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# PC: cheap and easy to use
Macs: expensive and pretty

IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:10, archived)
# indeed
but I'd rather have a computer (pc) than a fisher price toy (mac). Mainly because I am a programmer and macs are shit for that kind of thing
(I helped save b3ta! SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:12, archived)
# Care to elaborate on shit?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:15, archived)
# can't play decent games on them
can't do my programming on them
can't upgrade them
(I helped save b3ta! SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:16, archived)
# Why can't you do your programming on them?
Oh, because you're programming for PCs. Gotcha.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:22, archived)
# yes
for real people in the real world... also do you hate Linux? That runs on a PC and a MAC - oh wait that's because all MACs are now basically PCs
(I helped save b3ta! SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:24, archived)
# Well I think
old macs were cute, but my own experience of macs - owning them for myself, I mean - lasted from about 95 to 2000, which was roughly the time period during which macs were at their most shitty (PowerPCs, badly made by non-apple companies). I should have had one before that. Sometimes I run an OS7 emulator and draw something in macpaint or play an old game just because it feels nice.
A company with complete creative control over its hardware is kind of cool, but vulnerable to mass complaints over the same hardware defect, whenever there is one.
New macs, i.e. everything after OSX, are probably fun, and I wish I had one to play with.
It's excellent that you can build your own PC from generic second-hand bits.
I keep meaning to try linux.
The real world is overrated.

Those are the things that I think.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:36, archived)
# In 'microsoft c++' apparently (Visual C++? the IDE)
Oddly, I can't program in Objective-C on my XP machine, either...
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:24, archived)
# Yeh in
MS Visual Studio 2008. Am starting to go back into the dark world of directx.
(I helped save b3ta! SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:30, archived)
# Hahaha. Lolwhat?
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:18, archived)