Quote from: Capt McQuigg

The initial cheapness of the PC. Is offset by the constant need of upgrades and debugging.

I've had a Mac desktop for four years now and have not had a single problem.  With the PC, I would need a professional to debug it after three months and the thing literally became unusable.

Bill Gates is pro-abortion too so let's not get carried away with that line of thinking.  The mainstream culture is a lost cause.

PCs are versatile and very good for a business if you have a staff of IT guys to constantly fix Microsoft problems, which arise as if on a planned schedule, then PCs all the way.

For the everyday internet and computers user, Mac is really great.

Your hyperbole sounds like a perfect Mac commercial. At any rate, you are far from accurate.

First of all, based on what you say, then only a fool wouldn't buy a Mac. Sorry, bub. There are a lot of non-fools that pass up Mac in a very reasoned and educated manner.

First starters, all those of us who aren't rich! Secondly, those who want to own/control their own PCs! Those who want cheap/free software, and so on.

The Mac uses the same hardware as the PC, only it's twice as expensive. I would know; I've shopped for a Mac. I was going to buy one for game development, but I decided to hold off for now. When I say "twice as expensive" I mean exactly that. That's not an exaggeration.

Software is another story. You do realize that PC and Windows are not married, right? You can easily buy standard PC hardware from NewEgg, Amazon.com, etc. and install Linux, which I recommended.

Even Windows isn't as bad as you describe. We've used Windows in the past (my wife uses it in the present) and it goes years without problems as well. If you needed to A) hire someone B) to fix a PC "unusable" after 3 months, then it says something about your own PC skills, sad to say.

I don't think I need to have such extensive operative/reparative skills to be able to use a product with consistency so it says something about me (true) but it says more about Microsoft (also true).

As for building your own, then for you the computer is an extension of your hobbyist skills.  

I've been Mac for several years now so maybe the windows has improved.  

And as for those guys and gals that enjoy constantly "tuning up" their PCs, well, there's nothing wrong with that.  That's probably a lot of the fun in using PCs.

What are the costs of all these new add on's and improved products that the PC users inevitably need to purchase?  These costs add up too.  

I guess you can think of me like the gangster Paulie in "Goodfellas" - he knows nothing about restaurants except that he sits at the table and tells the waiter what he wants so I think I'll continue to turn my MAC on and have it give me what I want.

 :cheers:

 

Get dell laptop fixed or get new one.