"Why should I never buy a Mac?"

[Kagome]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I haven't had any kind of anti virus protection on any computer for the past 6 or so years and haven't gotten a virus yet. I've always had a PC.

You just need to be smart about what sites you visit/what you download.

[korny]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I have 3 younger siblings who download things as well. If we had a mac, it wouldn't matter where they went to download whatever.

[Izzy]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

Am I a broke nerd that complains about how expensive the world is? No.

Did you actually just try and make the argument that you have to be poor and a nerd to want to save money?

[jimerax]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I have never bought mac because of softwares, and maybe lazy to get used to it in general.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

Too many posts to reply asldfasfdlkjhsdfjdff. Been busy shopping.

Basically all of your arguments are invalid in this thread because you're ALL talking about the OS and not the hardware.

PS pretty sure you can just install the different Mac operating systems on any computer, just saying.

[Izzy]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

Pretty much. Since apple switched to intel proccesors everything can be run on anything. Although mac osx might be a dumbed down operating system and basically made for the computer illiterate it has certain applications for people who don't want to learn how to use a computer.

When it comes to apple hardware I can't see any reason to buy it over regular hardware. Apples hardware is half the performance for two times the cost.

I would most likely use a linux distro 100% of the time if most of the programs I used weren't elusively for windows. And when I say programs I mean games.

[fido123]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

Well why were you asking me about hardware? I know nothing about that sh*t.

Cause the thread is about Mac hardware.
I swear almost everybody in this thread has reading disabilities.

[MrGiggles]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

but there's no discussion in hardware. Apple's hardware is on an awful %300 markup, don't buy it.

See, that was boring. I'd much rather go for the interesting discussion on the OS's.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

but there's no discussion in hardware. Apple's hardware is on an awful %300 markup, don't buy it.

See, that was boring. I'd much rather go for the interesting discussion on the OS's.

One thing that irks me about the Mac OS's is that you can't use drives formatted NTFS with them, only FAT or FAT32.

[fido123]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

That isn't Apple's fault. NTFS is a closed source filesystem intended only to be used by Windows OS's. Linux can only do it with some reversed engineered driver that doesn't work 100%, but well enough. You can blame Microsoft for this. I'm surprised Apple still uses FAT32. It would probably be pretty easy for them to implement an open source filesystem like EXT4 of BTRFS considering Mac is now basically a Linux OS, and was based off UNIX in the first place.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I'm sure that Apple is fully aware of that as well, and capable of creating their own equivalent, but they haven't.

EDIT: bup ninja'd by your edit.

[fido123]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I was just poking around google seeing if Apple has a defragmenter considering FAT filesystems fragment files very easily, and apparently they don't and all they have to say about it is "you probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X,". The OS really has nothing to do with if files are going to be fragmented or anything. More Mac propaganda.

EDIT: Woops, looks like Apple now has HFS+ instead of FAT32.

[korny]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

Cause the thread is about Mac hardware.
I swear almost everybody in this thread has reading disabilities.

Well aware. The direction of the thread shifted however, and i responded accordingly.

[jimerax]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

as for hardware WQXGA monitor and its appearance are nice, nothing notable about parts like processor, graphics card, etc (unlike G3-G5 era).

[darkshark]

Re: "Why should I never buy a Mac?"

I see quite a few people have thrown the "mac is only good for graphic designers" line out there...

Having been in that field for a number of years, I've definitely seen a huge shift in production on Macs. They are becoming extremely phased out for artistic production, and being replaced with high powered PCs. Especially in this economy, where people want the most for their money, and a Mac is NOT that in any way shape or form. I only know a small handful of other designers who still use Macs. The industry itself is growing exponentially, and the industry calls for higher quality work, which means bigger file sizes and more processing power needed to create each project on time...Apple just doesn't keep up with the power curve of today's technology, and they're beginning to suffer from it.

Also, Windows7 is kicking a ton of ass. OSX no longer has the 1up on any other operating system really, it's lost its flair.