Post #187909 by JonPez on Wed, Sep 21, 2005 8:50 AM

On 2005-05-08 13:41, Trader Woody wrote:
PC's must be better because you never get PC users spending their waking hours trying to justify the fact that they have just spent 3 vacations worth of money on a fancy gadget that will be out of date in 6 months.

Trader Woody

Sorry Trader, but as has been noted before, you can easily get a PC that costs as much as a Mac, and you can now get Macs that cost as little as a PC. No justification needed...
Plus, it depends on where you go on vacation :wink:
As for the out-of-date in 6 months, you really have to be kidding, right?
Just like PCs become obsolete when newer, more powerful chips come out or new operating systems become the norm, all machines get obsolete. Try running Windows NT on a 486. Same issues as running OSX Tiger on a Mac SE30.
I am a graphics professional, digital asset manager and systems administrator (for both Macs and PCs) and I currently use a 5 year-old Mac Pismo PowerBook at home and am very happy. Unmodified (other than a larger hard drive), it runs all the software I need for what I do as well as the newest operating system. Well worth the money I paid for it back in the day, and according to what used ones are going for on eBay, it still holds better value than a 2000-era PC laptop...