I liked Mac's easy interface very much back when I used them at work, but I felt like, behind that friendly interface, they stripped away much of my sayso and power. I've always been able to make Windows apps do things with "poisoned" files ( wrong file preamble, footer, etc ) that they didn't want to do. Back then , the Mac people seemed to have made that virtually impossible on their machine. You never told it anything - it always dictated to you what you would and wouldn't be permitted to do!
Aaaargh! >

hehe.. well, i'd just be re-iterating what jtfolden said. suffice it to say that when the dental students in the computer lab where i work want to actually get something done, they use the macs. we have plenty of both here, and about the only time the pc's get used is when all the others are busy.

i'm talking ms office apps [particularly powerpoint presentations,] number crunching, multimedia, research apps.. you name it.

i'm not some hardcore anti-windows guy.. obviously but the apps are there, they work, and it's all-around more reliable. of course, it's unix.

Well, here, where are work, we have two departments: print and multimedia.
Typically, inhouse, we just refer those as "That's a Mac job" and "That's PC work".

hehe Fuzzy

I have worked on both. Quite frankly I think you can do the same things on either one. If your in to graphics then you will definaitely be ok. If you need high end calulations or games, your out of luck with a Mac (lack of selection). I will be getting a Mac (laptop) soon and the main reason for getting it is DVD, simple movie editing, being able to communicate with the graphic community who uses Mac's, and because it looks so nice.

I am mostly into how the laptop looks and feels since I know just how far I will be using it and it will cover what I want to use it for. I have been searching for a PC computer or laptop with a stylish look (not grey or white, or off grey, or purlpe blue). I have been looking for covers, laptop holders; something to make my computer look or fit into its surroundings better. I would ove to have a matching windowblind that goes with the snap on case of my laptop.

well, dreams my come true.....

I guess it depends on people, jtf. I have a friend at work (a Mac artist), he has a PC with XP at home along with a G4 with OSX. He says that OSX crashes less often than OS9, but that it's not uncrashable. He says his PC with XP is more stable.

WMP and Windows Movie Maker is intuitive enough for me, for the same price as the iApps.

John: Depends on your definition of "free". Microsoft could go out and pay retail price for some of the top video and multiemdia apps, include it in Windows and it would still be cheaper to buy a new equivalent PC with all this included than a similarly configured Macintosh.

It's not that I don't like MacOS X. I do actually. What I don't like is their community. The pretentiousness. As I mentioned early on, what really riles us up at Stardock are Mac users taking credit for things we came up with and then having the gall to claim we stole it from them.

I agree 100% with Fogboys last point. I Like my Mac, I like my OS-X 10.2, (if conditionly). But I am lerning to HATE the mac community, even more now that I have one at home.

These attitudes aren't just with computers. A certain German auto maker adopts hydraulic valve lifters 20 years after everyone else, and then splashes TV adds all over with a smooth running engine, and a voice which croons " listen to the sound of an XXX's valves adjusting themselves!" As if they had just invented some marvelous new technology!
Caveat emptor.

I like the Michigan Wolverines!

yer right jtfolen,USB is a drag.And yes both of mine are.Luckily I am a musician and have over 3000 cd's and found it somewhat enjoyable ta mess around and organize them in little boxes.The slow process became kind of like a break point for me ta stratagize my next burn. And I am also told by me MacFreak buddies,I have Apple to thank fer the USB itself.Whatever the case I do indeed have Firewire envy.You might want ta get you one at some point,,having 700 discs with you in yer gym bag or backpack is quite a thrill!!

Wow, a Aqua dock, I would have been exsited before I got the real thing and got sick to death of it afer a few weeks. I would love it on the mack again if I could customize it, but apple goes out of there way to make sure it is as hard as posible to do.

Hurray! A thread I can say something in!

I have been a mac user since July when I got my g4 imac, but I hesitate to say I "made the switch" because XP is a fine OS, I still use it daily to sync my PocketPc (Apple will not force me to use a Palm... Doreen - I'm back!), and we network and blah blah blah everything you'd do if it were two pcs in the house.

Basically, no one wants to be told teir OS of choice sucks. And besides being a minority, there's such misinformation out there that PC users tend to spread (not here.. I'm talking about people who only think they know how to use internet explorer. You know who I mean), that's it's only a bit natural for Mac users to get a tad defensive.

I just use a mac because I like it. There's nothing that I do with it that a pc can't, it's just I find it peaceful to use. Having said that, Apple is as two-faced about their digital hub as Microsoft is about Pocketpc. They shout from the rooftops about universal standards, yet only support a handful of devices. We'll see how it progresses, but I bet it's one of those sea monkey ideas. Speaking of insanity, Apple is just plain stupid about customization. OsX could be just as customizable as XP, if Apple allowed it (it's purposefully broken with each update). They just end up driving away the very kind of graphics customers they'd like to attract, but that's their stupidity.

But in a fit of mac snobbishness: It took me 30 seconds to set up bluetooth with my Mac, and it took Juni hours to find out that XP wasn't working right.

Sorry.. couldn't resist