Jim, Your response to my post could have been written by me -- four years ago.
My first personal computer was an original IBM PC. My second was a Mac SE/3O, and I never owned a computer running Windows until I bought a Motion M13OO Tablet PC.
When friends asked, "should I buy a Mac or a PC ?", my original response was, "find the software you need and buy the computer that it runs on." After watching friends' experiences, I amended that to include "But most people seem to have an easier time learning how to use a Mac." I would grit my teeth and smile when friends who set out to buy a Mac came home with Circuit City's "computer de jour" -- and asked me for help when the damn thing crashed.
I would smile smugly while watching my son and my brother-in-law, both certified Microsoft engineers, struggle to install a new device on my brother's PC. And I said to myself "NO WAY!" when "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" (or a PBS documentary of the same genre) concluded that Apple lost the O/S war when Windows replaced MS/DOS.
But times have changed, and I would suggest that every "Mac bigot" -- to use Dan Shafer's term affectionately -- who believes this is still the state of the Windows platforms should test her/his perception as it applies to today's technology.
After 15 years of Mac ownership, I wouldn't buy another Apple computer that doesn't support ink input and profile screen orientation. My keyboard sits in a drawer, and virtually never sees the light of day.
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