Hi, I was just curious about what people here use, and what they think is better. I know there is no right or wrong answer, so 'll just make a poll.
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Hi, I was just curious about what people here use, and what they think is better. I know there is no right or wrong answer, so 'll just make a poll.
This is just asking for trouble and this thread should be locked.
This is just going to end up as a flame war and this has been asked many times.
I agree with Tawm, close it.
I'll close it if that happens don't worry.
Bah...
I use a mac and prefer Mac OS X to windows.
Windows, its the most supported, most used, easiest to use and fastest to use.
Doesn't lock up all the time either.
Indeed. This is not a bias post in any way.
But yes, every time I have used a mac it has locked up in some way or another. Windows on the other hand only does this once or twice a week.
I also hate that you have to keep typing your administrator password every time you want to do something. If you're logged on to the admin account, you should be able to do anything without it bugging you.
Windows + Common sense = Perfect
I have crashed a total of 3 times in the past year on my XP machine, one of which was a power cut :P
I'd still get a macbook though if I had the disposable income because they can play postal 2 :P
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Originally Posted by Tawm
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Originally Posted by Stephen
This thread will conjure arguements.
use Windows and prefer Windows :;]
-Kevin
I use Windows but I want a Mac.
Not alowed it though, as my mum wouldn't know how to use it. ;/
Use Windows & prefer Windows :D
Linux beats them both for what I use an Operating System for.
Off-topic but how? o_oQuote:
I'll close it if that happens don't worry.
Oh and I prefer Windows.
He's secret VIP!Quote:
Originally Posted by Invent
Erm, I have so say they both have pros and cons.
Mac: Good for designing and creating music (Logic pro etc..)
Windows: Better completley, but not as good for designing and creating music.
I prefer windows though. :)
In all honesty, I cannot see how Macs are any better at designing, all the Adobe programs are on Windows too and there are MORE Video/Music editing programs on Windows than Mac.
I use both systems. Mac for everyday, Windows for Flight Sim Only. I prefer the Mac, due to the OS to be honest. Its what I want and need and there is some great applications out there.
Biased and dumb post, you have to be stupid to have problems on a Windows PC ;) If you get a virus, that's your fault, not the computers. The warning you get on a Mac (and also on a PC) is to stop stupid people doing something stupid, basically :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Nick.
Mine's crashed a few times since I've had it, it's over a years old and probably only crashed 5 times, and that's because some things didn't want to work :/
I personally don't see any difference between the two, both can design and play music, but that's when the comparison stops if you want to take it to the extremes, because Vista/XP can play more games, and has more software available for music and design. So technically Windows is the better system because it has all the support, easier to solves issues (My aunty has a MacBook which deleted it's own OS) and can do what a Mac does, but 100 times more :/ I don't even see why people think a Mac is better than designing than a PC, both use Adobe Photoshop so they have the same tools. I think the only good program on a Mac is that GarageBand thing.
I use both and prefer neither - they're both as bad as each other and could learn a lot from each other. I only use my PC for playing games (or when my Mac goes into the Apple Store for repair -.-)
Also, Adobe CS is better on the PC than it is for Mac, but hopefully this will change with CS4.
Amazingly said.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
+REP and agreed. (edit: got to spread...) I rarely give out rep, last rep I gave away was at least 2 month ago... :P
I personally love windows, only want to use windows, and wouldn't change from windows if somebody paid me £1000 to switch over.
I would take the money and use windows anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by Sarith
Take the money, install Windows on Mac hardware. Done.
Can you stop Mac OS from requiring a password all the time, kinda have it like Vista's UAC where you just click allow?
Dumb part-of-post... You say that for Windows to have a problem, the user has to be stupid and that if you get a virus, it's the users fault. Well, on a Mac, if the OS gets deleted, the user has to be stupid (not offending your aunty or anything, I'm just saying). No way would OS X ever delete itself, the user would of had to of done something.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
If you didn't have a password on your account I assume you could press OK without typing anything. It never really bothers me because I just remember it's keeping my system safe. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tawm
I rather enter my password. So incase i forget to activate the screensaver or its not tuned on after so many minutes. No one can install any crap :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Tawm
I agree with Dark. I have a pc and a mac each gets there use everyday.. The mac slightly more only because it's a laptop.Quote:
Originally Posted by darkchicken101
I have Windows and use Windows but I would really like to buy a Mac for designing, although I'll never have the money spare.
I mean, can you give your account a password, so you can enter it when you come off screensaver, but still have something like UAC, Windows lets you setup enter password on screensaver, while just allowing you to click Allow on the UAC prompts, they say UAC is annoying... Mac OS asking for a password takes a lot longer then pressing allow, surely thats more annoying? That's why I was asking if it could be made like Windows :P
Yes, If your account has a password. You can enable the option when you come off "Screensaver" you have to put your password in. I rather enter the password for the reason I have said above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tawm
I use Windows and prefer Windows. Always had a Windows tbh.
The thing is, she just turned it on and it wasn't there. I was hovering over her because she was in the same room as me and I was wondering what she's doing and it was quite funny watching her going "Ohhh... What's all this then?" in her teacher like voice. I've not heard of a computer or even a Mac delete it's own OS before, and I can't see how it is possible on a Mac when they self-glorify reliability and suggest nothing like this should happen, considering they're meant to be easier to use and safer to use than a PC. At least with a PC you can blame the user when they delete System32 files, the same goes for a user getting a virus. Their fault, not the systems :P
And my aunty is a bit dippy, so nothing wrong with you saying that. But I really don't get how she could delete a whole OS (according to Apple) when they're meant to not allow this.
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Originally Posted by Nick.
I put Windows because I have never used a Mac before so I can't comment on them.
But I know so many people here who say they prefer Windows haven't even used a Mac properly... I'd say you need to have used it for about a month to get used to it. I know they're really hard to use if it's your first time.
I just think having used windows all my life, the mac just does everything mor smoothly for me - it feels like it knows what I'm trying to do and helps along the way.
I see one major advantage with windows, and that's the fact that most people use them. Other than that I'd never go back.
AAMOF, I once turned on my System, and I admit, all I got was the Apple logo then the blue screen... I thought oh ****, Apple sucks! But you know what? Nothing had happened at all, I'd turned it off by the plug by accident (I thought I was unplugging the lamp :P), so I inserted the install disc, pressed Archive and Install, and in 7 minutes I was back up and running with the exact config I had before (and apps and documents and such). If I got a BSOD on Windows, it might of taken me a bit longer and I might of lost my data.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
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To Orinioco;
Yes, all my friends despise Mac's, I say why? They say because they're too different and they don't know how to use them. What kind of lame *** reason is that, seriously? Get to know how to use them and you might prefer it, you might not. It's not hard and it certainly doesn't take a genius to think of it.
Yeah I do think you can only give an oppinion if you've actually used both. Alot of the people I know say they don't like Macs because they either haven't used them, and don't want to try to because they're creatures of habbit.
When it comes to technical problems my Windows just screwed up constantly and my Mac never has, and my dad's had one for a year and it's never messed up.
By the way, I can't close thread anymore cos I just lost VIP.
I have used high end Macs and my opinion is still biased to Windows.
I have used both and I prefer Windows by far.
Windows and just windows, But I love the iMac movie making :I
Interesting to see on the poll, that 4 people use windows and prefer mac, and no one who uses the mac prefers windows. (so far). I just think loads of people are saying windows is better because they don't have a mac and it's human nature to be biased to what you have.
It's the same with PS3 and 360 - my mates with ps3 say ps3 is better, and mates with 360 say 360 is better - but my mates with both say ____ is better. I'm not saying which one they said because I don't want to start an argument. But they all said the same console.