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Originally Posted by SmokinTep
I wouldn't own a Mac.
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Yeah, there's a lot of that sentiment on both sides. I never understood platform chauvinism myself; both kinds of machines are adept at doing different things. IBM clones, for instance, are better at playing SHIII and catching viruses.
I have supported both for a number of years now. I own several of each. My two main machines are a PC I built myself on a Soyo P4 motherboard and an iBook G4 laptop. I can tell you from experience that PCs require a
lot more care and attention to keep safe and running well. They also suffer from a disadvantaged operating system; Windows has to work with millions of different kinds of hardware components made by thousands of manufacturers. The OS is therefore less tightly integrated with the hardware. That means more things can go wrong in normal use. The Mac OS, by contrast, is made by one company to work with its own hardware. Integration is tighter so the machines tend to run more reliably and hold their age longer.
IBM clones have their virtues; they're inexpensive (nearly disposable, in fact) and they are still the ubiquitous gaming platform. There are also still a very small (far fewer than most people think) number of applications that aren't Mac-friendly.
Having used both for years and seen their strengths and flaws, I believe an Intel Mac running both operating systems would be a near-perfect machine.