Are you a PC or a Mac?

[zoebartlett]

Date: 1/6/2010 11:39:06 PM
Author: Kaleigh

Date: 1/6/2010 11:36:51 PM

Author: TravelingGal

PC. I will never convert to a mac. Ever. TGuy works in IT so it''s not going to happen.


My cousin just converted to a mac and got the most horrible customer service EVER when they came out with the updated one 2 days later. It wasn''t even just bad service...it was deceitful, downright lying.


There was an article recently - might have been newsweek or something on how apple seems to do so well even when don''t treat their customers well at all and have a terrible air of arrogance about them. It''s like a cult...people are rabid about their macs (and I''m sure it''s a good product). I worked in the education segment, so I know...teachers and their macs, OMG....

Yay I am glad I am not alone in this...

No, you''re not the only ones. My husband''s in IT also, and he''ll never get a Mac.

 

[yssie]

Date: 1/7/2010 10:08:18 PM
Author: swedish bean

Date: 1/7/2010 2:32:39 PM
Author: TravelingGal
Re: viruses...


would it be the case that the more popular mac becomes, there will be viruses as they are coded for macs?

I am guessing so.. but since most people DO have PC's it's more .. lucrative to code them for pc's... I really wonder if it's harder to code them for one vs. the other as well??

[However,] Macs can run windows... so... do those ones get more viruses then?? I have no idea!!

If windows gets infected and the partitions are separate osx will be still completely fine unless you're very very unlucky and get a super smart one that kills your entire drive or causes overheating or something, and even then you have to actually use the windows operating system and give the thing enough time to execute without noticing that your computer is becoming either unbelievably unresponsive or unbearably hot.


I would say it's impossible but a good friend of mine somehow managed to prove me wrong

 

[hihowareyou]

I''m a mac person. My partner is a PC guy. We get along fine

At the end of the day it is just a computer and a personal preference. I have no desire to go back to PC because I find I get along fine with the mac and am used to it now. My partner on the otherhand can''t use OSX for work and the very high end mac laptops that would be suitable for his work with bootcamp are not really competitively priced in Australia. Buying a mac would be for the looks only at a high cost for him.

 

[ksinger]

In IT, so a MAC would be nice perhaps, but also a waste of my limited "technical" time. I''m always having to try to stay as technically current as possible, and for me that isn''t going to be done on a MAC, since my entire work world is going to be on PC''s for probably eternity.