MacPro Vs. High End PC
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- akrokdesign0
i think you should get a....*restart*
(on pc)
lol.
- nothing worse than a Mac fanboy, well apart from akrokdesign's mum. lolKiller
- fyoucher10
Go MacPro.
I did the high end PC thing back in 2005 with Dell and regret it. Got a Dell Precision Workstation that cost be $8k (Dual 3.2 Zeon's, 4GB ram, NVidia Quadro FX 4400 Graphics Card, etc). Top of the line for 2005. I figured if I buy high end it'll prolly last a long time and easy to upgrade when the time comes. It worked great until...
...Vista came out and when I switched OS's it now runs like shit. Probably b/c the hardware, OS, and software is made by all diff companies. Dell won't even give me support since I switched OS's.
The good thing about Apple is that they make their own hardware and OS. It's prolly less likely to run like shit when it comes time to upgrade the OS or even hardware.
- sykosis0
JUST PUT OSX ONTO YOUR PC... hakcintosh the thing
- hitsuji0
buy both. problem solved :-D
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Corvo20
Google's gonna nuke it all.
- 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...
- 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
- Killer0
Buy a PC, Macs are so fucking pretentious i.e. in making usually unjustified or excessive claims as of value.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.