Hi I'm A Mac, and I'm A PC.

I have a PC - though it happens to be a different PC to the one that I was using a few months ago, when we last had this survey...

I'd respond, but I'm currently frozen.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some months ago.

PC at work. MacBook at home; PCs suck

A Mac, of course. I've been a Macperson since the first ones came out, the little 9-inch black-and-white screens. Always resented having to use PCs at work. Feel Macs are far superior, including the designs. PCs are sooooo boring and ordinary.

always been a PC........... for what i use and need a computer for, i can't see spending the extra money on a MAC. never used one so i guess i really don't know how it would benefit me!

I have a PC. I love my HP

I'm a fan of John Hodgman.

His TED talk was sublime... (seriously, watch it, it's surprisingly profound and romantic, and geeky/funny along the way, brilliant)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_hodgman_s_...


Macs are OK. I used them some (mostly in the past, in college), not so much recently. I'm wary of Apple's slick advertising and the whole Steve Jobs cult or whatever you want to call it. Their stuff is more proprietary than PC/Microsoft stuff. So, I don't see what Apple is doing as the right direction. I prefer more open systems, where competition can occur. PC hardware has that and thus I think it's better, overall. Granted, Microsoft's hold on the operation system (Windows) is not a good thing. I know that by being a PC user I am implicitly supporting Microsoft. Still, just switching to Apple doesn't seem better, just different. Macs are the next evil monster that wants to dominate everything. Microsoft's marketing is crap at least, so they don't wield the same sort of evil mind-control powers (marketing/advertising) as Apple.

Really, one of the main reason I'm a PC user is games. I mostly game on consoles these days, though I used to do a lot of PC gaming and I still do a little. So, maybe that reason has eroded. There are also just a lot of applications that I use on Windows. And, since most of my customers (you) use PC/Windows, I'm better off using it too so I'll experience issues myself.

I used Vista on a new laptop for a year, but didn't like it as much as XP. I had the option to downgrade back to XP so I did that. So, the future of Windows seems very uncertain to me. I don't like most of the fancy UI stuff and restrictive protective bits they keep adding to Windows. I can turn most of it off with XP, so that's fine. With Vista, I was not able to and I found myself struggling with it, annoyed with it. I figure it's possible that I'll just switch to Linux ultimately, though it has its own set of problems. But, Mac seems like a bad choice to me. Maybe I just haven't drank the Kool-Aid.

I'm still liking Linux.

Truth to be told, I don't like either. I dislike how Mac tries to market you the whole range of lifestyle with their products. They're also very expensive. And Vista just sucks balls. I feel like an idiot when I'm using it.

I've asked my boyfriend in the past to switch my laptop to Linux. We still haven't gotten around to doing it.

PC..I use a Mac everyday in second bell..and I still prefer PCs..No right click?! Double clicking on the window minimizes it!? Annoying.

Don't know anyone who uses a mac. Surely not in the business world.

I can see your point about Mac's proprietory marketing and sales practices, but couldn't that be a quality control issue? I break this down to a far more simple concept, I'v never had any real problems with any Mac I've owned except obsolescence, but PCs seem inherently problematic, from lousy operating systems, to inefficient use of hardware, to the proliferation of viruses.

Prefere mac, stuck with PC

You sound like a Mac commercial.

It's hard to know for sure if Macs or PCs are inherently less problematic for people. There's certainly anecdotal accounts of Macs being better. Is that just because there are less of them around? Personally, I've heard of friends with Macs who had problems (serious problems where they had to send the computer back to Apple, etc.) When I used a Mac (admittedly a long time ago), there were problems (software bugs and such).

The hardware integration is likely just better because Apples limits the hardware so that drivers and issue are a much smaller problem than with PCs. Points to Apple for that, but it also tends to mean there are less options, less competition, and higher prices.

The virus thing doesn't seem to be related to Macs actually having better security. They are just less common so virus-writers haven't bothered to go after them (yet). If you're going to write a virus, it's easier to write it for the platform that has by far the most potential victims.

But, I'm not really making a strong argument against them. Macs are decent computers. If you like them, that's great. I only ask the you try to be wary of their marketing.

Fair enough.

PC.

But I also have a Linux (Ubuntu to be exact) server me and one of my friends share. I never had a Mac, and don't actively plan on getting one. And don't get me started on how those commercials are bullcrap.

PC. I've never used a Mac, but I've been told they are better. Right now, I'm stuck using my son's computer using Windows XP. I'm not a fan of Windows, like Linux much better. Eventually I'll get that set up again, I think.

Mac. No contest.

PC user i am

Neither. I'm a human.

PC..never tried a Mac so have no idea if they are better,... PC's suck so who knows..

pc, because Mac is for kids