Oh no! Not the mac/pc debate, right here in our own little corner of the 25th century!

Can't we all just get along? Think of the children!

Hi there Tim, and others who haven't met me yet, I'm Reid. I'm 26 and I live in Lexington, South Carolina. I'm unemployed as well, and started getting into Star trek when I was about 8. It started with TNG for me and continued on from there except for the fact that I never got into DS9 too much. In lieu of the tactical aspect of Star Trek, I always loved the exploration and scientific side of it all. I'm unemployed so I have a great deal of time for hobbies as well. I love to get out and just drive around town a good deal when I get the chance, and going out to dinner, hanging out with my few friends around, and just as much as all that - I love voice and webcam chat online with my friends on the internet. I would say that I need a lot of alone time IRL because I'll just go batty after awhile if my "routine" is interrupted too much by company, but since company is so rare, I jump at the chance to have someone come over. When I'm playing STO, I do prefer to always team up whenever possible as long as its a mission I'm ready to handle. I would say I know how ya feel on the anxiety front, as I do experience it, but the panic attacks I have are semi-rare and aren't very strong and don't last for too long. When we used to have satellite, I often enjoyed watching HGTV, Fine Living, DIY, and other educational networks, as I love Science, Food, and Design. I'm also really into cars, so I guess the whole geek/gay designer/macho hot rodder aspects of me keep each other in check heh.. I really don't know what others in the fleet think of me, and I'm not sure I want to know LOL, but eh, feel free to ask around I suppose. I enjoy seeing you around sometime In game!

Mac/Apple is just smoke and mirrors. People who usually like the products are easily pleased by nifty graphic transitions and impressed with 100's of useless applications, etc.

No thank you.

Ugh. I'm still scarred from my Mac childhood. My family only had Mac computers in the house since I was a toddler up through most of high school. I remember even as far back as middle school being constantly annoyed at the operating system in general, not to mention the rampant bugs and problems.

To this day, I still cannot see what the hell people see in that operating system. I find Windows to be far more intuitive, flexible, and capable than it's Apple counterpart. And yeah, as Nick said, you can get a whole lot more bang for your buck if you go the PC route, especially if you build it yourself.

And don't even get me started on the iPhone. I'm literally counting the days until I can ditch this thing for an Android.

I have both..and I got to tell you.. My laptop blows my Mac Book Pro away..

I have an HP Elitebook, Core i7-840, 16GB RAM, 200GB Vertigo2 SSD, nVidia FX 3800M 1GB Vid Card, 17" Dream Color LED Display

To get all that in a Mac, would be unholy expensive.. True, most Mac laptops come with the LED, but the 17" model starts out at $2,200...if that LED breaks..better have the warranty. If mine breaks, I can get a replacement off of ebay for about $400...Best part is, when I want to upgrade my Vid card, WiFi card, etc.. I am able to by calling and ordering a different one. Can't do that with a Mac. Plus, most of the best games and apps run just as well on a PC as they do on a Mac.. Granted, Mac's handle video & graphic editing better, but that is about it... Long story short, upgrade your PC to a more robust version, install Windows 7 and call it done! :)

Miguel Ferrar 2-7-55. He was a bridge officer in ST III.
Honorary to Jules Verne 2-8-1828. One of the first authors in the Sci-Fi genre.
Julie Warner 2-9-65. She was in the 2 part TNG episode "Transfigurations".
Honorary Thomas Alva Edison 2-11-1847. He may not be Tesla, but he was smart.
Philip Anglim 2-11-53. He played Vedic Bareil on DS9.
Abraham Lincoln 2-12-1809. He was portrayed in TOS.
Andrew Robinson 2-14-42. The best tailor in the quadrant, a good covert op as well.
Simon Pegg 2-14-70. The new face of Engineer Scotty.
Honorary Galileo Galilei 2-15-1564. For giving us the stars, little did he dream just how much was really out there.
Christopher McDonald 2-15-55. Lt Richard Castillo on TNG "Yesterdays Enterprise".
Levar Burton 2-16-57. Picards Miracle Worker.
Marc Lawrence 2-17-09. He was on both TNG and DS9.
Honorary Nicholaus Copernicus 2-19-1473. Like Galileo he gave us somewhere to aim for.
Gary Lockwood 2-21-37. He played Lt Cmdr Gary Mitchell in TOS "Where no man has gone Before". He was also Frank Poole in 2001.
Martha Hackett 2-21-61. She was the Romulan T'Rul on DS9 and Seska on VOY.
Paul Dooley 2-22-28. He played recurring guest Enabran Tain on DS9.
Jeri Ryan 2-22-68. Our Favorite TV Borg.
Majel Barret Roddenberry 2-23-32. Computer Voices until the ST restart movie in the 2000's, Chapel, and Lwaxana Troi, M'ress.
Neal McDonough 2-23-66. An Lt on the Enterpise E in ST 1st Contact.
Honorary Theodore Sturgeon 2-26--18. An old pulp fiction writer that i feel may have influenced Roddenberry.

sundays? shifting to fall schedule so I'm not entirely sure yet

For me having a mac is all about the Operating System. When I log on my PC I get the same annoying interface that bugs me and prevents me from getting things done. With Mac you log on and you are done. I only succumbed to the PC because I wanted to game. I admit though that they are overpriced.

Wow, can I just say thank you to everyone who has voted for me, it really does mean a lot! Also to everyone who participated, to Mandy for being tough competition and finally to Brandon for putting this on for us all, spending time editing and adding backing tracks. It took a lot of effort which is greatly appreciated!

If you put the same amount of money into a PC as you do a Mac, you'd get a PC that lasts much longer than a Mac. There is no such thing as "upgrading" in the Mac world, unless you considering calling Apple up and shelling out a few more K to get a brand new one. Not to mention the limited choices with Macs, with PCs there's a whole range. I can't imagine Macs do anything better than PCs since all of the good software comes in a PC version too.

Eeeks! Can I ask what in particular you're hating about Windows? I can't help failing to understand the point of getting a Mac just to put Windows on it, sound like a waste of effort to me. Mac's are awesome for video editing, but there's almost no other purpose they surpass Windows on these days.

I have Windows 7 Pro and it's a dream, I adore it. And it comes with XP built in to it for any legacy software support than goes beyond Windows 7's own Compatibility Modes.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you Tjes on the longevity issue; PCs are much easier to upgrade than a Mac, so I'd argue it's considerably more cost effective to keep a PC up to date. My PC is basically three years old, but I'm not looking to replace it yet. I'm just looking for another GFX card to Crossfire and a faster primary hard disc, about £100 worth of hardware. And then it'll last another couple of years easily. And even then, it'll only need a new Mobo and CPU to last another couple of years.

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I also use the Macbook Pro, upgraded to it's fullest capability. But then, I need it for my career.

Windows 7 on bootcamp works great. A Mac is an exspensive investment, but it won't be outdated for years longer then a PC.

I own every Apple product you can think of hehe

I have a iMac and MacBook Pro, both with Bootcamp enabled. Bootcamp is included with the OS and what it does it partitions a seperate drive which windows can be installed on. You have to buy a real, full version of Windows (I suggest XP); a bootleged or boot disk will not work. I suggest calling a local PC repair store and thed probably sell you one for less than $100

So I'm really over Windows. BUT! I'm a PC gamer! I'd switch to a mac in sec if it would play TOR, etc.

Anybody have a mac but do some cool thing to easily play PC games successfully? If so, I'd love to hear about how you do it.

Juliane Donald 1-1-64. A recurring roll on NG and DS9. She also had a part on BS5 (my favoritest tv show ever).In TNG she played Tanya in "A Matter of Perspective". In DS9 she was Emi in "Prophet Motive". In The Star Trek:Borg game she was Shoreham.
Honorary to Isaac Asimov 1-2-20. A visionary writer, who i still think is wrong about ftl drive.
Honorary to Sir Isaac Newton 1-4-1643.
Clancy Brown 1-5-59. He played Zobral on an Enterprise ep. Probably more recognized as Kurgan from Highlander or Danziger from Earth 2 or Brother something from Carnivale, both great shows.
Vic Tayback 1-6-30. He played a gangster in the original series. You may also know him as Alices Boss in a sitcom.
Aron Eisenberg 1-6-69. Played Nog and a few others. Thanks to SirNataan.
Honorary to Stephen Hawking 1-8-42. Scientist and he was on NG.
Michelle Forbes 1-8-65. Ro Laren.
Rachel Nichols 1-8-80. She was in the Recent ST movie.
John Doman 1-9-45. He was on the DS9 episode "Shakarr".
Mitchell Ryan 1-11-34. He played Rykers dad, and was up for the part of Capt. Picard originally.
Rachel Harris 1-12-68. She was on a Voyagers episode.
Andrea Martin 1-15-47. She was one of 2 women to play the part of Quarks Mom.
Nancy Parsons 1-17-42. On NG she played Sovereign Marouk on an episode.You may also know her as Beulah Ballbricker from the Porky movies.
Deforest Kelly 1-20-1920. Do i really need to say anything.
Wyatt Knight 1-20-55. Played in the NG episode "Coming of Age" from 1st season.
Honorary Michio Kaku 1-24-47. In one episode of Sci Fi science he described how the warp drive works (alcubierre drive).
Gregory Sierra 1-25-41. He was Corbin Entek on the DS9 episode "Second Skin".
Lewis Caroll 1-27-1832. Without his works we would not have a cool episode of TOS.
James Cromwell 1-27-40. In DS9 and First Contact.
Susanna Thompson 1-27-58. Borg Queen.
John Banner 1-28-10. He was Schultz?
Arnold Moss 1-28-09. In a TOS episode he was Govorner Kodos the Executioner.
John Beck 1-28-43. In the DS9 episode "Tribunal" he was Raymond Boone.

Love Torchwood. It's streaming on Netflix if you have it.

Gaeta surprised me as well (although his name should have been a dead give away...lol).

Looks like I have to torrent Torchwood.

Congrats guys, you both did a great job.

As many know, Halish designed our main logo that we use pretty much everywhere. We were disappointed that we were not able to upload a version of it into the game, but Halish's creativity shined through helping us keep continuity through both the web and in-game. We felt that this logo kept in keeping with the image and identity that is Stonewall Fleet. Not to mention its futuristic and aesthetic qualities.

Congratulations Mark! and Congrats to Mandy and everyone who took part too!