Mac or PC?

[Fighter1405]

Interested to hear what you have to say to that ffs

[shinningstar]

If you'll ask me, without any doubts I prefer to buy Macbook Pro. It's very convenient to use nowadays. The features are great compared to PC.

[fallen for suffering]

Homie, sorry, but im too lazy to keep arguing. I made my point, I raped what you other people claimed, now be content.

[homie]

ffs, u took completely obscure computers as examples. I just took the first thing I could find on pcworld.co.uk and compared them. You however surfed the net for ages to find the only examples that worked in your favour. The reason you can't be bothered to keep argueing is that theres no more examples to find.

p.s. this is all in the spirit of debating and nothing personal

[Fighter1405]

Hehe, now whos beaten?

[fallen for suffering]

Not at all young one. They are all very common, except maybe this one, but its the only one that compares to the other pc I was comparing to it.

Now, lets go onto the second Apple machine and the one I have, the Mini.

The ONLY manufacturer out there providing competition to the Mini right now (as far as I know) is Aopen with their Mini-PC.

You buy a Mini-PC barebones so I'm going to use NewEgg pricing to bring it to the level of the Mac-Mini



1.Barebones Aopen Mini PC $320
1. 1.83ghz Merom $250
2. 80GB 2.5" 5400rm HDD $60
3. 1GB PC5300 (667mhz) SoDimm $25
4. Toshiba 2.5" CDRW $35
5. Widows Vista Home Premium $100 OEM
6. Graphics and sound are built in Intel chipsets
Total Cost $790

Mac Mini with same EXACT equipment aside from OS X Leopard in place of Vista Home Premium $599

Wow, another REALLY expensive, Mac eh? Noticing a trend yet?

[Ricardo]

Personally, I've always used PCs and I'm happy with them.

In my very brief experience sitting down with a Mac, I loved it. I can see the attraction, for sure.

[MHJ]

I like my PC but I have nothing but positive things to say about Mac. I think it is a solid system.

[Stargate]

I might look into getting a Mac for my next computer, or some kind of Laptop...not sure.

[Nightwolf458]

I'm about to go to college at Baylor (going to major in bioinformatics; a part of computer science), and I'm unsure as well as to which OS I want. Mac sounds really good, but I want the work I turn in to my teachers to be compatible with their systems. They use PCs, and I don't want to turn in a paper or a file that Windows can't read because the file is of a type that only a Mac can read. They told me that if they can't open a file to look at and grade then it is considered late, and I get a grade penalty. I'm good with computers so I don't think that I need all the training wheels that the Mac has with it. Also, I've used a PC all my life so I'm familiar with the OS. I'm not going to have time to play games often while I'm at college so gaming isn't that important to me. Also, graphics isn't too much of an issue either.

I've heard that Macs have a program called BootCamp that lets you switch between OSX and Windows. If this program guarantees that my work will be accepted by the teacher's computers, then a Mac is what I want. However, I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Sorry about the long reply...I have a bad habit of doing that :S