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Originally Posted by val-holla-ing

over the past year i've owned a pc and a mac and i can honestly say that i prefer the mac over the pc. the pc was slow and clunky and didn't do anything that i really wanted it to do. i could never get max/msp to work right, and trying to record anything on the pc was a total nightmare. on my mac, max/msp runs super smooth, and i've found a ton of programs that let me create sound shapes, edit and record sound. for me, that was the deciding factor for getting a mac. macs are good for doing art, sound, film and all that good stuff. pc's are good for checking email and making calendar plans.

well, thats a bit of a cliche. you can't compare "any mac" to "any pc"-- like a $2K mac vs. an old $500 compaq-- that's just an unfair comparison, as if i was trying to compare my newly built video editing workstation with an old g3. you have to go maybe on a dollar-by-dollar comparison and see where you get most for your money. when you compare top of the line PCs with top of the line Macs the differences are not so obvious-- you can do anything you want in a good pc just like you can do on a mac. the thing is there are no "cheap" macs to compare to cheap PCs, and in that case the macs will win. but take that headless imac (do they still make it) & compare to what you get for $500 in the pc world. both are crap for sure but w/ the pc at least you get a mouse