true though mate.

99% of OSX users go on about how OSX is the best thing to the world since electricity. Even if they don´t really like it, its all they talk about. I would have said the same thing as if it was JB and seriously I am not exactly friends with him..

[HotelUser]

Its 100% true though mate.

99% of OSX users go on about how OSX is the best thing to the world since electricity. Even if they don´t really like it, its all they talk about. I would have said the same thing as if it was JB and seriously I am not exactly friends with him..

IMO it's ridiculous to even think that Vista could be better than OS X. OS X is faster, more secure and more stable. It's not fair to say "all OSX users think OSX is the best thing since electricity ba bla" because there's Microsoft fanboys who would do the same.

And I'd just like to note (especially for Professor-Alex) that I didn't start hating on Vista here. I posted in reply. Amazing, isn't it;)?

[Skajo]

Win 7 on a MacBook, I understand it's like blasphemy for some people...
I don't understand. What's the reasoning behind that?

[iAdam]

Be careful where you're all treading, this isn't a discussion remember.

[Coding]

Be careful where you're all treading, this isn't a discussion remember.
Definitions of message board on the Web:
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[Thepresentgiver]

I would have to say MAC lol brilliant. *Removed*

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[Chippiewill]

Definitions of message board on the Web:
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site.

Discussions should never ever ever be held in a thread like this. Particularly PC Vs Mac.

[Recursion]

IMO it's ridiculous to even think that Vista could be better than OS X. OS X is faster, more secure and more stable. It's not fair to say "all OSX users think OSX is the best thing since electricity ba bla" because there's Microsoft fanboys who would do the same.

And I'd just like to note (especially for Professor-Alex) that I didn't start hating on Vista here. I posted in reply. Amazing, isn't it;)?

I use Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X on a daily basis, on these grounds I have the right to say....

Please leave this thread, there is the door >

[GommeInc]

Be careful where you're all treading, this isn't a discussion remember.
Sorry, but what an incredibly stupid thing to say :/ It IS a discussion - you should of closed the thread when the first reply was made, because a discussion started.

And use what OS suits your needs, you'll just get raped by opinion *glares at a certain someone*. So think of what you use and do more of, find the OS which kinda goes with that and you're done. Windows Vista/XP/7 for all round purpose built OS and OS/X for if you have alot of Apple stuff (design seems to be a main selling point, though all OS' seem to be good at this). Linux has different uses and looks to depend on how well you use and understand a computer, but don't quote me on that :P

[HotelUser]

I use Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X on a daily basis, on these grounds I have the right to say....

Please leave this thread, there is the door >

I see no door Tom:O

[Agnostic Bear]

IMO it's ridiculous to even think that Vista could be better than OS X. OS X is faster, more secure and more stable. It's not fair to say "all OSX users think OSX is the best thing since electricity ba bla" because there's Microsoft fanboys who would do the same.

And I'd just like to note (especially for Professor-Alex) that I didn't start hating on Vista here. I posted in reply. Amazing, isn't it;)?

Fly away, troll.

I'm currently using OS X as my main OS for a while, might change in a few weeks depends on how I feel. I use Win 7 as well for gaming and doing whatever.

[HotelUser]

Fly away, troll.

I'm currently using OS X as my main OS for a while, might change in a few weeks depends on how I feel. I use Win 7 as well for gaming and doing whatever.

I refuse to fly away!

I am quite content using Windows XP, or even Windows 7 on my Gateway laptop. But I mean, c'mon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a2zqRc1jvs when Bill Gates says he doesn't like Vista I think the world knows it's not good;).

But hey, If you want to use it go right ahead. I think the forum knows I wont be using it, but if you've had good fortune with it then use it..

[Recursion]

No, Vista was poorly polished at the beginning, unfortunately they didn't ship it with the current two service packs it has :P

[xxMATTGxx]

No, Vista was poorly polished at the beginning, unfortunately they didn't ship it with the current two service packs it has :P

He never stops does he? Nothing wrong with Vista. It had problems at the start but it's great now. :]

[Metric1]

My intent for this thread is to find out wether the majority of the forum is a windows, or a mac user. My intent was not to have this thread turn into an all out brawl over which operating system is better. Please keep it civialized, we all have prefrences, if somebody likes Vista (which I do) that's their choice.

[Fehm]

Im on the fence ;)

Omm.. Its nice up here.

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[shizzle]

Windows 7.

[Coding]

Im on the fence ;)

Omm.. Its nice up here.
How can you be on the fence? It's not what do you prefer, it's what do you use.

[Ardemax]

i use windows vista

[Judge Judy]

I use Vista mainly and then there's XP.

Waiting for 7 myself.