On 1/4/2011 1:00 PM, paul stenquist wrote:
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
Even if the monopolies disappeared, tomorrow, there would be equipment
limitations. There's only so much existing bandwidth, and upgrading is
expensive, time consuming and requires decisions from a number of
different entities, whereas upgrading a PC/Mac is a personal expense and
choice.
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