I'm going to make my comments- take them for what it is worth. No, I'm not bagging on Waks personally or anyone else, but I think there are plenty of arguments to be made. I will try to be fair and unbiased.
I have a Pro and yeah, it's pretty sweet. I just dig the simplicity of it.
To me, this sounds like a fifty year old that is overwhelmed with technology. "I'm dumb and can't understand my computer" comes to mind.-- With simplicity, you lose functionality. How do I queue up songs again without making a playlist in itunes? Again, I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but these are the kind of things that make me beat my head into a wall... seriously guys, mp3 players have been out for 15 years and you can't make a hot list for on-the-fly queuing?
I understand everything that's going on with it. It offers a lot more applications than any PC I've ever had and it's much more innovative.
Huh? What are you talking about? AFAIK, 99% of Mac applications can be used on PC. However only about half of PC applications can be used on a Mac. I'd like some references on this, seriously. Are they still giving people one button mouses? (I truly don't know the answer, not being a smart ass). Give me hard examples of innovative features, please.
Haven't had a problem with it yet and everyone I've ever talked to that's pwn3d a Mac seems to like it just as much.
This where you hear the 'well...Mac uses the same proprietary hardware. Therefore you don't have to write applications to work with a billion video cards, therefore you will have less bugs, therefore you will have less errors and problems with your machine... It is all about the hardware my friends and while you can upgrade, you are paying twice the price because they have no competition in hardware. The chances are good that most computers having issues should be blamed on the user itself rather than the operating system. Now obviously, windows isn't a perfect system, but you have to admit that it made GIANT steps with XP. Just having universal driver installation was a godsend in itself.
I just use it recreationally so I have no idea if it would work well with whatever it is that you would want to do with it but it more than meets my needs (music, movies, internet, etc.)
So you don't play games? The only games that are made for Mac consistently are Blizzard games, every other company you have to hope and pray they make it compatible. I suppose if you don't play games, then great, but I can buy a computer half the price to listen to music, movies, or internet... On the same subject, if you use Firefox, you will have half the problem you have with IE 6/7 and it's lovely ability to grab spyware and malware among other things.
The one thing I will consistently give Mac credit for is in the graphic arts department. Every year they seem to put together a system that can render drawings faster than PC. To me, this is the major advantage.
The other thing that I hear as an absurd argument is that 'macs get no viruses.' While it might be true in its present form, don't you believe as Mac gets a greater marketshare that these so called keyboard tough-guys will turn their sites to the Mac and cause the same havoc for you? It is unrealistic to assume that Mac is so great that you cannot find any bug or any hole to sneak a trojan in the back door (and I'm not talking about your old rubbers, either).
Who knows 'what is best'--maybe I should just use ubuntu instead.
