Apple has better security but also with better security means you won't be able to use all business programs that some of us need.
Excel runs better on a PC, that is fine but I won't be using that except for simple tables and formulas. Work always provides me a PC to use.
I've tried Mac. I really like the Mac software. I wanted to buy a Mac. But if I can get a similarly easy to use operating system on a $500 laptop (or $300 netbook), why am I going to spend more than $1000 (more like $1500 for the same configuration) for the alternative?
The Lenovo SL300s or the X61, when configured run about $1000, which is a little bit less than the Macbook. I do not trust others (HP, Sony, Dell, Lenovo) see them as consumer machines with all nice buttons and crap software that is useless.
I think it's great that you want to switch and eventually you may like it, but I've found that IT guys are the ones who can not adjust easily when switching. They have to tinker, configure and tweak, and can't just let everything work.
I have been an IT guy all my life, I just hate spending time to configure stuff anymore. My brother got an SL400, I added some RAM to it, waited 5 minutes for Vista to load up, then rebooted, loaded XP. It took me 2 days to try to find all the drivers for XP because they are almost non-existen. I am sick of troubleshooting laptops and have reduced my computers to the less applications the better.
This is the complete opposite of what I used to be, a gamer, a developer, a person who would always try the newest version of everything. Right now I need the Web, Office, Adobe for music, pictures, video streaming to TV, Internet and voila. The more web applications, the better.
With XP I still need to reformat every once in a while, clean everything, image, etc.
I would suggest before you make the switch and the investment in expensive apple hardware, you wait a couple of months until Windows 7 comes out. I have been playing with the Beta version and it hands down beats anything coming from Apple or Microsoft in the past.
The last two operating systems from Microsoft that I considered a success were NT 4.0 and XP. I don't remember NT, but I do recall it took a year or two until SP2 came out for the bugs to be weeded out.
If the past is the predictor of the future, I'd wait until at least a year until Win7 release before jumping on the bandwagon. Of course, upgrade all the hardware to support it as well.
Question - MAC OS can support more than 3gig RAM like Vista? Also is it hard to add a solid state disc and ram to a Mac (I hope its not like the iPOD)?
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