I've been using a dual G5 powermac now for 8 months and altough I didn't have much problems with pc's before I must say that I still have alot less problems with this mac. In fact right now I don't have any. I don't have to worry about viruses or anything. The system won't slow down like windows because there's no registry and the data on the harddrives won't get fragmented. OSX just feels more stable every time you use it. In fact I sold my pc a week ago and bought a supernova 2 rack with the money. I have had everything running on mac for months now and no need for a pc anymore.
I can say that I didn't know anything about osx operating system before I bought a mac. Logic was the reason why I bought it and I didn't know about the rest almost at all. All my friends said that I'm crazy because I'm gonna buy a mac. "there's no software for mac, they're expensive, blaa blaa...." However none of those people had even used a mac and neither had I. We didn't know anything about macs but still kept speaking of them like if we knew something.
The first time I tried the osx was when I turned my mac's power on the very first time. The OSX had not been the reason to switch to mac because I didn't know how good it is. However now I can say that I got alot more from switching to mac than just the logic audio. I don't regret the switch at all.
All this mac vs. pc talk is like talking of religion. It seems that many people just keep talking and talking altough they know nothing about the other side and get angry very easily when talking about these things. I came from pc side to mac and I don't think anymore that mac users are foolish or that "there's no software for macs" and "nobody supports them". These are really good machines and there's much more software available for macs than you can imagine. Sometimes it sounds very hilarious when somebody suddenly asks: "How you're using skype/MSN? Is it available for mac?"
Of course you go and buy a computer which runs your favourite software the fastest (like I did) but chase some more information up of the other side before talking about something you have no real information or experience.
By this post I don't refer to anybody but all. I was one of the dark sider's, doomed macs and also made one of my friends to buy a pc laptop instead of a powerbook which he was going to buy. Now I regret that because I have a mac and have zero problems but the friend who I told to buy pc instead is in big troubles with his laptop. He just had to format the whole harddrive because of worms and viruses and keeps calling me every now and then about his pc related problems. I still haven't had the courage to tell him that I use only mac these days.
