Skier community an Apple supporter or PC?

Currently a PC user, looking to switch over. I need a laptop that I know I can throw in a backpack and run out the door with. The HP laptop i have now is falling apart after 4 years (longer than most last), but there's just no comparison to the macbook durability. That combined with OS X's ease of use, its a no brainer.

I'm a civil engineer, Mac computers are useless to me.

I used to be an iPhone guy until I got the iPhone 5 though. I had so many fucking problems with that piece of crap, I couldn't wait to get rid of it. Went through 5 batteries in the second year I owned it. I knew something was messed up but Apple declined to warranty the phone because the battery "wasn't bad enough." A month before I was eligible for an upgrade, I get an email from Apple saying my phone has been recalled for, you guessed it, battery issues. Fuck you Apple, that warranty was intentionally timed because you knew I would just say fuck it and get a new phone instead of taking advantage of it. Then the charge port went out on a week before I was eligible to upgrade, so I switched to Verizon and got a Galaxy S5 and haven't looked back.

TL;DR Apple sucks.

My mac is 8, and its slowly dying.

to be a skier, you (your parents) probably have money ,
when you (your parents) have money, you probably have expensive tastes ,
when you have expensive tastes, you probably have apple products.

Im rocking an ASUS at the moment

PC because Apple is actually hitler.

my macbook is 2.5 years old and the motherboard has died, CD drive has died, battery shit out, and hard drive just failed over the weekend.

fucking trendy ass kids

I'm a unique snowflake, therefore I use Apple MacBooks to expand my creative ability and as stands for my other MacBooks/iPad's

The idea that macs are full stop better for editing is 100% bullshit. The only thing that makes a computer good for editing is its specs.

I have two computers, one is my macbook pro that I use to show how fashionable I am, it cost about £1k a couple of years ago so it's a little old now. My other is my fairly cheap (and new) desktop pc that gets used for basic computational chemistry and gaming. It cost about £380 for parts, I built it. I also have access to a supercomputer, just for lolz and quantum chemistry.

So my macbook is probably worth (new) about double my pc, yet...

Processor: Macbook has dual core @ 2.5GHz, my pc has six cores at 3.5GHz.
RAM: 4GB in the macbook, 8GB in the pc with another 8GB in the post. Also I don't void my warranty by fitting extra RAM myself.
Video card: The mac has an integrated GPU (i.e. shit), the pc has a not superb R7. Still much better from the pc.
Hard drive: 500GB in the mac, 2TB in the pc plus a solid state boot drive in the near future.

Basically, spec-wise my pc crushes the macbook.

So it's kinda unsurprising that when it comes to photo/video editing, gaming and analysing conjugated π-electron systems using Hückel method* the pc annihilates the mac. The six cores kinda helps, since video editing and chemistry are extremely cpu intensive.

I don't think anyone is surprised.

That said, when it comes to browsing internet, typing lab reports, researching, fitting in with the private school kids at the local independent fair trade coffee shop and advertising saga, line and armada my macbook is hard to beat. The OS looks and feels much better to use. Windows needs to up its game before I go near a windows laptop.

It almost seems stupid to spend twice as much on a computer that can do, at best, half as much. That's fashion (and education discounts) for you.

One other option: build a desktop PC using parts that mac pros are made from (r/hackintosh helps here), then install hackintosh. Best of both worlds.


TLDR: Nothing new was said here. PCs crush mac in a spec/price way, macs are nicer to use, hackintosh is cool.


*here is where that supercomputer I mentioned comes in.

FYI - OS breakdown as of the last 30 days on NS:

NSers all have MacBooks because we all dabble in video and audio production

Phil-X-NSers all have MacBooks because we all dabble in video and audio production

Video and audio production are perfectly good on windows-based machines. Hell you can get a lot more power for the bucks if you go with a PC.

The fact is that wealthy people tend to get Mac over PC, and NSers by and large have wealthy parents.

Macs are very well built machines for sure, but they come at an enormous price premium.

Aren't Macs the preferred tool of porn addicts because they are supposed to not get infected with viruses as much or something like that?

Phil-X-NSers all have MacBooks because we all dabble in video and audio production

lol yeah I bet you keep telling yourself
bunch of fishes

CoreyTrevorAren't Macs the preferred tool of porn addicts because they are supposed to not get infected with viruses as much or something like that?

They also wipe down easier.

The only Apple product I have ever bought is an iPod because there is no equally good alternative and the Zune sucked.

In my opinion, it doesn't make sense to ever buy a Macbook, they cost about $2k and don't do anything better than a PC. Macs can get viruses now and there are a lot of programs that aren't supported on a Mac. I mean look how sick the Microsoft Surface is- a laptop in tablet form, touch screen, full windows 8 that can do anything an actually computer can, and costs way less than a Macbook Pro/Air. I just don't see the point in getting a Mac.

I also really don't see the point in ever getting an iPad. There are so many windows tablets out right now that cost $300-$500 (the same price range as an iPad) and are full computers, which is way more useful than an iPad where all you get is what is available in the App store.

Dr.LaurentI'm a unique snowflake, therefore I use Apple MacBooks to expand my creative ability and as stands for my other MacBooks/iPad's

Master race.

*DUMBCAN*my pc has six cores at 3.5GHz.

Inb4 AMD
Inb4 thinks cores and clock speed mean everything about a processor
Inb4 doesn't realize intel processors are vastly superior

But seriously, OS means so little these days - it's all about your hardware. I use an old, shitty dual core system running windows at work and I hate it because the computer can't handle anything. (Thankfully I have a new desktop being set up today - i7 QC, 8gb RAM, and a dedicated video card.)

I built my own PC at home, and run OSX on it. Again, it's an i7 QC, 12gb ram, dedicated video card. Sure I have Win7 on another SSD inside it, but I use OSX 90% of the time. Why? Because I'm used to it. The programs I use for my photography (Lightroom, Photoshop, etc) work on both OS' so it mostly boils down to my personal preference. The only other reason I run a hackintosh is because all my hard drives (~15TB of them) are all HFS+ formatted, so it's easier to use OSX natively to access them all.

kshaughnIn my opinion, it doesn't make sense to ever buy a Macbook, they cost about $2k and don't do anything better than a PC. Macs can get viruses now and there are a lot of programs that aren't supported on a Mac. I mean look how sick the Microsoft Surface is- a laptop in tablet form, touch screen, full windows 8 that can do anything an actually computer can, and costs way less than a Macbook Pro/Air. I just don't see the point in getting a Mac.

The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is probably the best all-around laptop on the market. It checks every box, from "portable enough" to "insanely powerful" to "beautiful trackpad" to "reasonably priced for its market." At $2K (actually 2,5K, dedicated graphics are a must for me) it's a mile from cheap, but compared to other laptops with its capability that price tag isn't so bad. That's not to say this is the computer everyone should buy most people don't need anywhere close to this much power, and would be better served by a cheaper, lighter MacBook Air or something else.

And the one thing that I want to highlight extra is the trackpad which remains bizarrely unimpeachable, still the best on the market by leaps and bounds — it's glassy, smooth, and responsive in a way simply nothing else out there is. And the trackpad really, really matters in a notebook.

Then there's the battery life, on a day following lectures with some internet usage, stalking qt girls on FB and scrolling through endless medical .pdf's i can easily get 8/9 hours of battery life without trying.

There's not a whole lot of important programs that aren't supported by Mac, and those who aren't, well you can always have Windows dual boot.

I've had a Surface 3 fully specced, wonderful device, jack of all trades but master of none. It's compromised by wanting to do everything.

Always liked Macs, but could never justify the price. So instead I built my own PC in '09 for about $900 that I upgrade every once in a while when I can find the money. I love it.

I've had both.

One of the things I used to really like about my MBP (2007) was that it was a brick shit house. Heavy, but that thing could survive a nuclear war coinciding with a zombie apocalypse. When it finally shit the bed in 2012, I got a fancy touch screen windows for a lot less, built by Sony. Spec wise it was way better than any Mac of reasonable price. It had problems within a few months due to not being built of similar quality. I don't know if it is true anymore, but one of the nice things about a Mac, and was worth paying for in my opinion, was that durability and quality. It had better craftsmanship.

Same thing for skis. The technology might be fancier in a pair of Atomics or rossi's, but a more expensive pair of ON3Ps or Blizzards is just put together better.

I now have an IPhone 4s, a kindle, a Surface3, and a heavy Dell laptop that runs windows 7 for leg work. I'm happy with them. Not sure if I will replace my iPhone with a iphone6 or windows phone.

RevolverHustleOlol yeah I bet you keep telling yourself
bunch of fishes

hur durr im 12 and dont understand when someones joking

I have a sony vaio, but for music ipod is my favored mp3 player, as seeing zune sucked

Phil-X-hur durr im 12 and dont understand when someones joking

Hur dur le funneh guy

macs are overpriced garbage, get a pc.

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can't see NS being very enjoyable on an Xbox

Leave it to PC to build computers with twice the specs of a Mac for half the price, yet still manage to be poorly built pieces of shit that have issues within a year.