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| Thread ID: 116795 | 2011-03-20 22:10:00 | Windows or Mac ? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1187890 | 2011-03-21 10:33:00 | Personally I like my iphone, Its just a damn shame its crippled by itunes, My next phone will be an Android, and just adding drag and drop to the features makes it a superior platform. You have got me to my next question. Brother has just got the samsung galaxy S. Nice phone. But for the life of me, I could not find a way to mount the phone as an external drive to get photo's off it. Had to install samsung s software. After reading the manual it said mounting as external drive was only usable with the sd/whatever card it used and not the built in storage. Can someone please enlighten me |
plod (107) | ||
| 1187891 | 2011-03-21 19:32:00 | That is not really an issue anymore Cic as you can run Windows on a Mac and use that for games if you are that way inclined. But then of course you have to shell out for a copy of Windows on top of buying the MAC doesn't really make it cost effective does it |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1187892 | 2011-03-21 20:22:00 | But then of course you have to shell out for a copy of Windows on top of buying the MAC doesn't really make it cost effective does it I agree with you Gary. My clients demanded documents that had been created on a Windows platform (there were subtle differences between Word for Mac, and Word for Windows; mainly font sizes that messed up pagination etc , so when the docs got on the clients' windows boxes they were not satisfactory). Also in those days, if you sent a document via email from a Mac box to a Windows box, frequently the recipient couldn't deal with it - I forget the issue now, but it was something to do with 'resource forks' sent by a Mac. So reluctantly I had to change. I started using Virtual PC, but that meant I had to buy and maintain two sets of software, including office suites for both Mac and PC. So I bit the bullet on economic grounds and went with PC, purely because clients required it, and because it was the only economic thing to do. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1187893 | 2011-03-21 20:29:00 | Maybe you can install Windows on it but can you put Three GTX-580s in Tri-SLI in your Mac? now that would be awesome :D i bet if someone can easily afford to do something like this and someone was insolent to them they could simply pull out a card and maim them with it :D as for PC gaming - that is far from dead - sure the industry is making some flat out retarded decisions and its beginning to hurt our local LAN Gatherings (no internet access makes most new ubisoft games void and most new games not having LAN capability) then again Duke Nukem forever WILL have specific lan capbuility and will not require anything to do with the internet to run - so there is still hope the dev's and publishers will see the error of their ways |
MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 1187894 | 2011-03-21 21:05:00 | What is it about macs that make them better for photography and graphic design? Aren't these apps also available for windows? | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1187895 | 2011-03-21 21:21:00 | These days there is no difference, just entrenchment that Macs are better. Since graphics cards and other hardware is identical it makes no difference | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1187896 | 2011-03-21 21:48:00 | I'm with Agent_24 / Metla on this one ;) After reading the manual it said mounting as external drive was only usable with the sd/whatever card it used and not the built in storage. Can someone please enlighten me That's just the shitty Samsung hacked up version of Android and how it handles that kind of thing. Yes, mounting it as a USB Mass Storage device is the way to go. The whole story behind Macs being better for graphical design work and the likes went out the window when they switched from PPC to Intel CPUs. Now it's the same CPU with only minor performance differences between your stock windows system. The difference between RISC vs CISC was what made the PPC better back in the day, but no more. Security? No more secure than Windows, it went down in a ball of flames in the recent Pwn2Own security contest: techie-buzz.com MacOSX vs Linux? Both have Unix roots, both have a "different" GUI from Windows. Linux distro's have had "App Stores" for decades now, Apple have only cottoned on to that recently by comparison. Neither runs Windows apps natively So the argument for / against MacOSX vs Linux is a moot point really, though you could try and argue that Linux distro's vulnerabilities generally (Read: not always) get secured faster I suppose, if you really wanted. Price? www.apple.com vs pbtech.co.nz Give me two of the HP's any day ... I bought a Macbook, used it daily for about 6 months before ditching OSX. Spend most of my time in the browser anyway, and Chrome runs on both Windows, OSX and Linux (I tried all 3 on the Macbook). Don't care which I use. If you're used to Windows, and don't want a learning curve, stick with Windows. Seems easy? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1187897 | 2011-03-21 21:49:00 | These days there is no difference, just entrenchment that Macs are better. Since graphics cards and other hardware is identical it makes no difference Exactly. Was true about 10 years ago. Not now. These days half the Cellphones out there have the equivalent grunt of a Desktop PC. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1187898 | 2011-03-21 22:00:00 | You have got me to my next question. Brother has just got the samsung galaxy S. Nice phone. But for the life of me, I could not find a way to mount the phone as an external drive to get photo's off it. Had to install samsung s software. After reading the manual it said mounting as external drive was only usable with the sd/whatever card it used and not the built in storage. Can someone please enlighten meThere's a setting in the preferences for the Galaxy S that lets you choose what to use the USB port for - by default, it'll connect as MTP. You don't need the Samsung software for this. Yes, this is for whatever is mounted at /sdcard - for the Galaxy S, this is internal flash memory. If you switch it to 'Mass Storage', it'll then show up just like a flash drive on the PC. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1187899 | 2011-03-21 22:54:00 | if you want to hang out with the fancy people at starbucks that read and are easily swayed by those expensive fancy "industry standard" magazines in starbucks then get a mac if you dont want a mac for that reason - get a PC they near as makes no difference do the same thing - the only thing different aside teh OS really nowadays is the design of them - both have apps that do the same thing - you can buy each with similar specced hardware although i have 2 problems with apple kit - apple gear is generally more expensive and if someone asks me to install their Mac pro and they live upstairs or on a small incline i will turn and leg it till i am well out of view - they might have a bunker built chassis but they are incredibly heavy - especically when you have to lug 18 of the sodded things up 2 flights of stairs D: |
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