Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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@ Barri are you implying that everyone who buys an Apple computer is an idiot?
I work in music publishing and we are 100% Mac environment. We have 4 printers, 2000+ fonts, require color and postscript exactness using 2 operating systems (OSX Leopard and Tiger, and OS9 [clsssic]). Our server is a G5 x-serve that has run continuously for 4+ years with 0... and I mean ZERO downtime, serving to OS9 machines, and OSX machines through every flavor up to Leopard.
Any issue with a computer is usually fixed within minutes (repair permission of this folder, restart classic, restart your machine and try again). The longest downtime of any client machine has been a warranty repair for a blown motherboard. This is out of 20ish macs ranging from G4 oldies to brand new core 2 duos. We still have 3 G4s running with all original parts after 5+ years of use, every weekday for 8 hours.
This all being said, I use a PC at home because I am a gamer.
We can say quite the same thing about Linux machine that would cost 1/3 of Mac.
And.. my office computer that runs Windows XP is running 24 hours a day 5 days a week (I turn it off when I go home on Friday) without single crash since I started working (that's 3 years ago). Oh, and I never had any issues with my computer.
Mac is great, but it's still over-priced.
What was that, a sales pitch? I don't see where you countered Barri's point.
Also, this is my own curiosity, you say music, I like REASON, but on OSX I can't run FL Studio, and I like to ReWIRE the two, on windows. I also like Sony Acid as a sequencer. What would a solution be?