Poll: Reasons why won't PC USers switch to Mac

[DaveSimmons]

Games, Win2K gets the job done, and I'm a Windows software developer.

 

[MrCodeDude]

I need more than one mouse button.
-- mrcodedude

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: MazerRackham
I am using a multiple button mouse on my macintosh right now.... scary, isn't it?

poser.

 

[0roo0roo]

its all about the bling bling. if you had the money to get the mac with the 23" back when it was special... would you have if you could have?

mostly no becuz mostly poor

 

[Soybomb]

I'd love to get a mac notebook, but the price is crazy compared to what I can get from pc vendors. Also the one button trackpad on a laptop kills it. I want more buttons on my mouse and its a laptop so I don't want to carry extra crap with me to use it.

 

[Lithium381]

the interface isn't apealing to me, and well, i've grown up on PC and i can do things with it

 

[Imported]

Price..

I'd love to own a Powerbook.. or a G4 (when I was building my computer) but price limited me. I prefer the OSX GUI over Windows; and the software selection doesn't really bother me because most of the software I use is available on the Mac too.

 

[DurocShark]

Biggest reason is price for me. (I've got an old powerpc coming soon though that I get to play with...)

The box-to-box incompatible hardware is another reason. That pretty much removes the "I can get 20% faster system if I upgrade the HD controller" type stuff... Not to mention mobo swaps.

Software kinda sux too. Plus the odd "we're better than you" community that has developed around Macs... Scary.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
I'd love to get a mac notebook, but the price is crazy compared to what I can get from pc vendors. Also the one button trackpad on a laptop kills it. I want more buttons on my mouse and its a laptop so I don't want to carry extra crap with me to use it.

The one button mouse argument is so stupid. It's like compalining that your automatic car should have three pedals, because your manual car does and you're used to using the third one.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

I usually buy computers based on what offers the best performance\price ratio. As far as I can tell the PC outperforms the Mac in this criteria.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Soybomb
I'd love to get a mac notebook, but the price is crazy compared to what I can get from pc vendors. Also the one button trackpad on a laptop kills it. I want more buttons on my mouse and its a laptop so I don't want to carry extra crap with me to use it.

The one button mouse argument is so stupid. It's like compalining that your automatic car should have three pedals, because your manual car does and you're used to using the third one.

I agree. If I got a new PC I'd make sure to get a quality mouse anyway... not the one that came with it. But still... I wouldn't buy it cuz it's too expensive and I have other things to buy.

 

[yaak3f]

It is close race between price and all of above. Keep on voting.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
I'd love to get a mac notebook, but the price is crazy compared to what I can get from pc vendors. Also the one button trackpad on a laptop kills it. I want more buttons on my mouse and its a laptop so I don't want to carry extra crap with me to use it.

I haven't priced it out recently, but higher-end PowerBooks compare very favorably in value to their PC counterparts.

You can't just look at the dollar cost alone. Up until the Intel Centrino release, most PC notebook PCs were gargantuan shoulder-busting beasts that lasted only about 2 hours on battery.

For a fair comparison, you'd have to stack up the PowerBook against an IBM Thinkpad T, for example. Even the popular Dell Inspiron 4xxx is cheap in build quality compared to either of the two.

On a similar note, the iBook is not the best value, but still fairly affordable if you stack it up against a quality budget PC notebook. The design (light-weight, long battery life) still trumps many PC models in the same class.

To some extent, Apple has already written off desktop PCs as a growth market, partly because they cannot simply compete on value in this segment.

 

[SinnerWolf]

This is the reason why i hate macs
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1113303&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

And despite there being about 2% of the software available for macs...
twice, if not triple, the price...
the main reason why I will not own a mac is because in my twisted nonsensical mind i associate mac with hollywood, and hollywood = mpaa = evil

Hell, i'm considering boycotting the LOTR movies simply because Sean Austin was in the mpaa's commercials...and i'm a friggen nut for Tolkien, agggghhh...

And i would boycott afleck's movies as well, but i realized that i am already doing so inadvertently.

 

[sandorski]

2 reasons listed in your Poll:

1) lack of software/games
2) can't build my own

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Derango
All of the above except the I just hate mac response and the performance one.

that, and the popularity of pc

 

[KentuckyBlue]

If you can not have it laying in pieces on your desk screwing around with it to get that extra 100 points on 3dmark what is the point.

 

[BatmanNate]

I'd say software, upgradability, price in that order.

 

[Supahfreak]

Two words, Counter-Strike.

FreAk