I'd say comfort level comes first. I've used Finale on both the Mac and the PC, and thankfully the implementations are identical (unlike other pieces of software where sometimes you can do some things on one platform you can't do on the other).
As for the price war, PCs are cheaper than Macs when it comes to initial outlay, but Macs seem to last longer. I've had my desktop Mac for nine years and it still works fine. I can also upgrade the CPU chip of a Mac without being a hardware wizard. I own two Macs (a desktop and a laptop) and a PC. I paid way less for the PC, but it was a refurbished Pentium III which, while it will run Windows XP, is no longer supported by the hardware manufacturer. My PowerBook has something like four or five years of support from Apple. My desktop Mac is out of warranty, but it's *nine years old* and is still quite usable. In nine years I'd have had to buy three PCs. What happens is with PCs you wind up replacing them more often than you do Macs, so the long-term cash outlay is about the same, but the one-time cash layout is more with a Mac. OTOH, now that there are Mac Minis the price point is about the same. --Lynn On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:33:51PM -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > > Please, not a Mac/PC war. > > I think we can offer personal input without making it a war. > > I use PCs a lot at my day job, but I've always preferred Macs for home. > A significant part of that is because Macs are what I'm used to. > > If I had it to do over again, I think I might well choose PC. > Objectively, I think I'd still like Mac interface better, and I > definitely like that Macs are much less vulnerable to viruses and the > like, but I don't think those alone would be worth the ~20% more you > pay for a Mac. I'm frugal by nature, so price is a big factor for me. > > But familiarity matters. Even if it was more or less by accident that > I got started on Macs, I now have a familiarity investment in them, and > that's sufficient reason for me to stick with them. > > Lora mentioned that her place of work is Mac-dominated. I would > consider that a valid reason to consider switching. Or if it's just a > question of learning the Mac system for work while still keeping the > familiar Windows system at home, I think that's a good thing to do. > It's essentially what I do in my work, but vice versa. > > mdl > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Lynn Gold (650) 968-7366 (home) (415) 806-0753 (cell) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
