Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:03:31 -0500, BAR wrote:

The only consideration is if you are a serious gamer or musicer.

Gaming keeps me making my own.
And I like big honking cases for cooling and easy component swaps,
though recent chips run cooler. I could probably fit a dozen laptaps
in my main PC case.
Not too good for a boat though. When I get the boat I'll be looking
at laptops.
Don't know much about Macs. When I worked IT at McDonalds
marketing they were using Macs, but they got pushed off them.
It was a pain converting data back and forth.
People get attached to the tech they're using, much like they get
attached to car brands.
Don't know how many times I heard crap from Mac fans about how
MS "stole" stuff from the Mac OS. Recycle bin for one.
Think MACs were a better bet for college kids when the OS was more
reliable than Win9x. But after XP came along that edge became less.
Still got one of my girls a Mac laptop for university when she did an
overseas program, because that's what she wanted and she said the
school folks recommended it. No sense fighting hall there.

A company I worked for in the early '90s had Macs for desktops because
you could due native 68000 development on them. It was nice to be able
to write a document and develop code for 680X0 processors on the same
system. Since Mac went to the Intel side there really is no advantage.
in either OS. Both MacOS (UNIX) and Windows are now 20+ years old and
the OSes are mature enough to not be crashing all of the time.

The real issue between Mac and PCs is cost of hardware and cost
software. With a small organization you may be able to justify the Macs
but with a large organizaitons you can get much better deals with PCs.