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steveg78

Woah now. Not to start a battle but that's just the typical load of opinionated Microsoft Fanboyism's I've heard.

I've been "in the field" professionally for over 13yrs and messing around for 17yrs total. Worked my way up the ranks and have served my time in hell with disasters and such. Managed hundreds of Windows and Mac servers, and thousands of workstations during this time. I will say the Mac's have come a long way since the 90s with their incompatibilities especially since going with intel processors. Also, in the past you used to never be able to find a comparable application for Mac OS...Not anymore. I am now 100% Apple at home and 50% Apple in the office. If I need windows I just boot up my Virtual Box VM and have at it. Vista really gave me the push because it was a worthless POS and Leopard had some features that I could actually use and they actually worked which actually made using a computer fun again.

For me, I use Apple because after futzing around with windows crap all the time and dealing with their own quirks I got tired of it. At the end of the day I want something that is well built and works. I didn't like the closed system with Apple hardware/software but once I bought my mac mini in 2007 and then my macbook pro last year it just makes it worth it. And not that I need tech support but I did have to get a noisy fan replaced in my macbook and it was a pleasure to just make an appointment via the internet and walk into my local Apple store and have them replace the fan right in front of my face. Sure for the $ you can get a more powerful computer but people pay for Apple products because they are built for the operating system that they run and have fewer "issues" that one would experience in the PC world.

Oh yeah, for the record, both my home and work Macs are running Snow Leopard, Ubuntu, Windows7 and other various linux flavors for digital forensics... But I don't know anything about computers

There's 2 different values between buying components and building a powerhouse for cheap and buying a product that is built well, looks good, and "just works". I kinda got tired with building PCs, researching the latest components and chipsets since I dont game on them anymore. But I did build my parents a nice quad core system this past Xmas since I couldn't convince my mother to come to the dark side.

Enough of my rant!