I'm seasoned on both but after years of experience in supporting/setting up and administrating both systems you would have to pry my mac from my cold dead hands.. even then i'd have a spare at home.

My mum is a complete newb in the most total sense yet she bought a digi cam randomly the other week took it home plugged it into her imac and it automatically imported all her photos into iphoto without asking her anything. The auto update keeps her machine up to date 24/7, it has never been reloaded in the 2+ years they have had it..

Thats just a quick example of a newb running a mac.

A newb running vista or xp would be confused with boxes popping up everywhere, wierd errors, drivers not working or not exist-ant and after a month of using the net the machine takes 5 mins to boot and has lots of strange things that seem to happen by themselves.

Thats just a newbs perspective.. I could give you the sys admin perspective or the design perspective both of which are heavily in favor of the mac.

The only thing my windows machine does now is run game and even that is changing now.. More and more people ask my advice on macs, which ones to buy etc and i really do not know one of them who has ever turned around and said they regret changing over.

Heres a post about security on the mac today from zdnet

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9279815,00.htm

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2002 WRX - New Ej207 Short Motor + More in Progress

..OMG! thats so sick it makes other things that are sick look less sick..

lol mac vs pc this should get interesting... i have owned both and i can tell you my Macbook Pro runs games better using Parallels then my mates new 7k vista system

+1 for mac (Mac-Book Pro 2.4 Duo , 240-gig hdd , 4-gig ram)

I'm looking for a new notebook at the moment- i like the new macbook pro, but are they really that much better to justify their premium price?

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EVO IX- sold
M3

aye same i run c&ctw under parallels.. runs better than on vista.
Just a bit slower than on xp but just turn the detail down a fraction.

Tis unreal that its under emulation and you dont even know you have xp running in the background it all integrates right into the os x shell like they are os x programs..

oh how far we have come

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2002 WRX - New Ej207 Short Motor + More in Progress

..OMG! thats so sick it makes other things that are sick look less sick..

Just go down to the applecentre and have a play around.. Or come round my place have a beer and mess around with mine

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2002 WRX - New Ej207 Short Motor + More in Progress

..OMG! thats so sick it makes other things that are sick look less sick..

Bought my duel boot Macbook about 4 months ago, my first Mac.
Works good.

I love OS X, its a far far slicker, better looking OS. than Windoze. Mac design also is far superior. It took a little while to learn, but its the little features that I love. The Widgets in Dashboard for example.

The one negative is hardware reliability. I've already gone through 1 Wireless mouse and one Macbook main logic board.

Repairs are also horrendously expensive, for example the logic board in my Macbook costs the same as a complete new Macbook, around $1800. Mine was repaired under warranty.

So for anyone looking at buying a Mac, I would be very very carefull about buying a used example. It would be very easy to by a Lemon unless you get a used model from Apple themselves.

Just do it and escape through the Window, to the green pastures with the lucious Apple trees.....

J

hmmm strange, i buy mac every day and ive only had issues with the first gen macbook pro's.
The new ones are fine..

Also as long as you get your applecare its all covered anyway

We have around 300 machines here 95% mac.

I'd say the fail rate on them is less than 5% over the lifetime of the machine and even when something does fail its covered by warrenty

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2002 WRX - New Ej207 Short Motor + More in Progress

..OMG! thats so sick it makes other things that are sick look less sick..

I found a Mac1 on the side of the road that i have every intention of turning into a fish bowl

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MY93 Impreza GX 1.8L, 0hp, 0nm

yeh the old imacs and screens make awesome fishbowls

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2002 WRX - New Ej207 Short Motor + More in Progress

..OMG! thats so sick it makes other things that are sick look less sick..

I have n00bs running Vista and XP machines and they are yet to be confused by all these 'boxes popping up everywhere' (haven't seen any of them yet?), have had complete drivers (haven't found any Windows products not to have a driver yet either), they are quick as the day they were set up to boot and don't have any strange things happening in the background.

The Mac machine was not bad at all, but the time it would have taken to 're-learn' how to operate the same features would outweigh any benefits of them. Others who I knew also commented on the cost to repair them.

For someone interested in computers and willing to 'unlearn' the Microsoft way, then yes a Mac, might be a good option. Personally I'd like to see more Ubuntu / Gentoo style boxes available at shops. Then we'd have some good competition.

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