I'm watching the keynote replay now... It's smoking dual 3.06GHz Xeons at Photoshop renders, Mathematica calculations, everything
Plus new Safari, Panther, iChat AV with video conferencing built in, iSight net cam for $149, and much more. I just don't understand why anyone would buy a PC for a home machine anymore...
Oh...I'm sure I can give you more than just a handful of reasons. But this is a thread dedicated to the new apple G5 so I'm not going to turn it into some intel vs apple argument .
I seriously have NEVER met a person who used windows then used a Mac for sometime to actually learn it and then wanted to go back. My feeling is nobody WANTS to use a Windows box, they use one because they HAVE to b/c of work or specific programs, etc.
I agree with that. My college roommate and I used to argue about this quite often. Finally, his peecee broke down for the final time, and he had no other choice but to use my Mac. He's used a Mac ever since.
I am going to buy a new computer either at the end of this year or the begining of the next and...ding, ding, ding, I think we have a winner!
Well my experiences with Macs aren't good. I would use them at UT and those were the only ******* computers that would freeze up on me. I wanted to break them really really bad!
Or cost issues. I moved over to Windows machines because it was just cheaper to outfit what I wanted with Windows rather than Mac. I started on Mac, though, and I still think it's a very nice interface (especially now with OSX, which was still years away when I switched). The prices are not out of line for what you're getting necessarily. But there seems to be a greater depth of product line on the windows side (i.e. there are more budget solutions). But really, since I switched, I've liked Windows just fine, especially in XP form which is light years better than 95/98 was (in my opinion). Given a different cost structure, my purchases might be different.
I agree with mrpaige. I love the OS-X interface, but I just love the choices in software I have with the PC platform. I love using the Mac platform, but from a cost-sense, software choice, and pricing, I have to go with the PC platform. Can't wait till August when AMD brings out their first-generation 64-bit Opterons. Let's see what these come priced at.
