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Both have pros and cons.

As far as PCs are concerned - they are constantly getting infected by virus', spyware, pop-up windows, etc. Macs generally have no problems with those issues.

On the other had, Mac quality control has been a bit lacking in recent years. I can point to the recent ibook logic board disaster that caused a MASSIVE recall. When the recall work was performed, Mac users found that most of the logic boards that were NEWLY installed were also faulty. Happened to me.

They also have catastrophic hard drive failures from time to time.

That said, I myself am happier with a Mac than a PC>

I'm a Mac person and have preferred them all along. I have also used Windows machines since before Windows. There are good reasons to choose either or the other.

Macs have a more logical OS. Then again, if you're used to Windows, the change might be enough of a pain to balance that. Windows has more applications, but there is usually a good application for whatever you want to do on the Mac. Macs are more secure. There are far fewer games on the Mac. In contrast to CubaWatch, I have only had one failure ( a hard drive in '96 ) since I started using Macs in '87, My first Mac lasted for ten years as a word processing and games machine. Software development is more profitable on the PC.

The best advice I can give you is to determine your most important application. It could be word processor, presentation software, statistics or whatever. Get a demo of what is available on both machines and pick your system based on your comfort level with the software. In the end you will spend far more time in applications than in the OS.

Hope that helps.

Ventanita, I switched almost a year ago. Best decision I ever made. I've concluded that there is no need to use windows. You can always get office for mac if you need to work between systems; you can use parallels and use windows on your system (if you must); they even have a remote desktop which allows you to log into a windows system from home (e.g., if you need to log into work)

mac is a superior system. I suggest everyone get it and tell Bill Gates to stick to the xbox 360 :-D

As a Mac user I can attest to its ease of use and speed. Most of the issues I have encountered are related to RAM; I only have a gig and I need at least 2GB. My advice: get LOTS of RAM. With the new OS X 10.5, you can partition the HD and load Windows XP or Vista if you wish, using Apple's BootCamp. Best of both worlds -- although soiling a Mac with a Windows partition is repulsive. :-)

So you saying that even in a Mac I can run my windows software so I don't go bankrupt buying new software?

With a new Mac running 10.5, yes. And, having seen Windows blaze on a Mac with 10.4 (with an unstable beta of BootCamp), I can say that if you want the best of both worlds, this is the way to go.

don't use bootcamp. Parallels is better. You can run OSX in one window and windows in another.

but most of the stuff that you get with apple and if you order iworks for less than 100; you have everything you need.

what do you envision using windows for?

honestly, I don't even use it; I use remote desktop to log into my office and i'm set.

I got 4 gig on mine but I use it for photography.

of course I'm a nut with 9 hard drives and 2 cinema monitors ;-D

Get a MacBook Pro and make sure you pay for AppleCare. Mine is presently being assembled by Chinese subjects. I've been hearing better things about VMWare's Fusion than Parallels so I plan to install that to run some IBM System i admin applications that those misguided folks made windoze-only.

I've been a Mac user since '97 (Performa 6400/200, and now a iMac G4), and am on my second one (the first one was still perfectly good-if a bit outdated-when I got the second one for Christmas '02, but since it was a present from my Dad.... :) ). Generally, I agree with what pretty much everyone else on here says....easier to use, the OS is set up more along the lines of how a real person thinks, not how a "techie" thinks, virus/spyware problems are virtually non-existent (and would be even if Mac were more "popular", thanks to OS X being based on a Unix kernel), most major proggies have both Windoze and Mac versions, and if you're really desperate to run Windoze software, as George pointed out, there's always Boot Camp. Yes, you'll pay more for it compared to a comparable Windoze system, but as the old saying goes, "You get what you pay for". Buena Suerte!

MacBook 4GB RAM 2.2 processor or MacBook Pro?

There is a HUGE price difference.

I'm coming off a pc with 2GB RAM and a 1.5 intel centrino. This one lasted 3 years, I'm looking for something to last that long as well.

FWIIW, look at the new MacBook Pro models, as the can run both the very stable Mac OS or Windows. They just tested out as the best windows machines around. Drawback is price, they are pricey; and, the current edition of the power adapters flat out suck. So sayeth me who had mine die the first day in Iraq and Mac PR -- while ultimately responsive -- was not terribly helpful and extremely untimely. That said, I do like mine. Second word of advice, don't go with IMac, have not had good luck with those at home or at work. Will also note that my previous laptop, one of the Titanium models, kept working even after doing a flying Wallenda about eight feet onto concrete. Case was cracked/broken, the hard drive wasn't completely happy, but it ran for more than a year afterwards before dying.

LW

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