I see the anti-Mac argument has come full circle from the days when Macintosh was sneeringly dismissed as a "toy" computer for kids and grandmas, and all the hardheaded business types used Windows to get real work done.
Nowadays, I have gone 100% OS X because I have important business to attend to, I don't play any computer games, and my time is much too valuable to waste in building my own computer and keeping it free of spyware and viruses. I shall leave that to the unemployed pasty-faced basement-dwelling hobbyists who actually care about crap like DirectX. If I want to play a game, I'll use my boy's X-Box.
-ccm
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I'll give credit where it is due. Mac makes a solid business platform. I usually tell people who ask me what kind of commuter they should buy this: If you are doing to buy a computer from the store, with a name on the side, go get a Mac. If you want to build the latest gaming rig, then lets go look at some hardware on newegg.com
The cynic in me says that the divorce of the PC as the premier gaming platform is a win for the tech world. Why sell one appliance when you can sell two?
I just found that upgrading various components of my PC every year or so to keep up with the games was getting more expensive than just buying a console every five years. And as opposed to one PC configuration the games just get better over a console’s lifetime as the developers better learn how to take advantage of the hardware (this is especially true for the PS3, and previouly the Nintendo 64). Now the only things my family plays on the Mac or PC are the little Popcap-type games or old games for nostalgia (the last Populous was great). Serious gaming gets done on the consoles.