Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

I completely understand the joys of playing around with it, but here's my point: Take a car metaphor. Do you really want to spend time rooting under the hood of your daily driver? What if you break something? Why not have a nice reliable car, and spend time under the hood of the weekend mobile?

Computers are like cars for me. The mac is some shiny european car: Harder to work on the hardware, don't break down too often, and a bit more expensive as a result. But boy oh boy do they drive nicely.

I sort of agree with this point to some extent, especially when things get super busy and I'm doing the 15-18 hour days, you just want the truck and then computer to just work.

I guess the thing with me is I want "one laptop" to do everything for me, so while a Mac would do everything I need from live video to everything else there was one problem even in running windows on a Mac and that was my radio systems programming software, this would mean two computers with one just for the radio stuff. with PC I have everything on one machine.

I was an a scene today and one of the camera guys from another station had an ipod touch, it blew me away! and it scared the heck out of my blackberry. No doubt Apple makes some nice stuff and I'm sure the ipad will be good as well.

A bit expensive though when compared to an Asus and Mac's are not as durable as a Thinkpad or toughbook as well.

I still for some reason and maybe it's just the nerd in me but I am hooked on PC.

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