01-14-2010, 02:32 PM
I dont really care what kind of computer YOU buy but I've never had a problem with any PC I've ever owned dating back to our old school 386 with like 128k of RAM running DOS 5.0. Okay, thats not true, I had a CD drive stop working and a hard drive stop working. I do attribute that to being made by Lite-On and Western Digital respectively and even then, the hard drive was probably spinning constantly since I hardly ever turned the computer off for like 5 years. I'm sure those same companies probably make the same peripherals for Mac or PC. That being said, I'm sure Macs are all good and fast and happy and shiny and will save the universe but I personally dont see any reason to drop double or even triple the amount of money on a computer that recognizes my router 3 seconds quicker, takes me to the same internet at the same speed through our cable modem and does everything I need it to do.
Now keep in mind I'm not a programmer and I dont do much with my comp aside from internets, email, photoshop, youtube/videos/mp3s and the occasional word document/excel spreadsheet but I'm sure 80% of you use it for the same stuff and not much else. I know its not exactly scientific or really even close to anything resembling a valid argument but in my observations, I generally notice a lot more status updates on facebook that talk about Mac problems than PC problems. And generally they are almost always like this: "OMG my Mac is doing something weird!" Then "Its okay because I scheduled a service appointment at an Apple store next week because it was the first available." Then "the Apple store said it was a bad something-or-rather and shipped it off to get fixed. What am I gonna do for a week?" But they got it back the week after that and "it worked like it was brand new. I love Apple customer care!" Whereas PC problems I generally see are "WTF?!? Why isnt this working? I hate my PC!" Lots of their friends comment "You should buy a Mac, I love mine!" Then a couple hours later: "I downloaded the proper drivers for (whatever new thing I plugged in) and now it works. UGH! How annoying, I hate my computer, I was so inconvenienced for that hour."
Now keep in mind I'm not a programmer and I dont do much with my comp aside from internets, email, photoshop, youtube/videos/mp3s and the occasional word document/excel spreadsheet but I'm sure 80% of you use it for the same stuff and not much else. I know its not exactly scientific or really even close to anything resembling a valid argument but in my observations, I generally notice a lot more status updates on facebook that talk about Mac problems than PC problems. And generally they are almost always like this: "OMG my Mac is doing something weird!" Then "Its okay because I scheduled a service appointment at an Apple store next week because it was the first available." Then "the Apple store said it was a bad something-or-rather and shipped it off to get fixed. What am I gonna do for a week?" But they got it back the week after that and "it worked like it was brand new. I love Apple customer care!" Whereas PC problems I generally see are "WTF?!? Why isnt this working? I hate my PC!" Lots of their friends comment "You should buy a Mac, I love mine!" Then a couple hours later: "I downloaded the proper drivers for (whatever new thing I plugged in) and now it works. UGH! How annoying, I hate my computer, I was so inconvenienced for that hour."
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