Casey's Tumblelog

I'm just a regular schmo, in his mid 20s, living on the east coast of the US.

Here you'll find random findings from around the Internet, with a few original items sprinkled in.

If you'd like, you can read about my journey into buying a Mac.

I can be contacted via e-mail via the username casey at this domain.

Thu Feb 14

The Mac Pro

marco:

[The Mac Pro] is, by far, the most amazingly fast, spacious, capable, and well-designed computer I’ve ever used.

I have no doubt that’s a nice machine, and I am certainly glad his all-too-familiar, all-too-painful wait is over.  That said, can one of the Fanbois explain to me what makes Apple computers any better than a PC set up by an intelligent user?  Admittedly, I haven’t used a Mac for more than about 10 minutes in as many years, but I’m failing to see what a Mac can bring me that I can’t accomplish for half the cost with an equivalent PC, and Ubuntu or the Linux distribution of your choice?

I’m not a gamer, really, and any games I would play (Frozen Bubble or OpenTTD) are running natively in Linux.  I use an admittedly ancient version of Quicken, but at least it runs in Wine flawlessly.  OpenOffice.org is enough to get me thru any of the Office documents I regularly encounter.  I use Firefox and Pidgin in any operating system, so no loss there.

I get (from what I can tell) just as bulletproof a machine, on great hardware (I use a ThinkPad), without the Apple tax, and with 90% of the eye candy thanks to Compiz Fusion.  What makes a Mac so much better?

  1. hendrasaputra reblogged this from marco
  2. 2und40 reblogged this from marco and added:
    I couldn’t say that any better - this was like my experience. I used Windows, too. And switched 4 years ago.
  3. roydavidfarber reblogged this from marco and added:
    Was going through Marco’s blog, and came across this. I completely agree with him… even though I am using Windows 7...
  4. pwn reblogged this from marco and added:
    This is what I’ve been telling people for six years now…
  5. uno reblogged this from marco and added:
    last five years,...couldn’t agree more. I’ve...last fifteen...
  6. brianrecchia reblogged this from marco and added:
    I could never have said it any better myself marco:
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  10. caseyliss reblogged this from marco and added:
    The debate rages on! :)...disagree. My ThinkPad is both pretty as well as extremely...
  11. peroty reblogged this from marco and added:
    I work in IT all day long supporting Windows XP boxes. I go home and hug my MacBook every night because in a year and a...
  12. gschueler reblogged this from marco and added:
    I continually wonder why people don’t think avoiding hassle later is not worth cost now. If you can pay $500 more now to...
  13. jhalickman reblogged this from marco and added:
    Marco just put into words what...have always thought but could not verbalize. This is the...
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  15. benmcmath reblogged this from marco and added:
    Marco explains the Windows (or PC) verses Mac so well… marco:
  16. mattandamy reblogged this from marco and added:
    vs. PC comparisons! See
  17. marco reblogged this from caseyliss and added:
    think I’m qualified...answer this because, as you know,
  18. caseyliss reblogged this from marco and added:
    I have no doubt that’s a nice machine,...am certainly glad his all-too-familiar,...
  19. joshmerrill reblogged this from marco and added:
    I have to agree with Marco, it is...(PC or otherwise) that
  20. marco posted this

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