Quick Poll: Mac or Windows?

Parent Cafe
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<p>Before you go out and buy Microsoft Office for either Windows or Mac for your kid make sure you check out the school discounts. They can be huge for students. In fact the discount on the XP operating system was pretty steep at my sons college.</p>

<p>You are probably asking why would I buy an operating system when every computer comes with one. The answer is dual boot systems. You can install both OSX and XP in separate partitions on a Macintosh and boot up either system you want to use. For other PCs you might want to do the same thing with XP and Linux or FreeBSD if you are a real geek.</p>

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<p>Windows for now. Vista is surprisingly awesome, and to be honest, I prefer Windows for its more developer centric focus.</p>

<p>I oppose Mac mostly for my hatred of Steve Jobs, and the utter snobbery Apple has towards developers.</p>

<p>Go LINUX!*</p>

<p>*Dualboot!</p>

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<p>^ which flavor?</p>

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<p>Mac since '04. I convinced my family to make the switch.</p>

<ul>
<li>iBook G4 (until a few days ago… it’s now beyond repair :()</li>
<li>iMac G4</li>
<li>MacBook</li>
</ul>

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<p>Poetsheart: Well, then. In the immortal words of Ms. Emily Latella: “Never mind!”</p>

<p>I did not see the word “mostly”. If I had I would have had to agree with your assessment of the seeming vast majority of folks on these boards. I mostly just sit at my computer and read and shake my head… </p>

<p>But, I do love my MAC’s.</p>

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<p><a href=“404!”>404!;

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<p>^ that’s a good one! :D</p>

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<p>My husband and I are theatrical designers (he teaches lighting and film) so we’ve always had Macs. Three desktops and a laptop at home, one G5 in his office. But I’m thinking of getting a low cost PC laptop from our 12 year old,
because his laptop and computer are old. Daughter will get Mac laptop for college in Sept.</p>