Important Question

[Guest Prosis]

I'm going to buy myself a laptop and still cannot decide between a Mac or a PC. What would you guys do in my position?

[bishopx]

I'm a PC guy...I have no real love for macs.

 

I have a high end Sony Vaio, that I love to death

[Prometheon]

Personally, I'd get a PC, just because I'm not familiar at all with Macs, but realistically they are probably the better bet.

[Some Random]

i'd buy pc and load it with linux. if i needed windows for anything (which i don't), i'd dual boot.

[Guest Prosis]

i'd buy pc and load it with linux. if i needed windows for anything (which i don't), i'd dual boot.

I can still do that with a Mac though with boot camp

[Some Random]

i'd buy pc and load it with linux. if i needed windows for anything (which i don't), i'd dual boot.

I can still do that with a Mac though with boot camp

there's two ways to do it with a mac. boot camp is apple's solution, and there's a third party program too. one of them allows you to switch back and forth on the fly. i don't remember the name of the third party one, though. you'll pay out your ass for a mac, so i'd consider whether it really had anything to offer you for the extra money before i bought one.

[Guest Prosis]

mmm good thinking...if I'd have that BootCamp replacement that would be awesome...

 

Well with the business I'm starting I'll be making websites so, for testing on all three would be excellent. Plus, design is better on a Mac, and I'm a musician so I would have GarageBand...those are the main reasons why I'm considering a Mac really

[Shiri]

I'm a PC kind of girl. Never really used Macs so I can't comment on them. But PC's are less expensive.

[Some Random]

here's the third party one:

 

parallels desktop on wiki

 

edit: wrong link before. fixed.

Edited February 21, 2007 by 13chris13

[Sparq]

PC...more of everything available.

 

Their commercials are terrible as well, which makes me want to punish them financially.

Edited February 21, 2007 by Sparq

[marx marvelous]

GarageBand is pretty gimpy, and it's not difficult at all to pirate a better recording suite for PC (like Adobe Audition.)

[soundless_space]

PC.

849

[Ravenous megin-sane]

i have a mac. it's nice. but it's like a treasure chest you don't have a key to.

you know there's awesome stuff within it, but just slightly out of reach

[saturnine]

if you absolutely need a mac, then get a mac. if no, get a pc.

[garsk]

PC because you will save a ton of money on it and get better stuff in it.

[WalrusMeat]

I constantly find myself wishing I had a mac.

But that's just because all film/music editing programs for PC just aren't as good.

 

It all depends on what you need it for really.

[Monochrome Rainbow]

When pricing my laptop I was gonna go PC thinking it would be cheaper but to do recording and shit on and getting something that will still compete in a few years, I found macs were priced better for what I wanted/needed as I will be using this for school in a year or so.

 

I had never used a mac before and I picked up on it very quickly (they're really not that hard to get used to) however you may find some software that you really liked that just won't be available to you anymore (although you can get programs to run windows on mac so that's not a huge obstacle).

 

 

I definitely don't regret my purchase, and after the warranty and everything I added to it my laptop ran me at almost exactly $5000.

 

 

I mainly found that not many PC's were really put together well. THey were all catered to one specific purpose and didn't take into consideration multiple factors (ie most PC's I saw that had what I wanted in processing power, etc had shit battery life) so you'd have a machine that is great with certain areas but really lacking in others. My mac is pretty strong all around.

[marx marvelous]

...you spent $5000 on a computer. It SHOULD cater to your every whim--digital, sexual, etc. Seriously, who appropriated your computer budget, George Bush?

Edited February 21, 2007 by NotFromOklahoma

[saturnine]

$5000 for a laptop? that's ridiculous. why not get 3 desktops and a cheap laptop?

[Sparq]

Extended service warrantee and all that crap, I assume.

[garsk]

but still $5000? what was in it?

[Hyphnip]

I'm actuallly going to buy myself a HP laptop hopefully within the next month or two.

[saturnine]

but still $5000? what was in it?

gold flake

[Sparq]

It'd have to be alot of it.

[Crusader]

people should stop buying mac laptops