Mac or PC help

[nymph4]

I have a PC but I am doing a lot of looking around the net about Macs and why you should get it over PC.

They say you Get no no no Vireuses.
But now that they have Intel CPUs in them and you can run Windows on them am I right that that is all over with??

They say you can Customize it a lot in settings but can you Cumstomize it in settings more then a PC???

And am I right that you can never ad more RAM or Hard Drives??

I wanted to here from anyone who owns a Mac and here what they have to tell me??

[computeruler]

Macs can get viruses and they also are not as sucure as everyone things.  If you get a virus on a mac your screwed.  With mac you can only have one dock and with windows you can get a program that lets you have multiple ones.  There are more programs for custimizing windows than mac too.  You can add ram and hdds to macs.  IMO get windows

[ThrowingShapes]

As far as viruses go, macs have actually been recieving them lately.  Source:http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16296
If you actually read the article it says that the trojan was obtained through illicit downloads and I'm by no means implying that you are pirating.  I'm simply trying to prove that trojans may become more popular on macs in the future.

I found a little information about upgrading the RAM on a mac here:http://www.macworld.com/article/49263/2006/02/speedram.html
I'm not sure about upgrading hdd's (well I know it's possible) but you can always use an external drive for most files.

There was an article quite a while ago, not sure where I found it, but macs were actually voted the better platform for running windows; ironic right?  My personal view on macs is that they're nice looking, have pretty good software, but are a little over priced.  Given the choice I would use a pc over a mac of the same price because I'm likely to get more bang for my buck.  Compatibility on a mac is wonderful but it all depends on wether or not the extra bump in price is worth it.

[midsail]

Hello everyone

I have been using MACS for well over 10yrs. This is the same story dating since the beginning fo computer time. While yes MAC r more expensive they do offer a lot more then any wind's pc. first as for customer service the r rates in the top 2 ( uaually  #1). U deal with only one company, not the run around as with a wins machine ( this is a hardware vs a software), we do do not support this contact other vendor. Also when u get your MAC it brings every software to edit  home movies and burn them into DVDs not to mention iPhoto, iWeb, Garage along with all the other freebies.. Some of the FREE office suite will put MS office into the ground. Yes there r virus like any other OS, but remember this is a UNIX System. It only affect the user the login, not the enter System. 

[computeruler]

Liniux is a much better UNIX then mac.  I would like to see a free office suite better than microsoft office too.   And all those free programs are pretty usless anyways

[BC_Programmer]

Liniux is a much better UNIX then mac.  I would like to see a free office suite better than microsoft office too.   

OpenOffice. 

[computeruler]

Our school has open office and its the worst this ever

[BC_Programmer]

Our school has open office and its the worst this ever

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OPINION

You've also stated that your schools computers aren't very quick to begin with, so your already performing a imbalanced comparison.

[computeruler]

Still not good no matter what computer its run on.  Its very stupid too and it messes up like number ordering and stuff and it will only let you do it a certain way with no way to turn it off

[Soviet_Genius]

Not like MS Word is much better...

[BC_Programmer]

EXACTLY.

[computeruler]

I still think its a little better then open office though.  There accually is a way to fix it in MS office after enough messing around but not in open office!

[macdad-]

Word 2007.....crap

why couldn't MS just stick with the design that was of Word 03 and 97?!?!

[BC_Programmer]

Word 2007.....crap

why couldn't MS just stick with the design that was of Word 03 and 97?!?!

There is a very good reason for moving to the ribbon.

People said the same thing when moving from keyboard shortcuts to toolbars.

[macdad-]

you cant find all the features for Word....you have to scroll through a list to add them to the Custom bar at the very top. and who cares about looks....fuctionallity is what people need.

having those toolbars are much better than having to remember the key combination to access some of the features on Word 07