Then I guess you've never used a mac

Honestly I am very surprised by this, so surprised in fact that I believe, because the article was written by a Diehard PC person, that many of the results aquired were inflated. I'm sure if they compared Mac to PC, 50% TO 50%, the results would be much different (swaying toward the mac). I'm not trying to start a flame war here, so people please take what I say into consideration, but also with a considerable amount of bias (I am after all a Diehard Mac Head ). I have had only 2 computers (both macs) in the last 10 years, and together they have crashed probably a total of 20 times or so (the newer one about twice in 3 years). I happy with my Mac, and I'm sure most of you are happy with your PCs. But I for one am sick of Microsoft's b/s. After Passport, Y2K, Java, etc, I find it soooo hard to believe that Microsoft has any customers left!

Anyways, I have one last thing to say:

Macs RULE!!! PCs SUCK!!!

"runs away*

Any questions about my news?

I'm happy with my XP/Mandrake 9.1 dual boot system. I cannot afford a Mac so I use Linux as my Unix based OS and I use XP as a stable system for mainstream software.

Oh I understand that it is a very stable OS, but all I can say is "finally". My mothers 20GB HD on her Wintel laptop has about little to no hard drive space left, thanks to XPs security updates, thanks to the quick release of an XP that was obviously not ready for consumer use.

I understand that many of you will not buy a mac due to their prices, but if you would take a second glance at their store, you'll see that the new G5, the world fastest personal computer (judged by NASA against the P4 3.4), which starts at 1.6GHZ for $1700 (and includes hardware wuch as PCI-X and serial ATA, as well as up to 4 and 8 GB of RAM), you'll find that you can't find a PC that fast for that price with those accessories and hardware options. The G5 is an awesome computer, and according to NASA, the best.

That is, of course, if you're willing to settle for less software. But for every app on the PC, there are alternatives on the Mac that are the same, if not a little better (like Carracho, a Hotline based app only for the Mac). And with Apple's award winning video editing software, iTunes, and it's XML based UNIX server, PCs don't even come close.

Together, Panther (Mac OSX 10.3) and the G5 will crush competition for a long time in raw speed and app benchmarks, but also, it will make only a slight dent in their market share. I hate to say it, but despite Apple being the most innovative company the world has seen since, well since 1984 , it will never get the attention and respect it deserves, due to the ignorance towards other platforms that Microsoft has "conveniently" placed upon all it's customers.

We live in a computer age. For REAL prosumers, who may not mind spending a little extra (which is starting not to be the case), go with a Mac, the clear winner.

For a consumer, and this is where market share comes into play, go with a PC. XP is a stable little focker , built for consumer use.

Steve Jobs is the boy who cried wolf. He made claims the G4 was faster than the fastest Pentiums at the time too. Had "head to head" comparisons and everything.

Then people bought them and found that for the most common tasks on the computer, the Mac was noticeably slower. And this was back when it was using OS 9 which was much faster than OS X.

I prefer XP. I prefer it because there's more to an OS than just the OS features themselves. OS X and XP are both quite stable. Which one makes you more productive depends on the user's own preferences. I've found it easier to get XP to "work the way I want". Part of that is because I'm more familiar with Windows. Part of it is the wealth of third party software.

But don't be fooled by Apple's claims on performance. Maybe the G5 and Panther will be truly incredibly fast. But they've blown their wad as far as I'm concerned. The "Mhz Myth" nonsense really wrecked their credibility in my book.

When people start trying to take their Quicktime videos and burn them to DVD or convert video formats, compile something or do something else that is very CPU intensive, they'll know. And no benchmark will be able to work around that. And if the latest/greatest PC is faster at that, then it'll be just like the G4 all over again.

I've used Photoshop for 7 years now. I've never had a filter that took significant time to apply. Sure, I don't do massively large photoshop work. But I am a professional user of it and so are other people where I work and the real question will not be how fast it is at some very specific filter. It'll be how fast you're able to rotate something or resize something or do tons of little things. In my experience, the Mac has always felt a lot more sluggish than a similarly priced PC. And that, at the end of the day, is the benchmark people will care about.

First of all i own both. I have seen mac programs crash many times more than PC programs. The days where mac users can say they have a better, more stable OS are long gone. As far as productivity, my PC networks 1000 times better than my mac. I can leave shortcuts to folders on my desktop from other PCs, boot up and go right into them. With the mac i have to mount the drives every frikking time. It's a joke. Mac is a pretty OS but thats about it. I would never be a "switcher". Then we can talk about how mac is the audio/video aficienado's machine. But my pc has a 100 more programs that play audio and video and play it better. Overall i think mac is overated and overpriced. The one thing i do love is my 23" cinema. For that piece of hardware, i can do nothing but swoon

Mac or PC lover, you have to watch this spoof. The Mac killed my inner child. http://www.happynowhere.net/mac_parody.htm

Every OS crashes at some point.