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Hi Tom,
I try to avoid going into the slugfest too. I just use what I found to be best for me.
I don’t know if you ever used both Mac and PC, extensively over the years, I have used both of the while in training, and later own in research laboratories. From my experience over the years, if the laboratory equipment maker provided an option for a Mac- vs PC-driven equipment, I always used the Mac version. They were so much easier to use, and were less troublesome. In fact, in the laboratory, they were seldom turned off, and strangely, I never recall having any ofthose in the lab serviced. Quite amazing because many were used to drive common equipment and everyone in the Department used them
During my early experience in research laboratories, I did not have much preference, except I was predisposed with the Apple. They seemed more easy to work while I was strunggling with the Windows machines. I I bought my first computer, from the Harvard Computer store. Kind of costly then, about $1500 with extra RAM for my first Apple computer.
In 1994, I asked my Department head to buy me the top of the line Mac, which cost more than $5000 with a large screen. He cringed because the best Dell computer at the time was under $2000 with many gizmos you can throw in. All the rest were just issued the standard $1200-1300 Dell computers. The Mac was my office computer during the day, and “personal computer” after work — free T1 internet connection when the internet was really just coming to more widespread use. Although actually in mid 1994, there was just a pre-Netscape (I forgot the name now), and if I am not mistaken, Netscape came out later that year, or early in 1995.
I had three personal Apple computers since then, my second one was a second hand bought in 1996. Then I bought my first iMac (second generation) in 1999 and later on I bought a iBook (G4) in 2003 because I came back in Boston and left the other computers in the Condo.
Guess what, all of them are still working (except the second hand I bought in 1996, the screen gave out when I used it in December 2007. I could have replaced the screen but it was not practical, it was a dinasaur compared to today’s computers. The only one that I have to have serviced was when my iBook when it was new. After installing the extra RAM, a few days after, it acted up. I had to bring it back to the Boston U computer store. They do not know what was wrong with it, but I told them that it acted up only when they installed the extra third party RA. After they could not figure out what went wrong, they replaced the extra RAM with the standard one used with Apple — no extra cost. No more problems except when I open to many programs at the same time, plus several kinds of browsers — Netscape and Internet Explorer (IE), then added Safari and Camino, then Firefox the past few years, to ensure that my webpage looked OK with the different browsers. I always had the worst time trying to make the one I was working with to look good with IE, so that when Microsoft stopped updating IE a few years back, I gave up on it.
With this experience, I never had any misgivings about preferring a Mac. I just keep mum, when those around me seem to think that I must be crazy because everyone else is using PC.
Knock on wood, my reliable G4 iBook, is still what I am using right now. The new Macs which are gazilion times faster now are so enticing compared to my old G4 iBook, but I hope it will last many more years because I am excited about the coming Snow Leopard — which was meant for parallel computing.
Cornelio