I hvent bought a mac in years (my las one was a 75mhz powerpc bought in 94 running os7.5). 3 PC desktops, 2 laptops and a tablet pc later, my next purchase will be a mac. In school I used a lot of complex programs that worked on PCs. I ran an NT based OS and went along without a hitch. Now I have some good enough PCs, and so for the bulk of what I do, a computer than will runmy word documents, adobe files, etc., and go nicely on the internet and do email is all I need at home. I may even get an Imac (although I havenever liked those all inones).

Ill ay this, I bought a lot of pcs for personal use since 98 (my first pc purchase, I was using said mac before that). The one thing I learned is, go with a PROFESSIONAL computer if you want a PC. I got a refurbished dell precision workstation with 1ghz xeon and its great, and wasnt too costly. If you dont want that, build your own, with top rated components, this makes the machines much more livable for more than 6months.

Macs dont havethat issue, and the good old 75 mhz still runs and the os looks great.

Thus why Id go with a mac, my good pc now will keep running strong for a long time, but macs always do that...

JMH

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