Survey: Are you a Mac or a PC?

Commodore 64

Windows 1993ish-current. Personal/Work
Mac OS 2006-current. Personal

You working on some sort of project?

Laptop.

I’ve had Macs since I was little. I had a PC laptop for a few years in high school, but it was old and clunky.

PC all the way. Fuck Macs and Apple, and may Steve Jobs roast down below.

My household has always run on PCs, but I have heard wonderful things about Mac (and some not so wonderful things.) I don’t know that I would ever make the switch. It certainly does not fit my budget as a college student.

I used Windows computers as a kid and purchased a MacBook Pro as soon as I could. I’ve had it for about three years.

I have a PC running Windows XP, and another one that runs Linux. I had an iMac once, and it was fun, but now it is gone and I don’t want another.
At some point in the next three or four years I want to upgrade my XPc to something with components made this decade, and maybe dual-boot Ubuntu on it.

Mac for personal use pretty much since early elementary school. Because of external forces I’ve also had/used various Win Systems since 3.1 and NT3 – the last windows systems I actually enjoyed – though 7’s been reasonable to play with. I also spent a fair amount of time with versions of OpenBSD and a little time with several other OS’s. But yeah, basically have always been and continue to be Mac OS user and see nothing in the short term that’s likely to change it (though I expect the next real test will come with OS 11).

I’ve been using Apple computers since the 80’s. My first computer was an Apple II+ which I quickly gave away when I got a Macintosh with a floppy drive and a 20 mega byte hard drive which I thought was a gift from the Gods at the time. I’m currently using an iMac with Snow Leopard OPS. It is slow by today’s standards but so am I. HA!

PC, one with XP and one with 7. No plans to change.

PC, with Windows XP. Never had experience with anything else.

PC.
Windows 7 for gaming and Ubuntu for everything else.

PC.

I don’t dislike MAC (though I hate how they advertise themselves and how many people view them, “perfect”)... but for the same money you can get a much better/more reliable PC. I used to work at a store that did repairs on computers and probably 40% of our incoming work was MAC’s… despite something like 15% of the population owning them.

Both. I use a MacBook Air and a Windows desktop about equally. I like them both for different things.

And Mac is definitely not perfect. My laptop overheats watching YouTube videos because the cooling system is so poor and I’ve had to have the trackpad replaced twice in less than a year. But you don’t see me getting of rid it :)

PC. Mainly because I like to build the things myself the way I like them.

PC, I don’t agree with most of Apple’s policies and will not purchase a phone or Mac from them until those policies change. The IPad, however, is my one exception. It is the best tablet on the market by a longshot.

I’ve always had PCs because that is what is used at work. The SO gave me an iPad, and if it didn’t have the Apple logo on it, I wouldn’t know any better.

I have a PC with Windows 7 that I am very pleased with.

Always been a PC even though I make art/design for a living. If I ever had money and space to spare I’d get a Mac as another machine, but I don’t. I have always liked PC because a far wider range of software is available for it.

Once, when both of my machines had self-destructed from age and overuse, I temporarily was on a linux box but used for very little except the web because none of the available programs were anywhere near as good as those I used to make a living.

Windows.

PC

I started out bouncing between Apple ][ and Commodore for most of the ‘80s.
I spent the late-‘80s/early-‘90s firmly in the Mac camp.
During the mid-‘90s, I was too busy in the Navy to even deal with computers as a hobby.
When I got out, I bounced between Mac and PC.
For the last 10 years (basically, since WinXP), I have been a strongly PC person.

I like having software available. I like being able to upgrade stuff, or build my own. I like being able to get 150% of the performance for 50% of the cost. I like graphics. (Macs lost that edge long ago.) I like hardware options. I like all of the stuff that Steve Jobs thought took computing out of the hands of common people. Most of all, I grew up and learned to separate facts from marketing.

@anartist And none of those programs ran under WINE??

Mac . . . for my entire computer experience. I think I’ve had at least 6 machines.

Apples are fruit; PC are computers…..........

At home, Mac – both my husband and I. And his parents. We have had PC’s but prefer the Macs.

At work – PCs with Windows for both of us.

I’m a PC with Windows 7.

The only circumstance in which I would buy a Mac was if it was the same price as a PC of equal spec. But I’m not going to pay an extra 40% for the label.

PC and Windows 7 !