YOU HAVE JUST BEEN PWNED

the first highly successful personal computer was the Apple II. the macintosh 128k was the first commercially successful computer to user a graphical interface. apple bought the mouse out of the dark and into the common computing world with the lisa mouse.

Blue screen of death=YOU’RE SCREWED.
Beachball=Processing your request. please wait.

They’re not the same. Analogy FAIL.

I love correcting people who know nothing about the Apple Store

Apple is still ahead. They did not leave security out just because they have their solid Unix base. Apple already has layers in their OS to prevent the damages of trojans and malware and other melicious software. They have their own people having fun trying to hack it so they can improve it. As far as I know, as soon as Apple gets half the market, it will be much MUCH harder to write a Mac virus then a Windows virus.

There are plenty of Macintosh exclusive programs because it didn’t work well in windows. World’s most expensive music editing software costs 4 grand and is only for Macintosh. The choice of Professionals for video editing is Final Cut Pro, a Mac exclusive. It’s not just having a computer. It’s the feel of the OS, the organization and security of the files, and the execution of the tasks its given. speed on a game sucks if it crashes on you all the time. That’s why I test my stuff on Macintosh most the time.

Playing a game: Games are now for Macintosh as well as Windows for almost anything. Steam/valve is cross platform; Stepmania is cross platform; SNES9x is cross platform; Marble Blast Gold; OpenITG; and MANY MANY MORE. PWND.

Good for videos and music: Quicktime and iTunes, which are included with the computer is better than Windows Media player. WMP sucks to all hell. iTunes is a 10/10 while WMP is 1/10.

Good for photos: iPhoto. Windows has tried to copy this in vista by having an integrated photo manager. This ultimately failed when it took up too much ram just for the computer to remember it’s there. Just another way Windows failed. It took windows years to get a program like this, and when they did, it was not even half as good as iPhoto.

Downloading: If you cannot download on your macintosh, this only shows how much of an idiot you are. You download on a macintosh the same way you do on Windows. You click a damn link after navigating to it in your web browser (Safari).

I heard that Balmar actually did this in Keynote, not Powerpoint, which is part of Apple’s iWork. It’s an office suite that costs less than half of what Microsoft office goes for. In fact, while iWork Family Pack is 70 dollars, Microsoft office single pack is way up at 130 dollars. That’s rediculous.

that’s not even half of Macintosh. Keep in mind that I kept this to what comes with the Operating system and a 1st party office suite.

Windows sucks. 200+ for a useful version, while MacOSX comes at much lower. Snow Leopard was only 30 dollars, and the same disc could do an upgrade or clean install. Windows simply doesn’t offer that. they fail all the time. No wonder Balmar uses an Apple computer.

As for viruses, eventually macs will be just as susceptible. As for now, no one spends the time to create a mac virus because of the small percentage of mac users.

Macs are great for some things, a la video, photo and sound editing/creating. But how often do you legitimately need to do something in that field that you can’t do on a PC? Get real, a mac is a status symbol.

And when you get one of the graduates who’s barely managed to make it past uni with a 3rd working along side with you, or you’ve hired to make a website – I really, really feel sorry for you. I’d never trust someone who has plastered their Mac in ‘ironic’ or ‘hilarious’ stickers to do anything for me.

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Saying that I also know quite a few people who use macs because of they’re capability to run software slightly more efficiently. I’ve used both, I mainly use Macs for software (like 3D Studio Max or audio editing or software that may not have been released on the PC) and use PCs for my everyday usage. I just hate seeing people buy Macs because they’re ‘better’ – a lot of the people on my course who are failing but have a lot of money have Macs, simply because they do an equal amount of minimal, crap work on whichever computer they use.

Besides, it’s not the tools you use, it’s how you use them.

I believe you mean to differentiate between Macs and Windows machines. You could also say Macs vs Windows PCs.

/flex

internet muscles got this.