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are you a mac or a windows user?

are you a mac or windows user

  • I am a mac user

    Votes: 203 25.3%
  • I am a windows user

    Votes: 403 50.2%
  • I use both

    Votes: 197 24.5%

  • Total voters
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Sindawe

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Mostly Windows, for work compatabilty and gaming at home. I've wondered into Linix a few times, and occasional forays in Unix when work demands it. I used Macs quite a bit for writing up process documentation in the early 1990s before the employer standardized on Windows for us manufacturing types and use on the production floor.
 

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I would have liked to see an option for Linux as well. I primarily use windows but I have a few machines all running different OS. I use xp, win 7, Xununtu, and Open Suse all on different machines. I don't discriminate :) the only one I refuse to get is a Mac. Far too over priced and not as easy to upgrade. I enjoy tearing my computers apart far too much to change stuff around. As for mobile OS I currently use android on my phone and iOS on my iPad.
 

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If you are mac or window user then for browsing the web, use always mac browser, because it is fully protected for the mac users. You can stay protected from mac.
 

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However...in my experience, Mac apps just seem to work more smoothly, with fewer hardware-related issues, and with few exceptions.

Yes Macs have quite good hardware that is until you drop them, sit on them, burn them or spill water on them. I see a lot of people running around with macbooks with huge dents. That's the reason I go after thinkpads, I drop those laptops countless times and did some computing in the rain and they still work... Same price tag as Macs but better survival.
I wish they made macs with track points and shock/water reistant.

I've never owned, and don't plan to get, a Mac laptop. So the likelihood of dropping, sitting on, burning, or spilling water on my trusty iMac is exceptionally low.:D
 

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All macs here. iMac27 i5, iMac 20 dc2.0, and macbookpro dc2.2.
 

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I use both but only because my job has a website I have to access through with Netscape or IE and since I refuse to sully my Mac with a Windows Bootcamp or Parallels, I keep an aging XP machine alive via duct tape and witchcraft for that sole purpose.
 
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However...in my experience, Mac apps just seem to work more smoothly, with fewer hardware-related issues, and with few exceptions.

Yes Macs have quite good hardware that is until you drop them, sit on them, burn them or spill water on them. I see a lot of people running around with macbooks with huge dents. That's the reason I go after thinkpads, I drop those laptops countless times and did some computing in the rain and they still work... Same price tag as Macs but better survival.
I wish they made macs with track points and shock/water reistant.

I've never owned, and don't plan to get, a Mac laptop. So the likelihood of dropping, sitting on, burning, or spilling water on my trusty iMac is exceptionally low.:D
Good point but I still like to do my computing on a bed or toilet seat....
 

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Mac at home (although I very occasionally try to convince my old laptop running Windows into life for work purposes), and Windows at work. I far prefer the Mac

Yes Macs have quite good hardware that is until you drop them, sit on them, burn them or spill water on them. I see a lot of people running around with macbooks with huge dents. That's the reason I go after thinkpads, I drop those laptops countless times and did some computing in the rain and they still work... Same price tag as Macs but better survival.
I wish they made macs with track points and shock/water reistant.

That's why we switched from the prettier looking Sony Vaios at work to Thinkpads - we've only had one broken so far - and that was used by someone who has broken every portable device he's been issued with
 

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At this point, I'm still a windows user. However, given how impressed I am with Apple products, I can definitely see myself with a Mac some day.
 

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I used to be a window user but was switch to Mac. Like they say, "once you go Mac, you don't go back!!"
 

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I tested Apple 5 years ago and never looked back..Back where windows belong.
Slow, unreliable and OLD means Windows.
 

marlainwa

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Switched to Mac beginning this year

but we are a split house. Our computers were old so we both bought new ones I got a mac and he bought a new HP.

I love my mac its wonderful and can't wait to get Ipad...just trying to figure out which one to get.
 

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