On Jan 4, 2011, at 12:42 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:23:41AM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> I can say that Macs have a much longer practical lifespan and far >> fewer support issues than their PC counterparts. There are (many) good >> reasons that people swear BY Macs and swear AT PCs and its not just >> because they are fanboys. > > There's really only one reason - Apple have a very controlled environment. > > If you buy a PC built with good name-brand components, and exercise tight > control of what gets to run on it (and which accounts have privileges), > then it will be just about as reliable as the Mac. It will probably be > a bit cheaper, though. > > There can still be issues based on compatibility. But that's a decision > you have to live with; is it better to have support for older applications > at the cost of some reliability issues, or to just pretend that those old > applications aren't important? > > In any case, this is (at last) gradually becoming a non-issue. The days > of running a single environment on a physical machine are beginning to > slip away; VMWare/Virtual Box/whatever lets you run a virtual machine > for a particular purpose. It's taken a while to get here, but it looks > as though the time might have eventually come. And with virtual machines > becoming available "in the cloud", hardware purchases are less significant. > > But we're going to need much faster internet service to perform tasks like photo retouching "in the cloud." I don't see that coming soon -- at least not at an affordable price. Too many monopolies among internet service providers. Paul
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