Apple or Microsoft?
 

OK, poll time. How many people are using a PC right now and how many are using an apple computer?

PC since 1988.

Ian

My PC at home is also my work machine.
Runs pretty well flawless. The occasional hiccup, but not enough to comment on.

No plans to 'convert'.


KT

Mac at home, I run two businesses from my mac

1979 - Commodore PET
1982 - VAX
1984 - Mac
1985 - 2005: 100's of PC's (sold, built, fixed, ran, used, flogged, thrashed)
2006 - Slowly been switching over to Mac. Run my two last PC-only aps under VMWare

Best Single Feature of a Mac: Open the lid on the laptop, and it is instantly on and working.
Worst Feature of a Mac (actually a Microsoft problem): Minor annoyances with Office

On a PC at work running Linux.

And here I thought you were just a wine grower. :D

I've only had one laptop along the way but a whole multitude of PC clones. I like desktops. Laptops just seem like toys & too many of my colleagues have killed their laptops on the road. My Blackberry is my mobile appliance.

Ian

PCs at both. It does the same thing as the Apple, for 1/3 of the price. That's all I need.

Work: Win XP and Sun Solaris.
Home: Win XP (me), Ubuntu Linux (me), and Mac OS-X 10.5 (family).

I will be dumping the Mac and moving the family to Ubuntu sometime this year.

Poll is flawed.

Apples at home and work.

2 17 Intel laptops for me and the woman at home as personal machines.

1 17 in PPC laptop hooked into 62 in projection as part of multimedia solution.

2 other laptops 15 in PPC laptops "just because"

At work, my daily machines

17 inch Intel laptop

27 inch Imac

Quad Core Tower

Other stuff in my group

4 Quad Core Towers

1 15 in Intel laptop

1 17 in Intel Laptop

1 MacBook

2 MacBook airs for travel.

Ughh!

I really hate that argument

Spec for spec PC's are no cheaper and sometimes are actually more expensive than the Macs and the build quality on PC's is for ****, go to an apple store and ask them to open a tower.

If you cant see the difference then....

At home:

Me: macbook + old dell tower in reserve + 2 laptops in the closet
Wife: macbook
Daughter: macbook
Son: macbook + 3 dell laptops + 1 gaming PC tower + 1 server (he's getting his CCNA)

I'm running Vista on my Mac Book Pro right now...
Windows developer by day, iPhone game developer by night.
-Chris

Six networked Mac Mini's at work.

At home a Mac Mini, two iMac G4's, an iMac G5 a Mac Powerbook and a MacBook Pro.

PC always. Tinker with Linux occasionally. Would be willing to tinker with a MAC, but don't think it's the computer messiah.

Then what? I'm not a computer geek? If that's your case, then I concede wholeheartedly!:D

You see, some of us don't really care what's inside of a computer. We care that it works when it should, and works well. For my criteria, a PC works fine. My 5-year old Dell desktop still does the trick for basic home use, and has never crashed. My 3 year old Gateway laptop has a short battery life and several semi-broken keys due to my 1 year old, but otherwise works well. I've ordered a number of Dell laptops for my family members over the last two years, do you realize that you can get a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 15.4" laptop for under $500? Several of them have been using them for 2-3 years with zero issues.

So, here's your chance to sell me. For the average user like me, why would a $1500 Apple better suit my needs?

That's the point.

Apple does not make a machine for the $500 user. It's not their business.

Cut n paste from previous thread,

Go to Apple and Dell.com

Configure some machines.

Apple 17 Inch Powerbook. Base Price. $2,799 upgrade HD to match Dell configurable option, $2,849

Dell Precision M6300. (Closest base config to MacBook but still lower spec) Base Price. $2,314 with $915 Instant Savings = $1,399.
Configure spec to match Apple, memory, processor, video card, etc.. base price goes up to $3,643 - instant savings of $915, total for Dell is $2,728

For a nearly $3,000 box I don't see a delta of $120 as a premium. And what about that instant savings from Dell? Without it they are $800 more. Is their box really that much or is it the old shell game, inflate the price and then give a deep discount so it looks like you are getting a deal when you really are not?

Let's look at work stations.

Apple Macpro base box Dual QuadCore 2.8 Xenon = $2,799

Dell Precision T5400, configured to match the MacPro, $3,923-$150 instant savings = $3,773.

So the base Dell that matches the base Macpro is $1,000 more.

Bottom line, yes you can get hardware cheaper, much cheaper than Apple, BUT you are buying cheaper hardware. That's why it's cheaper.

Not everyone needs a $3,000 computer. If you only need a $500 computer then buy what fits your budget. If you are in the market for a high end machine, then that's a different story.

PC/Windows at work. Macs at home.

Voted apple at home cause I'm sitting right now using a Mac Pro at home... but it is my work laptop for developing Iphone applications.
But I'm a Unix sys admin, I use a Windows (Dell) desktop to connect to the Unix servers, and a Windows PC at home for my racing sims.

So technically I should have voted "all of the above".

Jay

PC

Bill's my hero ;)

Mac: all they do is bash PC, give it up already?