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Originally Posted by Verscha
Hey, if you have the cash, why not? They're fantastic machines. I got myself an iBook G4 a few years ago and have never looked back. It's small, aesthetically stunning, amazingly reliable and just generally a great piece of kit. I don't think I'd ever buy an Apple desktop since I'm a PC gamer (or was before I had to divert cash from building a new PC to, you know, having a place to live for the next few years) but I'm definitely buying another Apple laptop when this one gets too old.
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Here are the reasons why you should NOT buy a mac EVEN if you had the money to blow on it.
1. Macs are more pricey then say a dell with exactly the same hardware and dells are more expensive then say just ordering all the parts and putting it together yourself. Today Knex and logo sets are more harder to build then putting together a computer.
2. The only reason mac's can't get a virus is since no hacker wants to waste his or her time designing a virus for a OS system which is hardly even used.
3. 2.4 GHz dual cores are ok but if you if you really wanted to edit video and encode it then you should of got a Intel Quad Core at and overclock it to 2.6- 3 GHz. That would be WAY more faster then a two core 2.4 GHz.
4. Theres way more video editors for XP/Vista then Mac hands down. This goes for ALL programs and even games. Tell me when your running Call Of Duty 4 from the Mac OS with out using boot camp (which I Think voids the whole purpose in buying a mac)
5. Apple loves you for buying their systems since they know you will either buy a new one when you want/need to upgrade or will take it to one of their stores to have it upgraded.
I am not a windows fanboy I have tried Apples OS and I see no reason why its better then Windows. But hey if your having fun with your mac more power to you.
All I am saying is you could of spent less and got a faster computer. I would say you could cut maybe 15% off the time you spend editing since you did not got for a good dual core or you did not go for a Quad Core.