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Originally Posted by Heathen
Mac all the way for me, I found PC's horribly clunky, slow & unreliable to say the least. Windoze is an unwieldy lump of bloated toss. Switched to Mac many moons ago & would never turn back, sorry but they just work.
I've had a first generation dual core G5, running 24/7 in the studio for almost 5 years & apart from the normal software updates, one (Seagate) HD failure & a problem caused by an audio interface which meant re-installing the OS, it's still going strong. There is no better recommendation than seeing something do the thing it's designed to do, day, after day, after day, after day. Almost every single one of my friends & family have since switched over after seeing my fast, sturdy, reliable & virus free workhorses in action.
Yes, Apple's proprietary stance can be seen as a negative thing, but isn't it also a really effective way of making sure everything works? I know I'm perfectly happy handing over that little bit extra for the sake of not having to go through the inevitable keyboard throwing frustration, disappointment & lost hours which, in my experience, come hand in hand with PC ownership.
Sorry to bang on, but as a footnote, I'd also like to add that (shallow as I may be) aesthetics are extremely important & Macs are beautiful & the fact that you can have form AND functionality is very appealing to my sensibilities... </essay>
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'PCs are horribly clunky'
Correction - WINDOWS is horribly clunky. Not the PC.
'They just work'
No. No really, they don't. If they 'just worked' then big buissneses would buy them rather than configuring & repairing their PCs. BTW you said this twice.
'Fast, sturdy, reliable & virus free'
Macs are not fast. My friend has an iMac with a dual core CPU. It is not fast compared to a correctly configured PC. This is why servers don't use Macs; they are to slow. The GUI is fast, but nothing else is. They are not reliable. With a PC, it is easy to fix a problem. Mac it isn't. The same friend had to fork out £180 + to get his Mac fixed. Twice. They are virus free because noone can be bothered to write viruses for it, because noone uses them for anything serious.
'Inevitable keyboard throwing frustration'
Thowing a keyboard around wont fix a problem. Neither will buying a Mac. Using & maintaining a PC will.
'Lost hours which, in my experience, come hand in hand with PC ownership'
It's called copy & pasting. using this you can backup files , so you wouldn't of lost any work. I must stress again that you had reliability issues with WINDOWS not the PC.
'Macs are beautiful'
Anyone who uses a computer for realistic stuff does not care about the fact that their Mac is looks nice. Only people obsessed with computers actually care about how they look. Rackmounted servers don't look nice. But they are still are very important.
Just my opinion :D