apple vs PC is so OLD

[Herschel Mair <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am a Mac user. I have been for a long time, but I donʼt have any illusions of superiority.

The factories in China where the Macs are made probably make a lot of the PCs as well.

 

I bought 20 Imacs, 3 x G5 monster workstations, and 3 x 17inch PowerBooks (Laptops)  last year all with 2GB RAM big hard drives etc... in September (13 months ago)

 

Of the 20 Imacs, 9 have given no problems. 11 have had to be seriously serviced. They  all hang up from time to time, just like the windows machines and some students have really bad computer practice and so their machines are slow and need constant attention.

 

Of the 3  PowerBooks one had to go in and be overhauled and we never got anything off the hard drive... all lost It's been fine since then.

Of the 3 G5s the video card had to be replaced in one and the OS had to be re-installed on another with accompanying loss of data

 

I also have 3 Dell  workstations (Windows XP) (For editing video in the new Adobe Production suite) I have ordered another 2 of these. They are awesome.

 

They have never given a minuteʼs trouble.

 

Aside from this I personally  have a big PC dream machine with state of the art components and 1 Terabyte of disk space.

I also have a 17 inch PowerBook as well as a Toshiba (PC) Laptop which my wife does all her Photoshop work on.

 

My own PowerBook has been fine for over a year and so has the Toshiba. The Toshiba works a good 6 hours a day and more on some days. The PowerBook goes out on location only.

 

My point is that Mac users have this elitist air of superiority which is completely unfounded.

The machines are made in China alongside all the other laptops by unskilled workers. They all give problems. If you use windows and avoid the temptation to install 100 "Lifestyle" programs that you don't really need, it will work as well as any Mac.

 

I do retouching for huge advertising campaigns and it's all done on a PC. I teach on Mac because they have become the industry standard.

10 years ago there was no contest. Mac was the boss.

Now there's nothing in it to speak of. The Mac feels nicer and looks nicer and is certainly more trendy. When I pull it out on location, people say "Ahhh"     That's why I have it.. But if it's a tool to do a job you're looking for then you're quite safe with a windows based machine. Ignore the Mac fanatics who need to justify having spent twice as much for their computers