...then most of those that are up for resale must have had something wrong with them in the first place. So, how is investing in a Mac saving me cash again?

Uhhh... really... who cares? I've used/owned Macs and PCs, and, for the most part, have been well pleased with the performance/cost of both. I've found that, every now and then, I'll be doing something where one is better suited than the other. I've also been fortunate enough to discover that both last a long time, if well-cared for.

I'm so sick of this trumped-up, tired-out, waste-of-daylight feud (provoked solely by a bunch of six-figure-earning ad people with offices overlooking Madison Avenue) about how one is vastly superior to the other that I could just scream. Can we not find something relevant or important to discuss, rather than this triflin' bullshit?

Healthcare?

War?

The Boston Redsox?

ANYTHING?

God ahmighty....

Off to read the Huffington Post now.. buh bye.

~AS~

Another big savings feature: all the software, like iLife that comes with the mac. If had to invest in software to edit digital video, record music, etc for my PC, that adds serious dollars. In fact, rather that do that, I added a Mac Mini to my desk at work so I could do some multimedia.

"On my hard drive."

"Where on your hard drive?"

"I don't know. I just click on the hard drive icon."

Actual conversation w/ Mac User in distress.

Five year old Dell w/ an eight year old secondary hard drive, some added memory and a new video card. Gotta back up my files cause the thing just has to blow sometime! Works like a charm, no viruses.

People who buy macs just buy it for the logo. Everything Apple has been removed from the mac, so now people are running BSD Unix (like Linux, but less fun) on an intel box. If Apple was so wonderful, why did they ditch their own technology?

I am a writer and public speaker. The three main uses of my computer are writing, and most of my publishers want my work in Word; Power Point, and my programs work much better when made and displayed by PCs, and a software called AviSys designed to keep track of the birds I see, which only operates on a Windows platform. Oh--and I always use lots of windows for browsing. When I'm visiting my friend and using her Mac, she never allows me to open one browser window until I've closed the one I'm in.

I am sure there are some uses for which Macs are far superior. But I cannot think of a single way they'd be superior for me. And I still can't get that crashing Nanosaur game out of my mind--it was a game that was actually bundled with the only Mac I ever bought, and it crashed all the time. The horror! The baby dinosaurs that were never saved! I'm not a gamer, and this is the only computer game I ever got good at except an old, old version of Frogger and Tetris on my kids' GameBoy. But those poor baby dinosaurs--the whole Mac experience left a sad feeling in me.

I don't care if PCs are Fords. We put 120,000 miles on my Pinto before we gave it to my in-laws, who drove it another 10,000 miles and sold it. And I put 170,000 miles on my Ford Aspire before selling it. Might not have been fancy, but they sure were reliable. Just like my 4-year-old PC which has NEVER crashed.

If you think your Mac or PC will last you all the way through 5 years, and you hope to be able to play the best and latest games - at full resolution, with all graphic details turned to the max - on your 5-year old Mac, you're a liar.

Don't even try the "I don't play games on my Mac because Macs aren't for games" excuse.

The hardware is the same, Intel-based stuff. A computer is a computer. Only difference now is the software. The lowest common denominator is the hardware.

Wait 5 years and try to play a brand new game on your 5-year PC, then try the same game on the 5-year Mac. Not so great is it, for both sides, correct?

Today's Mac's are designed for the other 98 percent of users.

There is literally nothing the current Mac "can't" do.

99 percent of all average users are not only satisifed with Macs, but love them more than their generic $299 Dell laptops.

True, there may be some special niche techie function a off the shelf Mac can't do, but for the rest of the world it's Mac all the way.

"The computer for the rest of us" - wasn't that their slogan back in the antediluvian era of, oh, the 1980s? Do they know that, as they're paying you to shill for them, you're using twenty-year-old marketing materials?

99% of all "average users"...average Mac users? They're only 5% of the universe of computer users. And they don't "love them more than their generic $299 Dell laptops" because...there is no generic $299 Dell laptop! BWAHAHAHAHA! Even then, have you surveyed all those folks? I have a Macbook Pro 17 and a Sony Vaio desktop and I don't "love" one more than the other. They are machines. I pick one to use based on how well it does the task at hand. I save my love for my wife, son, cat, and God.

"for the rest of the world it's Mac all the way" No, for 5% of the people in the world who own computers, it's Mac, and even then, it's not Mac all the way (see above).

That's twice you used the term "Microsoft fanboys" in postings that read like Onion parodies of the cultish ravings of Apple freaks. From this, I surmise that a) you have an extremely dry wit and I'm not getting it, or b) you're fifteen-years-old and need to get out of your parents' basement more, or c) you drank the koolaid really believe this stuff.

It's a tool, not a way of life.