Originally Posted by fromYYZ_flyer
What do FTers think? Should I step over to Mac. My parents (who are not really computer literate) say I should go for what the majority uses. What should I do? Build a PC or buy a Mac?
Since when has the majority been able to make the good choices?
Anyway, I think you should consider a Mac. Nowadays they are not really more expensive than _comparable_ PC's -- the difference is that you can build a crappy, cheap PC or a very, very expensive PC but there are only one kind of Macs in the middle.
Now that Mac's use Intel CPU's, you could either install BootCamp and boot between MacOS X and Windows to play your favourite games or install a software like Parallels Desktop for Mac to run Windows on top of MacOS X (not sure if they have all the graphics supported yet).
As far as software is concerned, try to think about what tasks you need to accomplish and find Mac tools to do them -- don't expect to find exactly the same software for Mac and Windows. Some special software may not be available to Mac, though. And the argument that you can find thousands of free applications and tools for Windows is pretty much nonsense, no one wants to go through 100 different utilities for the same tasks when all you really need is just one good one.