The new Mac

[Savickster]

Anyone buy the latest Macintosh model yet?

[Nakor]

Heck no. Not really interested in supporting a platform that's out to ensure not only nobody gets to use anything they develop, but also out to ensure (as much as they can) that nobody else gets to use anything developed for them.

[KenseidenXL]

I built a more powerful PC with dual monitors for less money.

[Frong]

Mac people are silly. They like shiny more than functional, and will pay more money for it.

[KenseidenXL]

A whole hell of a lot more.

[Diabolique]

Nope...but they are cool!

Are you planning to get one?

[KenseidenXL]

I bought a MacPro that cost $19,000. I spent $3,000 upgrading it. It is the LAST Mac I will ever buy...

[Shawn]

I laugh at those who buy macs.They are way over priced to start with and everyone knows Windows is and will always be the OS everyone is going to use.
But on the other hand,there are things a mac can do better then a windows based OS,but still not enough to convince me to ever think about getting a mac.
Granted,you can install windows on a mac but what would be the point if you are using windows all the time?

[Lagoon Bug]

Where I live in California, there are Mac consumers who got one thinking they needed one to get their iPods and iPhones to work. It might be the guy with $90 pre-faded jeans and black nail polish on his fingers, which he only uses two of on the keyboard because he can't type. Or the soccer mom who carries a Mac laptop in a Chanel purse who actually figured out how to transfer pictures from a camera phone. People who just look at the screen at the neat colors and lolly dolly around clicking things like it's a toy on display. To them Dell's are nice but they aren't chic enough for them. They need an outer casing that goes with the paint job on their Lexus SUV.

Some of them buy pre-made computers too. I remember an orthodontist who didn't really take her job seriously because she was trying to become some Diamond level millionaire with that Amway scheme. She was trying to get me to sign up and acting like she's the total hot s***. She had this 17 inch screen laptop that turned out to be a non-Mac. It must have been an HP or something. She needed help finding something and said she had the thing for a year. She still had promo stickers on the panel below the keyboard. And her desktop still had all those AOL and other promo shortcuts and the right side had that Google clock and rotating image thing. I think there was a calender on there. After having it for a year, she never cleaned up any of that!

Then there are the more efficient computer uses who know what they're doing. They tend to order one from Dell with exactly what they want. Or better yet they build their own computer and blow away anything you can get pre-made at a Walmart. They often clean out everything they don't need the first day, getting rid of all the stupid promo shortcuts on the desktop and uninstalling every useless program that's really there to try to sell something.

[KenseidenXL]

If you REALLY know what you're doing, you build your own.

[RaptorMoonX]

I'm not a big fan of Mac's, but my mom's friend (who runs crafting classes out of her home) swears by them. However, if I go for this, looks like I'll get a Macbook and all of the stuff for the Game Design track.

[Frong]

I'm not a big fan of Mac's, but my mom's friend (who runs crafting classes out of her home) swears by them. However, if I go for this, looks like I'll get a Macbook and all of the stuff for the Game Design track.

Great, so the program is run by Macnuts. Seriously though, I read a detailed comparison on CNET of some various benchmark tests that were run between Win7 and Snow Leopard (the tests were run on the same MacBook pro unit, for fairness's sake). Snow Leopard did just a tiny bit better on shutdown time, boot time and iTunes encoding, plus much better on a multimedia multitasking time test. Win7 did noticeably better on the two non-timed tests, though, which were a 3D image rendering test called Cinebench R10 and a Call of Duty 4 frames per second test. So basically, there's not a huge gap for the average user in either case, which means that combined with the fact that Win7 is easily the best and most stable version of Windows to date, the OS should no longer be a major reason to get a Mac. That just leaves the hardware, which as we all know, is grossly overpriced, and the fact that Macs are shiny. Ooooo, shiny...