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i'm thinking to switch from pc to mac g4? help!
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<blockquote data-quote="Mouse26" data-source="post: 36523"><p>After years of PC and PC laptop ownership, I recently bought a 12" powerbook.</p><p></p><p>Good Points</p><p></p><p>1. Stability - My PB has yet to crash. At all. Bimey...</p><p>2. Portability - The 12" PB is uncompromisingly powerful for such a small computer, works through any Microsoft office task with ease. Unreal Tournament 2004 also silky smooth.</p><p>3. Simplicity - No PC suite of programs can compare to iLife, managing music, photos, documents, calendar etc, it really is so beautifully easy to use.</p><p>4. Looks - Yes ok so I'm shallow, but the design of Mac's is unrivalled, the design and build quality puts all PC's (even Vaio's) to abject shame.</p><p>5. Battery life - It's like the duracell bunny....</p><p>6. Customer service - My ride to Mac ownership was a slightly rocky one, but at each step of the way the service I got from the Apple sales and after sales support was tremendous.</p><p></p><p>Bad Points</p><p></p><p>1. Get ready to buy all your software all over again.</p><p>2. Apple, make an official mouse with two buttons, just admit you were wrong and give up the design aesthetic...we have more than one finger!</p><p>3. Very memory dependant, my PC's operate much more efficiently with less memory, but the Mac's really need alot of it. Make it your first Mac upgrade.</p><p>4. Few games, those that do exist can have very high system requirements for the graphical niceties (result of baaad porting of PC games)</p><p>5. Simply less variety of software. </p><p>6. Software extortionate to buy.</p><p>7. Apple charge for Operating Systems upgrades every year, and they're not cheap. The last time I had to shell out for Windows it was XP, and not another windows operating system is planned until 2006. Why so often, Apple??</p><p></p><p>Overall though, the powerbook was one of my best purchases I've ever made, and I now understand the near-fanatical loyalty to the Apple brand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mouse26, post: 36523"] After years of PC and PC laptop ownership, I recently bought a 12" powerbook. Good Points 1. Stability - My PB has yet to crash. At all. Bimey... 2. Portability - The 12" PB is uncompromisingly powerful for such a small computer, works through any Microsoft office task with ease. Unreal Tournament 2004 also silky smooth. 3. Simplicity - No PC suite of programs can compare to iLife, managing music, photos, documents, calendar etc, it really is so beautifully easy to use. 4. Looks - Yes ok so I'm shallow, but the design of Mac's is unrivalled, the design and build quality puts all PC's (even Vaio's) to abject shame. 5. Battery life - It's like the duracell bunny.... 6. Customer service - My ride to Mac ownership was a slightly rocky one, but at each step of the way the service I got from the Apple sales and after sales support was tremendous. Bad Points 1. Get ready to buy all your software all over again. 2. Apple, make an official mouse with two buttons, just admit you were wrong and give up the design aesthetic...we have more than one finger! 3. Very memory dependant, my PC's operate much more efficiently with less memory, but the Mac's really need alot of it. Make it your first Mac upgrade. 4. Few games, those that do exist can have very high system requirements for the graphical niceties (result of baaad porting of PC games) 5. Simply less variety of software. 6. Software extortionate to buy. 7. Apple charge for Operating Systems upgrades every year, and they're not cheap. The last time I had to shell out for Windows it was XP, and not another windows operating system is planned until 2006. Why so often, Apple?? Overall though, the powerbook was one of my best purchases I've ever made, and I now understand the near-fanatical loyalty to the Apple brand. [/QUOTE]
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