Should I buy an Mac Laptop or a Windows one?
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My old (windows) laptop has died, and so I am going to buy a new laptop. I am an art student so will be using a range of the adobe products including after effects, photoshop and illustrator, and Id also using it for general internet use.
Bearing in mind that a windows laptop would be a lot cheaper for the same specs, it would also need anti-virus software etc and still be prone to viruses anyway.
So, weighing everything up, I would really appreciate any information on which would be better for my situation.
(If getting Mac – it would just be 2.4GHz Macbook)
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Either or would be fine, Adobe has been pretty consistent on both platforms with their software, and Apple products have always been traditionally the champion of the design industry; However there isn’t any one reason why a Windows machine wouldn’t do as good as a job, and it’d do it cheaper.
Though the Mac is less susceptible to malware, it’s not immune. And a very well updated Windows PC with great free anti-virus protection like Avast! or Avira or AVG and spyware catching software would be pretty good.
It all comes down to your aesthetic prefrences and your budget. Personally though I use both, i’m attached more to my Mac. But is aesthetics important to you? Enough that you’d buy the Lexus Mac over the Toyota WinPC which is basically the same thing but more trim?
I’d suggest that you’d narrow your PC choice to one first, as not all windows laptops are the same, and then play around with it a bit, and then go to an apple store and play with the macbook. Whatever feels more "right" to you, should be your choice.
Get a normal lappy. Mac’s are overpriced and under-powered. There’s nothing you can do on a mac that you can’t do on a PC and there’s plenty of stuff you can do on a PC but can’t on a mac.
Unfortunately macs and more fashion accessories that real computers.
So unless you’re a pretencious fashion victim buy a real computer.
I ‘personally’ prefer Windows, since it is more popular and you could easily find programs running on it, as well as it is more familiar for users.
you should buy a windows pc {dell} even if laptop then buy dell.
it should be windows vista.
it has the best firewall the windows defender
it you want to buy mac that much than buy an iphone 3G {$399}
it has all and even better features of the pc!
Macs are aspirational ornaments designed for bringing out in coffee shops. They are supposed to say "I’m a cool person who works in a creative field". They really say "I’m a vacuous computer illiterate mug, easily parted from my hard earned cash in a vain attempt to look hip"
Everything mac does, a pc does for a third of the price. The reason that there are less virii around for macs is that nobody uses them. The same reasoning could be applied to arguing the case for a commodore 64. … actually on second thoughts the commodore 64 is quite cool in a retro way.
Get a pc, get AVG antivirus (its free) and you will have no problems.