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No, I disagee - I don't think that everybody does.
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It was a casual enough suggestion to seem so.
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However, most people buy a computer to run software on, rather than vice versa, so they presumably choose their hardware platform and operating system to match whatever their software requirements are. If graphic design is your main priority, a Mac is clearly the right choice. If playing games is, a PC (or dedicated games console) is the right choice. All I'm saying is that if eBooks are important in your computing life, a PC is currently a better choice than a Mac. One may wish that it were otherwise, but that's the way the world currently is.
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It would be nice if the decision were that rational, but I doubt it normally is.
For general computing, Macs and PCs are roughly equivalent. It's only when you get to special purpose stuff that you start seeing clear superiority of one over the other.
The decision to run a Mac seems based on either perceived ease-of-use over other choices, perceived better stability/security, or perceived status/coolness of doing so. Macs are good machines, and OS/X is very sweet, but people normally choose to run a Mac
because it's a Mac, and not because of the software that will run on it.
I do graphic design on a PC. If I were doing video editing, I probably
would get a Mac.
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Same here. I recently bought a new top-end Dell machine specifically because I wanted a high-spec XP machine while it was still possible to buy one. Much of the software I want to run doesn't currently run on Vista, but that's not Vista's fault, but sloppy programming. The software that I wrote 10 years ago runs just fine on Vista.
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My machine is a home-built that has been continually upgraded in place. The only original component still in use is the case.
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Dennis