yea thats my point either way is a great way to go since both are powered by intel... but i wont by one due to the lack of support for gamers.
And therein, my friend, lies the fundamental difference between Mac users and PC users...
Mac owners consider their machines to be tools for doing creative, innovative, visionary work.
PC owners consider their machines some sort of high-end entertainment consoles that will, coincidentally, also run Word and Excel...
I would suggest that you buy a frisbee or a snowboard or a nice mountain bike or even a paintball gun, and use those for your play-time. Getting outside will do you a world of good, and the money you save not having to buy all those new games would be MUCH better spent buying music CDs, or new components for your stereo (for rainy or cold days)...
I have a MacBook Pro 17", and I bought it with JUST OS X installed. I will not install Windows. I will not install Word. Hell, I won't even download the free version of Explorer. I simply refuse to patronize a company which continues to force inferior products down the throat of the computer world, and is perpetuating the conspiracy of perpetually escalating employment for "IT Managers" and "PC Help Desk Jockeys". If, for any reason, I feel the need to put a second OS on my Mac, it will be Linux.
The last company I worked for had 1500 employees. Of them, we had PCs on about 1000 desks and Macs on about 250 desks. For PC help-desk support, we had nearly 200 full-time people (1 helper for every 5 PCs), and they OFTEN had to put in overtime. For the Macs, we had 2 "help desk" people (1 helper for every 125 Macs), and they were part time, and actually spent most of their time as production artists in the graphic design dept. You do the math. Macs are more reliable, last longer, more backwardly-compatible over their lifetime, and interms of "real cost" in the business sense, actually cost less than 50% what PCs cost, in terms of up-time, reliability, and user-support over the life of the machine.
Take a Mac out of the box, plug it in the wall, and it runs for 10 years...
The Mac I had before this one was a PowerMac 9500 (made in 1995), and when I retired it (in late 2006) I was running OS 9.1, and the current (non OS X) versions of Photoshop, Quark, and Illustrator.
You can't even run the install disk for the most recent version of Windoze on an 11-year-old PC, and if you could, it would run so slow that it would probably cause a warp in the time-space continuum and collapse upon itself, creating a mini-black hole which would suck your wallet out of your pocket and make it disappear into a singularity...
Oh, that's what EVERY version of Windoze does, on EVERY PC.... :haha1:
Don't support Windoze.
Don't support DIVX.
Abandon the digital heroin they call "gaming", and buy a frisbee.
The air will do you good.
Spend your money on something worthwhile, like TUBES and ESLs...
And if you really feel the desire to throw your energy and money into a cost-ineffective, stress-inducing, mind-numbing activity, start designing your own cables for your sound system. Believe me, you'll throw buckets of money away , end up with the twitches and a dangerously accelerated heart rate, and you'll **** off your S.O. with all the bits of wire and smell of solder. (same outcome as playing computer games!?!) But on the good side, you might actually accomplish something useful with your time.
--Richard C.
