Looking for a New Computer
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While I like Mac, I would suggest you spend your actual money on a great PC.
In short, I like to have a Mac given to me.
I like to spend my money on a PC though.
I own both.
Both of them fucking either blue screen/beach ball of death all the time. The amount of times my Win7 has bluescreened is no where compared to the amount of times my MacBook Pro pinwheels/beachballs.
Want to play ANY games, then get a PC.
In short, I like to have a Mac given to me.
I like to spend my money on a PC though.
I own both.
Both of them fucking either blue screen/beach ball of death all the time. The amount of times my Win7 has bluescreened is no where compared to the amount of times my MacBook Pro pinwheels/beachballs.
Want to play ANY games, then get a PC.
I would HIGHLY recommend going custom. You'll get a fantastic computer for just half of your budget, but if you want to go all the way, then you'll get fucking robocop.
These guys get hard over helping people build custom PCs, reddit(dot)com/r/buildapc
You can ask for their help or simply look at people who have completed a build and see what they're building (they provide links to parts as well to make your life easier).
These guys get hard over helping people build custom PCs, reddit(dot)com/r/buildapc
You can ask for their help or simply look at people who have completed a build and see what they're building (they provide links to parts as well to make your life easier).
If I were you and had the 3k budget I would do a 15 inch Macbook Pro Retina, 27 inch Thunderbolt display, wireless keyboard and mouse.
I would install Windows on the Macbook for my PC specific programs. When you are out and about you have the portability of the laptop, and when you are home you can dock it and enjoy the beauty of the 27 inch screen with the wireless keyboard and mouse.
Would cost you about $3300 total.
What you plan on doing with it would define what you would actually buy. Are you into computer graphics, video? Do you wanna play video games all day? Do you wanna run fucking programs like seo software that uses alot of memory? Or do you want it only for web applications, browsing/email excel?
I ordered 10 all in one computers from best buy last week. Cost was only $450/ea and they have 21 or 23 inch screens I believe. They are fast for the net, email, opening apps, etc. If you go mac, you're just buying the name imo.
I ordered 10 all in one computers from best buy last week. Cost was only $450/ea and they have 21 or 23 inch screens I believe. They are fast for the net, email, opening apps, etc. If you go mac, you're just buying the name imo.
You're also buying an OS that's only available on their hardware. OSX is "A good Linux".
@crackp0t; I wouldn't know. My programmer swears by mac products; but the only ones I've ever owned in my entire fucking computer life (early 90s') was windows based (Except my ipad's and phones). So yeah if its better, stick with it, but I wouldnt know. Bill gates has me brainwashed to not know anything else
1) OSX work's on specific hardware that you can build yourself or buy for a fraction of the price. It doesn't have to be an Apple product. (look up hackintosh)
2) OSX is not Linux. It is FreeBSD with a Unix kernel.
3) OSX is the least secure of these three operating systems: Windows, OSX, Linux. Microsoft repairs security flaws before they happen and then Macs get infected months later because they are slow at patches.
Mac - most reliable (lol)
I have owned almost all of those computers at one time or another and the buld quality of my macbook is the most durable by far.
1) Yeah, I'm aware of the hackintosh project and unless it's gotten better in the last couple of years recommending it to someone is an asshole thing to do. If you're going to spend your time looking over what works with whatever version of OSX you want to run you might as well save your time and buy a mac. In the time it takes me to do that I could have made enough money to buy the real deal.
2) Yes, I'm aware that OSX isn't Linux. Did you notice the quotes? The easiest thing I can compare it to so people will understand is Linux. "a good Linux" means all the benefits of Linux (all of the cli stuff and any Linux application) with the ability to run main stream software (Photoshop, a lot of games, etc).
3) It's not a FreeBSD kernel. It's XNU. It has parts of the FreeBSD kernel in it, but it's mostly not a FreeBSD kernel.
Next time you try to correct someone know what you're talking about.
Well, no.
OSX can go on a custom build too, so that's incorrect.
Linux is much more stable, faster, and lightweight. Further, it's not really that similar to OSX other than posix.
Edit
Fuck, I see this was mostly addressed. Carry on.
OSX is Unix-y enough for me to work on, but still sucks compared to Linux, imo. Linux is in line with the Unix philosophy (small tools, text input-output, ...), but OSX has applications like Finder integrated into the OS and it sucks.