Post #157040 by Tangaroa on Fri, May 6, 2005 1:23 PM

Wow! Look what I come back from lunch & a visit to the Apple Store at the mall to find! (The wife is getting an iPod for Mother's Day.... she really deserves it!)

All one can claim is their own experience - but I have been strictly using Macs since 1999, always loved them, very easy to use, elegant design, good customer service & never never ever a virus in sight!

I've been really wanting to learn 3-D, so I'm taking classes in Maya right now. I could have bought a brand new G5 (I wish I had - we have a few in the office & they are great) - but opted for a hi-end PC (Alienware) instead, as I felt I really needed to get some PC skills under my belt (and the school I'm going to is mainly PC). So I have a brand-new, high end PC running Windows XP - and I still think it's not great. Maybe it's the 'eye-candy" factor (XP just is sad compared to OSX), maybe it's silly stupid things like, whenever my PC "goes to sleep" if I get pulled away for a while it always crashes when I try to start up again. Or things like, needing to have the number keys lock pressed when signing on with my password. There are many things that just make no sense to me as a Mac user (and it sounds like vice versa re: that "foriegn language" comment made further back the thread). It probably all has to do with my inexperience on the PC - but I just find using it a tad frustrating. I'm sure I'll be more comfortable with it as time goes on, but Mac has always worked out of the box for me....

Just don't get me started on my iPod battery!!!!! (friggin' 1 year warranty.... grrrrrr...)