PC or Mac?

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Which do you own?

I just bought an iMac today.

No button for both!
I have 2 Macs and 1 and lots of bits of PC

I currently have my MacBook.
I gave our old iMac away to my daughter's school band, along with a nice scanner that won't work with my MacBook (intel vs notel ).

I also own a Dell Latitude laptop that I want to get Ubuntu working on but I'm having significant trouble with it.

My daughter has some IBM clone at her mother's house and I got her a MacBook last year.

Macs are way more expensive. Why would you buy them over IBM compatables?

Guess what, if you figure in how much time you save and how good Apple support is, Macs are very competitive in cost. Also, Macs include lots of "extras" that PCs don't. Too often I've talked to a PC owner who had to pay for extra support to install equipment my Mac came with.

BTW, why would anyone buy a BMW when other cars are so much cheaper?

I run Windows vista ON my Mac!

Bootcamp is nice, for when you absolutely, positively, have to run windows!

I refer to it as running degrader software.

In a perfect word, I'd be using my Amiga 4000!


Gee, if BMW wanted to sell more cars, they should be cheaper. But I doubt that's their goal!

MacBook user here. I like being able to have a computer and know that it will actually work without a lot of trouble from myself.

linux on laptop here.

i also briefly use Windows/Mac at work too but im 99% linux on cheap hardware

3 PC's. One's a basket case, another is a Linux box, and my main computer ( Dual core centrino notebook) is currently a PC, though I've been contemplating on turning it into a Hackintosh. (OSX on Generic PC Hardware)

Never used a Mac, but I've always heard wonderful things about them from those who do. Used a Linux system at a job several years back and was greatly impressed that the entire time I was there (nearly two years), whil I had to reinstall my Windows OS at home twice, the Linux sys at work never, ever crashed, or even hiccuped. Not once.

When this machine goes, I will definitely replace it with anything other than a Microsoft OS.

*a nasty emachines pc,celeron based,is old,one extra hard drive added,dual boot.
*a TINY pc,when 64 bit amd processors first came out,though soon found out the graphics card was rubbish,tripple booting.
*a Acer Travelmate laptop,great laptop,only had it working from august last year till february,and it got electrecuted during a meltdown.had vista premium.
*a toshiba equium laptop,even greater laptop,but vista premium...

am would like to add a voodoo laptop to the list some time.

Umm... just so you know, a mac IS a pc...

True.....
My Commodore 64C actually says Personal Computer on it.

A more accurate description would be :

Windows or Mac OS

But the term PC has replaced IBM compatible as the way of classifying a device that runs MS-DOS and/or Windows

Yeah, considering that IBM doesn't really make computers anymore.

MAC. MAC MAC. MAC MAC MAC.

If it looks like a MAC and quacks like a MAC then its a MAC.

MAC PowerBook G4 user here. It is my friend.

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I can agree that "IBM compatible" is a dead term, but to replace it with "PC" to refer only to Microsoft is a misnomer that Apple is shoving down all our throats, and I'm getting sick of it...

To be honest I just go by the kernel of the OS on the system and say "Microsoft", "Mac", and "Linux". (If you want to get really technical you can add Solaris and BSD to the list.)

Just about every desktop and server OS active today (including mac) runs on x86 architecture, so technically they're all still "PC"... Mac used to have an argument to not be called PC's when they were on different architecture, but since they started using intels they don't even have that argument anymore...

For the thread I spawned of this association: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt62965.html