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Domicinator on 02 December 2009
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Spoon! said:
Jordahn said:
I've been using Macs since 1993. Very minimal problems. With such a huge OS market share, the majority of my friends uses a PC while I use it at work which is of no surprised. They are the ones who I've always heard having problems I've never occurred with the Macs I've used over the years. But like I said, I've barely experience problems for the past 16 years. Sadly, they are usually the ones throwing the first stones probably out of fear or something I guess. It's either a double standard or it was just plain ignorance such as the "lack of software" myth. There have always been more PC software for the obvious reason, but there have always been more than enough software for most Mac users. It's kind of like PS fanboys saying the only good game on the 360 is Halo3 which isn't true due to ignorance. And the price "issue" of Macs. A friend has an Acer laptop that runs off of 4 GB of ram while my iMac has only 2 and I paid more. BUT his Windows OS eats up 2 GB of his ram while the Mac OS eat up around 512MB, a quarter of my resources compared to a half of his. So the price issue from the surface is very misleading from the uninformed masses. Pretty common and easy to spot from my vantage point since the market is saturated with PC's. So it's easier to be familiar with it while my long term hands on Mac experience allows me to see Macs more accurately. You really are comparing apple to oranges, but the masses normally doesn't know these things.

I used Macs when they actually had different hardware, the ppc, and have some experience with friends' Mac pcs'. I am familiar with both Win and Mac, but use Win because I can choose my own hardware, and build it at a fraction of the cost. Like you, I have barely experienced any problems over the past 20 years and I know I have saved a ton of cash because I don't go with a Mac pc. As for Win OS eating 2gb of ram... I'm writing this on a thinkpad with 4gb of ram, and system resources are using less than 400mb. I don't know what you're friends are doing, but all their problems are probably created by themselves, so the price issue is not misleading. And it is not an apples to oranges comparison, they both run on the same hardware, can do the exact same things, but one costs alot more.

 

And to put my two cents in, the last two Macs my wife has been issued from work have had lots of problems.  Her brand new one has optical drive problems and doesn't seem to want to run iTunes correctly.  The one before that had lots of errors and compatibility issues with the music software she was running that was SUPPOSED to run on Macs.  But the nail in the coffin with Macs for me was in college when I spent an entire week on a project for a class (a project that could only be done in one of the Mac labs on campus because only the ones in that lab had the software I needed) and after the last night of work on this thing, the computer pretty much ate the whole thing.  I didn't do anything to spark this.  The project was just gone.  Unrecoverable.  I have never had anything like that happen on a PC.  I literally had to go in the next day with a "dog ate my homework" excuse. 

Macs have screwed me over on more than one occasion.  Yes, I've had problems with PCs, but I think the file system in Mac OSX lends itself to more problems than Windows.  A stupid person can mess up Windows pretty bad, but I feel it's nothing compared to how bad a stupid person could mess up an OSX install.