When I was in college, I worked at an IBM Product Center (showing my age). That was when PCs first came out...I remember we were selling the Holy Grail of Graphics at the time...a graphics card with 1 MB of memory and a monitor that had 256 colors and could do 640x480 (VGA) resolution. Monitor was only $7,000 and the card to run it was around $3,000. Since I was an IBM employee, I got a 50% discount on any product, so I got a $3,200 3 yr. loan and got an IBM PC XT - an 8086 running at a screaming 4.77 MHz, upgraded to 512KB (yes, as in 1/2 megabyte ) of RAM and an unheard of 10 MB hard drive. Could display 16 colors! I think I was the only student on the NTSU campus that had a PC with a hard drive. I still have that XT in a box somewhere...

I did my internship at Apple Computers and received a free Mac Plus (all-in-one cube thing with one color green screen & a floppy drive). Sold it for $1,000.

First PC I built was a 80286 with the spider memory chips (I hated bending those pins) and I've been a PC guy ever since. Main reason is kinda the same as why I have a Road Star...I like to mess with my stuff & get inside it and see what makes it work & fix it. That's much easier on a PC than a Mac.

Currently running an ASUS mobo, AMD X2 6400 @ 3.2 GHz, 8 GB RAM and an NVIDIA 8800 GTS (flashed the chip with 8800 GTX firmware and it runs perfectly at the higher speed). I was on Vista 64 Pro a very short time (HATE the UAC) and have been running the 64-bit Windows 7 beta, RC and now RTM Win 7 64 Ultimate. LOVE it. The unwritten rule of thumb with upgrading Windows versions is that for every new release you needed roughly twice the "horsepower" to run the newer version. This was true from Window 98 to Windows 2000 and then to Win XP, but they screwed up with Vista because it really took four times the muscle to run Vista over XP. Windows 7 takes twice what XP did, so it really is what Vista SHOULD have been.

My long winded 2¢ worth...

RK

Mac, Mac, Mac. My PC systems crash and do goofy stuff all the time, but my Mac is like my R*, just keeps going, no fuss, no muss and no bother.

The only problem is that at work I have a bunch of PC only software. If I could use a Mac at the office I would. The good news is that you can download Apple Safari onto your PC and get rid of that annoying Internet Explorer.

I love all the "Mac" commercials, not on TV, but on this thread

Those of us who build PC's either for ourselves or as a business (like me) have to shake our heads when we hear all the people talk about how unstable their PC was so they got a Mac. I think it's funny someone will buy a $399 PC and it won't do what they want it to do so they go buy a $4000 Mac and it does better! If I build a $4000 PC it's going to SMOKE a Mac and I will put a 3 or 4 year Anti-virus program on it to protect it.

Proper maintenance on a PC, and using Fire Fox or Safari, or better yet, Linux and those issues are mute. Buy a crappy E-machine from Worst Buys and you get what you paid for!

If you must buy a brand name, pay a bit more and get their better systems, not the $399 junk. What would you get for $399 from Mac? Service call.

After years of PC's and years of viruses, spyware, etc. we finally bit the bullet and got an iMac 3 years ago. Not one virus in 3 years. I'm afraid to even put MS Office on it.

I have to use PC's at work. And PC's are much cheaper for same performance. But hard to beat MAC's trouble/worry free operation. Plus they r cool!

Darn wrote:
I love all the "Mac" commercials, not on TV, but on this thread

Those of us who build PC's either for ourselves or as a business (like me) have to shake our heads when we hear all the people talk about how unstable their PC was so they got a Mac. I think it's funny someone will buy a $399 PC and it won't do what they want it to do so they go buy a $4000 Mac and it does better! If I build a $4000 PC it's going to SMOKE a Mac and I will put a 3 or 4 year Anti-virus program on it to protect it.

Proper maintenance on a PC, and using Fire Fox or Safari, or better yet, Linux and those issues are mute. Buy a crappy E-machine from Worst Buys and you get what you paid for!

If you must buy a brand name, pay a bit more and get their better systems, not the $399 junk. What would you get for $399 from Mac? Service call.

I paid $2200.00 for my Sony Viao laptop and it worked great for 7 years but, My $1600 Macbook works better than my sony ever did.
I put my $1600.00 Macbook against my friends $1400.00 Dell intel core duo (adamo) and made him wish he paid the extra $200 for a mac.
BTW you can buy a beginning Macbook for only $899.00 and a 24" IMac is only $1315.00, a IMac pro is only $3200.00 not $4000.00
I used to give all my friends who had Macs a hard time until I got one.
FWIW
Steven