I would have to say though, if you’re a computer illiterate, aren’t smart enough to customize things, like overpaying to make yourself feel that you bought a superior product, like to join crowds of other idiots that make you feel less like an idiot, well, the mac is indeed designed just for you!

Windows 7 still has viruses!

Then why did Apple reccommend that Mac OSX users start using AV software last December? While Mac OSX may be far more secure, it is not immune, and virus writers target Windows because it is still 85%+ of the market. If Mac OSX had 80%+ market share, it would have a virus problem too.

Mac’s are costly. Theyre hardware is ‘better’ only because they put professional grade stuff into their computers. A regular joe-shmoe isnt gonna need that good of a graphics or that fast of a processor. PC’s give more choice to the user, they dont always have to spend $1k+ on a laptop.

But if you are willing to spend that much money to buy a MAC, then spend that same amount of money into a PC, and I gaurantee you, you will have way better hardware.

Also, if you ever try to upgrade anything on a mac.. its a fail. You simply cant do it. If anything breaks, you gotta send it in. If you wanna upgrade ram, send it in. With PCs, its straight forward to open it up and put/replace hardware.

As to the software, MAC and PCs are completely different things. You cannot compare them. MAC is for people who jsut want a blackbox to work. They dont know anythign about it, they dotn want to customize it, they just want something that works.

With PC’s its much more than that, you can customize every single tiny little thing about your computer. You can put all sorts of software on it, you are free to do whatever you like.

In conclusion, Windows PCs are for people who like to customize and have control over what they have. Mac is for those who simply want things to work and want to know nothing about hardware/software or every customizing either.

Also I dont know if people are noticing , but the OS’s are slowly converging to look more and more alike. One day itll just be one OS. And it is not always Windows copying Mac’s, believe you me, Mac has done its fair share of stealing ideas. Not to mention always offering its people Microsoft software (like Office), why would Mac do that if theyre software is so great?

I laugh at Mac’s, I laugh at Mac owners, and most of all, I laugh at the Mac Guy

No way is it unfair to point out that Microsoft has been making the same exact promises about Windows with every launch and failing to deliver. Microsoft’s failure to deliver is one of the 21st century’s most interesting tech stories. Remember that Apple announced they were building Mac OS X in 1996, so Windows XP in late 2001 had 5 years of getting ready for Mac OS X. Windows 7 still has viruses! It’s grim, and we downplay it because HP et al has nothing else to sell.

@tom: I get the idea that many people won’t go through the bother of moving an XP PC to Windows 7, and if you’re buying a new computer, you should consider a Mac. For the record, I think it’s a good idea for any Windows user who’s buying a new computer in the price range that Macs play in to consider one. But I also think that the arrival of Windows 7 lessens the case for XP users switching, simply because it’s so much superior an upgrade to XP than Vista ever was.

–Harry

Listening to that innocent background music for 1:30 straight made me feel like I was in some weird Apple nursery though.