Comments on: The big question: PC or Mac? https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-big-question-pc-or-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-big-question-pc-or-mac David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-big-question-pc-or-mac/#comment-2979 Sat, 04 Sep 2004 03:14:13 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1293#comment-2979 My next computer is definitely going to be a 30cm iBook when OS X 10.4 is released next year. If the 30cm models aren’t available anymore, I’ll just get whatever the smallest screen is.

I buy notebook computers not for their power but for their portability. I couldn’t stand lugging around a 45cm PowerBook with me! I have to carry my heavy ThinkPad all over the place, and I’m tired of having three-and-a-half kilograms slung over my shoulder all the time!

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]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-big-question-pc-or-mac/#comment-3216 Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:17:14 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1293#comment-3216 Well, we’ve been a PC household for 5 or 6 years now. And I’ll still keep a Windows box around with hardware 1 or 2 generations old as a gaming box for me and my son (currently a 2.4 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600). But my next computer will be a laptop and I’m leaning heavily towards Mac OSX.

  • In the laptop world, Apple prices aren’t nearly so different than other top tier vendors (e.g. IBM, Compaq).
  • Nobody understands how to make a computer just plain, no fuss usable like Apple. As Jerry Pournelle says about the Mac world, “it either works well or not at all” (and I’ve determined that what I want out of a laptop all works well on a Mac).
  • OSX is Unix. So if I want to get down and geeky with it, I can – but I don’t have to (unlike Linux/FreeBSD).

Notes: I don’t consider Dell to be a top tier laptop vendor. We use their stuff at work and it’s quite frankly cheaply built stuff which doesn’t inspire confidence. Same with Acer, Gateway and the less expensive Toshiba machines I’ve seen at Costco, etc… I’m also a big Linux fan. We use it at work for servers (and my desktop), and I’m even RedHat certified. I just don’t want to always be in uber-geek mode simply to get something done with it at home.

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