Mac or PC which do you use?

Yes...

And no... :icon_bigg

While I will agree that OSX has a streamlined interface on the surface, I find it to be much more cumbersome to operate at a lower level.

 

I don't know how to accurately vote, as I've got XP on my PC, Debian on my G4 Powermac, and XP/OSX on my Dell Vostro. (convoluted, eh? HAHA). I use most of it pretty regularly... but I guess XP the most?

 

I have at least one of each.

 

I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed. I use Ubuntu for most of the stuff, but I have to use Windows for many programs and of course, for almost every game.

I had Hackintosh some months ago and loved it, but as I couldn't put sound to work and had some display issues I ended deleting it. Maybe I'll give it another try in some time...

 

I'm currently using Windows 7 64-Bit. Love it, my favourite Windows OS so far.

Need to find a spare machine so that I can install Xubuntu again since I want to get back into PSP development.

 

I find the lack of frothy-mouthed Mac zealotry in this thread satisfying. I've used many Macs over the years, own a Macbook, but I've never understood the holier-than-though attitude of so many of the Apple faith. It wasn't that many years ago that I had one tell me "well I can browse the net whilst burning a CD". Obviously the rest of us are still on Windows 3.11.

My new rig is running XP32. Pain in the arse to install this time since it doesn't have a floppy port and I'm running a couple of RAID arrays, but now it's up it runs everything, and fast. I would've had some flavour of Ubuntu as my main OS (probably Mint) but none of them like my wireless card, even with NDISwrapper.

 

Used to work on Windows XP Pro for years, these days it's Mac OSX all the way and i don't know why i didn't switch sooner because i'm not going back to Windows again

 

Giving Moblin 2.0 now a try on the Aspire One. I bought my MacBook now almost two years ago mainly because my Pentium 4 laptop had always been too heavy to carry around plus I wanted to try out Mac OSX.

Not that there is anything I would specifically need a Mac for but I'm very satisfied how things work together without too much trouble. I find the OS very easy to use and I think it only crashed twiced on me in two years. Now I only use the P4 with Windows XP when I have to use a Windows-only program or have to burn a DVD (no Superdrive in the Mac).

 

PC Windows for play and PC Linux for work... Mainly because I prefer building and customizing my own systems.

 

OS X. I have Windows XP that runs in VMWare for SoulSeek, as well as lots of "for fun" operating systems like Mac OS 9 in SheepShaver and Windows 3.1 in DOSBOX.

OS X is awesome in my opinion. I do everything from graphic and web design to Java development to audio production to gaming to Internet whatever on my MacBook Pro.

 

I'm a proud Mac OS X user since today's afternoon. I never worked with it before, to be honest I never even tested it for more than 5 Minutes in an Apple store.
So here I was, new as if it hadn't existed until this day.

After the unboxing I knew what I paid all that money for, LOL. Rarely seen such a beautiful packaging. Anyway, it was rapidly forgotten when I first booted up my new 21,5" iMac. It took me an about two or three hours to get used to the basic system of OS and to be honest, the most effort was to convince myself of how easy everything is.

There may is a Windows PC that is equal in hardware specs but cheaper, but so far I'm just so pleased with the Mac OS X's features that I couldn't imagine to go "back". Maybe in a year or so, when I discovered some of the bad sides, you never know. But then again I still have to find someone who switched back from Apple to Windows.

Did I mention that the Magic Mouse is quite comfortable to the hand? It's a bit weird to use at first and to be honest the Zoom function does not make too much sense as there is no scaling involved, but the simple sake of scrolling in all directions by touching it is quite nice.

 

PC - Windows 4 life.

No UNIX/Linux for me ever.

 

I used Linux before, but in the end it became a problem because I wanted to use some games/programs that weren't avilable for Linux, so I had to switch back to XP, right now i'm in Windows 7, it's awesome, like some user before me pointed out, this is the best Microsoft OS ever!

 

Yes I remember Mac OS 8 and Windows 95, one of them allowed you to format a disc whilst doing something else at the same time and the other was a mac...

I've used both machines (use macs at work) and personally I still prefer to use a netbook running Windows XP.

 

Windows XP / 7 dualboot system.
Waiting for money to get an iMac or MacBook(Pro).

 

My Rig

(FULLSCREEN:http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/415/50288745.png)
Is there something wrong with me?

 

Most of the time, im on Vista (Win7's gui is like a stream of piss in my face) because of work reasons. (Max, PS, 3d engines etc) But I also got 2 other systems ready for use, an older XP system and a fuckin' retro HP vectra that has a debian kernel running set up through kanotix. (The HD is a bit tiny for full fledged fun)

For fun reasons a DC of mine is ready for a RedHat 2.4.5 debian kernel as well. (yea it has been updated.) But as of yet its kinda useless, in the future I would like to make use of a internal SD slot, so it would have at least a pretend-harddrive.

Other then that, yea im pretty much forced to use windows every day, I just dont code anything to make it worthwhile to use linux.

threedehh directx viewports ftw!... not.

edit: oh yeah, Win7 is also useless to upgrade to because it still handles a process like a fucking god. If a program makes hassles going down and is stuck in the killing process, Vista/Win7 do shit about it. Without babbling too much, microsoft just changed it up a bit and its now worse then it ever was. How the fuck are you supposed to debug something if after a few trys the process is stuck and wont budge, thus leaving you to either wait till (mostly after several fucking hours) it disappears or you reboot. That is mindblowingly retarded, since obviously you can expect your project to crash a lot when provoking it only to be able to fix it in return, which you cant because windows dosnt let you. *head explodes*

 

PC with GNU.

 

Probably used most OS types and versions since the 80ties lol

C64Geos/Dos/MacOS/LinuxRedhat/FreeBSD/HPUX/Win3.11/95/98/Mil/NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/SunSolaris/Ubuntu

Only used MAC for 2 years when I did some design work on Adobe software (1997/98) Don't remember the exact version any more.
Besides that I have always been true to PC hardware and Windows/Linux except on some occassions or at work where I have to work on other platforms.

But.. I must admit I would like to own a MAC by now as it looks slick and is a great OS for my gf to NOT mess up

 

I'm using both, they both have good and bad points. End of the day, they're just tools..