I've used PCs for years. I run AVG for anti-virus, Ad-Aware, do disk defrags now and again and really don't use it regularly for "heavy" applications. I have 1.5Gb of Ram, masses of HDD space and a 2.4Ghz P4 processor. All very boring to be frank and mostly performs fine. However I'm getting hacked off with inexplicable drops in performance where everything has a go-slow or freezes.
Will I be happier with a Mac or can they suffer tech gremlins as well? I'd like to know if there are any Mac users who can HONESTLY say they never suffer with technical problems and never want to throw it out the window.
Oh god - make it stop.
Oh God....
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Never want to throw it out of the window, have far far fewer problems than I do with the P.C.'s in the house but you do have to remember it is a windows world, and much of the internet still expects Internet Explorer.
Still sat here on my lowest spec MacBook and wouldn't swap it.
This must be about the 7th PC vs Mac topic in as many days. No doubt this will descend in to Mac people saying PC's are crap, and PC people telling Mac users they're not.
Buy a PC if you want to do anything useful, buy a Mac if you just want feel superior to PC users.
This one won't run as long as the 'helmet saved my life' and 'death penalty' but my bet is it'll get to 2 pages.
Mac's can and do suffer from problems from time to time, however a badly running program rarely manges to take out the whole machine, if it does a quick reboot normally fixes it no problem (and no need fr safe mode).
Every iteration of windows seems to get better at this than the last. IME Vista has been shed loads better than XP and some people would have you believe 7 is the best thing ever.
ha ha sorry, I didn't bother looking first to see if this question had already popped up 😆 Should've guessed really
stilltortoise - for what it's worth, my laptop pretty much died on me and I couldn't find the Windows disk so I put Ubuntu Linux on it, and it works like a dream now. No good for games but it does all the big standard stuff no problem and it's much nicer to use than Windows. Depends what you want it for but worth a try if you're going to get rid of your PC anyway.
...so I put Ubuntu Linux on it, and it works like a dream now...
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LOL at GrahamS
Not perfect but looks nice....
PMSL @ GrahamS
Anyway... Mac user for 3 years now here and I love it, but they're not without their drawbacks... Firstly, the price... Secondly, as already mentioned, most of the world runs on Windows, so there's the issue of being able to run lots of things downloaded off the internet (though that's much less of an issue than it used to be).
Now I'd keep banging on about the benefits of a Mac, but it has been done to death. As far as I'm concerned, you either know you want one, or you don't want one... No point trying to convince people otherwise quite frankly!
FWIW, your current PC is a pretty old spec, even a new PC with a heavily streamlined OS will make a massive difference...
Speaking of which, have a look at the following link before you do ANYTHING else... Seriously!
[url] http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1590 [/url]
I got fed up of my old PC (similar spec to yours, but slightly faster P4 processor) constantly dying etc. Found out it had WAY too much resources being consumed constantly. Worked my way through as many of the 99 performance tips in that link, and MY GOD what a difference! Certainly made the PC usable again, if not cutting edge.
Oh, and when I had to get a new PC (necessitated sadly, but it's not a bad machine) I benchmarked its performance with a fresh install of XP. Then again once I'd streamlined XP significantly following those 99 performance tips... Again, a fair improvement made (though less noticable on a brand new high spec machine to be fair)...
Food for thought anyway...
Do we have to discuss this again?
Do we have to discuss this again?
No, as with most forums, you just don't open the up the topics you don't want to discuss.