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Demon-Seed:
Hello
My brother has switched to Apple and says he will never go back to pc.  He says it is virus free, no freezing, no crashes and will run everything windows runs.

I have never used apple much (other than trying his)..and I honestly do not know.  Can anyone advise?  I guess it also depends on what I will use the computer for?  I will use it for,internet, home steno stuff, listening to mp3, downloading off the net, downloading torrents, peer to peer software, backing up wii/xbox360 games/ps3/dvd/blue ray etc...  burning dvd-r/rws, playing some roms/games.... can't think of anything else....maybe watch tv/movies etc...... multimedia stuff like video editing etc.. in HD.

the only thing I am nervous about is new apps, new emulators and burning tools may not work?


the pros of the pc is price, and i am very familiar with them.
Can anyone advise me>I would greatly appreciate it

thx

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Demon-Seed on June 06, 2008, 03:05:18 pm ---
My brother has switched to Apple and says he will never go back to pc.  He says it is virus free, no freezing, no crashes and will run everything windows runs.


--- End quote ---

Not one of these things is true.  However, the answer to the question in the subject line is definitely, "Yes.  Absolutely."

Apple makes very good computers.  And they are probably more stable than PCs, and while Mac OSX is probably technically no safer than Windows, there are far fewer viruses written for it by virtue of Apple only controlling a small portion of the home computer market.  Macs most certainly will not run everything windows runs.  Not even close.  Many things won't even run in VMware or Parallels.  You can set up a dual-boot machine, though, and run an actual copy of Windows on your Apple hardware, in which case it most certainly will run everything Windows runs because it is as much a Windows machine as any Dell or HP.

More importantly than being able to run everything Windows runs, it sounds like it will run everything that you need it to run (though I don't know what "home steno stuff" means). 

FWIW, if I were buying a new computer today, there's a pretty good chance it would be an Apple.  Not for sure, but I'd put it at say 65%.

Daniel270:
Why not dual boot between Mac OS and Linux?

FrizzleFried:
Apple sucked until they became a PC...

shardian:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on June 06, 2008, 03:38:31 pm ---Apple sucked until they became a PC...

--- End quote ---

You would get Starbuck's latte and Sarah McLaughlin cd's thrown at you if you said that in an Apple store.

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