Apple Vs. Microsoft - Competition?

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

I've seriously come across Apple owners who cannot get it into their head that they do NOT have 120GB of system memory. A PC owner, at least in general, you know, would be like "oh, I see the difference now."

I take it that in the impenetrable bastion of high society that you live in EVERY PC owner you know is actually a computer scientist? Both sides of this "battle" have their share of fucking morons and you know it.

I love how you generalized every Mac owner based on the experiences of you running into the yuppie coffee shop "revolutionaries" of the world BUT WAIT you somehow managed to try to save face by including the one "well-informed" cat you know who owns a Mac.



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Uh, what exactly makes graphic and video manipulation so much better on Macs compared to PCs?

Apple engineered the Macintosh computer from the ground up to be a color-matching machine. Their Apple Color System is still pretty much industry standard in the graphics world and, when comparing the two platforms for font and color processing (usually PostScript), the Apple machines have the upper hand. The way all fonts are handled on my Mac trumps any font manipulation software I've ever used on PC and, provided I calibrate the Mac's monitor to the printer profile, I will always print what I see on screen. With PCs I can't even two monitors connected to the same computer to match colors from one to the other. This always severely fucks up my proofs because nothing prints the way I want it to. That's why I still have my Mac and I only use it explicitly for graphics. The PC is what I use to do my daily online chores.

But, for the record, both work just fine. PCs are no better or worse for daily use if you know how to take care of them.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

They're ignoring Apple because they still have 97% of the market.

92%.

Originally Posted by Syndrome

That is so 1999. Really, a hardware firewall (built in in almost every router today) does the job just fine.

Doesn't stop your average computer company from shipping a 30-day trial of the latest and greatest version of Symantec's Internet Security or something along those lines.

See, you and I both know that the majority of problems that can be contracted from the big scary internet can be nipped right at the entrance point. Yet almost every major computer manufacturer ships a third party anti-virus (an admittedly essential piece) AND some kind of personal firewall software (almost completely useless if you have even a basic router) with their computers, which you're encouraged to buy under pain of ad-infinitum virus attacks.

Each market fights as dirty as the other in order to gain or maintain their market share, people. The bashing of Apple on PCs and vice versa is kind of a joyride for me now. I know what I'm comfortable using and no marketing machine is going to sway that comfort.

There's nowhere I can't reach.