Originally Posted by Ishio
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This is so wrong on so many levels. Not everyone who buys a mac thinks OMG i am so leet with my mac, and you are so ghey with your PC. Why are Mac's better in ways, and I am firm on the "in ways," is that they are a more stable computer. The operating system is more stable in so many ways it's not even funny. I own a MacBook Pro, AND a custom Gaming Windows 7 Desktop machine. I use my Macbook for school, as the battery gets me up to 7 hours of life. Also for gaming it does very well with bootcamp. My desktop, I use to play graphic intensive games like Fallout New Vegas. I don't wish to warp and burn my motherboard on my laptop so I don't game heavily on it.
Generally since I can dual boot, OSX and Windows 7 on my mac (something PC's can't do easily), I was able to run some tests for my own knowledge. First off, boot times from a cold start, OSX is up in 40seconds. Windows 7, 1min 30. iTunes opens up in OSX in about 10s while in Windows 7, it opens in 24s. Steam opens in about 14s in OSX and 38s in Windows 7. World of Warcraft, I used this because I can't run the same EQ client in both games and it's a good measurement for lag and frame rates, run at Medium on both, OSX ~40-60fps, Windows 7 ~20-30. Both are playable, yet in OSX I have flexibility to add more options and still be a higher FPS than Win7.
Basically what this means is that OSX, the way it was programed optimizes the components a lot better than Windows 7 does. It boosts the CPU and Ram when needed and idles them when it doesn't need them as much. You might think well that's great for saving energy and great on battery life but not much more. No, it also prolongs the life of your components because there is less of a load on them so they have time to relax.
Get over the whole Mac sucks because it's a college student laptop and it's just to be apart of a stupid club. No, not everyone is all OMG OMG OMG I have to have this shinny computer and pay out the ass for it. Yes, mac is expensive, but I felt my laptop was well worth the price. I have never owned a computer I can rely on, and I have owned many windows machines.
MacBook Pro: 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, 500GB 5,400 RPM HDD, 9800GT v-card 512MB *bench tests used the 9800GT as windows by defaults turns this dedicated card on*
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Mac OSX latest 10.6 edition.
Get out of your mindset. Let people make their decisions. I use my laptop, as I said, for school. I'm going for a Web Design and Interactive Media degree, so I use adobe's programs which run amazingly on it. I can render in Photoshop so quickly, Illustrator which always gave me problems on my desktop, runs perfectly on my mac.
Just because someone prefers a mac over a PC doesn't mean they suck or are losers. My opinions here are in the middle. I prefer to use my Mac for school, and I use my Desktop to play games. If someone wants to use their mac and run Bootcamp, because that option is available, let them.
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