OK, first, someone mentioned OS war? No such thing. Macs hold a huge 2% to 3% of the computer market. But it's stable there, have been for a few years, no increase, no decrease.
The fact is this: if you work in the graphics industry, get a Mac, if you work in anything else, get a PC.
And BTW: Macs ARE INDEED better for graphics. Do the test yourself. And even do it with a lesser processor for the Mac. Say a 1 Ghz proc for the Mac and a 2.2 Ghz for the PC. Same amount of memory (make that 1 Gig of RAM). Open Photoshop. Open a large image (say a 1 Gig TIF file). Now do some manipulations. Crops, resize, rotate. Apply some filters (try a radial blur on that image, you'll have fun... you'll probably have time to go get a coffee - at the coffee shop at the corner - and come back before your PC is done processing it, if it doesn't crash in te meantime.  That's a fact, tested and true. Try it yourself, you'll see.

I'm not sure though if it's because the machine itself is better. I doubt it, cause where everything else but graphics is concerned, I hate Macs, I find them slower and and clumsiers than PC's.  I think that maybe the reasson for this increased performance for grahics apps on the Pcs is that the software manufacturer make them first for the Mac and then afterwards make a Windows version.  believe the software is probably optimized to work better and faster on a Mac. 

A friend of mine at work just bough the new G5. Guess how long it took him to resize a 30 GIG document? 5 seconds.  OK, he has 4 Gigs of RAM in there, but still...

Anyway, the bottom line is as I first said: If you work in a company that makes graphics, you'll need a Mac, otherwise just get a PC.

TC: I rest my case about graphics.

Still, Pax said something about how the graphics software is designed for Mac then ported to PC. I wonder how PC versus Mac would turn out if there were equivalent graphics programs designed just for Windows.

Essencay decides to remove the blinders for a second to be enlightened, though he still has his butt parked in front of a pc

I rest my case about graphics.

Curious....I missed the points you made that validated the Mac's superiority in graphics. I understand that a lot of the best graphic artists prefer, use or agree that Mac's are more capable machines in this area, but I would suspect that those folks have experience producing graphical content on both Mac's and PC's. Meaning I would be more apt to listen to the points an auto mechanic or someone in motorsports makes about a certain brand of car than I would the points made by a 16-year old with his first driver's license.

How well do Macs handle backwards compatibility with older software written for previous versions of their OS?

How reliable is Mac hardware in comparison to a PC built with brand name parts, not one of those generic under $500 machines?

Essencay puts his blinders back up

JUst to add to my previous post, unless you're doing professional high resolution  graphics (where a 1 Gig image isn't a rare thing), you won't need a Mac. A lot of Mac artists I know actually have a PC at home.

i just dont understand the superiority complex .. its like a old fart buyin a expensive car just to show others how cool he is ...like in the fast and the furious . a guy acts smug abt having a ferarri. like hes better than anyone else,it was funny to watch the street racer shred his car like nothing ......

in real life iv seen cars that stomp on ferarri's like nothing .. just cause its big$ dont mean its the fastest ...and many of those "crappy cars " have the$ where it counts, under the hood , not in the hey look im rich stiker price

I am really tired of this os war . Everywhere people have "Discussions" about this and they can be doing that forever. Why don’t you just use what you have and if you want to have a different interface just use ObjectDesktop in the case of the PC.

Also: I was reading at aqua-soft.org and when AndreasV released Avedesk, someone at that forum just posted that if he hasn’t seen Jaguar because the labels are not the same. Or in another forum, someone was complaining because mobydock didn’t come with the MacOSX icons and the same background. In these cases: If you want your PC to really look like a Mac, that’s impossible, they’re different OS’s

Instead, go and get a Mac. If you get a Mac, good for you but don’t argue with people about which one is better, each one has pro’s and con’s. If it fits your needs, good for you again. That’s it.

This is just my opinion.