You are missing the point. The key is user experience, just like a car. Why do people buy a BMW and pay a premium, if they can get a Ford – it will do the same thing. It is for the user experience, and same goes for the Mac. The quality of the hardware and software is superior, that is why people like it. If you can’t see that, you got no taste…

Or spaces, there are lots of programs that let you create multi-desktops. For example, DeskSpace.

Dictating to computer and working with voice via “Windows speech recognition” is very useful, and interesting.

Macs are cool, but they are very expensive too. specially iMacs.

iChat’s great, but there are more people using Y! messenger and Windows Live Chat. Also, For people like me that use slow connections, iChat is not OK.

searching in vista is easy too. and with the search bar in top of the page, you can always search so easy.

Dock in mac is amazing. I know. Quick launch in Windows sucks. there are some applications that create a dock in windows, but mac’s dock has more and better features and it’s prettier.

After all, both windows and mac are cool and have many features. but your review, was unilateral. You must explain mac OS X leopard and Windows Vista features one by one and compared them.

XPSP2 I have to say is a very good OS, but as anyone who uses it will know you have a completely full time job keeping it running smoothly. Defrag and updates and patches etc all to keep it running sweet.

Ok so patches aren’t MS exclusive but you get my point.

Along comes Vista which I alpha through beta through RC tested and my god was I staggered at how bad it is! I struggled along with it on my laptop (i’m an expert I can cope just) until SP1 came out. Fixed maybe 2 issues I have with it the rest just continue to plague me. It rubbish! To reach anything that used to be 1 or 2 clicks now takes 5! The network interface is a joke! It’s speed is shocking! Nothing but the fastest kit runs it at anything above adequate and XP on same kit leaves it standing!

If MS are going to conitnue with this dog they are doomed. And from the noises about Windows 7 which will be built on the same code I think we can safely say MS have lost the plot completely.

So I bought my first MacBook last week and too delivery yesterday.

Fantastic! I’m a little lost but loving the learning curve. It’s so fast! I plugged in a USB mouse and it was instantly working. No 3 minutes while windows drags itself through a driver install. The networking is jaw dropping! You plug in cat5 and you’re on, you unplug and wireless is on!

Apps open so fast, spaces is a great way to set out apps you have open and switch between them.

It’s not perfect. But what is. It’s expensive (shame but they don’t sell as many as MS based). It’s not a games platform but I have an xbox for that. I can’t fly round it like windows but that will come.

Will I give up windows? No, it’s my bread and butter and my clients are stuck with it. But my desktop is now Mac with VM windows.

The Mac just isn’t drowning in it’s own bloated over designed mess.

Chrissy Michelle
Portland, Oregon

From what I’ve read, it’s good for multimedia/ video / music editing. How about playing games as powerful as Crysis, can the middle priced / top models hack it? (Sorry if it’s dumb Q but I haven’t researched on Mac Specs so haven’t the foggiest).

Also I watch Xvid/ avi / mpg movies that I’ve backed up with different video codecs. Can Mac watch them with the variety of video/ audio codecs out there?

Thanks very much!