Mac v Win

Jackson

So just to set the record straight, maybe we can all agree:

ALL Mac users are fluff-headed, fashion-obsessed fan-boys, barely capable of connecting a monitor, and easily duped into paying exorbitant prices for "pretty" above performance.

All PC users are propeller-headed, tech-drenched, drudges, who would rather fix a computer than use one, and are too cheap to pay for, much less recognize elegance.

There, debate settled.

Very well said!

Estwing blammers are the business! I wouldn't buy Stanley anything other than their blades.

Mike Lucey

Okay, I have found a way to reach a decision on the Mac v Win contest. http://issue.igizmo.co.uk/1J499c416beb4fa385.cde/page/24

Steve v Bill.jpg

dale

Jeez, you shake a Mac PC tree and out fall a bunch of carpenters

pbacot

I've never liked curve claw hammmers.....

I got into Mac because that's what they used at work. I also worked on PC's in learning AutoCAD. Early ACAD and PC's were not a good introduction, but I think it is just familiarity and the available programs (which I still use--and only available on Mac) that kept me on Macs. I think the Windows interface has caught up.
That said, there is something to an attractive OS and computer design. To call the look and feel of tools you use every day "fashion" seems antithetical to a forum populated by designers. It's about what I experience every day, not what others see (no one usually sees my computer). Again I think Windows is probably the same now for it's users.
As for hardware, I have not bought PC's but the Mac computers I buy are increasingly less expensive, faster, more dependable, smaller (and yes cooler-looking) than ever before. It's never been a question of a couple hundred bucks whether to buy a new Mac when I needed to move up. I also don't miss having to "maintain" my computer any more than I do. I got it to draw and design, not play IT-man.
I think PC's, Windows, Macs, and the MacOS have benefited greatly from one each other. I don't think we should take this conversation too seriously.

Glenn at home

Yes, I spend a lot of time on my computers too. I do like to look at pretty items so I have nice looking desktop images and such when my main applications are not open. My 5 year old Dell at home runs just fine. Probably going to replace this year just to use newer PCIe video cards, faster ram and such. I'll give the Dell to my 9 year old. He likes to draw with SU like his old man
As I said to each their own

@double espresso said:

@unknownuser said:

Hmm, since one cannot measure "pretty" and "ugly" I'll leave that up to the individual. Both are tools to get a task done. I guess when my desktop needs to be pretty under my desk that will matter or when I care how pretty the case is. To each their own.
I guess people go to the hardware to get a pretty hammer

As a designer I spend a lot of time with my computer and it is important to me that it looks cool. Of course, if my Macs were a source of frustration, I would change, but, they provide everything I need in a beautiful package. Sure, I've had my moments over the years when I wanted to throttle Apple, but, when it all shook out, there was no real viable alternative.
When I cook, I use nicely designed knives and if I was a carpenter... Nice hammer, Mike.

On the topic of Mac vs Pc, well, when I was a kid the big fight was Ford vs Chevy.
Things never change.
You only pass this way one time.

Glenn at home

@dale said:

Although it may be an Urban Myth, at the meeting that took place after Microsoft's announcement of Windows release, Gates apparently after sitting through a tirade by the angry Jobs was supposed to have said: " Well Steve, I think it's more like we both had a rich neighbour named Xerox, and when I broke in to steal his TV set, I found you had already stolen it."

Windows and Mac desktop flashback

Wasn't this made up for that movie "Pirates of Silicon valley"

jeff hammond

finally decided to try out kerkythea via X11

so that's what windows looks like?!
feels like the 80s and dot matrix printers...

app seems nice though..

jeff hammond

re: this thread
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17082&start=0

i assumed windows had already stolen this trick from os x but apparently not.. oh well windows users, maybe someone can write a ruby that will do this inside of sketchup (though it works with all apps on macs)

Anssi

Out of curiosity I went today through all the Mac options available at the Mac e-store (through their Finnish pages). I was happily surprised to find that Apple seems to have trashed all its lowest-end graphics options, and all the models available (including the Mac Mini and all the Imacs and laptops) now had Nvidia graphics, so in theory you should be able to run SU on any Mac now on sale.

Anssi

linea

@unknownuser said:

As for a desktop...I couldn't care less what it looks like as long as it does it's job. I'll bet that most people don't even notice their tower boxes

A friend of mine works for a small printshop in London. When Imacs first came out they had a surge of silly airy-fairy enquiries coming in off the street presumably because people walking past the shop, saw the imacs through the window and thought "wow they must be cool".

I'm really on the fence on this topic as in the past I've used and worked fine on new macs, old macs, good pcs, crap pcs and pcs so old I had to stoke them with coal. They all got the jobs done.

Mike Lucey

Hey! if you zoom that video, it looks like Jackson was driving! Jackson! how could you

Jackson

I promise it wasn't me, I have an alibi- I was at home all day doing a full system restore.

Gaieus

Sure... Full system restore... We know how that is!

Ecuadorian

Car smashes through a Mac store and vindicates Windows users:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5163917/car-smashes-through-a-mac-store-and-vindicates-windows-users