Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / June 2003

HI ALL

Thankyou to all who replied to my previous post regarding Macs vs. PC's.
Based on the opinions/evidence you presented and my personal opinion, I
am 95% sure to go with Mac. Though I didn't mention it in my previous
post, I have been a PC user pretty much for the last 10 years. Its only
been in the last 2 years that I have become familiar (slightly) with Mac
through work. My little PC notebook crashes all the time, the Mac I use
has never crashed once.

I have checked it out and all the software I use is available for Mac
(and cheaper since I get the education discount), I'm not a huge gaming
person so that is not a major issue. I download quite a bit of music
(MP3's and stuff) hence iTunes will be quite handy. As for other
software, the Mac here has all the software that I can put onto my Mac
(the software has multiple licences), including Photoshop 7. And, for
that person who asked what I used Photoshop for (alone), I get images
from microscopes that we use Photoshop to "tidy up".

So, even though I won't be buying till September what I have decided for
now is :
        15 inch powerbook G4 with combo drive 833MHz

Mind you, if the prices drop enough before then (due to the new G5) I
will probably go with the 1GHz system.

Funny enough, after posting my previous message yesterday, I went to a
site that compared Macs and PC's. It likened the Mac to a Mercedes
(works beautifully, parts harder to get but people love it) and the PC
to a Ford (it works OK, parts available everywhere, people drive it).
From what I've read here that seems quite true.

I like with Macs that what goes into a Mac is "Mac" as oppsed to PCs
which seem to be a jumble of bits from everywhere.

Whatever the case, if I hate the Mac that much, I will keep it for 2-3
years and go back to PC....nothing to lose. But I won't know till I try.

Thankyou all again

Angela