cybershot

# August 28, 2008 at 3:07 pm

I am thinking about buying a mac. In all the time i have spent learning web design. I keep noticing that it seems like everyone who makes a web tutorial is using a mac. So I have been thinking that maybe it would be nice to have one to see why everyone seems to use them. I know they have alot of different tools like textmate. tools that you can’t get on a pc. but it is worth buying to see how the other half lives?
I think this would make a great poll

box

# August 28, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Buy a mac – you won’t regret it. A joy to work on.

cybershot

# August 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm

well to me it looks like a very high price. $1200. It doesn’t look like you can upgrade the video card or hard drive if needed. It does look like it’s got some cool features. But for $1200 bucks I can get one hell of a powerfull pc. Lets face it. This is a pc world run on windows

box

# August 28, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Which mac are you looking at? The mac mini is good value and unless you’re wanting to use your machine for high grade video editing, the video card will suit your needs.

cybershot

# August 28, 2008 at 9:40 pm

hmm. tough choices

.V1

# August 29, 2008 at 4:42 am

mac.

u wont regret it IF u are using it for web dev.

Mac’s are a sucky game / family pc’s.. If u dont do that stuff, its good.

cybershot

# August 29, 2008 at 6:42 pm

I am a big gamer. Why do they suck so much for gaming?

curtismchale

# August 30, 2008 at 2:21 am

they aren’t great for gaming because many games don’t come out in a Mac compatible format.

koewnet

# September 1, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Don’t forget the lack of Direct X. But apart from that, a Mac is a perfectly good working computer, but it takes a while to get used to (if you didn’t grow up with one) and it has the price of at least two perfectly working computers running Linux/Win.

DAVlDFON

# September 11, 2008 at 12:57 pm

Get an Imac – the thing about a mac is all of the componenets are quality parts designed specifically yo work in that system. While its true, a lot of games dont come out in mac platform, you can easily set up parralells to run games on if you want and they run just as well that way, as directly on a windows machine.

Whoever said you cant do family stuff is way off base. Macs come with ilife which is a suite of products specifically for the novice but with powerful easy to use features for everything from photos to music and video. No pc comes with such software – so add something comparable to the price when comparing.

With a mac you have a quality product with great support if you ever need it. I havent had any issues with my laptop ( which is running great now for about 3 1/2 years, nor my imac. And I am about to add a Mac Pro to the collection soon.

cssgirl

# September 12, 2008 at 4:59 pm

Lot of mac fans here :)

I love a mac as much as the next fangirl/boy but if you’re a gamer and you have a budget or just like Windows (hey it’s not a crime!) I’d say go for a PC!

I want a mac badly, but I just don’t feel like shelling out nearly 3k+ for the MacBook Pro I want. So I’m getting a nice Dell Studio 15" which with all the upgrades (4 gig of mem, great graphics card, finger print reader, backlit keyboard, etc) for $1200 (I do get a 12% discount, but even without it it’s less than I would pay for the Mac).

I am comfortable working on a PC, I play A LOT of games (mostly the sims games though ;) ) and I can’t say I hate Dell. So, I’m sticking with a PC for now until I have an extra 3k laying around for a MacBook Pro :D

athenadesignuk

# September 13, 2008 at 4:07 pm

100% Apple Mac, they are reliable, fast, efficient and logical, and lastly they just work ;-)

Edwin

# September 21, 2008 at 5:34 am

I have a Macbook to develop, but also an Acer laptop with Windows XP on it for testing all the websites.