[mass55th]

I'm a Mac User and most of the reasons I've heard that others don't use Macs is the lack of games to play on them. I've never had any problem finding games I like to play, but then, I don't spend all my time playing games either.

[pageonetoo]

My G4 is working fine, the two g3 wallstreet Powerbooks that my wife and I use, are never down, and my 14 yr old daughter has a Snow ibook!.
My darling wife of three+ years was a diehard pc user when we started dating, and she only began using my Macs after we married...
we have no pc's now, she despises them! I bought her a Powerbook to use away from home, and she can't leave without it...
She asked me one day, "How DO you crash this thing?
I told her to run something with "SoftWindows" (a PC emulator, for Mac) and it will surely lock up! Not the Mac, just the program!

[mathluv]

I have always had Mac at home. I had to use PC at work. the last time I went into CompUSA to buy a computer, the clerk tried to sell me a PC. I finally got him to admit that he liked PCs because of the games. Like you, I find all the games I want, but to buy a computer just for games is very expensive.

[RnMomof7]

Free Trade, as it is set up at present, is the most terrible danger America has ever faced. Control of our food, water, resources, needed goods, will be far out of our reach and in the hands of an appointed committee.

I am a Mac user too , I will never own a PC. Macs are tanks, They run and they run . There are ten year old macs still operating without a problem .

In a way I hope they do not become more popular because one of the real perks are with such a small market share no one bothers to make worms or viruses for them. So while the rest of the computing world was trying to fix their PC last week , Mac users just chugging along

BTW Gamers can have the benefit of the Linix system and the games of the PC

One can purchase a "virtual PC" program that allows the use of any PC software

[Phsstpok]

OK, most of the posts on this thread are irrelevant. "My MAC is perfect. PCs suck!" OK, let's move on.

I'm the Client Architect for a Fortune 60 company (that should help narrow it down (g)) and have been doing this for this company for 18 years and in the business of microcomputers since the "over the counter" start in 1977, so I think that qualifies me to discuss this. I am responsible for 35,000 plus Wintel PCs and around 2,000 Macs. The Macs are fine for what they can do but most of what we do has to be mainstream, off the shelf and 100% compatible with our customers or suppliers. End of argument. Macs aren't. You can build anything you need to run on a Mac, but you can't buy it off the shelf the same way you can in the PC world. We don't build, we buy. It costs too much to custom code everything we need.

Oh, and the argument that Macs never crash. Bull. And when they crash, forget it. When Macs crash it's ugly, and not reasonably recoverable. We use "disposable PCs" in our shops. We can have a PC hit by a dump truck or a meteor and have our users (that follow our rules) back up inside of a half hour. Every Mac is a custom installation and requires days to restore.

Macs require less IT staff because Macs can do less. So if you're satisfied with doing less you need less IT staff. Ipso facto. And I don't play games on my company PCs (I might surf to FR, but I can defend that... really (g))

[cmsgop]

I did iChat last night for the first time with a frind in San Diego. It was just incredible, Smooth Picture,Easy to use,Just amazing...