PC vs. Mac

-or- the suit vs. the slacker

Published on May 23, 2006 By BlueDev In OS Wars

By now, I am sure most of us have seen the new round of Mac vs. PC commercials. You know, the one with the middle age, sort of uptight looking, fuddy-duddy dude in a suit representing a PC, and the young, hip, cool, laid-back dude in old jeans and a T-shirt representing a Mac.

I have seen a couple of variations, but they all focus on the same thing. They all are trying to convey the same message: Macs are just cool and "work", whereas PCs are out of touch, laborious and problematic. Of course, I find it odd that so much of the advertising lately is on the hardware (considering I am typing this entry on my Windows laptop with Intel Core Duo processors, an pretty nice ATI graphics card, more RAM than a Mac Book and a larger HD than a Mac Book, at easily a few hundred dollars lower cost).

Nevertheless, I am not a Mac hater. In fact, I fully anticipate owning a Mac someday, when I can afford to have one IN ADDITION to my Windows computers. But I have to admit, I really don't care for these new ads. They just seem like such a faulty use of details, that honestly, I think they are embarrassing. In that spirit I share the following (sorry, can't paste the image myself as it is not mine and I don't have permission to be pasting it):

An alternative comparison between PC dude and Mac dude.

I found this quite entertaining.

Comments (Page 13)

181

Corky_O

on Jun 28, 2006

need I say more? (view link)

Touche'!!

We keep coming back to "it's all about choice".

BTW - my notebook boots in under 2 minutes as outlined by Jafo (and that includes - *cringe* - NIS 2006).

182

KiloKrash

on Jun 28, 2006

We keep coming back to "it's all about choice".

Yes, I agree. Both offer a unique quality specific only to each. Capitalism needs this, it's called competetion.

183

Jafo

on Jun 28, 2006

it's called competetion.

Actually it's called 'competition'.... Spell checker

184

KiloKrash

on Jun 28, 2006

Ha! Ha! Ha! Thanks Jafo, at least I know someone is paying attention. Sometimes my middle finger gets mixed up when typing fast...sorry.

185

Dr Guy

on Jun 28, 2006

Ha! Ha! Ha! Thanks Jafo,

Every board needs an English teacher.

186

PurrBall

on Jun 28, 2006

how often do you fresh install on your pc

Every year or two, not because it needs it, but because I just want a clean start again.

Also, I have OS X booting on this PC in 8 seconds.. beat that on a Mac

187

lolapoa

on Jun 29, 2006

well a pc gets slow with time, macs dont, bout the vid, well some of us dont really play games, but bout the hardware come on, video card, in my powerbook i can change, in most of pc's hell its integrated in the motherboard, a powermac g4 that is way old boots faster than a pIII (same age) with xp, and when mac carried up to 1gb RAM, what the pIII pc cant even imagine, the pc got stuck in 512. And well,powermac g5 dual 5 secs, i picture a quad (never used one

) loading just bout when u press the button,imagine when the new powermac era comes,with the new server like duo processors, i dont think any pc will beat that.good things come in small packages, that's why they are lots of pc's out there. i dislike windows cus its terrible organization on the system, and well, when it comes on top of the line, mac will be up there,cus i really dont think vista is gonna shoot that far, the specs on some year old pc's wont handle it, and well, osx tiger loaded on a 1998 pc, running as fast as a 15 second boot, wonder if a 2000 pc will run vista as ast, with aero of course (what's the point if u don't have the goodies, at least not the security, on beta2 up to 12 svchost processes running)

so it all comes down to choice, oh and if i had a pc again i would buy a dell.

188

Jafo

on Jun 29, 2006

and when mac carried up to 1gb RAM, what the pIII pc cant even imagine, the pc got stuck in 512.

It REALLY pays to do your research.

I have a P111/500 [Abit BX6 Slot1] right here which has a gig of ram 4x256meg sticks of PC133....and as I recall that wasn't the board's limit, either....

And....there's a word, nay, 2 words....'sentence' and 'paragraph'....they are your friends.... Spell checker

189

starkers

on Jun 29, 2006

My XP Pro PC feels like it is booting up fully in half the time to what it was a couple of days ago. It's amazing what a shiny new case can do....with 3 fans (front, rear, one directly facing the CPU), my rig feels like its flying along, running more efficiently than ever, not that I thought so yesterday when I got it home.....

Yeah, the idiots connected up my main HD and DVD ROM bass ackwards.

Im no technogeek, but I'm sure I'd have even done 'em right....me thinks the search'll be on for another puter shop'll be on if they stuff it up again. Oh well, at least they fixed it, and for my inconvenience, they gave me a USB hub I need to plug in a video grabber device I didn't have a spare rear port for

I was having poor ventilation, temperature issues with my old case...the CPU would become temperamental at times and would want to lock/freeze, but now she's simply cruising even when multi-tasking, so I'm happy.

190

lolapoa

on Jun 30, 2006

Dear admin Jafo:

Maybe i don't spell well, and maybe my reddaction is poor, im sorry, english is not my mother language, forgive me if i didin't learn it right, and i think u got it wrong MY pIII pc CANT get as much as 512 mb,as far as i know, not all the mother boards have the same specs,but hey, im no pc expert,im sorry i got it wrong, and u know, ur right, us mac "zealots" are RUDE and HARSH on non offensing Pc normal ppl (not zealots, they are no pc zealots, how could be, there all friendly i mean come on!!! Microsoft CEO is a quiality person, oh and no oportunist at all!!!!). oh and i bet ur PIII pc cant outstand by way farmy old g4, it takes 12 seconds to load fully operational, and well im just another fool that has a 2K computer that can handle windows better than my old windows based pc, oh forgot, its made by apple, shame shame shame, why didn't i get an IBM, or a Vaio? i think i might throw my mac book pro into the recycle bin and buy a IBM, cus how silly of me!!! i bought an apple!!!! it has mac on it!!!!! i regret myself, how can it have mac os!!!! i think i am right know the most miserable person in the world, thanku admin jafo, for getting me back into the path of the trully operational, thousand security patch download windows XP! im getting a new lap top tomorrow, il settle with a celeron M if i have to, i just dont wanna keep using the mac, anyway i guess any pentium M lap top will make it better, just cus it has windows xp! oh, and after i buy it i will throw it away again cus it will run vista slow, and buy a new one!!! or even better, i can buy a 10 usb hub and 10 2gb gizmos and use them as RAM!!!!! that doesnt sound bad, at all...

oh let me link you to this forum of HORROR and SIN, so u can change them the way u did with me wwww.macosx.com , i hope u dont erase the link, i didnt steal it, i swear, its just a forum!!!oh and right...i was appliying for a job at the new disney/pixar latin america studios, where they edit some footage from the original films so they are translated in spanish o special effects, u just made me turn it down cus it was needed to work in dome stages on macs, when i told the human resource guy i refused to work on those no use computers cus windows can always do it better, they escorted me out by security guards LOL (ok too much sarcasm, i really hope to get the job) oh btw have my msn so u can tell me what u think abraham_aiza@hotmail.com please, dont erase it, i didnt steal it!!! i swear, its mine!!! its my account!!!

oh and please dont try to sendy any trojans and stuff, cus im still in a mac, i will let u know when im on the company's pc, so u can make me fresh install windows again, i really need to do it anyway!

191

Lundare

on Jun 30, 2006

I have Windows XP SP2 om my PC and my brother have an iBook. And I have a LOT of trouble with my PC. USB devices simply stops working and the PS2(!!)keyboard stops working to, hangs, graphic problems, you name it...even that I have AMD CPU, Abit motherboard, nVidia graphic.
On one year I think I have re-installed Windows one time every two months, because it just crashes... -sigh-
But my brother, you know, his iBook just work instead, we have tried many different external devices....plug in....and they just work..., but in Windows you must have many of programs just to get the shit work. LOL.
And the uptime his got om his iBook, I mean I can't have my XP running for more than two days then I can't use my computer, because it totally locked up.
So I will NEVER own a Windows-"computer" again, thats for sure...

192

Jafo

on Jun 30, 2006

, and u know, ur right, us mac "zealots" are RUDE and HARSH

lolapoa ...last time I checked I did not nor have I ever said 'mac "zealots" are RUDE and HARSH'.

Please do not misquote or misrepresent. [This is another good reason to at least TRY to punctuate or separate statements. When you do not you are liable to cause confusion instead of communication. Find a gap and press the 'enter' key]....

Simple statement is....P111 vintage PC computers CAN handle more than 512meg of ram.

193

PurrBall

on Jun 30, 2006

lolapoa.. If you feel so negative towards the PC then why have you come to WC?
Just curious, that's all....

194

Fuzzy Logic

on Jun 30, 2006

Out of interest, I just tried to spec out a G5 to as close to my Athlon 4400+, 2Gb DDR, 2xGeForce 7600GT as possible. It came out at 3 1/2 times the cost and still wouldn't get close to the gaming performance of my pc...

'nuff said

195

lolapoa

on Jun 30, 2006

No Admin Jafo, i think u didint quite get it, all pc likers (again, no zealots in pc! how could they be!) take us a zealots and get as fanatic.

Meowy, i came to WC just to not get my mac book pro depressed with the LUNA theme, as i cant handle excel for mac, and its a program i use often at work, its the same as the one in pc, except all versions use de same formulas as the one in english for pc, and i only know how to use them in spanish LOL, and as i said, windows is a nice OS, and as i differ with all here, i accept that its good, sometimes unstable but good, what i really find interesting is how pc "likers" repell osX soo baad, even though is a great system as well...wonder why,maybe not the popular opinion is the correct one!

Oh, and i mind saying again, well the mac ads are terribly rude, except from the hi im a pc, and im a pc too, that one has spark, dont blame apple, microsoft did in its time waaay more dirty things, that's how the market works, just search for QDOS, and see how dirty microsoft is.

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