PC or Mac.... which do you use?

[ImDonly1]

Windows 8 on desktop.
Windows 7 on laptop.

 

[Whiskey16]

All Windows systems:

- main household cobbled workstation on Windows 8 pro
- main Thinkpad laptop upgraded to Win8pro
- upstairs HTPC upgraded to Win8pro and running XBMC
- ditto for the downstairs HTPC
- server remains an Acer Easystore H341 since upgraded to Windows Home Server 2011 with an SQL server for the XBMC database sharing
- current tablet hybrid is an Acer W510 with Win8

...our phones are Android

Pleased and content with the stability, reliability, interoperability, and comfort with all.

 

[Remobz]

Never owned a Mac and probably never will until the day I die.

 

[biostud]

2x win8 + 1x wp8

 

[sportage]

Mac!
Even though I have built many windows based machines from scratch.
With all the frustration with windows based machines, I gave mac a try and as so many others will tell you, haven't looked back. Its a pleasure to get something done for a change.
But I still help friends and family restore their windows PC after they or a virus screws it up.
Something I've not had to do once on my mac in the several years as a mac owner.
My problem and my only problem with apple in general is iTunes.
If apple would open up compatibility and user friendliness with iTunes, allow support for android devices, then just maybe apple would no be in the rotten apple mess they are currently getting into with apple vs all the others.
And just maybe their apple stock would not have dive bombed last week.
I don't think apple or their devices are the issue, its the necessity to depend on iTunes and all the limits and frustration of iTunes. One would think iTunes was some Microsoft creation. If apple were truly concerned about losing billions, they revamp iTunes once and for all.
Not treat iTunes like coca cola treats it secret cola ingredients.

PS. I'd love to see iTunes separated from apple, much like ma bell was broken up into smaller separate companies.
And let iTunes, like ma bell, move forward into the modern era.
Im tired of using that old dysfunctional rotary-device-like apple software.
But thats another poll/issue.
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[JimmiG]

What's a Mac? lulz

I think it's like an iPad, but with a keyboard. You can run iTunes and stuff on it.

 

[boomhower]

OS X at home and Windows XP at work.

 

[Murloc]

windows 7 desktop and laptop.
I used macs back when they weren't popular and people argued they had a niche in the graphics sector when you told them they were useless. I don't miss them. I haven't used a mac since the first version of OS X, that's 2001 I guess.

I don't get viruses on windows because I'm not inept and I can clean after myself if it happens. I understand that people who can't do this and don't care about videogames and freedom can be better off with a mac. That, or people who make so much money (and are not geeks so they just use it for office and browsing) that for them losing time is more costly than buying a pricey mac that supposedly "just works".

 

[Wyndru]

PC running windows 7 and Kindle Fire running jelly bean.

I configure and troubleshoot Macs at work, and I like them, I just don't own one. I don't think I'd ever buy one either. I'm happy with my cheap PC.

 

[sourceninja]

I use a mac. Why? Because I got sick of the never ending fight to keep linux running on my laptop. Always fighting with driver issues form vendors refusing to support linux and the lack of vision from the developers (Let's take great software and muck it up in the name of progress!).

OSX is Unix, which is the number one reason I use it. As a developer and *nix admin, I want to work on a platform that closely resembled my target platform. OSX does that.

 

[bigrash]

I use a PC at home. Mac when I travel

 

[el-Capitan]

I use both OS X and Windows, but the prefer the former. Rarely bring around my notebook anymore, Tablets are the way to go.

I have an iPad2. It is utterly useless for anything beyond web browsing, video and is used for streaming content from my PCs only.

I believe that there are scenarios where a tablet can be productive, but for the vast majority of applications they are too limited (iOS and Android at least, have not used RT)

 

[SearchMaster]

I'd never used a Mac until ~7 months ago, but the development work I was doing required it. So for now I'm exclusively OSX; Windows is fine but because of the tight hardware control it's certainly easier for Apple to make OSX stable than it is for Microsoft. I'd be fine with switching back to Windows. I've never been a gamer so that's never factored into my decisions.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

People at Starbucks are soooooo hipster. Sipping on their double shot fraps

 

[Puddle Jumper]

PC

I used a MBP for a while and the hardware and software were simply subpar. Every time I used it I appreciated my Thinkpad x220 that much more.

 

[Mixolydian]

ultimately they all use the same underlying technologies for functionality and that is what it all boils down too...

Bullshit. User-interface is what makes or breaks the product. Most people don't give a flying fuck about the underlying technology.

 

[Meractik]

Bullshit. User-interface is what makes or breaks the product. Most people don't give a flying fuck about the underlying technology.

"Most" people you refer to are just being naive since without that underlying technology they wouldn't have anything at all because it would fail to flourish.

 

[Thebobo]

Amiga!

 

[JM Aggie08]

You can't beat the touchpad on a MacBook. You just can't.

 

[SP33Demon]

You can't beat the touchpad on a MacBook. You just can't.

Sure you can, it's called a mouse. Oh wait, do Macs have USB ports yet so you can actually use one? lulz

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Sure you can, it's called a mouse. Oh wait, do Macs have USB ports yet so you can actually use one? lulz

Soooooo true

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I use a PC at work, but prefer a Mac for my personal use. I normally use my MacBook Pro, but also recently built a Hackintosh desktop that dual-boots Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.

 

[Mixolydian]

Sure you can, it's called a mouse. Oh wait, do Macs have USB ports yet so you can actually use one? lulz

You do realize that Mac had USB standard before PC's did, right? lulz.

 

[Dice144]

Need an option for both. I use both.

 

[dr150]

Both.

Mac of laptop (Windows with Bootcamp)

Windows for PC