I couldn't disagree more. I have never seen a Wintel that rivals the best Macs. I still haven't seen a Wintel, to date, that has better graphics and overall appearance than my 4.5 year old 233 G3. I don't know if it's because of your ages, or what, but you guys have everything so backwards. Mac was ALWAYS the best. Intel NEVER challenged Mac because they always lost. Win95 came out when Mac had OS 8. Windows didn't rival OS 8 until Win98, by which time there was OS 8.6. XP rivals OS9, which has been out for what, 3 years? Etc, etc, etc. Windows has always been 3 (or more) steps behind Apple. Apple has always been the inovator, too. They have to be. If they weren't state of the art, top of the line, best of the bunch, etc, they would have gone out of business a long, long time ago. It was a well known, undisputed fact that the Mac was the best, until Gates released Win95. They made such a huge deal out of it, and pimped it silly. They made it possible for people to get a cheap version of the Mac, for about 2/3 of the price. Most people didn't care about quality, they cared about price. Before long, they were everywhere, and since then, the Ford vs. Chevy pride of ownership thing has taken over. I have not yet met one person that used Macs first, and switched, by choice, to Wintel. I do, however, know dozens of people that went the other way.
Just because something sells the most, doesn't mean it's the best. In fact, I can't think of anything that is the number one seller, and is clearly the best. It's ususlly the cheapest.
More people use AOL than any other ISP. Do you think AOL is the best?
In the last few years, intel and AMD pushed hard to increase their clock speeds, and the race was on. It didn't matter that there wasn't any software that could take advantage of it. Too many people that didn't use computers, but directed them, didn't like Macs. Mac only has about 5% of the computer sales market, but when it comes to high end graphics work, ie: the entertainment industry, the media, the arts, etc, the numbers jump up to over 50% in many cases. When you go to an office building, where it's spreadsheets and fiscal accounts, PC's are king. Whoopie.
One of you guys remarked about the Mac being a $2000 Photoshop machine. Yes, that's exactly right. And the best digital hub out there. I guess maybe it just depends on what you want your computer for. I think a $2000 Photoshop machine makes alot more sense than a $2000 Playstation.
In nearly 5 years, I have not had one single failure between my two Macs. I can honestly say that I don't know any Wintel owners that can say that. I hear every day about another motherboard needing to be replaced, or a hd that crapped out.
In fact, speaking of which, the website that I'm helping out in Tampa had just such a post today:
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Anybody who mailed me in the last 48 hours please resend. I lost W2K this morning after I got mail and it froze on me. And it would not boot again, not even in safe mode. So I had to format and re-install... Losing all email I just got in. I know there where 2 messages in
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Or you can go see it for yourself:
http://forums.modernmustangs-tb.org/viewtopic.php?t=386
This is a daily occurence. There's a thread a week in here about PC problems. C'mon.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. It really doesn't. As long as everyone is happy, that's all that matters, and I'm very, very happy.
I'll ask on Monday about your list.
Take care,
~Chris