>I for one will not waste my time with a MAC. My kid "had" to have one. 3 keyboards, a hard drive, a motherboard, and something else failed in the first year. I found out I was not alone with the problems.
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>Nothing impressive at all, not fast, not flashy, not anything useful. I will stick with a PC.
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>I have 10,000 customers. I get 2 people a year who ask if I will make my Crew Chief Pro Software Mac compatible. I say "Not in the works at this time". They buy it anyway and put it on an inexpensive PC and everyone is happy.
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>I would liken a Mac to what Marcia and others have said about grids; Mostly smoke and mirrors.
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>I won't waste my time developing applications for one.

We had 3 ipods fail one after another, without warning. One day they just started showing the Sad Face on the screen, that's it. Poor hardware, excellent design and UI.

I tell my customers to get Parallels for a hundred bucks per Mac if they really really have to have a Mac, and then they can run my Windows app just fine on the thing. Hundred bucks is nothing for a Mac user that has been price-shocked from day one, so they are happy to comply.

Macs are very attractive, though, in part because of their slick marketing. I am the only one in my household with a PC. My wife and two daughters each have a MacBook, and they seem very happy with them. I sometimes feel like the clueless pudgy guy in the Mac/PC ads, but then I remember what I paid for my laptop that is twice as powerful as their MacBooks yet half the price, and then I feel not-so-clueless any longer.