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Poll: Wintel poofters versus Mac zealots

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OS 9 sucks. I agree.

However, it is quite clear from the responses that most of the posters here have no clue about what the hardware and software is.

eg.

The round mouse no longer is bundled.
Current Macs are NOT SCSI in general.
OS X is supposedly an extremely robust OS - the Unix (not Linux) phreaks at my friend's work are all gaga over it and have all run out and bought G4s. AND... it has an image that lightyears beyond anything Microsoft has ever put out, including that gawdawful Windows XP GUI. XP looks like it was designed by computer engineers. Yeechh!
BTW, strangely enough MS Internet Explorer 5 for Mac is better than 5.5 for PC. The new MS Office looks pretty good too, although I haven't used it.

I have chosen PC, but not because I put my blinders on and simply ignore Macs. As far as I'm concerned, you can't knock it until you try it. And if the Ti G4 Powerbook AND OS X had come out a few months ago, I would have bought that no question over my PIII laptop.
 
The mac optical mouse is awesome! I wish it had more buttons and worked on a pc...

Ok, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one overflows first...

🙂

Cheers!
 


<< The mac optical mouse is awesome! I wish it had more buttons and worked on a pc... >>



You can use your Microsoft multi-button optical mouse on a Mac, too.
 
Thorin: Please don't drudge up the &quot;can't say PC cuz macs are PC's&quot; thing. In today's world PC means x86. That's the new meaning. Macs are personal computers but they are no longer PC's as the word PC has essentially had a meaning change. 50 years ago if you'd run outside and yelled &quot;I'm gay!!!&quot; then people would have been glad you were happy. Go ahead and do thing now because that's all gay really means . . . .
 
&quot;Go ahead and do thing now because that's all gay really means .... &quot;

So you're going to try and give me a lesson about the evolution of a word (abreveation) when you can't even write a sentence that makes sense. Thanks for comin out.

Also in today's world, PC doesn't not mean x86. It is completely accepted to mean a x86 based processor (Intel, AMD, Cyrix, etc..) running a MS operating system. ie: Wintel . The average Joe that gives the word (abreviation) today's accepted meaning has NFC about Linux.

Thorin
 
You mean it has nothing to do with Linux but people still refer to either running Linux on a SPARC box, a Mac, or a PC? That seems quite odd to me. Some make the distinction of i386, i686, etc., but even in the Linux world PC means x86.
 
When the bulk of society refers to a &quot;PC&quot; they are refering to an x86 machine running a MS operating system.

Those of us who know better use it in a much more general sense meaning x86 systems.

Both cases are wrong, PC refers to any Personal Computing device. Including all combinations of processor and operatings sytem, size and capacity (including Laptops, sublaptops, and palms).

Thorin
 
Macs have advantages and disadvantages just like any other machine. x86 machines have advantages and disadvantages as well. For me, the expandability and superior software base make an x86 box my choice. Someone mentioned Macs being all SCSI, not true. They used to be, but that ended with the computers bearing the IBM 603 processors. Having worked on my HS all Mac network, I know that the last Macs with all SCSI were before the 603 CPU. 70x (aka G3 and G4) based Macs use IDE for all internal drives, though they generally have a SCSI card for external devices.

Zenmervolt
 
But all that I'm trying to say Thorin is that language is determined by society. If they bulk of society uses a word one way then that's what the word means. It's sort of like the word &quot;ain't&quot; (which I do use often since I'm from the south). For years teachers would insist that &quot;ain't ain't a word&quot;. But who were they to say that? (the word ain't has now been added to most dictionaries) When the bulk of a society uses a word and it can be commonly understood as a specific meaning (even if the word had a previous meaning that will be replaced), then that word is valid. How many people would call a Mac a PC just while talking? Very few, and if they did they would almost certainly be misunderstood, as almost anyone, techie and non-techie would think they were refering to the computer archetecture that has pretty much become the generic type (x86).

Sorry if I sounded harsh a little earlier. Your sentence not making sense comment kinda heated me up (I wasn't trying to be offensive the first time I was trying to use an example, but you must have taken it the wrong way. it was supposed to be do &quot;that&quot; now not do &quot;thing&quot; now. was typing just a little too fast). I've had some time too cool off now though (and vent lots of frustration on a poor breadboard in ee lab 🙂).
 
&quot;Sorry if I sounded harsh a little earlier. &quot;
I didn't think so. No worries 🙂

I agree that society accepts &quot;PC&quot; as a x86 based machine running windows, but that doesn't make it correct.

If the majority of the population decided suddenly to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Personally from this discussion I don't think you would.

Anyway my point is the socially accepted interpretation of something is not always the correct one. (ie: the earth being flat, etc...)

From dictionary.com
&quot;ain't \Ain't\ A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't. &quot;

Now that we're totally off topic I'll try to digress.

Thorin
 
G4 laptop running OS X. Thats what I really want right about now, and it's the first Mac I have even considered in years.
 


<< Of the people who have said or will say &quot;Macs Suck&quot; etc... How many of you have used a Mac as much as you have used an x86 Windows based machine? (you can't say PC because that includes macs) ie: Everything you do on your x86 Windows (or Linux) machine you've done for an equal amount of time and with equal effort on a Mac. >>



There is a good we DON'T use a Mac &quot;much as you (i.e. we) have used an x86 Windows based machine&quot;. Because we can't stand using them.

At one time I did. MacDraw II was a fantastic app, and I was waiting for them to port it to Windows. I once even did Mac support. But the last time I truly used a Mac for anything important was around when System 7.01 came out.

 
Xp, sounds stupid to me. I mean experiece wtf is that? Mac is for pop culture Losers (hehe, not really losers but people who want like to be in the mainstream).
 
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