Comments on: Mac vs PC? Be Honest

By: Jacob W

Jacob W — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:02:44 +0000

I use PCs and Macs on a daily basis. I am a 17 yr old programmer. At home I mainly use PCs with a Mac server for compatibility testing. While at school however, I use Macs for my Yearbook class for design and picture editing. PCs are great for their customization and the .NET framework. I have tons of compilers and editing environments that I can use for programming. They range from Dev-CPP to Visual CPP to Notepad++. I’m very limited on a Mac and am not a huge fan of XCode. However, I do like being able to sit down and just start working on my pictures and design projects without any hassle. I can sit down, connect to the server we use and get to work. They’re both good, but for different things.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:02:30 +0000

Hi, I’m 14 and growing up to be a web designer and graphics designer. I own a PC and use it everyday (that is not a joke) because I cannot live without dreamweaver and photoshop. I am seriously considering getting a macbook, but it will take me about a year on a paperound:
52 Wks, £15 a month = £780
But if I do a double paperound earning £30 quid a week then I might get there sooner.
PC sucks.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:45:24 +0000

I switched to Mac about a year ago… Just a regular white MacBook. But I must say, I’ve never had a better computer. Of course, there a things I miss from Windows (but not many), as for instance the cut function in Finder. But it’s things you can get used to. OS X has a way better interface, once you get used to it, you can tell it’s a lot more user minded than XP. So I love my Mac, and I’ll never turn back. But that doesn’t mean I’m gonna start a war with Windows users. I like OS X, they like XP, and that’s it.

By: Phill

Phill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:06:26 +0000

As a graphic designer for a University in the UK, I use a iMac all day. I find the iMac very useful because I can run dual boot, thus allowing me both platforms for testing and also I can access software for both windows and OSX.

However, I have a PC at home, top spec with 30″ Dell 3007wfp and find it much much faster then the 24″ iMac.

When I say faster, im talking about all aspects of useage; design, gaming, browsing the web… The PC at home cost quite a bit less then my 24″ iMac and thats with a 30″ screen.

For me, if its my money, I would buy PC all day long, if im at work and someone else is paying, apple all day long.

Good article, I am also pretty sick of reading fan boy blogs. Use whatever suits you best and respect that different options suit different people to yourself.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:09:21 +0000

@Design Pixi:
I have SVN set up on my mac and collaborate with our programmer in the office and share files through our rep quite easily and hassle free. The Mac solution is not as good as Tortoise but it gets the job done. Look into http://scplugin.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
Funny how everyone is switching to Mac. I must admint that since switching to my MPB 17″ about a year ago I have been more productive and I have a new found love for some of the things that became “every-day-tasks”. I am a web designer/developer and I use Textmate every day. Some of the features I love about the Mac OS X is the clean and useable inteface (read: sexy) and how it handles PDF’s natively. Automator has enabled me to do some funky things that I would have battled to do on my Win machine or I would have had to purchase software to do so. Being a web designer and coder I often have to re-visit good ol Win for x-browser testing and for this I run Paralells on a seperate boot partition so I can either run Win whilst in OS X or I can boot into Win to play some of my Fav games, like Neverwinter Nights. My MPB is a truly revolutionary piece of quality hardware and worth every penny. It travells with me everywhere I go and works all day long (at home and at the office) and it still looks as good as the day I gought it.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:09:40 +0000

Mac rules windows sucks!!! just kidding :)

I switched to macbook pro about a year ago, I am a designer and coder and what really won it for me was some of the amazing software that is only available on mac. Coda for example is a program I use daily.

I also find the mac interface a lot nicer to work with.

I do still have a windows pc that I use occasionally but only for personal things like gaming.

By: Rogie

Rogie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:07:58 +0000

I am really liking the honest opinions expressed here. It’s really nice to hear real stories from real people, rather than the fabricated/filtered ones from ads and from Microsoft or Apple.

It seems pretty overwhelming that most people that read this blog feel that OSX is superior to Vista/XP, however this is a design blog and tends to bring a certain sort of people if you know what I mean.

I’d really love to hear a success story of a PC user that loves using maybe a VoodooPC or some sort of laptop and the set of application that he/she uses on a daily basis.

Thanks @all for all the great conversation.

By: Tony El Batal

Tony El Batal — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:24:09 +0000

Well, I’ve been using PC and Windows for 14 years now, but this year I switched to MacBook Pro 17. Well what I can simply say is, Apple knows what they are doing. They listen to what people wants in an OS and a computer. I never use Windows anymore, expect at work. And I am convincing them to get some iMacs here. The OS is simply simple, all the features you need are there. Also, the MacBook is really of excellent hardware quality, unlike my 2 old toshibas. Great work Apple. I also own an iPhone (owned it before the MacBook Pro) and it’s a stunning phone too.

By: Design Pixi

Design Pixi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:28:59 +0000

@fssalaska: AGREED.

I switched to a Mac back in November of ‘07. The reason being? My HP laptop stopped booting and my warranty ran out.

I did NOT want to make the switch since I knew there would be some time required to learn the OS (it took me 2 days), lack of gaming (though I’m too old play), and minimal support for Windows applications (which I later found work a rounds).

I am happy that I made the switch (wonder why I hadn’t made it earlier). I am a developer so I knew that there were going to be some things that I will not be able to use on my Mac. Boy was I wrong! Textmate = BFF.

I guess the only reason for me to use Vista or XP are company applications like TortoiseSVN and Outlook (Entourage is still not there yet).

By: fssalaska

fssalaska — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:25:42 +0000

I switched to Mac, as a gamer it was hard but I’m not homosexual and Vista is ! So it was time for me and Winblows to part ways.

I love my Mac Pro no problems ” EVER ”
Once you go Mac you never go back, baby !