Definitely Macs. I used Windows from 1993-2004 and will never go back. I love the functionality of a Mac along with the stability and reliability. And now with the upcoming Leopard (Time Machine & Spaces! Yay!) and Boot Camp, it's just no contest.
2006-08-19 16:27:53
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answered by Oh no 6
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Macs are ONLY 13% more expensive than a PC of the same capability! For NO VIRUSES, and none of the 8 programs most Microsoft systems need to run, at $29.95 each, per year, it evens out! I service PCs, and MACs. in a certified service and repair center.
Look at the MAC service you get, the instant answers, that are courteous, and compare that to the kind of experience typical of PC owners who complain of being put on hold, and then hung up, in a maze of voice mail hand-offs.
Look at the values of used equipment after 3 years, and 5 years.
Few PCs have any value after 3 years. Macs are still selling for about 60% of new prices! At 5 years, Macs are still worth 30% or more, but PCs are 'curbside donations'.
Look at the quality of the equipment. Look at the styling, and appearance. And, Macs don't have the 150,000 "Microsoft Virus Definitions" , that include trojans, exploits, rootkits, spybots, ad-bots, and more...
Consumer Reports lists Mac as the top provider of virus free, and proper service, vendors. I see 5 to 10 year old Mac systems that
the owners upgrade, like the 1999 G3 300Mhz that can be upped to 1100 Mhz and will hold 1 Ghz of RAM! Hard drives are unlimited in size, and number up to 4, before more controller cards are needed!
Now then, you have one more option, that you probably hadn't thought of, or weren't aware of. Linux.
Linux makes any PC run upto 50X faster, plus, Linux is virus FREE, cracker proof. Linux now runs Microsoft.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, Google.com, 165 world and 3,500 lesser governments, and the Fortune 1,000. Indiana is the latest to join 39 states that run schools on Linux!
Linux made every movie since "Titanic - 1997". Linux has launched every Space Shuttle since 1992. Mars Rovers all run Linux.
You can download the FREE Linux that I teach pre-k through 12th grade students to use, that is packed with 1,900 FREE games, programs, applications. The website lists forums for help.
It turns an older PC with at least 82Mb of RAM, into a power house! It boots in the CDrom, runs in the RAM disc!
Or, install it on a 5Gb hard drive partition, and gather up to 5,000 FREE programs games, and applications!
2006-08-19 17:08:22
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answered by Anonymous
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except you artwork with the computing device, it truly is not an funding. macs purely very last more because the higher fee makes people take more beneficial care of them. once you've a particular want for mac purely software then flow purchase a mac yet in case you do not, i might want to flow with a more low priced computing gadget to get the interest carried out only a properly if no more beneficial effectual. for your makes use of i am going to attempt for instance that macs aren't any more beneficial effectual and optimistically ward off a pair hundred funds. photos & video clips. to make definately flow with a mac yet to exhibit screen, a 17 inch computing gadget will be lots more low priced than a 17 inch mac and play an analogous video clips. video clips, which i presume are on-line, mac has not flash help or maybe as they have probable stumbled on a way round that why might want to you agree for something like flash once you may have flash for lots more low priced. to jot down papers and initiatives. productiveness software like the most prevalent microsoft workplace, is designed for computers and mac variations lack purposes and are different than their computing gadget opposite numbers making them more beneficial frustrating to apply in case you do not already recognize. even as i imagine that protecting a computing device operating for a lengthy time period is excellent, i imagine that the way technologies is replacing at an ever increasing speed, protecting a mac round for that lengthy is genuinely not manageable. like I stated before, in case you at the prompt are not likely to make funds with the pc, it truly is not an funding, it truly is a luxurious and a mac might want to be an extreme priced one with little to no more beneficial effectual go back than a computing gadget no matter if you employ it to it truly is finished expertise. seeing as how your standard makes use of are actual coated via computers i'd not purchase a mac in any respect. also macs do not very last over 5 years not because of viruses yet because of being old like a number of different computers. TL DR: DON"T purchase A MAC.
2016-11-05 05:04:38
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answered by Anonymous
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To me, macs are just better overall than pcs; However, there are still some things where macs could improve on that pcs have down.
2006-08-19 16:55:41
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answered by HI Life 1
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apples, i have a pc but thats cuz i didnt have the money for the new mac i wanted, the only thing that ever held them back was compatibillity but that is over now. i look for them to take over the computer market in the near future
2006-08-19 16:25:05
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answered by bigbob33 3
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I'd take a mac over windoze anyday, but better than that is linux or a good old flavor of BSD, that is what macs were based off of anyway...
2006-08-19 16:49:42
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answered by suburbanstruggle 2
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PCs. Software is more affordable for PCs and so is hardware.
Also more widely accepted.
2006-08-19 16:25:08
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answered by Mama R 5
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MACs all the way... better build, not as prone to virus and hacks or at least not as geared toward it as Microsoft... amongst other things
2006-08-19 16:24:17
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answered by kitkool 5
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I believe both have their strengths.
Being that I am a gamer, I prefer PCs.
2006-08-19 16:46:43
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answered by RzN 2
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macs might work better, but i'm just more comfortable using pcs
2006-08-19 16:25:11
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answered by Stephanie 4
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