Mac VS PC

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Exactly what problems are people having with Vista? Our family got a new PC last year and I got a new laptop in Oct. Both have vista and we've yet to experience any issues with it. What are people complaining about?

Hello, I'm an IT Consultant myself. At work we use Windows XP, at home I have Vista. The only reason I have Vista is because it came pre-installed with the laptop I have now.

The problem people have with Vista, is they say it runs slow. Well the reason is plain in simple, Vistas graphics are a lot more demanding then XP. When I first got my laptop it only had 1 gig of ram in it (2 512 sticks). All I did was go out and buy a 2 gig($55) stick of ram and pop it in, update the BIOS and I was good to go. If you don't update the bios, you may see the blue screen of death.

It does seem annoying after a while that when you try to install a program/application on your computer, it asks you permission to do so. Yes that is annoying, but it also does this for removing programs/drivers, anything like that. I was cleaning up my computer one day and almost uninstalled the VideoCard driver for my computer, but because it asked permission, I obviously said no.

There are little things here and there, like compatibility with programs. A lot of programs won't run on a MAC os. Someone I know, went and sold there laptop for a MAC, and I warned them before they did so that a lot of the programs they use, will not work on a MAC. They didn't care, they tried a MAC and thought it was great. 2 weeks later he sold his MAC and now has a laptop with XP on it.

For me it's not about personal preference, it's about what I can do with my computer. For me, I have no use for a MAC. Yes I have used them, and no I don't like them.

For however much MAC laptops are going for, read the specs of the computer itself. 80 gig hard drive, 2 gig of ram. You can double that or more, if you buy a pc with vista/xp on it.

The macbook air, $3500.00. Doesn't even come with a cd-rom, needs to be bought seperately. People think Windows are all about making the money, but look at price differences compared to what you can potentially get in each.

One more thing, if you install XP on your MAC at the same time as the mac osx, that's taking more space of the tiny hd's that come with macs. So no, it's not really beneficial to install XP and the mac os both on the same machine.

That's all I have. Sorry.