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Sebring, I never said that I know a lot about macs, only that I've been very happy with mine. I kid you not it has never crashed on me and I use it for everything. You, on the other hand, definately have more experience with the mac platform than I do. I certainly missed the ball on that count. But can you blame me? Comparing the way you talk about them with my experience, and that of several other mac users at work, I just assumed that you didn't know what you were talking about. For that I apologize.
Also, just to give you an idea of my background - I'm an enterprise administrator for a government agency with 80 sites, 150 servers and 5000 users. We are a windows/unix shop (mostly windows). I know a lot about windows as this is what I grew up with and work with on a daily basis. I'm not a mac groupy. Just a satisfied customer. Before buying a mac I built all of my home WinTel systems. I still have both platforms at home but my windows environment is used as a lab for work.
As to the other points you make: saying that macs are only good for publishing is really an old-school thought. Many people have this belief because back in the day that's how it was - but things change. Also, the WinTel platform is definately the de facto standard in business. Does that make it better? Not really. Does it mean we should migrate everyone from windows to the mac platform? Not feasable. I will say this. OS X is built on a Unix Kernel. And Unix is the work horse of many companies and the internet (that's sounds like a Sun commercial doesn't it?). Many mission critical applications are hosted on the Unix platform. It is my experience that OS X is more stable, is more intuitive and is way more user firendly than its WinTel counterpart.
I have 3026 mp3's and 1330 photo's and you want to keep track of them via a manual filing system? No thanks - the technology is there. I say use it.
I know that iPhoto and iTunes organize via folders and such but what are you trying to say here?
"Hey-try this. Burn a bunch of photos from your beloved iphoto program onto a disc. What's with all those sub-folders? Oh? You can make those go away? But why do I have to?
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Just curious.
If someone - the average user - is looking at buying another computer for home use, I would definately recommend the mac.
Stomachmonkey, this is slightly off topic but there's another very intersting documentary put out by PBS I think it's called the nerds. It talks about how the computer revolution started and is actually very interesting.
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