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Yak1
·Apple at home. PC at work.Although, at this point I can do almost all my clinical work on an iPad with a keyboard—
Not quite as important as Omega vs. Rolex; but a close secondary debate
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Ville_W
·Same for me. Mac at home and PC at work (have no choice). Mac’s doesn’t come cheap but overpriced? If only comparing performance, yes, but including build quality and lifetime?
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Stufflers Mom
·Hi Guys
I bought my first Mac July of 84. My friend was a developer... I was a kid then.......
Been using them since finder 1.1g
I remember when a single box of 10 micorfloppies ( 3.5 ) single sided 400k discs would hold EVERY piece of published Mac software...
I mod them... added internal hyperdrives , Dove memory upgrades ...... ( not for the faint of heart... ) I was hired at one job on the spot when the partner there could not install a hyperdrive, During my interview the other partner said it would not work out with me... and as i left saw "Bob" trying to do then install... I said " need some help?" he said " You think you can do it ?" I replied " i know I can " 30 seconds later after i installed it they hired me..... hahahahaha
I always loved the elegance of the Mac OS.... even now with unix under the hood.....
What I love about the Mac platform... it allows people to do what they want to do...and not thinking how to do it...
Good Hunting
Bill
PS I also use Windows etc....
Well that's one view, I've found Apple products to be completely the opposite. I suppose it may work to an extent if you are happy to jump through the hoops that Apple want, but anything else causes problems that are non issue on a laptop.
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Braindrain
·Well that's one view, I've found Apple products to be completely the opposite. I suppose it may work to an extent if you are happy to jump through the hoops that Apple want, but anything else causes problems that are non issue on a laptop.
Right. It works if you do it the *Apple* way.
Full disclaimer: I love people buying Apple as it helps my AAPL stocks appreciate. Evidently, no matter what I say, people will still buy Apple - which is cool with me.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentI don't understand the question. Is this about operating systems, or something else? Apple has PCs -- desktops and laptops. Is this really a question about Apple computers running Apple operating systems vs non-apple computers running other operating systems such as Windows, Linux, etc.?
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vbrad26
·I learned, as a kid, on Apple.
Used a little bit of both in school but at home I always had a Mac.
Since I graduated college, I hardly use a computer at home anymore, but I still have my last laptop, a 2011 15" MacBook Pro.
I upgraded it myself to a 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM back in 2013. These days that is hardly much at all.
But even still at 8 years old and it is still running better than this POS Lenovo running Windows here at my office desk.
Also been an iPhone user since the first one came out.
Used a little bit of both in school but at home I always had a Mac.
Since I graduated college, I hardly use a computer at home anymore, but I still have my last laptop, a 2011 15" MacBook Pro.
I upgraded it myself to a 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM back in 2013. These days that is hardly much at all.
But even still at 8 years old and it is still running better than this POS Lenovo running Windows here at my office desk.
Also been an iPhone user since the first one came out.
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zinengineer
·Apple at home, my son worked for the fruit company for several years so we loaded up as long as we could get the deep discounts. PC/windows at work, no choice. If I could do all my work on my IMac, I would.
A bit off topic, but nerds of a “vintage” era will understand, I went to college in the early accepting days of calculators (vs slide rules). I had both at TI-50 and a HP-29c and could translate fluently between them. For long calculations, RPN is the way to go. The “calculator” I’ve got on my computer desktop is RPN
A bit off topic, but nerds of a “vintage” era will understand, I went to college in the early accepting days of calculators (vs slide rules). I had both at TI-50 and a HP-29c and could translate fluently between them. For long calculations, RPN is the way to go. The “calculator” I’ve got on my computer desktop is RPN
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MRC
·First computer I used as a student (same model anyway).
Interaction with it was dropping an 80-column deck into the card reader, watching the lights twinkle and picking output (or crash dump) from the printer's out-basket. Mech Eng studes didn't have computers on the syllabus, we only had our own slide-rules, but we had one very generous Lecturer in Mathematics who also did Computing 😎
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Hot Damn! This is the actual machine
I don't remember the room being that big, but it was 50 years ago, OK?
Interaction with it was dropping an 80-column deck into the card reader, watching the lights twinkle and picking output (or crash dump) from the printer's out-basket. Mech Eng studes didn't have computers on the syllabus, we only had our own slide-rules, but we had one very generous Lecturer in Mathematics who also did Computing 😎
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Hot Damn! This is the actual machine
I don't remember the room being that big, but it was 50 years ago, OK?
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MRC
·I really wish Linux were stable enough to use. But I spent way too much time chasing the Bug of the Day instead of getting my actual work done.
I haven't chased BotD since quitting involvement with a few pre-version 1.0 programs (graphics and search engines). As a plain 'ole end-user nowadays "it just works".
Emacs, absolutely.
Emacs used to be known as Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping in the days when a quarter-million dollar "Mini" from D.E.C., Data General or Prime came with 1 megabyte and the IBM PC didn't exist.
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tyrantlizardrex
·Right. It works if you do it the *Apple* way.
In the same way that Windows works if you do things the Microsoft way, or Chrome OS and Android work if you do things the Google way.
The level of butthurt that exists because people have preferences for different OSs and devices utterly baffles me.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.I’ve been Windows at work and Apple at home and switched from Blackberry to I Phone long long ago. Retired and dabbling in consulting now as of 29 March. Naturally I surrendered my trusty Windows 10 machine. I saw the instability articles about Windows 10, forced myself to really learn how to organize files on my 27” I Mac, went out and bought a Mac Book pro. No regrets. So I Phone 8+, I Pad Air, I MAC 27” and Mac Book Pro. The kool aid tastes so good!
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kkt
·Okay, as long as we're posting Olde Time Computing. This wasn't the particular one I used, but it was the same model. Supported 60-100 people doing editing, compiling, and debugging at once, using the sheer computing power that a wristwatch would laugh at today.
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kkt
·I haven't chased BotD since quitting involvement with a few pre-version 1.0 programs (graphics and search engines). As a plain 'ole end-user nowadays "it just works".
If you say so. The last time I tried to use Linux as my primary OS, I remember there being too many issues, if not with the kernel then with common applications. That being about 2010.
Emacs used to be known as Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping in the days when a quarter-million dollar "Mini" from D.E.C., Data General or Prime came with 1 megabyte and the IBM PC didn't exist.
I remember those days and the "Eight Megas and Constant Swapping" backronym. Emacs did play nicely with others, if the OS permitted: a large shared segment, but unshared user space was pretty small unless the users put in lots of their own functions. Emacs did originate on smaller systems (PDP-10s running ITS, I believe) so it made sense that it ran well on them.
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GarethS
·I bought a del PC back in the 90's and found it needed fixing every two years or so - mainly the power supply.
In 2007 I bought an iMac and it was still running strong in 2014 but a bit slow after a number of OSX upgrades - pit a new SSD in and it was like new again and served another 3 years until the GPU finally gave up the ghost and went all stripey
Now running a new 27" iMac with retina screen which just looks lush. Also recently bought a 21" 2009 iMac with 240GB SSD for a snip at £400
The integration with the various iPads and iPhones we have in the family is seemless and just does what it is supposed to do
In 2007 I bought an iMac and it was still running strong in 2014 but a bit slow after a number of OSX upgrades - pit a new SSD in and it was like new again and served another 3 years until the GPU finally gave up the ghost and went all stripey
Now running a new 27" iMac with retina screen which just looks lush. Also recently bought a 21" 2009 iMac with 240GB SSD for a snip at £400
The integration with the various iPads and iPhones we have in the family is seemless and just does what it is supposed to do
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64Wing
·I've harbored a hatred for apple since I was 6 years old...and that was a handful of years prior to the "dot com boom."
I couldn't even figure out how to turn the damn thing on. Went down the hall to the "computer lab" (remember those?) and sat at a PC. The power button was right there, a simple procedure even for my first-grader index finger.
Since then I've watched the company grow into a terrible combination of planned obsolescence, political activism, and atrocious customer service. I have a Google phone (Android) in my pocket and I'm typing this on my VERY nice Microsoft Surface Book 2.
If I could right-click and delete Apple from the planet I would, but....
I couldn't even figure out how to turn the damn thing on. Went down the hall to the "computer lab" (remember those?) and sat at a PC. The power button was right there, a simple procedure even for my first-grader index finger.
Since then I've watched the company grow into a terrible combination of planned obsolescence, political activism, and atrocious customer service. I have a Google phone (Android) in my pocket and I'm typing this on my VERY nice Microsoft Surface Book 2.
If I could right-click and delete Apple from the planet I would, but....
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joeshoup
·I've used Apple desktops and laptops since around 1986 and OSX is still the best desktop OS there is, hands down. Much more smooth and intuitive. But Apple is past its peak - for some reason its engineers are eager to converge OSX with iOS for iPads and IPhones, and keep removing useful features from the desktop OS. Why? Why would anyone try to do word processing on an iPad? It's a stupid idea that probably will drive me away eventually...
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arcadelt
·Apple. Used Windows (and before that, DOS) machines forever, and having moved to Mac, would never go back. That said, I have one important application that needs Windows, so I use Parallels on my Mac just for that.
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squarelug
·With all the butterfly keyboard issues, and a fight with Apple over repairs (fight I lost and then won 6 months later after all the class action stuff), I switched from macbook to thinkpad and am not looking back.
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nonuffinkbloke
·With all the butterfly keyboard issues, and a fight with Apple over repairs (fight I lost and then won 6 months later after all the class action stuff), I switched from macbook to thinkpad and am not looking back.
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mydeafcat
·Me: iPhone, iPad, Macbook Air, 21.5" iMac
Wifey: iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro
Both conversant on PC as this is what's often used in the corporate world, although my recent contracts with progressive tech clients offered Apple gear. For the record, I was brought kicking and screaming into Apple's world in 2003. A number of missteps of late, sure, but compared to the cumbersome dodginess of PC's, I'll stay with Apple, thanks.
In my view, when it comes to Microsoft, every day is Y2K!
Wifey: iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro
Both conversant on PC as this is what's often used in the corporate world, although my recent contracts with progressive tech clients offered Apple gear. For the record, I was brought kicking and screaming into Apple's world in 2003. A number of missteps of late, sure, but compared to the cumbersome dodginess of PC's, I'll stay with Apple, thanks.
In my view, when it comes to Microsoft, every day is Y2K!
