advice for windows users

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by hatembr

well, juho, one has to pay for quality... we (pc users) have to admit that we have more problems than mac users, more unstable system and more buggy OS.

Well if you put up a PC with the cheapest possible parts you could find there might be problems. But even a good quality component and stable PC is cheaper than a Mac. I think the price of Mac is explained by the fact that Mac is more work oriented, so most of the Macs are in offices and in other facilities as a pure work computer. Few years back Macs had gained a firm foothold in certain industires (like in graphics and music) and that way achieved a status of industry standard. This allowed Apple to keep the price a bit higher since the companies that had years used Macs would gladly pay some extra to get a Mac instead of moving to hellish Windows-98-crash-o-matic and getting a new software. Nowadays since the release of Windows XP and vastly growing PC processing power the competition between Mac and PC has got tougher and Mac has started to lose its industry standard trait, so I say that the price of new Macs will drop in the future. At least I think it would be very logical scenario since Apple can't compete with stability and speed anymore.

As far as that strange feeling go, i think it is quite normal, if tomorrow u get an additive synthesis based-synth, u'll feel as strange as that, it s just a matter of habit, u were used to take off frequencies, now u'd have to add them to get what u want, u just learn it and get used to it.
Same thing for mac, u'll get used to it once u are in front of the machine with nothing else around u, at least, that's how i appreciated the G4 i tried, i quickly got used to that famous one button click and took the time to discover the OS. I think it's a fact, Macis great

That's true. You can learn it, but is there really any point in it? I wouldn't benefit at all from the exchange.