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Re: pc/mac

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Originally Posted by mannaman
I lean more towards a Mac. Laptops especially.That's actually what I'm on now. Macs are better for Audio/Visual things in my opinion. However, less software is made for Macs.
Agreed, although two things should factor into the software argument:
a) Quality over quantity.
b) You can run Windows if you're dying to do it. (But with OS X on there, why would you?)

Personally, I prefer Macs for a few reasons:
1) Beautiful hardware that stands up to modest amounts of abuse.
2) World-class support. (When my iBook messed up under warranty, everything was shipped next-day air, with plenty of status reports on Apple's website. Service is one of those things you don't think about until you need it--but now I'm definitely hooked on Apple's.)
3) I just prefer OS X to Windows for most tasks.
4) Software developers for OS X tend to create insanely great things that plain change your computing experience. (Quicksilver+Growl for the win.)
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