A Mav vs PC thread (or OSX vs Windows)

melia · December 4, 2009

(obviously meant this to be Mac vs PC).

Here's a thread for Andy to get a load off his chest.

Andy said:
They are great and have many advantages - like only being able to run a fraction of software that a PC can run and being monumentally underpowered against the price of PCs.

Basically you get to spend twice as much on something half as good.

Ace!

I'm not sure you are right there. OSX is built on BSD. I can run heaps of *nix utilities on my Mac (pretty handy as I'm a software developer mostly targeting *nix machines). Windows doesn't really offer me that same flexibility. But I think there are more games for the PC though, I'll give you that.

As far as performance is concerned - the windows file system is a complete mess and, coupled with aggressive anti-virus protection, means that my continuous integration build in a windows environment takes many times longer than the same build on similarly specced mac (or even the same PC running linux).

Unfortunately, my usage patterns are pretty narrow. My machines tend to just get used for web browsing, listening to music and software development. I have a Windows VM under Parallels for one piece of software only (WKO+, sports training software), otherwise I don't think I would ever use Windows again.

My son makes lots of music in a windows environment. I'm not sure if that is because the tools are better or easier to find for free (potentially pirated). I'd be interested to hear others opinions on this.

Edited December 4, 2009 by melia

ChrisC · December 4, 2009

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