emiratesmac wrote:I'd argue that a Mac is the best in far more fields than graphic design. The open source friendly, BSD underpinnings of Mac OS X makes it for a very good alternative for programmers, web developers, network administrators, scientists/researchers, and more. The user friendly GUI, stability, and security, makes it a good alternative for home users, teachers, students, and many other types of users. Sure they have "trendy" looks, but they also have serious software in the background.
As I said, for regular use (home or basic office or development specific for Mac), Mac is comparable with Windows. But for me there are still some techie applications I use everyday which are not there in Mac. Second another important reason is that I'm working and communicating with my colleagues and clients who I'm sure 100% use Windows. I know there are lots of utilities, but it's not funny to send them Mac specific format file and they can't open it
I'm not saying Mac is not good. Even my wife is begging me to buy one (off course for her just because it's white and look cool only
). In the end we need to see the requirements and the purposes first before choosing the system. Same thing like we're buying a car.
emiratesmac wrote:Sure there are a lot of software apps for Windows, and much fewer for Mac. But who needs all of the apps for Windows? For most major apps there is a Mac version, and for most of the rest there are just as good or better Mac alternatives. For the things there are no Mac options, run Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion.
We all know running virtual machine or emulator will greatly reduce the performance and compatibility is not guaranteed. If more than 50% we use over the emulator, then why to sacrifice?
For myself as more than 50% I'm using Windows apps (not because I'm a Bill Gates or Microsoft lover), if I had to run Mac apps (or Linux or whatever OS), I would do the other way around (VMWare of Mac on top of Windows)