Well I for one ain't ashamed to admit I'm 100% biased against Apple. It all began back in the day when I had a Commodore 64 and a friend had an Apple and always bragged it up. I think IBM makes some really great CPU's, but as long as they're in a Mac I will never own one. Same way with Intel, will probably never buy a Pentium CPU either. What's the logic in that you say? Not much I admit, but I'll stick to supporting the technologies and companies I like (for whatever hair-brained reason I have). There's so many choices avaialable today that we can all afford to do just that.
I'm not a Mac or Intel basher, because I think competition is great and moves the industry forward at a much faster rate than a single monopolizing company ever would. Without Apple, M$, Intel, AMD, and a myriad of other vendors, the PC industry would be in shambles. We might be like IBM envsioned a long time ago with everybody sharing timeslices on one of the 3 or 4 huge supercomputers in world. [xx(]
Still, I don't agree with most of you Macolites. I haven't had much experience behind one, but I did recently talk to a highly respected photographer who was making the transistion to the digital world a while back. All his friends told him to get a Mac "because they do graphics best". So he originally bought a Mac, but had just sold it for a new PC when I talked to him. He told me that what they claim is simply not true. His Mac was much slower, less stable, and didn't have all the tools that are available on his new PC. He also said they were way overpriced. Most other Mac people I talk to just proclaim how easy it is to use, or how they like the styling [dunno], but that's a moot point with me as I'm very computer literate and don't care much for looks. I prefer the sheek almunim cases anyday (but I'm a cheapskate and won't buy one).
Darin
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