[artdutra04]

I've generally preferred Macs. It's hard to quantify why, unless one has used a Mac for several weeks. After using them for a while, there's a lot of things about them seems less stressful than Windows. I hate sounding trite when I say they just work, but the level of "maintenance" they need as compared to Windows is like night and day.

And one of the best things I like is that Apple has great customer service. If you go to an Apple store, they treat you well, as any decent company should. It's the exact opposite of many other PC companies, like Microsoft or Dell, where if you try calling their tech support you get transferred to India or Taiwan or who-knows-where, just to sit on hold for twenty minutes because you are just a person and not a corporate customer. If I pay $300 for your operating system, I hate being treated as a second class customer because I'm not a huge corporation.

But don't get me wrong, when my new iMac gets in later this week one of the first things I'll be doing is using Boot Camp to install Windows Vista 64-bit. While I expect to stay in OSX like 90% of the time, I still need Windows for SolidWorks, CAM, and some gaming (though I'm by no means what one would consider a hardcore gamer).