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Informal Mac poll
Poll
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53 members have voted
| October 6th, 2011 at 2:12:13 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7281 | In order not to derail the Steve Jobs thread (any more), I palced this poll here. I think I have all the applicable choices, save for whoever uses Linux. So the question is what kind of computer do you have and use, both at home and work? Linux users please do elaborate, if you care to. This space is closed for remodeling |
| October 6th, 2011 at 2:30:32 PM permalink | |
| kp Member since: Feb 28, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 422 | This needs to be multiple choice. Work: RedHat Linux, SunOS, Windows Home: RedHat Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| October 6th, 2011 at 3:11:23 PM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3108 | Yeah... me too .. mainly PC at work, but big helpings of Centos Linux and small dashes of Mac. Home it's 95% PC and the occasional buggering around with a remote Linux server. I said PC/PC though to help. My next home PC may be a Linux boxen though... depends on how comfortable I end up feeling about it being dual boot. "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| October 6th, 2011 at 3:17:53 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7281 | Looks like I flubbed on Linux. Sorry about that. I was going to say I assume most people run Linux on a PC ratehr than on a Mac, but I don't know enough about Linux or Mac to be certain of it. This space is closed for remodeling |
| October 6th, 2011 at 3:49:15 PM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3108 | A version of Linux/Unix runs on every Mac sold since about 2002.... OS X IS an Unix operating system. You can run your own Linux on a Mac, if you want to dual boot it, but it's not common and (relatively) pointless (*)... most Linux based machines are what would have once been called "IBM compatible PCs", but the term is meaningless these days... the hardware to run Mac OS, Windows or Linux is much the same (except Apple keep a guard around running their OS on any other software)... a PC just means a personal computer, and really nowt to do with the operating system anymore. (*) I can think of reasons why you would... but they are edge cases.... "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| October 6th, 2011 at 4:02:09 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7281 |
You see, when I first learned about computers, we were taught that PC meant Personal Computer. It was a category as distinct as Mainframe, Supercomputer, etc. In that sense, the old Apples, Ataris, Commodores, TRSs, Kaypros, Televideos, and so on were all PCs. But then the term started being applied only to the IBM PC running on DOS and those made under license or whatever other agreement IBM had with them (at that DOS was a generic term for Disk Operating System, there was even an Apple DOS at the time; but I digress). So you either owned a PC or a Mac, and never the twain shall meet. So how did we come full circle? was it Apple switching to Intel chips? This space is closed for remodeling |
| October 6th, 2011 at 4:17:27 PM permalink | |
| Scotty71 Member since: Mar 5, 2011 Threads: 16 Posts: 200 | Two Macs at home and two in my office. I run Parallels to access windows only software...kind of a pain but not as much as a full-time windows PC. when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because."
— E.E. Cummings |
| October 6th, 2011 at 5:14:23 PM permalink | |
| Mosca Member since: Dec 14, 2009 Threads: 74 Posts: 1628 | Two Macs and a Linux at home, and Windows at work. I don't have a preference in OSes, they all work well IMO. NO KILL I |
| October 7th, 2011 at 7:40:18 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7281 | By my count there are 14 PCs and 7 Macs. That's a lot more Macs than I expected. I guess old habits die hard. Of course I shouls have posted a better Linux option. I think the propper question should have been "what coputer do you use at home?" With choices given as PC, Mac, Linux, Other (hey, who knows what other OSes may be lurking out there...) This space is closed for remodeling |
| October 7th, 2011 at 8:08:05 AM permalink | |
| NicksGamingStuff Member since: Feb 2, 2010 Threads: 43 Posts: 631 | Max and I both have macs. |
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