Mac-to-PC ration on TFL

Work: G3 tower/400 with 192Mb RAM; 2 x 2 Gb h/drives

Home: PC-clone 400 Mhz; Win 98; only 64Mb RAM
plus
Mac 11si and original LaserWriter Plus still in mint condition
plus
Mac SE20 with 11 000 hours work and, apart from some phosphor burn on the screen, still working fine
plus
Mac 512k with twin floppies and no h/d

All right -- I like Macs ;-)

B
 
Only G3 I like has HK in the logo.

BIG BLUE, BABY. I like OEM, that's why I use 1911's It aint a computer unless you can tear into it to "work" the thing.

When I see a mac beat the reining world chess master maybe I'll switch but probably not as I will then say IBM already did that and invented the first comerically sucessfull PC. My school distric uses IBM clones for the junior highs and high schools and Apples for the little kids. :)

Apples? Isnt that the company that bill gates gave some money to, when they were going bankrupt?

[This message has been edited by oberkommando (edited February 12, 2000).]
 
Apple is to computers what Colt is to firearms. Arrogant, occasionally brilliant and constantly tripping up on their own greed.

The reason almost everyone has PC's is because Apple wanted total control over the architecture, while the PC started as a wild place of shifting standards that encouraged creativity. Remember the first apples had the cases spot welded shut to stop users from tweaking and changing things? Apple could have had the world if it hadn't tried to hold it in one fist.
 
I haven't had an Apple computer since the family got rid of the Apple II+. My former employer, Amgen Inc, was the 7th larget Mac customer. The only problem was that all of our analytical computers were PC based, so data transfers were overly complicated. Amgen has since transitioned to PC, much to the chagrin of many Amgen Macophiles.

It's just easier to get software or anything else for a PC. If it's available, it's available for a PC. Not always so for a Mac. Also, if I want something, I don't have to submit the Apple control scheme.

[This message has been edited by Destructo6 (edited February 12, 2000).]
 
Dell 333. We use to have a Mac II, but the monitor wore out and it would cost $900 to replace it. Thats when I left Macintosh.
 
I teach a "Digital Arts" class at a private college. (Photo restoration and compositing, web page design, illustration, ect.)Anyway we use both Mac and PC. The Macs are G4s with 128mb of RAM and the PCs are equivilant custom built. There isn't much diffrence in performange, in fact I think the PCs are a bit faster. The problem is these Macs cost about $800.00 more than the PCs. There are also more subtle problems with the Macs like when designing web pages, the Mac "Web Pallette" colors are much more limited than a PC, makes designing a web page too be viewed on a Mac and PC a pain in the butt, so most people don't design for Macs. A Mac is only capable of displaying 72 dots per inch on the monitor where the PC displays 96, you get more detail on sereen. You can't build a custom Mac like you can a PC. Anyway, I prefer PC. That's my two cents.
 
George, my ex-gf has and still uses an Amiga. Shivers.

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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
-- Samuel Johnson
 
well i use macs to create magazine art for one of the larger World wide mags

we moved fully to the mac for page creation a few years ago because typography is inadequate on PCs.

Hey Dr. Rob!
Sounds like you need a Nikon CP990!
ibook is cool but the lack of a PC slot is a serious limitation for digital photography

the G4's were a bit constrained
i ordered 4 back in November & got them right away, What Mhz did ja order?

dZ
 
My Mac is ploding along with a 200 mhz 603 & 96 meg of ram. Paying for Guns, Cameras, School, & my new Jeep has put an upgrade out of the picture for now, but I have a feeling that the 3rd gen ibooks will be awful tempting.

"Know the stillness of freedom,
Where there is no more striving"
- The Dhamapadah
- Buddha 563-483 B.C.

Tony.
 
i use a mac. The SE30 is my footstool because
the new softwares are too big and its screen too small.

My Centris 650 is plodding along after I gave it a harddrive transplant.

What'll I do with the older computers? there's mercury in the screen, lead and gold in the circuits.

I use my wife's hybrid PC with Windows, but I work on a Silicon Graphics workstation running UNIX. Everything is slow.
 
I was half-expecting some grizzled old fart to chime in that they were using a PDP-11 and loading off paper tape... ;) as one of my colleagues jokes, he has experience in "C" programming, plus "R" and "L" (for you young punks, programming the old analog computers).

the best desktop OS I've used is OS/2 Warp, but when I was using it, drivers were scarce and it didn't run Win32 apps. however, good GUI, rock-solid, good performance.

currently DEC Unix and Mac 8.6 at work, Win95 OSR2 at home. built home PC from parts, for same $$ got better components than I would have gotten from normal vendors (how many home desktop systems offer Ultra2 LVD SCSI drives?). will eventually reconfigure the home machine to dual-boot to FreeBSD and start weaning myself off MS.



[This message has been edited by Ivanhoe (edited February 18, 2000).]
 
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