[lal]

 Hi Guys & Gals, need to get a new computer soon, was thinking of getting an all in one desktop, being using a
 laptop for some years now but its getting a bit knackered now with visitors to the house using it and abusing it,
 was dropped on the floor once by someone I wont mention and screen was cracked, so now I want a desktop of
 sorts that will stay on a desk permanatly, locked away from unauthorized users.
 I like the look of the imacs, I know there generally more expensive, plus I've no experience with macs always used
 windows, just wondering what  most of you use macs or PC's, pro's and cons, any advice given I would be grateful.

 Best regards
 Lal

[duncan h]

Windows always. Yet I hate Microsoft lol. Not struck on Windows 8.Mac still hasn't the back up as Win, drivers etc

[Nathanael Jones]

Mac does what it does flawlessly - but it does a lot less than windows.

Windows machines have their faults (personally I love windows 8 though) - but the software is a fraction of the price, and there's a lot more available for free. I can get a lot more productivity out of a windows machine than a Mac one at the same cost.

[Mick Kent]

Mac does what it does flawlessly - but it does a lot less than windows.

Windows machines have their faults (personally I love windows 8 though) - but the software is a fraction of the price, and there's a lot more available for free. I can get a lot more productivity out of a windows machine than a Mac one at the same cost.

Do you actualy window clean or do you just do websites.
You seem a total bofin and a whizz on a computer that you are wasted cleaning windows.
Didnt mean no halm calling you a bofin by the way.
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[Nathanael Jones]

I sold up my round nearly 2 years ago & went full time at the web design - but what can I say, once you're hooked on CIU you're hooked for life!

Mac does what it does flawlessly - but it does a lot less than windows.

Windows machines have their faults (personally I love windows 8 though) - but the software is a fraction of the price, and there's a lot more available for free. I can get a lot more productivity out of a windows machine than a Mac one at the same cost.

Do you actualy window clean or do you just do websites.
You seem a total bofin and a whizz on a computer that you are wasted cleaning windows.
Didnt mean no halm calling you a bofin by the way.
👴

[robert mitchell]

I went from windows to mac 18 months ago ........i would never go back to windows , its outdated, slows down , gets viruses,takes time to boot up , always had problems .

since having my macbook i just open it and its on .

[Arnold Palmer]

I went from windows to mac 18 months ago ........i would never go back to windows , its outdated, slows down , gets viruses,takes time to boot up , always had problems .

I got a mac (I say I, really I mean she ) about a year ago. I would never use iCrap again.

Hate it.

[Jack Harris]

Mac only

got my mrs a top of the range windows laptop for Xmas and it is sh*te so slow i feel sorry for her lol

[Jakey boy]

Mac all day everyday, windows is slow, gets viruses, goes wrong, looks ugly.

Mac looks beautiful, works amazing and means I'm a snob

[Richard ham]

Neither, im an android fan

[keyser soze]

i love the mac . i purchased top one from pc world. classy bit of kit .

[duncan h]

Its your laptops that are under powered for Windows. Every time it comes out, it uses more resources.
Mac has less going on, hence quicker.
Windows should boot fast if your pc is good. My pc takes 5 seconds from bios to operating system.
After time windows gets screwed,as all OS do. Reformat once a year sorts it out.
Windows doesn't collect a virus any quicker. Those porno sites are full of them. I know, ive had a few 
Good anti virus and check for adware and you should be ok

[Walter Mitty]

Does it have to be either/or these days or can you have the best of both worlds by partitioning a hard drive and have a partition that simulates a Mac?  I've used many O/S's down the years but never tried Mac. 

[rosskesava]

I've got an iMac and a Windows 7 laptop loaded with Ubuntu.

I'd never go back to using Windows.

It's only when you use something else for a while that you realise just how bad Windows really is.

[rosskesava]

Does it have to be either/or these days or can you have the best of both worlds by partitioning a hard drive and have a partition that simulates a Mac?  I've used many O/S's down the years but never tried Mac. 

The program I saw uses Windows to emulate a Mac. It still has all the drawbacks of Windows as it uses Windows software.

You can download and install a Linux os (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, LWDE ) along side Windows which gives a duel boot option, i.e. either Linux or Windows.

[8weekly]

Mac all day everyday, windows is slow, gets viruses, goes wrong, looks ugly.

Mac looks beautiful, works amazing and means I'm a snob sheep

ftfy

[duncan h]

Does it have to be either/or these days or can you have the best of both worlds by partitioning a hard drive and have a partition that simulates a Mac?  I've used many O/S's down the years but never tried Mac. 

The program I saw uses Windows to emulate a Mac. It still has all the drawbacks of Windows as it uses Windows software.

You can download and install a Linux os (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, LWDE ) along side Windows which gives a duel boot option, i.e. either Linux or Windows.

good idea. I used to duel boot XP and 7. As some games etc only worked on XP

[Jakey boy]

Mac all day everyday, windows is slow, gets viruses, goes wrong, looks ugly.

Mac looks beautiful, works amazing and means I'm a snob sheep

ftfy

Not really, the sheep buy windows, the elite buy mac!

[Neil Jones]

I have both. Mac all day everyday. I've had it 7 or 8 years and it still out perfoms my pc which is only 3 month old. Dread to think what a pc that is 7/8 years old would be like. I'm guessing you would have to turn it on the day before you wanted to use it

[Tom-01]

I went from windows to mac 18 months ago ........i would never go back to windows , its outdated, slows down , gets viruses,takes time to boot up , always had problems .

since having my macbook i just open it and its on .

+1 Brilliant bit of kit.