Apple or PC

Great post, and I didn't know that, I assumed Mac hardware was particular to Macs.

It always used to be a graphic designers tool (at least back in my 1990's PC support days) rather than a generic office machine. Is there anything truth left to this, or is a well specc'd PC with an adobe subscription just as good?

i use a fairly old pc at home, and due to my own personal touch (overclocking and good maintenance, with upgrades) i feel that it can do anything just as well as a mac that is say, 1/8 of its age (its main components are about 7 years old). some things it can most likely do better. all at much less cost (it adds up to about

To put a resolutely "non-techie" and "low-brow" point of view, if your experience is with PCs why give yourself the headache of learning how to operate a Mac? It's bad enough when they bring out a different version of Windows

I use Mac, I need it for some of the software I use and for iOS software development. However, I think my next work station for Architectural work will be a windows box built by myself. Not because its any better, but because its cheaper for what you get and I can just pop down the road if I need new parts. Not that many years ago, Apple tech was about a similar cost to a similar spec window machine, maybe a slight premium, but now the cost divide is too much to not be noticed.

I am somewhat disappointed with Apple as far as their workstations goes, their new high end PC is still vaporware and who knows how expensive it will be. I know of one high end graphics studio currently ditching their last bit of Mac tech for windows, although they are still sticking to IOS devices.

The Mac, when this machine is getting due for replacement, then I may down grade to a Mac Mini, which by the way makes an awesome small business server and at a great price. That way I can still do my iOS development, run my iTunes library flawlessly and have a reliable cost effective server with loads of storage as well.

Very true Linda! And as I get older and wiser, I couldn't agree more

I'm just about comfortable with Win 7. We have a Win 8 machine in the office and I just can't get on with it.

I had a little trouble at first (my work PC is Win 8, my home PC is Win 7), but after a fairly short time (a week maybe), i occasionally find myself missing a Win 8 feature when im using my Win 7 machine.

although i do miss a sensible place for the power button, but i created a simple hibernate.bat file that hibernates the machine for me and the same could be done for shutdown and restart very easily. could put them all in a folder on the taskbar and be done.

other than that, i find it faster, the search in the start menu to be MUCH faster (from a mechanical HDD no less, my Win 7 machine is SSD).

In some respects its a lot like vista. It gets a bad rep for making a change, but it turns out (for me at least) its really not bad at all, and i think it is definitely worth adjusting to.

Fantastic, there's life in the old batch file yet

I use win7 at home and work and really like it. Struggled with Vista, but 7 seems nice and stable. I'm one of those dinosaurs that always goes for classic settings, in an attempt to make it resemble Win95.

We've got Win8 on our accounts machine, and the new look just caused too much confusion, so I put a downloadable shell on it, and now it looks like Win7

To be fair, if I used Win8 regularly I'd no doubt get used to it, but it takes me so long to get a machine to how I like it, and then only reluctantly upgrade 3 years later. Maybe it will be win 9 by then

I think that one thing to be careful of with buying a Mac is to check that you can get all the software you need for it and at a price you want to pay. we get endless emails asking if our Windows software runs on a Mac.

Well Win8 was a bummer, microsoft needs to step it up. Apple is mostly brand name hype above all, so I would still use time-proof PC.

Like this post quite a lot from you steve as it revealed a lot of things to general computing users. I am simply a Mac fan and I feel quite proud when I say this. Earlier I was using windows but later than I tried my hands on Mac and that moment i came to know that Mac was actually far superior than windows(according to me personally) and what that made Mac so special for me was it's navigation. Even I realised this thing in ipads, and iPhone that they all are having great navigation obviously because apple has built them. For me Apple means a great navigation inside devices.