Are you a Mac person or a PC person?

[MillCreek]

http://blog.hunch.com/?p=45344

From the survey results, I skew towards the PC and I am in fact a PC person.  My wife uses a Mac, but her demographics are also skewed towards the PC end of the spectrum.

[RevDisk]

I'm a PC person.  Because my machine is bloody well mine, and I run it as I please and I don't need my hand held. 

[Boomhauer]

I'm a PC person.  Because my machine is bloody well mine, and I run it as I please and I don't need my hand held. 

This.


My sister, who doesn't really know a damn thing about computers, brought a Mac several months ago, and then stood up in front of her (and my) public speaking class and gave a presentation on why Macs were "better". It was a presentation with no substance, concentrating on how Macs were better because of 1) Looks 2) They are "higher quality" 3) They don't catch viruses/malware!

Yet guess what happened to the Mac last night? And, oh, and should I mention that the case is bulging, too, from poor assembly? And that it doesn't work with our printer?

But the desktop sure looks cool, yo.



(this post was typed on a 5 year old Dell that's only problems have been a DVD drive that went out and the battery pack has long gone flat)

[Nick1911]

I'm a PC person.  Because my machine is bloody well mine, and I run it as I please and I don't need my hand held. 

Hey, that's why I'm a Fedora/Ubuntu person!

[Boomhauer]

Hey, that's why I'm a Fedora/Ubuntu person!

Sorry, Nick, you know I have to do this:

[RevDisk]

Hey, that's why I'm a Fedora/Ubuntu person!

CentOS, Ubuntu, slack, XP, BeOS, AIX* guy myself. 


My point is that my computer does not define me.  What I bloody DO with my machines define me.  I'm not a weak minded naive that needs to buy some product to identify myself by.  Yay, I bought an XYZ, so I can be an artsy whatever.  Yay, I bought an ABC so I can be seen as productive minded.  Whatever.  I don't care what OS a person uses, as long as they rock it, hard. 

That said, I do like asking folks why they paid so much for a BSD clone with a pretty graphic environment.  I love the blank stares, and that tells me all I have to know.

Properly installed, configured and utilized, basically all OS can be stable, secure and productive.  If you're arguing that one OS is zOMG!!!11! so much better, you're not a geek.  You're a fanboy.  You are...  a user.


* Don't you dare judge me.  I was young, drunk and really needed the money.

[Nick1911]

Like, whatever, man.

Free software dude, that's like, how it's suppose to be, man.

Hey, aaaaaa, where did my ummm... doritos go, man?

My point is that my computer does not define me.  What I bloody DO with my machines define me.  I'm not a weak minded naive that needs to buy some product to identify myself by.  Yay, I bought an XYZ, so I can be an artsy whatever.  Yay, I bought an ABC so I can be seen as productive minded.  Whatever.  I don't care what OS a person uses, as long as they rock it, hard. 

Amen.  Let me guess, you use zsh too? 

[Monkeyleg]

I own both, and use both. Don't know what that makes me, but there's no way I'd ride a Vespa, even if I didn't have a Harley. And I have no idea what, Hummus, Banh Mi or Shwarma are. Sound like strains of bacteria to me.

[Regolith]

PC person, for similar reasons as RevDisk.

I generally don't have a problem with the Mac OS; I've worked on it enough to be comfortable using it.  I just don't see it as being particularly special, and sure as hell isn't worth the Apple tax, especially since its vaunted stability (which isn't really that much greater than a properly set up Windows system) depends greatly on its limited hardware options and the fact that its a BSD clone.

If I need the security of *nix, I'll use a free *nix OS.  If I need something that works with tons of software, I'll use Windows. I can also do graphic and video editing just as well on Windows as I can on Mac (better, in some cases, because I have a wider range of hardware options).  Mac just doesn't really do anything particularly useful to be worth it for me.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

This would be coming to you from a Linux laptop, but Linux has no properly functioning drivers for the wireless card.

PC is used because I have used PCs for most of my life. I am used to them and the way they function, and I have many programs (mostly games) that only run on PC. Mac is fine, it just won't run 10+ years worth of programs, and many of them have no ports for Mac.

[Balog]

Macbooks are pretty and all, but I don't want to pay the tax. If I needed to play lots of games I might at least have a Windows partition, but as it is Ubuntu fits my needs (cheap, works, and not annoying or fussy).

[TechMan]

I own both, and use both. Don't know what that makes me, but there's no way I'd ride a Vespa, even if I didn't have a Harley. And I have no idea what, Hummus, Banh Mi or Shwarma are. Sound like strains of bacteria to me.

ML, that makes you a swinger.   

[birdman]

That said, I do like asking folks why they paid so much for a BSD clone with a pretty graphic environment the NeXT UI.  I love the blank stares, and that tells me all I have to know. .

Fixed.

[brimic]

Seems like a right brain/left brain sort of thing when it comes to computer choice.

I dunno, for some reason I find apple/mac people annoying. They tend to let you know that they are apple/mac people as if it makes them 'special'. 

[Monkeyleg]

Other than in Mac/PC threads, have I ever mentioned having a Mac? It's not something I brag about, especially on a forum with so many tech types.

[birdman]

I have macs and windows machines at home, windows and Linux machines at work.  They are each suitable for different things, I have no real preference.

[CNYCacher]

I did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/windowspartition in November of 1998 and never went back.

[Harold Tuttle]

mac user/tech/electronic publishing guru since 1984.
I had my first design published in 1985

back in 1991, our prepress shop stopped accepting PC files
as they never imaged correctly the first time,
and the extra hand holding ate too much of the profits.

I moved many graphic design departments from the command line to the GUI

Now i run mac, pc, & linux
but my precision platform for making pixels obey is adobe photoshop on the mac.

Apple has an iron grip on the hardware/software interface,
and that certainly makes for an effective end user experience.
Fighting that because you want "control" is counter productive.

The key commands and macros are there if you look.
The 2 button mouse wars are over. Macs right click
and they also 3 finger salute.

[Fitz]

Logic Studio , even after the apple tax, is a better, easier to use, and cheaper solution than a protools HD workstation.

That's why i got into macs.

Currently, I'm typing this on my gaming PC, a Core i7 PC bought from a big box manufacturer on sale, then promptly wiped and fresh-OS'd.

As much as i am a "Mac" person, I find Windows 7 to be very good.

At work, it's server 2008R2 and windows 7, with a few linux boxes, and the ESX servers running their stripped down OS.



I dislike the fanboy douches. They make the rest of us Mac users look bad. The mac is better for the wife due to it's slim form factor and the software she uses, and for my music production. That doesn't make it some end-all of computing, and I hate when people insist they're better for EVERYTHING

[230RN]

Started out with Apple 2e (and a g) simply because Apple had donated a bunch of machines to the local school district and I wanted to have a compatible machine at home for the kids.  I later saw the trend to 8000 processors and bought my first PC (A Xerox with an LCD monitor) from my then to be wife just to get familiar with it.  Liked the 8000 series processors better than the 6500, simply because I seemed to have a mental block about the 6500's paging system.  Took a course in 8000 assembly language and played around a lot with an 8085 "SDK-85" (Systems Development Kit).

Just never ventured back to Apple stuff, even when the Mac came out.

Still have a functioning (con drives, green monitor, some literature) 2e and a 2g sitting in storage.  Boat anchors, anyone?

So I guess I'm a PC-er, not by Devotion, but by sheer Practicality. 

Terry, 230RN

[RoadKingLarry]

I feel forgotten, no mention of Commodore 64 users at all.

[Ben]

What PC (or Mac) people listen to the Rachel Maddow Show?

[Hawkmoon]

Core demographics:

• I'm far outside of BOTH age ranges. 
• I'm fiscally and politically conservative, socially [somewhat]liberal
• I have a post-graduate, professional degree

Personality: I have none (so I've been told)

• I don't fit in with anyone, anywhere
• I never throw parties
• Random people are ... random
• My math and verbal aptitudes are equally high

Fashion, etc.:

• I hate impressionist art
• My style is "preppy/redneck"
• My motorcycles were all Hondas

Food & Drink:

• I crave both chocolate and potato chips
• Diet Coke/Pepsi/store brand for the win
• McDouble or Whopper Junior
• I don't imbibe "spirits"
• I also rarely touch wine

Technology:

• Both companies built their personal computing on technology bought, licensed or stolen from outsde sources, so who cares?
• Neither platform today has anything to do with "language." They're both about which pretty picture you click to blow up whatever you've just worked on for a week. Draw.
• I had "adopted" the PC platform before the Mac existed.

Media:

• Don't read either the NYT or USA Yesterday
• I don't watch television
• I don't go to movies (or rent DVDs)
• I don't watch television
• I don't watch television
• I don't watch television
• Science fiction (Anne McCaffrey)
• Shooting Times

Overall, it seems clear that I don't belong in either "demographic," yet I use PCs and loathe Macs. Basically, it all comes down to "Whatever you learn first is what you consider 'intuitive.'" I learned the PC back during the days of PC-DOS (later MS-DOS). Macs don't make any sense to me whatsoever, and it has little to do with whether I prefer Pinot Noir or Bud Lite.

[Brad Johnson]

A couple years old and outdated, but still funny as heck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAGmBRC1dc

*Langauge Warning*

Brad

[zahc]

I haven't run Windows since 2006. I don't have macs either; I use desktop linux. When I have to use Windows it's like a quaint blast from the past. It's really a toy operating system. If I could just get a Linux Steam client, I'd really have it made.