Mac vs. PC

[Trezker]

I run Linux, on a PC, because I like keeping all options open.
I still like having a system that "just works" though, so I run Ubuntu which does that for the most part. I'm a programmer too, so Linux is my natural habitat.

I left Windows because I didn't feel safe in it anymore. Microsoft was too invasive in the customers system. Their advances on DRM and wanting to monitor me felt really bad.

[bluelighth]

As far as I can tell - both are good. I experimented with Mac, Windows(xp, vista, 7RC) and Linux(Ubuntu, Fedora) - and today I use windows exclusively. I just didn't find a good enough reason to stay with either of the other OS's - especially the lack of software.
I currently have windows 7 RC on my laptop - which is my main computer. Everything just works, its easy, its relatively stable. My only problem with this OS is the audio drivers - or rather the support for professional audio drivers - It had strange issues with ASIO drivers. As a musician - that was quite a bug. And in order to do any high-quality audio work with mac, I'd have to spend a whole lot of money I didn't have at the time for software like Logic Pro, so I had to use windows anyway for audio.
I also have a desktop I recently manifested/bought(around a two months ago ) that uses XP - its a core I7 2.66 GHz, 3GB DDR3 machine, and it works perfectly with all my audio stuff. No problems at all - it just works.

I don't really like OSX being so closed with hardware - which is why I'm really interested in OSX86. I'm just not sure I'm willing to buy OSX 1.6 and try that or just stick with XP for audio. I might experiment with that - who knows....

Lee-Orr

[ragtag]

Originally Posted by ellie

Question has anyone gone from mac back to pc?

Yeah...kind of. I was pretty sold on Macs a few years ago, and used my Mac for pretty much everything, bought software for it and all. Then, I began to find more and more little annoyances with it, that eventually made me get a HP machine when it was time to upgrade, and use Ubuntu as my main OS and WinXP as secondary (for one program and a game or two). I still have the mac, but don't use it much any more.