Apple Vs PC - New Computer, Who Won?
After 3 year it seems that it is time to get a new computer. I believe tha I have struggled long enough with the emachine that I have been using. To date I was using a emachine T3990 box with a intel celeron D processor. The box came with 80 Gigs and 256 MB or ram. Wow, that sucked!!! But when I brought it I thought it was just enough for me to last for at least 5 years.  Boy was I wrong. It has XP installed on it and in the last month it has started to get very sluggish and it would print out blank pages on it’s own. It got so bad that I would spend 2 to 3 hours on it and all the virtual memory would run out and I had to reboot the machine. Thats 2 to 3 times a day!! I also found out that I could not play DVD’s on the machine because it only had a CD R/W drive in it. Boy, did I get a clunker. But, the machine did help me to put out a number of projects that are still paying off. So, to my last machine, I sulute you and say thanks for the years of service.
As for my next machine, I took some time to see what was on the market. I am a big PC guy and I don’t have a lot of experience with apple. But, I have to say that there latest iMac is a goooood machine. I checked it out for about a week and I was very impressed with the hardard and software provided. The only problem that I had was that I have software that I did not want to replace with migrating to apple’s system. I know that I could have created a dual boot system with windows and apple. But, to me that would have been a headache in the making. But, if it would have given me a machine that would last for 5 to 6 years I would be willing to do it. As for a PC, I did not want to deal with vista. I heard a many horror stories with the system. I also felt that I would have to replace all of my software going with a PC also. Unless, I built my own system with XP.
All and all, I decided to go with a PC a gateway GM5664 Phenom with a 22″ Widescrren HD LCD screen. Boy, is this system fast. It is by far the best system that I have ever owned. And I have to say I love it. I found that the old software that I was so worried about installed on the vista operating system. So, I did not have any problems in that area. I had to upgrade my office suite. I was runing office 2000 on my old system and I was told that would not install on vista. I do have office 2003 but I can’t find the product code. So I had to drop $200 dollars into office. I guess that is not bad. As for hard drive space, 1 tarabyte. I think I won’t fill that up. If I do I am a bad man ;-)! The only new hardware that I need not is a camera and a print server. Oh, an it came with a all in one flatbed canon photo printer. Just what I wanted.. With this type of computer I better pump out some good content. Till next time.. Two fingers in the air.. PEACE…
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I had to buy a new laptop and a new desktop this year, and I went with HP for both. The machines themselves are not bad, but I can’t stand VISTA.
I really considered buying Macs but I could get almost 3x the machine for less than half the price with the HP’s. I couldn’t justify the expense.
That’s not to say that I wouldn’t buy a Mac in a heartbeat if I had enough money to buy a comparable machine. I had an iBook G4 for a while, and it was a good little ‘puter.
Apple makes up for quantity with its quality.
I work in IT, People are still buying pc’s because they are used to it. Mac however is gaining ground.