Originally Posted by
sllevin
The macs I've worked with (a sample set of about 20, as an IT manager) have all had worse build quality and more hardware issues than the Dell and Lenovo systems we have.
As far as better OS, I've run a number of tasks on my Dell D820, which is functionally identical to a MacBook Pro -- and for video and audio encoding, for example, my laptop is faster. If I spent the same amount of money -- which would have gotten me the 2.33Ghz CPU insteda of the 2.0) -- my laptop would have truly whooped the Mac's behind.
Steve
Ive had less than spotless experience with Dell but I agree about Thinkpads being good, although my experience with Thinkpads have been in the IBM days. I never said that a Mac was faster with some applications than a PC. I said it had a better OS. And yea, I think the Unix based OS on the Macs is better than XP.