Do You Use A Mac Or A PC As Your Personal Home Computer?
Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out in the wild, it is time, once again, to take stock of the state of home computing. That is to say, are you using a Mac or a PC?
Before you answer the poll, keep this in mind: work machines don’t count. Presumably, you made a personal choice between a Mac or a PC for your private compute — and that is the one we want to know about.
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I chose MAC and i will never go back
I changed to Mac about 18months ago. It took me some time to adapt to the change.
I am not closed to the idea of Windows 7. But it will be hard to beat how easy I find Leopard. Everything just works. With XP and Vista everything was about workarounds and fiddling to make things operate properly.
Both operating systems are great in my experience. I use PC — Windows 7, and of course with more flexibility comes more complications :P But whenever I use a Mac I certainly notice the lack of options and features which I had come to expect with Windows. Take the lack of a maximise button/shortcut, for example.
Their windows don’t maximise, people!!!!
I’m running a sweet combo on my Macbook Pro, Snow Leopard and then Windows 7 in Parallels. Best of both worlds in one machine.
Im a PC…. but I do also have a Macbook BUT i run Windows pretty much exclusivly on it.
Before you PC people freek out, i wanted the form factor. OSX is not fun at all
Lol. This is the first I’ve heard. Normally people would be doing the opposite – hackintoshing
We are getting lots of request to sell Macs with Windows 7 to replace OSX. People like the mac but don’t want to leave the familiar environment
heh, I find it hard to believe that people with the knowledge and perseverance to tweak and hack a hackintosh into working are MAC people…
@aaron Browning
You need to install this on Mac OS X:
http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/make-the-os-x-maximize-button-work-like-windows/
I hate this about Mac also after switching from a PC after 10 years – now I just have both.
So where’s the Win and Linux option, eh?
If you use either of those, I would suggest that you pick the PC option…
PC, and that’s how it will stay.
All 3, all the time
I run a hackintosh.. ideally i’d want a mac pro but that is way out of my budget..
it took me a week to setup & figure out what was going on, but now I have a 3ghz core2duo w/4 gig ram, & running a HD4850 GPU (fully supported in 10.6.1) & running 64bit version of osX.
I am suprised @ how smooth, stable & fast my hackintosh is. It feels just like a mac pro but only cost me $700 au to build!!
PC for myself. My friends, who are all mac fanboys, come off as pretentious gits who critisice every PC owner and constantly refer to Steve Jobs as an adonis. I hope they are reading this too. Idiots.
I bought a macbook pro hoping to jump on the bandwagon.. i too love the form factor and the sturdy design.. but OS X blows compared to windows 7 (after making it pretty by changing icons).. I run bootcamp and i haven’t gone back to OS X even once in the last 3 months. I also find windows 7 more stable on the mac than OS X.. i would get weird firefox crashes where i couldn’t even force-quit things.. not being able to automatically arrange icons on window resize is a total deal-breaker for OSX.. what a waste of time, constantly cleaning up your icons.. as if i need something to drop exactly where i drag it in a folder ?
lame. I wish win 7 had the drag file over folder to follow into subdirectories thing.. (it does but only for sidebar shortcuts, no general browsing)
I use PC, but I will never spend that much money on a Mac when I can get something better for much less. You know, I wouldn’t mind trying OSX. It’s reasonably priced and everything and I would try it but I run AMD. And I can’t download an AMD version because I don’t have that much internet usage/month.
So I reckon if Apple would just support more hardware, then they would make a load more money because more people would actually buy their OS.
My thoughts exactly.
OSX looks nice and all, and it’s great that Apple “allow” users to install Windows on Macs, but there’s no way that I’m shelling out two grand for hardware that, disregarding form factor, is identical to Windows PCs just for the “privelege” of using OSX. Maybe if Apple add more hardware support and allow OSX to be installed on any hardware, I’ll think about picking it up.
Got my first Macbook two weeks ago, also been running windows 7 on home hardware for a while.
I have to say I like them both, it’s a hard call to say one is better, they both have good qualities.
However I’m thinking of merging my home and work computing into the same hardware. MAC OSX for pleasure & my windows 7 VM running in Fusion for work. It’s built and ready to go, fully tested…just need to bite the bullet & migrate from my work provided x61.
Should I or should I not!
I have a Mac and a PC and enjoy both for different reasons. I do find that the Mac behaves in the same way as a PC and the Apple advertising is just plain lies. My Mac has crashed, closed down programs with no recovery and lost the network. Go on the newsgroups and you will see all the problems Macs have. If I had to choose it would be a PC for me as it allows me to tinker. I am in control whereas on the Mac I don’t have that same freedom.
PC here, at work and for play and i have no ambition to change, mac offer’s me nothing i want, i enjoy tweaking and changing things, not getting them dictated to me.
Guys, it’s not MAC, it’s Mac. Why does it have to be yelled?
person 1: “Oh yeah, i used to use WINDOWS on a DELL but now i use a MAC!”
person 2: “dude i’m right here why are you yelling?”
I’m sorry, but this pole only shows the type of users that read Gizmodo, nothing more…
and by the way, I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea :P
I used a MBP for about six months, then escaped back to PC world.
I’m a Mac and my idea for Windows 7 is to laugh at it.
Typical