MacPro Vs. High End PC
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- lvl_130
said it once, and i'll say it again: i use both mac and pc every day. i own both toshiba satellite laptop and a macbook pro. i own a self-built pc and my wife owns an imac...and i work on an 8-core macpro tower everyday at work.
Neither mac or pc is better or worse than the other. it totally depends on your prefs and what you feel most comfortable with. i have had plenty of problems/delights with both. i tend to run the shit into the ground regardless, which would probably make me a prime candidate to be a beta tester for both haha!
- sfethan0
build a strongest PC and install Mac OS
- kalkal0
I think using a hackintosh for production work is a pretty bad idea
- iCanHazQBN0
no matter what the numbers say, no matter how "fast" the PC is, it will always be a PC, and it will always be UNSTABLE. I got one of the fastest Dells you can buy several months ago, and its nothing but programs crashing left & right (even after reinstalling them). And EVERY action performed on it is choppy and slow.
PC's will always be a piece of clunky, unreliable, screw-you-over, pieces of shit...... no matter what the "numbers" say.
give me a solid, decently fast mac... versus a "super-fast" PC any day. any "speed" a PC claims to have will wear off in a couple months.
- iCanHazQBN0
I have a 2 year old iMac at home, and the newish Dell at work with probably double the speed, and I'd MUCH rather be working on the Mac. PC's are incredibly inefficient.... again, no matter WHAT the numbers say.
- fusionpixel0
my settings (all laptops)
1 macbook (wife - facebook/myspace/email) never have problems
1 macbook pro (me - work/freelance/fulltime/Adobe suite) never had problems except for the LCD light went out but Apple was fast to fix it.
1 Toshiba satellite (gaming/browse web/Flash/PS/Coding) Never had problems except for a hd failure that I was able to fix quite fast. Every 4-6 months I reformat the hd just to clean the system.
1 Gateway - browser, Never have problems but its really slowIn the end never have problems with my systems and if I detect something I try to figure out right away how to fix it, but from now on I will only buy Macs. I am in the development biz and 99% of my clients use Mac so it is only logical that I have one available. I remember back in the day when I only had PC and it is a nightmare with fonts/file types and stuff.
- comicsans0
Use what you're comfortable with and gets the job done. I still use a 5yo G4 powerbook and frayed mains lead aside (I roll it up for transit, doesn't like that) it's still going stong though could use a new battery. Otherwise I have Centos and Fedora machines at home which run Oracle, got XP on one partition, can't remember when I last booted it.
Macs just work, I care about the quality of my tools and happily pay more not to have to use Windows. Apple hardware is better built too (5yo laptop still in use every hour of the working day).
- johnnnnyh0
i've always felt the mac/pc debate to be one around OS first and then software not about the machines themselves. I think the mac build quality is pretty poor considering the price tag. But a bigger hit would be going from adobe CS4 on pc to same on mac would mean buying it all again - a hefty investment. Therefore, commercially, it may make sense to stay on the OS which costs you less. That is unless you really HAVE to have a Mac/PC.
- dajaniel0
Atkinson - why don't you just get a refund, or get a new one? I have had two MBP and neither have ever given me a single issue (the first one was stolen!). You obviously just got a (presumably rare) dud.
- Killer0
Buy a PC, Macs are so fucking pretentious i.e. in making usually unjustified or excessive claims as of value.
- denull0
PCs are cheap and easy hackable and with PC you have max of 1 year problems free and after that your head gonna blow :DD MAC as are hard to hack and break and makes your work more peaceful :) You don't neet to worry about viruses,upgrades and stuff
- ckentish0
fuck mall these mac/pc debates - its all bullshit.
osX looks nice but doesnt really increase workflow.
vista v.stable.
pc hardware way cheaper.
Adobe software identical in both (i use both)...
no brainer aint it unless you like the koudos of that fuckin logo...
- Corvo20
Google's gonna nuke it all.
- dieselboy0
I got a new 2.26GHz(2) Quad-Core Intel Xeon MacPro on April. The machine is very solid. The only upgrade I'm going to be making is a new VelociRaptor hard drive and 1GB of memory. I do print and front-end web development. I'm currently using Two Dell's 27-Inch LCD's.
- n8w0
I think now a days the operating system is irrelevant .. you spend 90% of your time in the programs and they are the same on whatever platform you choose
I would for the PC until Mac lowers their price
- good luck. that day a new benz will cost like a kia.akrokdesign
- Don't even compare a Mac with a benz. idiot.Killer
- n8w0
alot of these "sound bites" are just fed to people through advertisements and a lot of them aren't even relevant anymore .. I never had an issue with a virus on a PC .. I have worked on both Mac and Windows... and am not loyal to either .. but I am very loyal to Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
- section_0140
Get a psystar, or build your own hackintosh. Apple needs to sell OS X already. Unless they switch from Intel chips, installing OS X on a PC will continue to grow.
- hitsuji0
buy both. problem solved :-D