Gimmie A Break

[Dana]

You're tellin me Mac's don't crash or ever get virus? *sniffs* I think they finally mastered that Smell-A-Vision because I smell bullshit!:ninja

 

[JanieDough]

they are harder to crash and harder to get viruses on

look you are either a mac person or not, but they are awesome for certain things like graphic design or really any multimedia project

 

[ssl]

You're tellin me Mac's don't crash or ever get virus? *sniffs* I think they finally mastered that Smell-A-Vision because I smell bullshit!:ninja

If you are referring to the recent Mac commercial, it is solely based on statistics.

No system is safe from crashes; solely based on the fact that Apple/Microsoft/FSF-GNU-Whatever/SUN/.../etc do not write *every* single piece of software for their respective platforms, and so cannot guarantee a crash-free setup.

Secondly, no platform is protected from every virus, except for those that are not known to the world (if I wrote my own platform). If a platform is popular (has market share in the platform market, plus derivatives) then there is at least one virus for it (may not be usable after the vulnerability is fixed, but it is listed somewhere).

So, the Mac commercial is definitely an "extremely marketed statistics" commercial.

 

[satinbutterfly]

I'm a PC fan, but mainly because I'm a gamer.

I will say this: at my last job all the designers used macs, and they crashed all the time. My PC at work never crashed, nor does my PC at home when I'm gaming and using tons of memory. *shrugs*

 

[Dana]

I'm a PC user too.

 

[ssl]

I use Windows, as it is the platform that runs the development software that I use to make software that I get paid for, which pays my bills.

Should I change jobs, most likely the development software will change.

 

[Sneakiecat]

The Mac lab at school repeatedly crashed on us during our one computer class education majors had to take. We switched to PC and the only problem we had was we were unable to use a color gradient on one slide. Our tech guys were worthless so that *might* have been part of the problem.

 

[ssl]

The Mac lab at school repeatedly crashed on us during our one computer class education majors had to take. We switched to PC and the only problem we had was we were unable to use a color gradient on one slide. Our tech guys were worthless so that *might* have been part of the problem.

Most techs are taught only the "PC" side of things (I hate the "PC" term... a Mac is a PC -- personal computer)), so generally they are not learned on the Mac side of things, thus making them seem worthless.

Most of the 'common sense' issues generally apply to "PC"s and Macs.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Most techs are taught only the "PC" side of things (I hate the "PC" term... a Mac is a PC -- personal computer)), so generally they are not learned on the Mac side of things, thus making them seem worthless.

Most of the 'common sense' issues generally apply to "PC"s and Macs.

I hate it to but it's the way most people know it. These guys were supposedly train in Macs too (we had a pretty decent graphic arts program) but their solution to everything was to turn it off and then turn it back on. Which would have been great and all but 1. it never solved the problem and 2. they wouldn't give us the passwords for the computers when we turned them back on. So they would come down, get us back to where we were, it would crash, and they would wander off mumbling under their breaths. I'm glad I only had to deal with them for one semester.