what's keeping you from getting a MAC?

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Only the price. My iMac G5 is getting tired, the disc drive ate a disc and won't spit it out. I'd love a new one but overtime has dried up at work this year...I think I've gotten 5 shifts this year compared to 5-6 a month last year.

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At what cost though?

Considering basically every Mac uses default optical drives, HDDs, memory cards etc. just like every other PC you'd pay the same price as you normally would. Granted you're pretty much screwed if your logic board fails. But then again that could be an expensive joke with PCs as well.

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The fact that my Macbook Pro died twice and then I had to yell at customer service for a few days before I was offered a full refund for my dissatisfaction. Completely unacceptable that that happened within a month of purchase, yet my other laptops/netbooks haven't had a problem.

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The fact that my Macbook Pro died twice and then I had to yell at customer service for a few days before I was offered a full refund for my dissatisfaction. Completely unacceptable that that happened within a month of purchase, yet my other laptops/netbooks haven't had a problem.

One wouldn't know the quality of tech support till something breaks.

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You have a fairly typical "I use a Mac and because I use a Mac everyone who doesn't, and the reasons they provide are wrong" smugness about you.

You use a Mac, you've got that point across several pages ago. Congratulations to you.

I can honestly say that I hold no loyalty to one over the other. While I own two Macs, I have a boyfriend who owns more than a few PCs and I have absolutely no problem switching over to those. I also grew up on PCs. I enjoy my Macs and for me, they're better to do my professional work on than PCs. Gaming on a Mac is mostly crap so I love to use my boyfriend's monster-of-a-PC for that instead--particularly for my Steam games. For me, each have their own specialties for what I do; Macs are better for one thing, while PCs are better for others.

I'm certainly not going to flame one over the other.

However, that being said: what a hypocritical thing for you to say. You are actually giving off--especially with that statement--the exact same impression about yourself; with a little switch of the words, of course.

I see just as many, if not more, PC "fanboys" starting arguments and spouting bull**** as Apple "fanboys" and both of you are just as annoying as the other. The only difference I've noticed thus far is that PC fans tend to be far more hypocritical and--in my own experience and opinion--pretentious. There are many many comments on this thread alone that further lead me to this opinion.

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The religion is what's keeping me from getting either a Mac, or using Linux for that matter. The fanaticism is such a big turn-off, I'd rather stick with the tool that I'm currently using. I've been in this business long enough to understand that's all a computer is.

I'm using Windows, but that doesn't make me a Windows fanboy. The other platforms seem to have that as a requirement. That's not a crowd I care to be associated with.

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It seems Apple as a company is doing more to create a fanboy club. Their ads have always been directly targeting PCs (As a matter of fact they almost always target other companies in their ads or events). And, MS only recently did a little bit of ads with a similar theme. But, compared to years of snide ads from Apple, I would say that what MS did with their ads was negligible.

Most MAC people I have known are quite ignorant (I don't mean all of them)...Some of them even think that the CPUs in MACs are special. Well, more can be said about this.

On the other hand, PC fans I have known are usually reactionary. Their fanboism is mostly fueled by apple and apple fanboys. I think being constantly told (by ads) that they are dumb makes them even more hard core PC fans.

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It seems Apple as a company is doing more to create a fanboy club. Their ads have always been directly targeting PCs (As a matter of fact they almost always target other companies in their ads or events). And, MS only recently did a little bit of ads with a similar theme. But, compared to years of snide ads from Apple, I would say that what MS did with their ads was negligible.

Most MAC people I have known are quite ignorant (I don't mean all of them)...Some of them even think that the CPUs in MACs are special. Well, more can be said about this.

On the other hand, PC fans I have known are usually reactionary. Their fanboism is mostly fueled by apple and apple fanboys. I think being constantly told (by ads) that they are dumb makes them even more hard core PC fans.

I don't think its fanboism I think there are genuine people who don't like Windows and have moved to Apple and now like the OS they are using appose to not. Therefore they are voicing their opinions on that experience and the ad's help move these people across by saying do you not like blah blah about Windows, come to Mac where you won't be bothered by those experiences.

At the end of the day its what works for you, personally I would rather pay more and have less hassles be it Windows or Mac.... life is to short to do or have things you don't particularly like to use.

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