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Malenko:
I will NEVER for the life of me understand the virus defense. Ive only ever gotten a bad virus when I was doing something I shouldnt have been doing from a piece of software I shouldnt have been running (running a crack that had a virus) Besides Schmokes hit it right on the head, less viruses because fewer people have them.
if you got a virus odds are you deserved it. Also,
back to the OP, if you wanna spend twice as much on a mac to run windows software, all the power to ya! To me if youre gonna run PC windows software get a windows based PC, if youre preferred flavor is MAC software then get a mac. You will not get an unbiased answer in here, I dont care who has what or how much they say they equally love both, everyone has a preference. I prefer windows...now what do you think Im going to say is better?
massive88:
--- Quote from: Goz on June 06, 2008, 05:08:52 pm ---OSX seems to more efficiently use the hardware as do most NIX type OS'
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Similar hardware on a mac costs a good deal more too, negating that efficiency.
If its windows you are against, run Linux. Ubuntu especially is a fairly easy transition from windows. And you can dual boot as well if you have specialty software you need in windows.
Then you open yourself up to unlimited hardware choices for parts, and dont get nailed by that premium Mac price tag.
DrumAnBass:
--- Quote from: massive88 on June 06, 2008, 06:21:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Goz on June 06, 2008, 05:08:52 pm ---
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Similar hardware on a mac costs a good deal more too, negating that efficiency.
If its windows you are against, run Linux. Ubuntu especially is a fairly easy transition from windows. And you can dual boot as well if you have specialty software you need in windows.
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pointdablame:
--- Quote from: massive88 on June 06, 2008, 06:21:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Goz on June 06, 2008, 05:08:52 pm ---OSX seems to more efficiently use the hardware as do most NIX type OS'
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Similar hardware on a mac costs a good deal more too, negating that efficiency.
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Goz built a Hackintosh, which negates that argument. If the OP has built PCs before, I'd look into the Hackintosh route. You can have an OSX machine for far less than what you can get in an Apple store, and could easily go to XP if you wanted. You could dual boot as well.
This path pretty much destroys the "PCs are cheaper" pro of the PC since you're building with standard PC parts but loading OSX.
Goz:
Here are the specs for one of my Hackintosh's
CoolerMaster Praetorian case.
GigaByte GA-945GCM-S2 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 CPU
2GB RAM
500GB SATA HDD
SATA DUAL LAYER DVD RW
NVIDIA 7600 256MB PCIe video w/ dual output
OSX 10.5.3
Parts wise its around $500 for a stable OSX capable PC. Dual boot it to XP or use virtualization. Either way nice dual core solution for not a lot of coin.
I have a spare one of these if anyones interested...
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