Thread: iMac?

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

Don't listen to him, most of the stuff he said was wrong. Most of the Windows programs are far better, and GIMP will run on all platforms. It doesn't really matter, because Photoshop is much better. iWork isn't that great, Office 2007 is actually pretty nice, and if you don't like it, you could always try OpenOffice(But it sucks). Macs do not last any longer than PCs, I've had this PC for 4 years, only having to put in a couple minor upgrades. I've used Macs that are 3-4 years old, they are very slow, and can hardly handle having two programs open at once. Also, iTunes is a piece of crap, it's really bloated, and infested with DRM. Foobar2000, Winamp, and Media Monkey are far better alternatives. Quicktime does not play "every media file", it's just a piece of crap. If you want to play media, get Mplayer, it's plays everything, and is pretty awesome. It's a lot better than VLC, anyway.

Also, Macs ARE overpriced. You are paying more money for the same hardware as a PC of lower price. The average PC can be built from scratch for maybe about 1/4th of the price, and sometimes it's more expensive, depending on what you're putting on it. Building a PC with the same parts as an iMac can be up to half the price, which sort of proves that it's overpriced. And no, you're not paying for "superior quality" or any other bullshit like that, you're paying for aesthetics.

Quicktime on Mac will play any media file other than DVDs (there is another program for that) It requires the proper codecs (like every other media player,) and will prompt you if you try to open a file that you have to download the codec for.

Photoshop is a Mac program, the Windows version is the port. Photoshop also doesn't come with Windows, it's $900 for the whole Adobe package (cheaper if you're a student.)

The average PC lifespan is 2 years. It's problem is that the core of it is the registry, which requires additional software to clean. The disk also gets fragmented, which most people forget to fix. The average span of a Mac is 6 years. No one cares how long your PC lasted, average is what people should look at.

Word has an absolutely terrible rendering and formatting engine. iWork has a LaTeX backend. LaTeX has been the word processing gold standard for 35 years. Keynote is considered he gold standard in presentation tools. The only thing that Office has that's better than the iWork equivalent is Excel, but unless you're doing advanced metrics, Numbers will suit you just fine.

You need to come up with some figures that show that Macs are overprices, not just saying that they are. Find a PC with a quad core processor, all-in-one display and computer, 20" screen, Nvidia gfx card and Intel gfx card, 5 receiver n wireless receiver, and 4gb of DDR3 ram that's significantly cheaper than a 20" iMac (running Windows of course, Linux PCs are always cheaper because their OS is free).