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Originally Posted by Ryvyan
By the way, on the price of Mac vs PC... I feel that once you purchase (genuine) virus-scan software in your PC and take into account the amount of time needed to run them and perform defragmentation and other seemingly necessary tasks (I was once reprimanded for not taking time out to care for my PCs, which makes me mad up till today), you'd have had your Mac paid. You can earn money, but not time.
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My virus-scan software is free (and it's one of the best out there) and it runs in the background, I don't have to do anything. My defrag software, also free, takes only a few minutes to run, and is hardly needed even after a month.
I did want to buy a Macbook once, it was $1500, but I needed to be able to run my cad software. So, add Windows 7 ($100), add memory (Apple only supplied 2gb, needed 4gb - $500), add hard drive (Apple supplied 250gb, needed more for partioned drive - $500). That's $2100 without buying any other mac or windows software. Instead I got a Toshiba AMD laptop on sale for $550, runs cad like a champ even now a year later. And I upgraded the hard drive for $55 and memory to 8gb for $145. Thank god I didn't have to waste all the time getting bootcamp to work with the cad software, those that tried are still having problems...