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Dissuade/Convince me to get a mac.

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Inanimate Object:
Well, since I haven't seen any pros to buying a Mac, I'll list a few.

No viruses.
Easier to use.
Mac OS X never crashes.
You get all the great Apple software. The entire iLife suite is awesome.

Those are just a few perks to having a Mac.

Switchblade:
Do you want to play games?

If you do, don't.

If you don't, do.

'nuff said.

Well, not quite: A Mac will, in general, give you better performance, longevity and utility at (arguably) some expenditure of adaptability, plus an almost complete loss of the ability to play any games that haven't been specifically port for a Mac release.

the other major thing to recommend Macs would be that your internet security concerns will be substantially reduced. Bill Gates and Microsoft are not popular amongst real nerds, so Windows and its related systems are choice (and larger and thus easier to hit) targets for hackers and virus programmers. OSX, for example, is, on the other hand, somewhat more secure, and also somewhat more popular, so the number of hacking and viral threats faced by a mac owner are much less than those faced by a PC owner.

Games are the major deciding factor, though - you'll find that macs, for the most part, run in the lower end of the modern performance spectrum (round about 1Ghz, in my experience, for an affordable model) but that's largely because they aren't geared for games, which are much more demanding on the hardware.

I'm a gamer, thus I use a PC. I count myself lucky to have a fairly stable rig (in that it only throws up a minor glitch once every 36 hours or so, and only two of the games I own inexplicably refuse to work on it). Gaming is my main interest and, hopefully, will shortly become the foundation of my career. If games aren't really your thing, or are just a casual interest, then take my advice and get a Mac and an XBOX 360.

that really is 'nuff said.

Se7en:
I'm afraid that the assertion that a mac will give better performance is just plain wrong. Compared with a PC of the same price, the mac is always trailing far far behind.

The internet security "issue" is a non issue really. No matter what systems you run, everyone should be using a secure hardware firewall between themselves and the outside world, and email security is also an issue thats external to the operating system, and browser security is ensured by using firefox.

Also switchblade, im shocked that you call a box that has a problem every 36 hours "fairly stable". Even my windows boxen havn't had an unexpected crash in over 2 years.

I have however, managed to crash OSX with reliative ease.

Switchblade:
I define "stable" as meaning that I can boot it up and expect to leave it turned on for five hours without a major glitch showing up, which my last PC spectacularly failed to achieve on several occasions. I usually got a blue screen before the damn thing had even finished booting. One "AOL SP scheduler has comitted an illegal error" glitch per day and a half is something I'm more than happy to live with. ESPECIALLY seeing as AOL SP scheduler does not, apparently, do anything.

For the most part, it's VERY stable - I haven't seen a single blue screen crash since I got it in January. I haven't been forced to reboot by a glitch, haven't had anything more irksome happen to me than having to load up the forums again... This machine is easily the best I've ever owned, really.

Se7en:
Ouch. Im worried if i get a minor glitch after 3 months of uptime!

With the exeption of my testbed machines which by thier very nature run pre-release, untested and overclocked hardware, and frequently beta software too, i havnt had a BSOD since 1999.

If you have anything in any related to AOL on your pc, remove it immediately, those people couldnt code their way out of a wet paper bag.

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