whitewolfowner wrote:
Until you run into a security issue or the drive with your operating system crashes. Add up the yearly cost of your security software you pay for to keep that PC safe (still susceptible to problems, much more than a mac) over the years, plus what it costs you for all the software that comes with a mac and all of a sudden, a mac is a bargain. Now add in all the crashes you get with a PC and what it cost most people to have it up and running again.
I haven't. I will never understand why Mac-fanboys are so defensive, to the point of embarrassing themselves making absurd statements about Windows machines. My system doesn't crash, going on 5 yrs now, and I use a couple of completely free antivirus programs - Adaware and Avast! free version. I don't have a use for most of the bloatware that comes with a Mac, and I do use another free application, SyncBack Lite - to schedule my backups to two different external drives. I have been a PC user since 1983, and a Mac user since 2002. So, unlike yourself, I have a lot of experience with both, and I used to teach video editing on both (and I do prefer video editing on the Mac, BTW). I never feel I have to trash the Mac platform to make the PC platform look good. In fact, my position is that for most users, they are functionally comparable, with the Mac being more expensive and with limited options, a "feature" of a closed architecture, and the PC is 100% configurable - a feature of a totally open system. If someone is doing color critical work then the PC, which supports wide gamut AdobeRGB and in Photoshop use a 30 bit color pipeline.
There is no need to misrepresent either platform - the Mac is NOT the best thing since sliced bread, and the PC is not a disaster. I use them both, and neither live up to the way you have chosen to characterize them.
Maybe, if you could, post a few images that you have created on your Mac, and make a case for why it's soooo much better than a pc. I doubt you or anyone else will be able to tell the difference. And for your own edification, check out a PC - I think you'll be amazed at how things really are on the dark side. I know I am not going to change your mind, so this is entirely not for your benefit, but for the others that might read this and come away thinking that somehow everything you said is true. I'm just trying to provide an unbiased, fact-based opinion. Now if you live in a fact-free world, I guess that is ok, but for someone about to spend some serious coin on a computer, I think the balanced opinion might be a little more fair.