I’m not a fan of Macs (hated using them in college with those toy tiny b/w screens; I think they were the first Macs with an HD, luckily I had a copy 2 PC board) but this Mac design is pretty kick ass. You have to have failed at wire management to have your Dell end up looking like that though. What do you do when the monitor dies and don’t say it can’t happen, my left LCD display is showing a lot of noise on the screen after it gets warm and if I switch connections to the video card or swap the cable, the problem is still there and it’s not a generic POS but a Viewsonic, wait, maybe I’ll amend my remarks, Viewsonics don’t seem to be so great these days.
The downside to the Mac is, how do I change the video card, where’s the network cable or is it wireless and no matter how many times people tell me you can get a better mouse for your Mac, why does it ship with such a crappy one? Although they might have improved this since I last had one and it had a funky semi clear round thing with only one button. Is it possible for the end user to install a new hard drive and more memory? I can’t imagine it not but who knows, maybe you need to go to their geniuses. That monitor/CPU stand doesn’t look too adjustable either.
And my big beef with Macs, I know their user base isn’t composed of idiots but it seems like Apple thinks they are. I’ve got an Iphone (it was free, I ‘d never buy a product from a company with Algore on the board) and while it is very sleek, you can’t change the battery although I’ve seen kits that void your warranty but my problem is it tries to anticipate what you want to do and that drives me crazy.
I like the myth that Macs don’t crash EVER. BS. My company had Macs in 2003 that ran OS9 and it was the biggest nightmare ever. Crashed worse than Windows 95. You’d be right in the middle of typing a Word document and everything would just freeze. When you got back up, everything you did was gone. It was such a disaster that my company spent millions junking the Macs and moving over to PC. It was horrible. The big boss was a real Mac guy until that happened. He junked the Mac at his house, too!