Hey all -
I've been thinking of posting this for a few days now, and have refrained because I didn't want to come off as a windows bashing lunatic.
But.. my story:
I own the mac in my sig. I use it all day, every day, and have for the past 5 years. Obviously, the 30gig drive didn't come installed, nor the 300mhz processor. This powerbook was a refurb from Apple, and originally ran at a meager cache-less 233. I replaced the drive a year ago, not because the original went bad, but because I wanted to run osx, and with only a 2gig drive, it was no small feat to accomplish. Would the drive have died by now? I don't know. I'd put money on the fact that it probably would have. Drives are usually the first to go. My point is that this was the cheapest mac laptop available at the time.
Now, 5 years and 2 cheap pc's later... I'm still using it, while building a nice pile of pc's and their parts in the corner here. 2 days ago, my pc bit the dust. Yes.. these 2 pc's were much cheaper than the powerbook. Cheaper for a reason.. the hardware in them is garbage.
I do alot of flash stuff (ok, it's all I do!) and the last pc actually ran flash much, much faster than it does on the mac. But I couldn't bring myself to trust the pc to keep my files. And now it's dead. If I had been doing all my work on the pc, I would have just lost it all. Enough said.
What I'm trying to say, is that for me, the number one selling point to go the extra few bucks for a mac, even an imac, is that I trust Apples hardware. We all know Apple wants people to "switch", and this is really the only reason the imac's have existed. It's just very hard to get that accross to new users.. spend a few hundred bucks more, and get a machine that will last at least 5 years. Buy the gateway (or other cheap pc) and you will most likely be buying a new one in about 2 years. I don't know anyone running the same pc they bought in 1998. They just don't last in comparison to the macs. But... at the price, it's affordable to buy a cheap pc every few years. If you rely on the machine for work, it makes sense to buy something that you can trust to not leave you stranded.
J5
