What are you reading this on - PC or Mac/Apple?

[Laruza]

Windows 7 PC, but I use Ubuntu Linux for programming, also I have installed Mac OSX on my PC but had to delete the partition because of HDD mess-ups. Ideally I'd like a Mac since I did love Logic Pro while I could use it, but I use FL Studio now on Windows.

[tekla]

Number of years my iBook has been running and on-line = 6
number of virus etc = 0
number of crashes = 0
satisfaction = 100%

[Stephanie.Izann]

Once you have a Mac, you never go back! LOL

Mac Pro Desktop Dual Quad blah-blah-blah, and whatevah the hell else it comes with.

[jazzie]

Linux     

I never donated to the Bill Gates Retirement Fund (never bought anything made by Microsoft). Same for Apple.

But, I used an Amiga from 1990 - 2003. And, I'm considering getting the new model.

[kyle_lawrence]

Right now, android. But if I wasnt on my phone it would either be opensuse or ubuntu depending on which laptop im on

[ativan]

27" HP moniter hooked to HP Pavilion Elite HPE. running four core i7's.,  8 Gb ram, dual 1.3 Tb disks set SATA dual, with two stand alone 1.3 Tb back up disks. That's all hooked up to a HP designjet 130nr, 24" wide. Paper comes in most types and grades on 50 ft rolls, or I can hand feed front or rear load and of course there is the tray.
Works great with my Nikon D7000.
I love the whole set-up. Yeah I know apple people just puking over it, but I had an apple Imac once and it was the worst computer I have ever used. And I have even used Digital Computers (anyone remember them?)  It beats going to walmart or whoever to get the nice big pictures, and I have an amazing amount of control over the outcome of each one. A 2'x3' costs me about 15 bucks, once everything is said and done. Frames are a whole nuther story. There are to many people with money that are gawdily in bad taste.

I'm just sorry that HP chicken out and decided to go golfing or whatever they are going to do....

Ativan

ps. I have a Toshiba notebook that runs windows Vista, so my computers can talk to each other fairly well.
I ususally don't use it, its just extra weight most times. I can hold64 Gb of storage in my camera, that's very sufficient, most occasions.

[Jillieann Rose]

Acer Windows Vista Notebook.
Can't afford anything else.

[varelse]

I have a custom built PC running win7 64. It has its quirks, but is really stable from what I've seen, I have yet to BSOD. Most of my issues have either been hardware or bad configuration(silly bethesda)

[SandraJane]

PC with VISTA. Had XP and SUSE Linux on the other laptop. If it wasn't for Apple bringing Jobs back in 96', we would all probably be using a Mac Clone.

[tekla]

Anymore they are both more similar than different.  There are a few proprietary programs that only work in one or the other, but everyone I know is pretty much expected to work on both interchangeably.  Because anymore it costs me far less than the cost of a computer to replace the person who only knows one with someone who knows both.

[SandraJane]

Anymore they are both more similar than different.  There are a few proprietary programs that only work in one or the other, but everyone I know is pretty much expected to work on both interchangeably.  Because anymore it costs me far less than the cost of a computer to replace the person who only knows one with someone who knows both.

...that sounded somewhat like this...

"    [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.    "

—Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

[tekla]

I love that statement.  You realize that in 3 years he got us in so deep in two different wars that 7 years later we're still unable to get out of.

[SandraJane]

Tekla u so wise, i wanna be like u when i grow up!

[tekla]

Well if you want to be like me the first thing you have to do is NOT grow up.

[SandraJane]

LOL!

[tekla]

It's an old theater joke.

The mother takes her child to their first big show and the kid is so impressed they say "Mom, when I grow up I want to work in theater too." and the mom looks at the child and says "don't be silly dear, you can't do both."

[Hikari]

I am running on Debian Linux (testing branch), but the hardware is PC hardware, though so are macs nowadays basically.

[Pinkfluff]

Ever since my MacBook Pro broke because of shoddy Apple parts I have been using a PC and so far have had no significant issues. Macs seem fine for some people, artists and musicians seem to like them, and if you are rich (both to buy it in the first place and to fix it later), but this engineer is going to stick with PCs now. The MacBook Pro also has heat issues, where it can get very hot under load, even with fans at max, though on the model that I had the fans would never spin themselves up to max when needed, I had to do it manually with a 3rd party tool.

[Pica Pica]

My Macbook has not as much as sneezed in two years.

The typing programme has a number of functions I like (such as the one that blocks out all other information so emails etc don't disturb, the ability to micro-manage the format - indeed, formatting in general much easier).

There are some programmes I miss out on, especially the odd game - but for someone who uses their computer for typing, surfing webpages and playing around with the odd sound/image/movie file - it's perfect.

[Lisbeth]

Love it, love it.  I often want to start a fire in mine too!

That's easy to do. Just unplug the fan.