me? iMac!!

i have both

my laptop is a mac and my desktop is a pc

Macs are good, but prefer my pc because I don't have to worry if something is compatible or not....

Me - Dell Desktop.

Current macs differ from PC's only in their OS. You can with a some minor hackery run OSX on most modern PC's. I have an emac and custom built pc and few laptops in various states of operation laying around.

I don't see it that way.

I work with both, and I truly hate the time I have to spend on Macs. I haven't seen anything so illogical and plain dumb.

If I had to choose the characters for this cartoon, I would put a corporate guy for pc. Clean, nice, reasonable, knowledgeable. But, not a genus.

For a mac, I would put a hippie, dumb and dirty t-shirt, tattoos, ponytail, may-be even a mullet. Complete lack of common sense, any kind of knowledge. Cannot spell. Smokes dope. Has no plan. Lives in a trailer. Works as a prison guard. But, fun to be with, even if due to his complete lack of any usefulness.

That overweight guy? He is Microsoft, not PC. PC is free platform, unlike the mac, played by a hip guy. There is no freedom with mac.

i hate those commercials.

Macs are too expensive and they seem impractical. I suppose if you are working with graphics and video editing etc.. then a Mac is better? What do people feel are applications that a Mac is better suited for as opposed to a PC?

I think it's like the big three auto company question, it's a matter of which fits your particular needs, aptitudes and aesthetic preferences.
I own both, I prefer the Macs.

Exactly. That's what I was eluding to by applications. How I have it explained to me is Macs tend to be aesthetically more pleasing so if your goal is to be working with graphics, then probably the Mac investment is worthwhile. I could be wrong though so thats why Im asking. Im thinking of going HP on my next computer but I have not decided. A friend of mine got an HP and he is thrilled with it.

mac=refined linux distro.. personally never seen a mullet behind a keyboard, but perhaps my personali experience is limited....

Especially the installer. How f-ing stupid do they think their users are? Double clicking on it is not enough, no you must drag the icon over to the install side.

mac - crash uniquely

I have the iMac. I have had pc's and can and do work on them. But for all you non believers of Macs....it's okay, to each his own. Mac can also run windows and works pretty well. So when I tire of the simplicity of my Mac (never) I switch over to my windows platform (very rarely) when someone emails me a project on Publisher and become !!!!!!

Yes they are expensive, but I believe well worth it!

I have gone full circle.
I started on Apple IIe, then went to a variety of gaming computers C64/Spectrum then finally landed on an IBM lump-top!
Worked with every sort of pc in between that and my current laptop/desktop

I hate Vista and loved Windows 98SE

Now I have a MacBook as well.

The thing I like more than anything else about the Mac is the power output of the wireless adapter.
I can find many more networks to "borrow" from on my Mac than I can on my pc.

Having said that, its only a machine and if you know what you are doing with it, the Mac is just as good as the pc at everything and much better than the pc than others!

An interesting thought, thanks, Frenchfry.

Simplicity.

Mac has that, for sure. A question is, however, is simplicity a concept on which a computer should be judged?

IMHO, no.

Like I noted above, sometimes I have to work either on a Mac or a PC (at work). And you know the reason we have Macs? Just to open a customer project! As soon as that is accomplished, we move it onto a real computer (PC), and the real work begins.

None of our graphic designers actually do work on Macs! They all came from Mac, but once they discover what a PC can do, they switch to PC and stay with it.

However, there is a place for simplicity. Macs are good for people who just don't get the computers. There are people like that. I have a relative, and that girl just doesn't get it with PC. "Too complicated".
She doesn't understand the idea that on PC, anything can be done, and can't seem to explore it on her own. I haven't built a mac for her, but am thinking about it.

Once she's gone through the kindergarten stage of computing (MAC), may-be it will be easier to understand how a real machine (with more than one big button on a soap bar mouse) does it.

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And again, I see that a lot of people mix Microsoft windows and PC. Those are two different things. PC runs anything, even mac OC. There is a world of parts to build a PC, a million approaches, processors, and OSes, compare that with Nazism of Apple!