MAC vs PC

[Platypus]

I'd trade it in a thrice for a Solaris lappy if I could find one that worked properly out of the box.

You can run Solaris x86 on a lappy, what's the problem? Or Linux if you wish. But why Solaris? Surely MacOS does what you want better on a Mac than anything else ever could.

And you might also be amazed to hear that Putty isn't the only terminal program available for Windows.

[DS23]

mac and pc. why not have your cake and eat it? macbook rather than macbook pro will be fine. you'll probably want to biggie up the hard drive though.

[scooterscot]

Hardware aside the experience between OS cannot be compared IMO.

I feel Apple focus on user experience while Microsoft tend to do things by the book, even if that means allowing the machine to grind to a halt.

Come the end of the end stress levels are not near as high using OS X compared to XP after a good 7 or 8 hours for example.

[Board Game Geek]

Why not get both ?

You can have a uber-specced PC (and no, I don't mean an off-the-shelf one...read a few issues of Custom PC and you'll be able to build one easily) which will tear strips off anything Apple can produce.

That way, you will have decent PC for serious work and gaming, and yet still have a nice shiny Macbook to wave at people so they can massage your style ego.

[Moscow Mule]

You can have a uber-specced PC (and no, I don't mean an off-the-shelf one...read a few issues of Custom PC and you'll be able to build one easily) which will tear strips off anything Apple can produce.

If the OS isn't named after a big cat, I'm not interested.

[mace]

I've just bought a new Dell Studio 1555 laptop which I picked up for £499.

The spec's:-
Processor: Pentium dual core T4200 @ 2GHz
Memory: 4Gb
System type: 64 bit
O/S: Windows Vista
Disk: 300Gb
Graphics card/Resolution: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 1366*768

It looks nice. Sony Vaio's are even nicer but also a bit pricier. I like the MacBook and MacBook Pro's but not enough to pay the premium price asked. I think the desktop monitors and keyboards are cooler and wouldn't mind buying these on their own.

[ForkBoy]

You can run Solaris x86 on a lappy, what's the problem? Or Linux if you wish. But why Solaris? Surely MacOS does what you want better on a Mac than anything else ever could.

And you might also be amazed to hear that Putty isn't the only terminal program available for Windows.

Oh, Linux, Solaris and BSD will run fine on a lappy but getting various drivers running properly and getting sleep/hibernate to work is generally more work than I can be bothered with, unless i can invoice for it of course.

Why Solaris? Just what I'm used to. Been paid for using it for years and would rather not invest the time learning anything else in as much detail, again invoice permitting.

As for Windows terminals; who cares?


[Sorry if i sound stroppy. It's been a long day of dealing with architects who were too important to attend design meetings 6 months ago and are now throwing their toys out of the pram because things are not working the way they expected.]

[minestrone]

I've just bought a new Dell Studio 1555 laptop which I picked up for £499.

The spec's:-
Processor: Pentium dual core T4200 @ 2GHz
Memory: 4Gb
System type: 64 bit
O/S: Windows Vista
Disk: 300Gb
Graphics card/Resolution: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 1366*768

It looks nice. Sony Vaio's are even nicer but also a bit pricier. I like the MacBook and MacBook Pro's but not enough to pay the premium price asked. I think the desktop monitors and keyboards are cooler and wouldn't mind buying these on their own.

I have got one of these, I had to replace the screen as I was carrying it in my soft bag and if you press the top of the case too much it damages the screen. I was running for the train alot and the screen really suffered.

Personally I would not buy a dell again, I had to spend 50 minutes on the phone telling Bob the screen was shafted. The engineer came round and first thing said was "WTF is wrong with that?"

I don't like the mac keyboards TBH.

[Spacecadet]

I have got one of these, I had to replace the screen as I was carrying it in my soft bag and if you press the top of the case too much it damages the screen. I was running for the train alot and the screen really suffered.

Personally I would not buy a dell again, I had to spend 50 minutes on the phone telling Bob the screen was shafted. The engineer came round and first thing said was "WTF is wrong with that?"

I don't like the mac keyboards TBH.

On Site engineer support... the very reason you SHOULD be buying a Dell
And if you purchase through the company then you get the irish call center and things are sorted out in a much more polite and efficient manner.