Windows 7

[Dark_Prophecy]

HP

FOUND IT!

That made my day.

[Miyabi]

I'm glad someone enjoyed it. ha ha.  I was beginning to think no one either got it or liked it.

[Dark_Prophecy]

I'm glad someone enjoyed it. ha ha.  I was beginning to think no one either got it or liked it.

I don't think I'm a fan of any one type of computer over another, really. I've only owned a Dell and a Gateway, though, and they've both worked wonderfully, so I've got no complaints. My grandfather owned a HP way back in the day though, and that thing must have been leprous. Things were practically falling out of the case within a few weeks.

[mtlhddoc2]

I am a fan of whoever makes good computers at any given time. Dell has been tops for about 5 years now, but only for desktops. Gateway, in my opinion, reigns supreme on the netbook side. IBM for laptops (Lenovo, really).

But each manufacturer has models to stay away from, of course, like with Dell, stay far far away from the Optiplex. But Inspirons are fantastic.

[zas678]

mac......

I only say that because Customer Support is much much better than any Windows. But that's just my experience. And, truth be told, my Mac has had as many troubles as my Windows computers have had, only Mac was easier to fix.

[Miyabi]

There's also the fact that Mac can run twice as fast on half the hardware as a Windows machine.

[Silk]

mac......

I only say that because Customer Support is much much better than any Windows. But that's just my experience. And, truth be told, my Mac has had as many troubles as my Windows computers have had, only Mac was easier to fix.

You must have called their tech support when I wasn't working there.

[mtlhddoc2]

There's also the fact that Mac can run twice as fast on half the hardware as a Windows machine.

Thats just hilarious! Macs are no faster, no sturdier, no safer, yet cost 4 times as much. The one thing MACs do better is video and 3D image resolution. And that is pretty much it.

[Miyabi]

There's also the fact that Mac can run twice as fast on half the hardware as a Windows machine.

Thats just hilarious! Macs are no faster, no sturdier, no safer, yet cost 4 times as much. The one thing MACs do better is video and 3D image resolution. And that is pretty much it.

I've ran a fresh install of a Windows machine and a Mac machine with pretty close to the same software, the Windows machine had a bit better of a graphics card.  The Mac machine ran everything faster.

Mac doesn't run 10 million background programs that are necessary like Windows does, it IS faster.

[mtlhddoc2]

I promise you, I can get them equal. windows does not need all those background programs either, they are dunped on their by the specific manufacturer. I can actually get an OLDER WinXP machine to perform better (not graphics) than a brand new Snow Leopard Mac.

I support, in a corporate environment, 15,000 PCs running XP, and 1,000 Macs (split between Leopard and Snow Leopard). On average, I get more Mac calls than PC calls. And I would say 50% of the Mac calls, the OS has to be reinstalled. and sadly, the Mac users are more saavy than the PC users, so it is rare for a Mac user to call up with a simple reboot issue.

[Miyabi]

I never said it wasn't possible, I'm just saying out of the box Mac runs faster. 

[mtlhddoc2]

well, again, that is assuming you are comparing it to a specific manufacturer and they have the same specs, which is pretty much impossible. My 1 year old "Out of the box" Dell here at work (a crappy Optiplex) completely blows away my brand new "out of the box" Snow Leopard machine. the specs are close, the Mac processor is slightly "faster". But download speeds? The Dell by a mile, internet page loading? With java: Dell, without Java: Mac. Zipping files: Dell. Saving to network: Dell. completely useless applications: Mac wins every time. Word processing, spreadsheets, databases, email, and anything else useful: Dell.

[Eerongal]

well, again, that is assuming you are comparing it to a specific manufacturer and they have the same specs, which is pretty much impossible. My 1 year old "Out of the box" Dell here at work (a crappy Optiplex) completely blows away my brand new "out of the box" Snow Leopard machine. the specs are close, the Mac processor is slightly "faster". But download speeds? The Dell by a mile, internet page loading? With java: Dell, without Java: Mac. Zipping files: Dell. Saving to network: Dell. completely useless applications: Mac wins every time. Word processing, spreadsheets, databases, email, and anything else useful: Dell.

Yeah, it's been my experience that "what's better, windows or mac" is a hit and miss sort of scenario. Lots of variable factors that make each experience different.

Though, i do find most of apple's claims in their ads to be rather...false. Especially the "Just works" ones. Every experience i've had with someone having a mac, it seems like they've had way more problems than a windows PC (except, of course, when windows ME was the big thing, then windows had way way WAYYY more problems.)

[mtlhddoc2]

well, Me was an incredible bomb, far beyond what Vista was. At least Vista worked. ME didnt work for anything lol. But I would put XP or 7 up against Leopard and Snow Leopard any day of the week. Plus, you also have to consider cost.

My Dell Inspiron at home is a fantastic computer, barely 2 years old now, and cost me only $500 flat out. A new Mac woul d have cost at least $1500 at that time.

5 weeks ago, I bought my wife a Gateway mini-netbook for $350 2.6ghz processor, 4gb SD ram, 250 GB hard drive. A Mac-mini starts at $600 with about half those specs. to match the specs, you need to spring $800. (yes, i did a straigtht up camparison on the Apple site).

Plus, windows is hardware portable, Mac OS is not. I can load windows on a Mac machine, but cannot load MAC on a windows machine (at least, not easily).

[Eerongal]

well, Me was an incredible bomb, far beyond what Vista was. At least Vista worked. ME didnt work for anything lol. But I would put XP or 7 up against Leopard and Snow Leopard any day of the week. Plus, you also have to consider cost.

Oh yeah, you don't have to tell me that twice. I had ME for four years before i finally broke down and picked up XP

My Dell Inspiron at home is a fantastic computer, barely 2 years old now, and cost me only $500 flat out. A new Mac woul d have cost at least $1500 at that time.

5 weeks ago, I bought my wife a Gateway mini-netbook for $350 2.6ghz processor, 4gb SD ram, 250 GB hard drive. A Mac-mini starts at $600 with about half those specs. to match the specs, you need to spring $800. (yes, i did a straigtht up camparison on the Apple site).

Plus, windows is hardware portable, Mac OS is not. I can load windows on a Mac machine, but cannot load MAC on a windows machine (at least, not easily).

I saw an article a while back, just before 7 released, talking about PC cost vs. Mac Costs, and apparently mac, just the OS, comes out to costing more over time because of the constant stream of upgraded versions compared to windows. Because windows versions are fewer and far between, but cost quite a bit more.