So that's the real definition of "wetware."

     You probably won't regret it. : D

yea, goto a PC forum and see if you get swayed.

     I've never had any trouble getting support, on the three or four occasions I've needed it in over a decade of Mac ownership. Assuming you can't fix whatever problem it is yourself, it's not a difficult matter to find your Authorized Apple Retailer (tm) and have them do the work. 99% of the time, when something has gone wrong with my Mac, it's been a problem that is easily repairable by a confident user. I just haven't needed support from the pros.

     Regarding the software support, I'm not sure whether he's talking out his ass or not about the pricing. Sure, games are more expensive on the Mac (because our version is new, and the PC version is six months old), but in non-games, the prices are comparable, if not equal. Photoshop is the same price on both platforms, Quicken is actually a few dollars cheaper on the Mac, and if the Mac version of Microsoft Office is equal to the PC Office XP Standard Edition, then the Mac version is $111 more. If the Mac version is equal to the PC Pro version, then the Mac version is considerably cheaper (but I doubt that).

     Then he mentions personal support, the "friends and family" network of people you can bug about your problems. I've seen people ask for help on predominantly PC message boards. I've seen people ask for help on predominantly Mac message boards. In the latter case, the asker generally gets lots of help pretty quickly. In the former case, the asker is usually lucky if they get one or two responses. There's a Mac community, and personally, I like that.

Well I can't say much to that: first if you had a Mac Rogue Spear/Ghost Recon issue I think it was answered or at least tried to answer. So the size of a community isn't the deciding point it is more how helpful the community is. Further there aren't that many different systems or system combinations so most questions can be answered by and for many people.

However I never needed technical support: the only issues I had with my iMac were 2 complete harddisk fallouts(once the bootsection got erased and once the hd heads were broken) but this were standard PC hardware components so...

Software is mostly prized the same.

To use a Mac or PC depends on the tasks you have to do and often your emotional attitude. Of course for gaming the PC is the non plus ultra, period, but only the fact that I don't have to worry about driver issues and that my hardware is very reliable let me use Macs.

About getting software cheap(warezing): you get as much warez as for the PC. (if this is a good thing is another question).

If you have the money to buy a highend PC or a G5: I would say it is an emotional decision: if you have always used PCs you will stick with them and same for Mac user. May the last years were a little bit different because of the performance lack but remember when the G4 came out the MHz difference was only 100 - 200 Mhz and now with the G5 we have closed the performance gap and so I think we are back at a point where your decision won't base on bare facts.

I'll get a G5 and will be happy with it for the next 4 - 5 years! I'm using my iMac now almost 4 years and I'm very satisfied with it.

Think different,

Mauti

Mauti, thnx for the reply.

You mentioned in your post that when the g4's were out there was only about 100-200 Mhz difference and that now that the g5's are out the performance gap has shortened.  Are you saying that P4's (or other PC) where faster than the g4's??  or do you mean that the g4's were 100-200 Mhz faster than the current fastest PC out there?
The reason I ask is b/c  I thought the g4 was faster than the P4 and now that the g5 is out there, there isn't any PC comp out there that even comes close to the g5??  Am I right in saying this, Mauti?

thnx

Keep it coming!!! I need some more posts replying to my original 1st post on what this guy said and what is yer rebuttle??

Feedback plz

thnx