Are macs really better then pc's?

[vlad321]

Plaupius said:

vlad321 said:

No. Mac PCs are a piece of shit. When it comes to price/performance, the Macs fail worse than an illiterate redneck in an advanced Literature course.

Macs are for people who don't have the capacity to learn basics of computing, i.e. older people and children, and that's about it.

I once spend about a week and a half exclusively on a Mac. THe whole "it just works" schtick is so absolutely false. It also has annoying defaults, like the jumping dock icons, that need to be fixed. It also had no less problems than when I was using Windows. All in all, you are pissing away your money for a product that's crap compared to Windows. Since everything is basically the same it falls down to functionality and nothing beats Windows and the amount of software it handles.

I probably shouldn't bother with you, but that's just insulting. I'm a software developer, I have both the capacity to learn more than the basics of computing and a track record of doing that. And I use Macs. So your statement is just pure and utter garbage.

I will gladly explain. Apple's justification for adding about $500, at the lowest level, to hardware is its OS. It's ability to be used by anyone with the general tag line of "it just works." You also cannot argue that OSX runs less amount of software than Windows. I'm running a few programs which have yet to be ported to OSX or Linux, in fact.

What do you get when you add those statements together? $500 for an easy-to use out of the box product with less functionality and remember that this is the best case scenario, unless hardware became more expensive or Macs cheaper in the last year that I looked into Mac prices. The only people who should fall into this trap of Apple's are the elderly, the children, or anyone who doesn't know how to work a computer. There is no reason for someone to waste their money on the "ease of use with limitations" unless the ease of use outweighs the price+functionality by a whole lot. It seems to me that the only case that would happen would be among the groups I mentioned above.

The one exception to the rule is media, even I go to our mac lab whenever I get one of those bullshit graphics or audio assignments. They just have the best software to handle those tasks.