Mac or PC?

[budsiskos]

which one are You?

and if there are any linux users here, dont worry i didnt forget you.

[KSagal]

I have many tools, and do not fill out polls for the most part.

I also am very much unfamiliar with most all Apple products. I have never owned an iphone, a mac, nor an ipod...

I do use some of their software, like for streaming video. (because this site or that will request that I download it) The only apple products that I know that I use are these shareware products.

[SegwayDan]

Hey, I'm Mac and I'm proud. Apple all the way since about 1979. First Mac in 1985.

Avoid windoze like the plague. No such machine will darken my doorstep.

[DaveA]

One Gentoo Linux box,
two OpenBSD boxes,
one XP box,
and one iBook G4.

Guess that qualifies for "combination".

[Bob.Kerns]

Active:

• My Laptop PC (Vista x64) on which I also run various VMs (XP, Ubuntu, CentOS, Vista, Windows 7)
• 1 6-years old Dell laptop I'll probably power it down for good soon. (Vista)
• My wife's laptop (Vista x32)
• 1 Desktop PC (Vista x32)
• Two iPhones
• One Amazon EC2 instance out there in the cloud, running our family Wiki. (Want an account, Mom?). It's running some Linux variant, I'm not sure what, as I just grabbed a configured install to get started. I haven't decided what I want to run there for real. Yes, I do not own the hardware, and don't even know what hardware it is or WHERE it is, but it's my system nonetheless.

Inactive:

• SGI Indigo
• Mac II (which used to have an embeded Symbolics MacIvory Lisp Machine), with a 300 MB hard drive that cost me I think $1500.
• Powerbook 100
• Powerbook Duo
• An old PC, circa 1998, with XP
• An old dual-processor PC, from back when those were rare, with Windows 2000 (unbootable since Microsoft sabotaged it through Microsoft Update)
• My wife's old Sony Vaio -- the only computer I've ever killed trying to service. Needs a new touchpad ribbon connector Not worth the hassle trying to obtain the part.
• HTC 8252
• Samsung whatever-it-was-called
• a Sony Cleo that I killed in the laundry. This is the device with which Erika learned to read!
• An ancient Palm device, m105?
• Some random device I picked up 15 years ago with an embedded Basic interpreter and a small LCD display.

The Mac II is the oldest -- it was the first personal computer on the market that I considered sufficiently powerful for me to put in my own money. I'd used a lot of earlier stuff, but found them pretty limited. I was never willing to trust my data to audio tones recorded onto a cassette tape, for example. Or any sort of floppy disk.

The SGI is my wife's, she had it when we were married, brought it to the US, and hardly used it since, such is hardware obsolescence...

The EC2 instance is my newest.

And in the "potential" category:

• One TiVo 40 running some Linux variant
• One TiVo 80 DT running some Linux variant
• Three Western Digital terabyte NAS RAID 1 boxes running some Linux variant
• At least one, probably more, of my network routers run or can be hacked to run Linux.

Each of these can be hacked to run whatever you want, but I haven't done so, considering them to be rather under-powered for even their current uses. I do run some TiVo apps over the network on the PC desktop.

Note that I'm only counting computers that I can actually run software of my choosing on. I'd like to figure out how to run software on my Cannon PIXMA 850 all-in-one, and I wonder what it runs natively. I'd like to scan-to-network-disk or scan-to-flash.

I'm not counting company computers (my only active Macintosh, for example). Nor my 20-year-old daughter's, PC or iPhone, though I paid for them...

I'm not counting the microwave oven.

[Joushou]

Why is Linux an option in a platform poll?
PC and Mac are hardware platforms, Linux is an OS... So, either you mean "Mac OS, Linux, Windows or a combination", or Linux doesn't fit into the category of the Poll, since it runs on both Mac's and PC's (Well, unless you managed to run software without hardware :O)
I have plenty of PC's and one Mac... but i never run anything non-*nix

Active Hardware:

• Apple MacBook Pro 17" (the 1920x1200 panel raised the cost to $4k... But i didn't have anything to use the money on )
• Homebrew Core 2 Quad (Q9300), running at 3.2GHz (Water-cooled ), with 4GB of DDR2 RAM. Acts as my server
• Nintendo Wii (As Bob, i write anything i can run software i wrote/choose on )
• Nintendo DS Lite(s) (Not too fast, almot no RAM (4MB...), but you can throw linux on it, so it qualifies )
• Nintendo DSi (Haven't gotten it to run anything in "DSi" mode yet, so it locks down memory and cpu to emulate a DS)
• T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), running Google Android

Inactive Hardware:

• HP Compaq nx7000 (Laptop)
• HP Pavilion zeSomething (Laptop)
• HP Pavilion m7450 (Desktop)
• HP Compaq Something (Desktop)
• Homebrew P3 (451MHz!)
• HP Something Thin-client (800MHz)
• HP Compaq h2200 (I think) (PDA)
• Way too many Pentium Pro's (And other pre-Pentium3 hardware from my father)
• Nintendo GameBoy Advance (and SP) (If i recall correctly, it had 384kB RAM)
• Nintendo GameBoy Color
• Nintendo GameBoy Original (Judging by its size, it might have had a mechanical CPU)
• Probably something i'm not remembering

Potentially (ab)usable:

• Logitech Squeezebox
• Way too many free PIC's

All of the above hardware that runs an OS, runs either BSD, Darwin or Linux... Well, the Wii runs their own really odd OS (Same with the DSi)... but i have Linux for them all

Only Windows PC's in the house is my 2 little-sisters (Dell Vostro 1700 (Again with a 1920x1200 panel... But damn, it's bulky/heavy compared to my MBP :/), and a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo something (My bigger-sisters old laptop), and my parents (Lenovo IdeaPad s10e, and HP Pavilion zeSomething (17" laptop, with damn low resolution :S))...

Since i'm not supplied with any hardware from work, i'm not counting something like that in (Why don't my boss thing i need computers at home, when i'm an electrician!?)... Well, unless buying some of the hardware in my own company-name (With the pure intentions of private use of course... ).

And i don't have a microwave-oven, so i can't count that in either... If i had one, i would though :P

Bob: Amazon EC2 Cloud account for a family Wiki? Well, maybe your Wiki is very CPU intensive, but isn't that a bit of an overkill? :P
SegwayDan: I was VERY close to writing it's instead of its in this post :P

[C3RS]

1) Main computer: assembled PC system (WinXP)
2) Secondary computer: Laptop PC system (WinXP)
3) Server computer: desktop-PC system (WinXP)
4) HTPC computer: desktop-PC system (WinXP)

5) Family computer: Dell PC system (WinVISTA)

6) Test/code computer: restored eMac 700 with 10.4 MacOSX (not iMac...)

[Bob.Kerns]

Originally Posted by Joushou

Why is Linux an option in a platform poll?
PC and Mac are hardware platforms, Linux is an OS... So, either you mean "Mac OS, Linux, Windows or a combination", or Linux doesn't fit into the category of the Poll, since it runs on both Mac's and PC's (Well, unless you managed to run software without hardware :O)

Windows runs on Macs as well. "Platform" generally refers to the hardware+software that underlie the application software. Exactly what this means depends on context -- sometimes it's the OS, sometimes mostly the hardware, sometimes very specific software (e.g. an application server).

Originally Posted by Joushou

Bob: Amazon EC2 Cloud account for a family Wiki? Well, maybe your Wiki is very CPU intensive, but isn't that a bit of an overkill? :P

It's a matter of economics -- time and money. I don't have to buy a server, I can turn it off at night and not pay, I don't pay for electricity, I don't have it taking up space, I don't have to set up and maintain and service it....

I don't need another UPS to start feeping at me during the next power outage this winter.

I set it up and put it into service faster than I've ever put any physical PC into service -- and it was my first try with EC2.

I can manage it from my iPhone -- even upgrade it. I can access it from anywhere -- I don't have to make a hole in my home firewall -- and don't have to deal with the dynamic IP I get with my cable service. I get more uptime.

If I need more storage, I can just configure it. Backups are trivial, if I back up to the cloud. (I may want to reverse my usual practice, and back up FROM the cloud to local storage as a second backup type. I don't do single backup types anymore).

[budsiskos]

Originally Posted by Joushou

Why is Linux an option in a platform poll?
PC and Mac are hardware platforms, Linux is an OS... So, either you mean "Mac OS, Linux, Windows or a combination", or Linux doesn't fit into the category of the Poll, since it runs on both Mac's and PC's (Well, unless you managed to run software without hardware :O)
I have plenty of PC's and one Mac... but i never run anything non-*nix

:P

well linux is such a separate os that most consider them being a completely independent entity from the others. not to mention, most linux users actually build their own computers.

[Wireczar]

Originally Posted by budsiskos

which one are You?

and if there are any linux users here, dont worry i didnt forget you.

Why is this in Segway Forum????