OK, I'll attempt to contribute. I own one of each and have seen many of each go through the chemistry department. The biggest differences for me are viruses and quality control. The macs are more likely not to have a fixable equipment problem out of the box than the PCs. I use a Mac at home because, when I'm not behind the W&L firewall, the Macs just have no real problems that way. I sorry but beyond that it's preferences escalating up to religion.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > My Macbook, which is only about a year old, has an easily replaceable battery > that will usually give me abut five hours of computing time. Enough for a > flight to California. Works for me. > Paul > On Sep 5, 2010, at 4:52 PM, drd1...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Damn, out of popcorn. Hang on while I run to the kitchen. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> >> Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net >> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:47:22 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: OT PC thingies >> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: >>> On 2010-09-05 10:56 , Adam Maas wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm talking Dell, HP, Toshiba and Lenovo here. Similar quality >>>> components, sometimes better (HP for example uses Asus MB's on their >>>> desktops, better quality boards than the Mac desktop boards aside from >>>> the Mac Pro's). The components used in the non-Pro Mac's are nothing >>>> special and some parts (desktop PSU's in particular) are inferior to >>>> the standardized designs used in the PC world. >>> >>> avoiding the general point, some high points on Mac components are batteries >>> in current MacBooks and MacBooks Pro, and displays on current iMacs; also >>> worth mentioning that the current Mini has an extremely low power draw >> >> Actually, the Batteries are a current low point. Good life at the cost >> of a shop-run to replace. The iMac displays are good. The Mini's power >> draw is nothing special, any laptop-based SFF PC will have similar >> draw (that's how the Mini achieves it) and the Mini gives up a LOT of >> performance to get the low power draw. Most SFF PC's are based on >> desktop hardware and have significantly greater performance, >> especially in terms of video and HDD performance. >> >>> >>> >>>> Note Macs are poor hosts for OS's other than OS X or >>>> >>>> Windows as well >>> >>> how so? do you mean that virtualized OSs run more slowly, or what? i >>> certainly get what i need running Win2000, XP & 7 plus various Ubuntu and >>> CentOS VMs, so for my modest purposes i don't understand what you might mean >>> by "poor host" >>> >> >> Virtualization is fine, booting natively not so much and getting those >> OS's to boot on EFI-based systems can be a real pain. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
