PC or Mac?

Mykonos · 01-29-2012, 11:43 AM

I never got the whole 'more user-friendly' argument either. If anything Macs are an absolute nightmare to try and use. I normally don't pick sides on the Apple vs Everyone Else argument but in my multiple attempts at trying to put up with Macs I've never found one advantage of them over PCs so I'm fully behind Microsoft.

**Janszoon** · 01-29-2012, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mykonos

I never got the whole 'more user-friendly' argument either. If anything Macs are an absolute nightmare to try and use.

How so?

CanwllCorfe · 01-30-2012, 05:12 PM

I'm wondering the same thing.

Zer0 · 01-30-2012, 06:08 PM

I've started using a Mac in work recently and I find it really awkward to use compared to a PC. OSX is one thing but there's other things like the keyboard arrangement and Apple's bloody software restrictions that irritate me. I guess they're not too bad once you get used to them but it's going to take some getting used to.

**Janszoon** · 01-30-2012, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

I've started using a Mac in work recently and I find it really awkward to use compared to a PC. OSX is one thing but there's other things like the keyboard arrangement and Apple's bloody software restrictions that irritate me. I guess they're not too bad once you get used to them but it's going to take some getting used to.

I can understand complaints about something like software restrictions, but the keyboard? It's not that different from the IBM-style and it's been the way it is for decades.

Zer0 · 01-31-2012, 02:32 AM

Well it's not as if the keyboard is completely back-to-front either, although that would be fun. But what the hell is this 'cmd' button?? I want my ctrl+v godammit.

Freebase Dali · 01-31-2012, 07:04 AM

I'm actually taking a mac class this semester, and we're all using Macbook Pros. There isn't really anything hard about them once you figure out all the gestures. Quite easy, in fact. But the level of control is something a PC user like me (especially an IT guy) might find off-putting.
One thing I do like about Macs are their apparent ease of integration into things like file-sharing with a PC, which requires nothing more than choosing to share files and enabling SMB so it can talk to PCs. On the PC side, however, there's a crap load of stuff you have to do to even be able to see a Mac on the network.

I Successfully joined a Mac to a PC-based domain in Active Directory, and 90 percent of the headache was wrestling with the domain controller and its security policies, whereas the Mac was ready to go in a few steps. So there's that.

**Janszoon** · 01-31-2012, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

Well it's not as if the keyboard is completely back-to-front either, although that would be fun. But what the hell is this 'cmd' button?? I want my ctrl+v godammit.

I'll tell you what the cmd button is: It's your best friend if you want to start using keyboard shortcuts on a Mac.

Zer0 · 02-04-2012, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I'll tell you what the cmd button is: It's your best friend if you want to start using keyboard shortcuts on a Mac.

After much clicking and shortcutting I have come to the conclusion that it is a nice little button. It still bugs me though when I go to copy something and I go ctrl+c instead of cmd+c, I'll get used to it eventually.

Continuing with the whole PC vs Mac debate here's a picture that made me lul. Okay it's not correct but it's funny all the same.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-04-2012, 04:55 PM

The Hadron Collider didn't work for over a year though.

*insert joke here mac fans*

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01-29-2012, 11:43 AM	#361 (permalink)
Mykonos AWhatup Ganache? Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 381	I never got the whole 'more user-friendly' argument either. If anything Macs are an absolute nightmare to try and use. I normally don't pick sides on the Apple vs Everyone Else argument but in my multiple attempts at trying to put up with Macs I've never found one advantage of them over PCs so I'm fully behind Microsoft. __________________ 'Not that Becktionary, the Rhyming Becktionary!'- Bender Bending Rodriguez

01-30-2012, 05:12 PM	#363 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	I'm wondering the same thing. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

01-30-2012, 06:08 PM	#364 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	I've started using a Mac in work recently and I find it really awkward to use compared to a PC. OSX is one thing but there's other things like the keyboard arrangement and Apple's bloody software restrictions that irritate me. I guess they're not too bad once you get used to them but it's going to take some getting used to. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

01-31-2012, 02:32 AM	#366 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	Well it's not as if the keyboard is completely back-to-front either, although that would be fun. But what the hell is this 'cmd' button?? I want my ctrl+v godammit. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

01-31-2012, 07:04 AM	#367 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	I'm actually taking a mac class this semester, and we're all using Macbook Pros. There isn't really anything hard about them once you figure out all the gestures. Quite easy, in fact. But the level of control is something a PC user like me (especially an IT guy) might find off-putting. One thing I do like about Macs are their apparent ease of integration into things like file-sharing with a PC, which requires nothing more than choosing to share files and enabling SMB so it can talk to PCs. On the PC side, however, there's a crap load of stuff you have to do to even be able to see a Mac on the network. I Successfully joined a Mac to a PC-based domain in Active Directory, and 90 percent of the headache was wrestling with the domain controller and its security policies, whereas the Mac was ready to go in a few steps. So there's that. __________________

02-04-2012, 04:55 PM	#370 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	The Hadron Collider didn't work for over a year though. insert joke here mac fans __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.