Mac vs PC

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I have always had a PC but am now looking to upgrade and am thinking of getting an Apple MAC.
Can anyone give me advice-good or bad. I dont want to make a mistake.

You will be blown way by a Mac! I have never used anything else having learnt to use my ex boyfriends. Their latest laptops are amazing, as is the service and aftercare. Go to your nearest apple store soon!!

Ive always used PCS and have a PC at home but a MAc at work. i think I'm unusual but I definitely prefer a PC. I use a lot of spreadsheets and I think PCs are better designed to use Excel and other admin programs - Macs seem better for photoshop, visuals music and design stuff. Guess it all depends what your going to be using it for most.

PC software is cheaper but they also get more viruses via internet etc. Mac software is expensive but oh wow wonderful. A PC is a good horse and a Mac is a unicorn. I love them both, bless them.

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THanks for help - I am scared from making expensive mistake but from what I have read I don't think a Mac would be a mistake.

do not buy a Mac. You pay a lot of extra money for the design of the thing, and if it goes wrong you have to take it to an authorised repair place (because they use special screws that other people can't undo) and you have to wait weeks.

also re useability, niceness of using a mac, I suggest you wait 2 months and then buy windows vista for pc - it's really good (dh thinks it's amazing, but I think that's too strng an adjective for any thing to do with electronica)

I disagree entirely. My Macs ( I've had 4 over the last 10 years) have never gone wrong, and the service at the new sexy Apple Stores is fab!

every computer - mac or pc - I've ever had has gone wrong, and I can fix PCs myself, but not Macs. I don't really have anything against them other than the price really: you pay a lot for the name.

I switched to a Mac last year. I am completely converted.
I installed a copy of Microsoft office for Mac, and I can work on word docs and excel spreadsheets from work and transfer them back to work PC.
I have never had problems with my Mac.
The bundled software is superb, iphoto, imovie, garageband (my nephew loves this) itunes, and safari (alternative internet browser)
ask hub2dee. He made me do it!

iMacs are so much better and so much more reliable.
And more stylish

oh come off it. office may be ok (I don't know - haven't used a mac recently), but safari is awful. It shouldn't have been released - it has bugs galore and generally makes life for webmasters a nightmare. If you must use a mac please use firefox.

and as for "much more reliable" - more reliable than a very cheap PC yes. more reliable than a decent PC, no.

I'm thinking of getting a new Imac.

DH 'converted' a while ago and has one of the new superdooper ones at work, can't remember what but possibly a G5. Because of the Intel chips you can now run Windows stuff at the same time (with a bit of software called Parallels (?sp)) and he thinks it's absolutely fantastic. He does have Applecare though and says it's definitely worth spending out the extra for that.

I've got a fairly old Mac and love the way it works - so much better than my PC.

Watch some of the Mac ads here they're great

Apple have a few pages on why you might want to switch which summarises the key points: here .

You don't want to ask me, I'll come to your house, take you to the Apple Store, force you to buy a nice computer then sit under your desk until you love it more than life itself.

Do you want to use the computer for anything specific, or just general browsing / Word processing / playing with photos ?

I've not seen a Mac laptop btw with security screws. Maybe Torque or Philips, but that's hardly specialist equipment, sp (we always beat each other up on these threads ). And I haven't come across (but admittedly haven't looked) for a service site such as this piece of geekery which houses the manuals the tech guys at Apple use to get into your equipment and strip it down to each individual component piece ! here .

I've suffered a 6 week wait whilst Apple tried to repair my laptop (it was still working fine, just no sound)... they gave me a brand new 17 inch replacement (the new model) for my trouble, which made me grin (massively) for several days straight.

Macs can run Office and many people love using Safari. You can also upload photo albums like the ones I link to in this thread very very easily.

hth.

Hub you'll like the Tshirt I got my DH a while ago (I'm not into slogan clothing, but this is different )

'MacOSX
I've upped my standards
Up yours'

Oooh yes, forgot to mention Bootcamp and Parallels. You can either boot your mac up into a full version of Windows, and then shut down and make it useful again. Or use Parallels to run Windows applications from your Apple desktop IYSWIM.

Best of both worlds.

LOL, pp.

DH has tried both and prefers Parallels so he doesn't have to reboot every time he has to use it in Wondows mode. Does look wierd seeing Wondows on a Mac though

One downside DH has just reminded me is that if you wanted to run Wondows on your Mac you'd need a proper licence.

we love macs. we've had a graphite imac (the 2000 models with the colours) and two ibooks.
the first ibook (G3) had the known fault with the motherboard. we had it fixed 5 times (by the apple store we bought it from and apple itself - always for free) and then apple sent us a new ibook (a G4!).
the fact that the ibook had the fault wasn't great, but it never put us off apple computers. the service was great and the machines are so impressive!

I longed to buy a mac for years, until dp finally got me a mac mini about 18 months ago. Couldn't stand it, didn't know how to do anything and didn't have the time to learn really. Even the bloomin mouse drove me insance I'm in IT at work, and very proficient but positively everything was different about the mac & I couldn't get to grips with it. Sold it a year later, happily back to a pc. DP has a powerbook which I use every day too and it's v.sexy but here I am on the pc again. I guess I'm just too lazy, it was too big a shift for me.

I love my Macs too... Have had them forat least 20 years... they've come a long way but they are so easy to use and set up.
Mine have never broken down but after 4 or 5 years I get a new one.
Got an iMac in March to replace my old one which was 7 years old (and is still working - be it slowly) and will get an iBook after Christmas to replace our Powerbook wich is 4 1/2 yo.
And I don't see anything wrog with Safari!