I do quite a bit of freelance work for Apple, and even though that's the case, I still prefer PCs. I make no secret of it to them, but needless to say, they think I am the anhtichrist because of that:rotfl:
I have Macs and PCs at home (have to because of my work) but Macs are, and always will be, overpriced and underpowered in comparison to PCs. It's a niche market of course and popular with the design industry, but the justification for that is getting slimmer by the day. Twenty years ago, when the design industry was being forced to move from drawing boards to computers, a simple computer operating system with a nice friendly unthreatening GUI was a good idea, and it was a big leap forward in comparison to the contemporary PC offerings at the time. But pretty much all computers, regardless of the components and the operating system, are like that these days, so the price justification of a Mac is getting harder to swallow by the minute.
On the plus side for Macs, there is at least pretty much the guarantee that if you buy some software for a Mac, it's likely to run without any issues (kind of like consoles in that regard), although if you've tried running Adobe CS2 stuff on an Intel Mac, you've probably discovered that some operations will bomb the software, notably the 3D emulation in Illustator.
I'm hoping that with Macs adopting Intel processors the peripheral and software market will open up a bit more, because right now, if you want a graphics tablet for a Mac, you are looking at 600 quid for a WACOM. On the other hand, I bought a large graphics tablet for my PC the other day, and that cost me 45 quid. So using a cheaper, faster and more easily upgradeable PC in comparison to a Mac is a bit of a no brainer in that regard. I'm going to try and see if that tablet will run on my (Intel) Powerbook this week, and if it does, fair enough, but I doubt it.
Chock