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• Thursday, November 8, 2007 04:58 PM

  Don't believe the hype

  I've used Macs over the years, usually in school, I've always had an affinity for them, they've always had a charm to me, but when I actually switched about five years ago to using a snow iMac as my full-time personal home computer I came face to face with some harsh realities, the biggest one being that it's still a PC world, in terms of availability of peripherals and software, but even more importantly in terms of compatability on the web. I can't tell you how frustrating it was for me have to constantly switch between browsers to see if one of them would work with a plugin on a particular website that I frequented and sometimes none of them would help me, a lot of sites simply aren't written with Macs in mind and if the author thought about Macs, he or she probably didn't have a Mac to test it out on; thus it ain't gonna work right. After toughing it out for five years, deciding that I wasn't going to put up with the lack of expandability and upgrade-ability unless I bought a $2000+ Power Mac, I write to you from a PC, and I imagine I'll be doing so for the foreseeable future. I've had it for a couple months without a hiccup; it's not a bad machine. Oh yeah and honestly, there wasn't that much about the Mac that makes me pine for one again.

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