On 11/1/03 Andy Johnstone wrote: >>The wifes thinks I am nuts to do so , but my argument has always been that "they're just better ok? Tuh!!".
So I had better make sure she does not read this... http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2003-01/2003_01_07_macpc.html Grrrrr<< Interesting article but not enough to make me abandon my mac. I have a friend who is a Porsche enthusiast and hates Ferraris. His arguments are similar to mine in the mac v pc debate. Sure, on paper the Ferrari has a higher top speed and faster acceleration, but is also not particularly well-built and spends half its time at the garage being serviced. The Porsche is better built, more reliable and handles much better. I have a Dell 1.8Ghz pc (Win2K) at work and it is a good computer. It looks and feels cheap but it seems to run OK. However I estimate that it completely crashes and needs rebooting at least once a day. My mac (G4 Cube) running OS9 and OSX has never crashed once in the year and a half that I've owned it. The OS is also just more intuitive and easy to get round. On the subject of Photoshop I have never done any comparitive tests between the two machines but, even though the mac must be slower (it's a 450Mhz G4), it never feels like it is slower. I do some fairly intensive PS work, incuding a lot of batch processing, but don't feel that the mac is holding me up to a huge degree. Obviously I would love macs to be much faster but then I'd like PCs to be faster too! I was using a PC long before I got a mac and although this post seems to give the opposite impression, I'm not someone who just dismisses PCs and thinks that every mac ever built is perfect. I just think that articles like the one mentioned in Andy Johnstone's post are interesting but don't really tell the whole story. My ugly looking Dell is hidden under my desk where it can't offend my eye, but my Cube is sat on top of my desk where it attracts admiring comments from all who see it. Enough of a reason to stick with Apple, surely!! Douglas =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
