True, but McDonald’s only has about a 4.3% (20b US/481b US, 2001) share of the Food and Beverage sales in the U.S. Sort of like the 3.2% Mac PC share in the U.S.
And yet another Mac / PC poll devolves into a throwdown.
never saw that coming…
This is my first reply to my own thread since I first posted it.
It’s funny how it’s only PC fans who start getting super-critical and blinkered, but maybe that’s just becasue there are a lot more PC users so you’re more likely to get assholes posting.
Anyway, this doesnt have to be a poll, I never said it was when i started the topic, feel free to argue away - arguments can be interesting too!
Linux on used computers.
Best Buy!
Check the Jan 1983 BYTE for benchmarks. A 300 MHz machine is about equal to a 1980 mainframe.
Dal Timgar
Translation, please?
Not if you have a bit of knowledge and common sense. I’m on the net nearly every day, don’t run any anti-virus software regularly (and on the rare occasions I do (like 2-3 times a year) it’s never found anything anyway). Spyware, I basically run the anti-spyware stuff once every blue moon, and pretty much all I ever find in there is cookies from ad sites (big whoop!). The only actual spyware I’ve had to remove was something that came with some version of Kazaa or Morpheus, and even then I knew it had it beforehand which is what I got Ad-Aware for in the first place.
As for what am I doing right that so many other people are doing wrong? Well, for the first thing, I don’t use Outlook (or Outlook Express) for e-mail. That’s just asking for trouble. Next, I don’t run programs that I can’t trust. I get them from the official site when possible, or reputable ones when not. I use Kazaa for media, but no way in hell would I use it for executable programs. Nuh uh. Those would be the biggies in how I stay virus free. Spyware, I just don’t use programs that have it (except the one aforementioned Kazaa/Morpheus version which I fixed immediately afterwards.)
Oh, and get this, I never run security patches either. Never once even been to Windows Update. 
As for PC vs Mac, I use PC’s and loathe Macs because my dad has one and when something goes wrong he expects me to be able to fix it. Something I commonly say sarcastically in response “but I thought Macs were supposed to be so easy to use, how could you have a problem?” Then I try to fix it and usually wind up giving up in disgust because I can’t figure out how to do much more than curse at the screen or the friggin one button mouse (and I have a degree in Computer Science!) leaving him to wait and call one of his “expert” friends (one of whom once caused my dad’s HD to corrupt just by running a defrag on it, something like that’s never ever happened to me on my PC). Macs are only easy to use if they are what you are used to.
Bottom line, Macs have nothing over PC’s other than if you’re in a business/industry/other setting where that’s what’s being used, then yeah, that’s what you should use. Use what the people around you are going to be using. If it doesn’t matter, just use what you like.
SuSE Linux, here. Fits my needs.
Oh, and bless Id and Epic Megagames for supporting Linux. I’m thinking of getting a new video card for UT2004.
I don’t run antivirus software on my Mac, at all.
I don’t run any antispyware apps on my Mac, at all.
I don’t need to use Ad-Aware for my Mac, at all.
I don’t have to worry about what email program to use on my Mac. They’re all safe from viruses. I don’t have to be selective about email apps.
I don’t have to worry about that particular brand of trouble on my Mac.
I rarely worry about not trusting programs when I’m on my Mac.
I don’t worry about any of that when I’m on my Mac.
I’m not trying to do a snotty, “My Mac is better” line, I’m just saying that all these caveats and cautions you must take on your PC don’t really exist on the Mac. :shrug: You take all these cautions for granted, but I don’t have to. Maybe that’s why I like my Mac. Maybe that’s something that a lot of Mac people find preferable about Macs.
Not that I am expecting you to like Macs. But perhaps one of the things that a Mac “has over” a PC (your words) is that we don’t have to worry about all the things that you mentioned above. Just a thought.
How much hands-on experience have you had with working with the same OS that your dad’s Mac is running? Do you have some thick Mac Fixit books? I do. I don’t have a degree in computers and for the most part I’m a newbie, but I’ve managed so far to get myself out of the few Mac woes I’ve had. The books really help. I have thick Windows XP books too. They help me as well.
Anyway, I’m sure every person who has tried to fix a PC when they didn’t have the proper experience or background on the OS also hated PCs. So what does that prove, exactly?
Once again, I use a PC and I actually kind of like my PC, so I’m not speaking out of blind hatred or ignorance of PCs. I just think that a lot of people who “loathe” Macs don’t have hours and hours and hours of experience on them. I also think that there are people who “loathe” Macs because they used OS 8 or 9 and didn’t like it. They aren’t really credible either, since we’re already up to OS 10.3. Of course I have no idea if any of this applies to you—I’m just sayin’.
And I agree with you—everyone should use what they like. That’s the bottom line.
Next time you people want to start another religious debate, do it in Great Debates. :rolleyes:
Lockdown.