Windows or Macintosh?

[Sheogorath]

Are you using Windows or Macintosh?

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[Kitty]

Windows, of course!

[Kitty]

But wait... I'd choose Ubuntu over any of them. Yes, I'm a geekie one.

[Sheogorath]

But wait... I'd choose Ubuntu over any of them. Yes, I'm a geekie one.

Yes I just love Ubuntu, but I am a gaming freak. Ubuntu + Games = ERROR

[Kitty]

World of Warcraft, Undead Horde Warlock FTW! :)

[Sheogorath]

World of Warcraft, Undead Horde Warlock FTW! :)

I never did like WoW. Probably I can only get Dial Up and Satellite Internet.

The Elder Scrolls are better than any game you could ever name. End of Story.

:cool:

[BGilomen]

Windows =AND= Macintosh =AND= Linux.

Why limit yourself to only one?

[dollymadison]

Windows of course!!! And I still haven't figured out what The Elder Scrolls are, and the only thing I know about a Mac is that it involves a partially eaten Apple. :D

[sollanek]

Ubuntu for years now, can't beat open source.

[Willie Buck Merle]

Win XP Host = day
CentOS Guest = night

[Lortikit]

When I see Mac spelled out as Macintosh, I think "that's so 1984."

Win for me. It's my development machine.
Ubuntu for play. I like to explore this ever evolving OS.
MacBook for wife. It's for her work.

[Aragorn]

I use Windows 7. I prefer to not have a manufacturer tell me what I can and cannot do with my own property.

[BGilomen]

Win XP Host = day
CentOS Guest = night
CentOS = my Asterisk/FreePBX/PIAF machine. Great OS!

[Micallen]

WINDOWS!!!! I shudder when I think of the days in jr high when I was forced to use an Apple.

[Lortikit]

CentOS = my Asterisk/FreePBX/PIAF machine. Great OS!

Ah! Telephony! Yumm.

I always wanted to explore Asterisk, but never had the bandwidth, for digital that is. I've ditched my analog line a while back.

[Lortikit]

WINDOWS!!!! I shudder when I think of the days in jr high when I was forced to use an Apple.
Now was this an Apple II, Macintosh or Mac? That would date you.

[BGilomen]

WINDOWS!!!! I shudder when I think of the days in jr high when I was forced to use an Apple.
Invalid comparison, methinks. What was the MS operating system at that time; DOS? :)

It was great using the sophisticated Apple "System X" compared to the MSDOS or crappy Windows overlay (I remember Windows 2 quite well) of the same time-period (late 80s).

[Micallen]

Invalid comparison, methinks. What was the MS operating system at that time; DOS? :)

It was great using the sophisticated Apple "System X" compared to the MSDOS or crappy Windows overlay (I remember Windows 2 quite well) of the same time-period (late 80s).

Windows wasn't around yet. (shutup Lortikit :) )

[Micallen]

Now was this an Apple II, Macintosh or Mac? That would date you.

**coughAppleIIcough**

[Lortikit]

I still have a plastic "The APPLE(r) CARD copyright 1980" information sheet that compactly documented the most popular computer info I used when I first started programming for money.

I thought it was more fun than a Radio Shack TRS-80 A.K.A. "Trash-80" at the time.

Then we moved on to a Cromemco using a dumb-terminal running CP/M.

And then the IBM PC came along and changed everything.

Those were fun times.

OK, I think now this dates me.

[Micallen]

I took 2 years of RPG II programming (on an IBM System 34). Not sure if that dates me or not, but it was a waste of 2 years.

[Lortikit]

Yuck, RPG II. I could never understand how that was popular.

My first programmable calculator was an HP-25. First programmable calc in my high-school. But I really wanted an HP-65, didn't get that until probably 20 years later from a friend :)

[Willie Buck Merle]

1st Rig
=====
Mac SE + Apple Imagewriter II = $3000 (w/Student Discount)

[BGilomen]

1st Rig
=====
Mac SE + Apple Imagewriter II = $3000 (w/Student Discount)

You are a mere child, although an SE was my first (of dozens) of Macs

1st personal rig = homebuilt breadboard system sporting a Cosmac something-or-other chip, hex keypad, and RF out to TV.

Among many, many, many computers, I had a:

* TRS-80
* Apple /// (yes 3! Rare, and it also faithfully emulated an Apple ][+ or ][e
* Just about every mainstream Mac desktop and laptop ever made: II, IIfx,
various Quadras, up through my current 2003 Powermac dual Proc G5 that still runs strong
* The original Compac "Portable" (ha!)
* Zillions of x86 machines.

Right now I have and use daily my old faithful Dell Inspiron 700m (never turned off; used for hours and hours a day); Gateway Centos PBX box, Dell Dimension 4100 (kinda just sitting there as an XP legacy machine); homebuilt quadcore state-of-the-art everything (gaming machine)

[Lortikit]

Wow. I remember those Compac "luggables" at trade shows. They were quite heavy. I also remember being really excited when Unix based luggables came out too, but quickly disappeared.

[BGilomen]

Sadly, with respect to the Apple content of this post, Steve Jobs passed away today. He was younger than I am... :(

[Kitty]

Omg! :(

[shengchieh]

Linux (I use Linux Mint Fluxbox 9).

Where are the *nix choices (Linux, BSD, Unix, etc)? They are so much (financially) safer than window or macs.

Sheng-Chieh

[Willie Buck Merle]

RIP Steve

[OD2274]

I'm in the midst of children. First learned Fortran on an IBM 360 mainframe. Programmed it with punch cards. Did machine language programming on that machine with punch cards, also. Moved to a CDC mainframe after that. First home computer was a Z-80 kit running CP/M and using a 9 inch black and white TV monitor. Programs were saved to an audio cassette. Programmed an HP mini computer with punched tape. First production personal computer was an Apple II. Modified it to have dual external floppy drives and modified the keyboard to allow upper and lower case letters. First modem was an audio device that cradled the telephone handset. Used that modem to get dial up internet from AOL and then Compuserve.

Now the fastest machine in my office is a fully tricked out gaming screamer in an X-Blade case (with blue lights) that has many Gigs of memory and multiple hard drives that is used for program development and testing. It can compile 100,000 lines of code in just under 5 seconds. It runs Oracle VMBox so that we can use virtual machines to run anything from MS-DOS to Windows 3.1 right on up to 64 bit Windows 7. We run WinXP to develop programs and then use VMBox virtual machines to test the programs on every flavor of WinXP, Vista and Win7 in both 32 and 64 bit versions. We use VMBox to run Linux on the same machine for Linux development and testing using Ubuntu.

Computers have come a long way and it has been fascinating to see the advances. Looking forward to whatever shows up next.

[Aragorn]

OK... time to date myself. 1967 IBM 1401 programming in Autocoder (Thank you Herman Hollerith for the 5081 and your Hollerith code). 1968-1972 Repairing IBM EAM / Unit record machine in US Navy (407 Accounting Machine, sorter, collator, gang-punch, interpreter, keypunch, and verifier) on USS Intrepid CVS-11. Also did some Autocoder programming in my last months in the Navy. 1972 IBM S/360 programming in Assembler (loved that), a little COBOL, and RPG and RPG II. 1983 PC/XT and various "clones" with PC-DOS to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP programming in Basic and Business Basic II. IBM S/23 DataMaster programming in Basic. Windows something programming in Delphi 1. 1972 IBM System/3 Models 6, 8, 10, 12, and 15D programming in RPG II. 1972 IBM S/32, S/34, S/36 programming in RPG II. 1979 IBM S/38 programming in RPG III. 1988 IBM AS/400 programming in RPG/400. Finally IBM i programming in ILE RPG IV (Brainbench certified) /Free format. Regrets... not learning to program in Java / VB / C# earlier in my career. Jobs for IBM i guys like me are getting very hard to find in my geography. 2005 IBS Integrator - expert level. Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be programmers! Today's favorite toy is a Sager NP7652 with Intel i5, 4 Gb RAM, 500 Gb hard drive, Windows 7, Office 2010 Plus, ESET Security Suite 5, Revo Uninstall Pro, HideMyIP, PC Matic, VLC, Soluto, Quicken 2011, Picasa 3, etc. I also have a Kobo Touch eReader. I gave my wife an iPad. We both use Pixis with Preware and I have over 50 apps installed.

[Albert2000]

A Windows PC is a machine for getting things done. A Mac is a way of life. People mostly select PCs for home use because they have one at the office or because they are "cheaper" than PCs. Having used both I can say that it is like driving a Porsche Carrera vs. a Chevy Malibu - either will get you where you want to go but one will provide a much better over all experience than the other. Friends I've convinced to upgrade to a Mac soon have that OMG! moment.

[BGilomen]

I'm in the midst of children. First learned Fortran on an IBM 360 mainframe. Programmed it with punch cards.

Peers in the case of some of us.

Also programmed a 360 at the U if Illinois via punchcards. Kept my final research card deck for the -longest- time. But, we were a bleeding-edge school and had innovations! I was able to dump my card deck to mag tape, which I also kept for a long while, and we also interfaced a PDP-11 to the 360 so that you could enter code via TTY. Wow!

But, at the very same time, I was working with the beyond-anything-imaginable Plato IV system. Powered by Seymore (sp?) Cray's Control Data Cyber 6XXX (precursor to the Cray-1), it used sophisticated plasma panel graphics displays on a network of 1000's of user-accessible terminals as far away as Moscow. Consumer-grade Email ("pnotes"), the Usenet ("gnotes") and in-line chatting ("ttalk") were effectively invented there. They had an Internet before there was a user-accessible Internet. This was in the early to mid 70s. Groundbreaking! I was totally spoiled after I left...

[Albert2000]

also - if you have ever called Dell or HP for customer support - you have my condolences. Apple customer support is excellent and resident in the USA. I resolved an issue with my wife's out of warranty iPad quickly and easily. I do not have "Apple Care." Their products are more expensive but worth it. ... no virus issues either.

[Lortikit]

It's a little funny what they actually claim. Apple's tag line on their Mac page is:

It doesn't get PC viruses.

Well, Duh! That's because it's a Mac and not a PC!

I know Mac OS's are more secure, but bad guys can still do damage via social engineering.

And another thing... Steve Jobs was insanely great.