Mac or PC?

Yes, but it's worth it.

The difference between a Chevy and a Honda.

Yeah, you can spend the same amount and get all kinds of bells and whistles for your Chevy, but the engine still sucks, the gas mileage is intolerable, and the resale value is far less.

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that is mostly my opinion on such matters. i have a small cute slimline desktop pc (under $500), got an extra ram card ($70) so it runs super fast, and got an external hard drive for about $50 so it has like infinite space. and although it is credit card debt, it is a lot less credit card debt than buying a mac. and it does pretty much everything i need.

Plus whenever I want to open up the darn thing and put something new in it, all it takes is a screwdriver and some will power. and i am the kind of person that does that sort of thing. I like the modularity of PCs over the aesthetics of macs.

plus i grew up on pcs, can use either, but don't mind what people might find inconvenenient about pcs. i always sort of liked the programming aspect about it anyhow. i actually find the functions that other people find helpful on macs to be annoying because A there are too many smiley faces B sometimes i don't like their solutions and C there isn't as much variability in it.

the anti-virus aspect would be pretty much the only thing that i would value, because that is pretty nice. But if the market share were to open up wider (as it would if macs weren't super expensive), people would just spend more time designing viruses for macs and that advantage would be gone.

For now I will stick with the working man's computer: the PC.

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I actually grew up around Apple. My first computer was an Apple IIe waaaay back in the day.

Don't get me wrong. My husband bought a Dell laptop that is KILLER for far less than he'd have paid for a Mac with the same options. This thing could run the Death Star.

Still, I'll save my pennies and buy my Mac desktop, just because I love them. Sometimes I go to Fry's Electronics and just stare at the 24-inch monitors and hold the wireless mouse and pretend it's mine...allllll miiineee.

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... but many mac users are, sometimes for justifiable reasons, but not always. sometimes it seems like people like macs because of their corporate cross marketing capacity (e.g. itunes) or because they don't figure out creative ways to fix their annoying pc problems.

which isn't necessarily you.

but maybe i am all jaded because ipods (for example) are so popular and yet have like 1/4 of the functionality of similar items, and yet sell for like 2-3x the price. I mean, not being able to download off of them is an amazing loss of functionality. and their capacity to record is really not very good. and they don't even get radio!!! but they look cute, have a hip marketing campaign, people trust the brand name because of the marketing campaign, so they are uber popular.

also sometimes i think people get too caught up in the cuteness factor.

there are pros and cons for both of them. the virus issue is definitley an important one. and sometimes you can do better video production on macs, etc.

i often use the mac lab in school because nobody else uses it, and because i understand them and they are fine.

but i don't necessarily think they are actually worth the amount of money they cost. They aren't really that much better, especially if you invest a lot into souping up your pc. But most people aren't tech nerds like that (like me). Which is not an insult, just a statement of fact.

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...and ended up giving it away. It just wasn't "all that".

And yes, I agree, a lot of people (not just in this case) are obsessed with the image of their product, as opposed to its quality or functionality.

I've used both, and I have a preference for Mac, based on my usage and my computer needs...not based on how cool I look (because really, I couldn't look cool even if I was hanging out with Fall Out Boy) when I carry it around.

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you look COOLER because you AREN'T hanging out with fall out boy! hahaha. like being a hanger on to paris hilton... you are better if you aren't there.

(apologies if that was offensive, but it is true!).

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I'm not offended! I can't speak for Paris, though! Hahahahahaha.

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DO SOME ART WORK FOR MY BAND
AND DID OUR LAST CD AND DVD ON A PC.
DID ALL THE SOUND FOR THE CD KILL THE CURE ON PC TO!

I use a Mac at work and a PC at home, didn't have that option...lol

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But I curse less sitting in front of a Mac.