To Mac or Not to Mac?

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I have a lot of friends buying new computers for school and most of them are buying apple notebooks-even those who have used windoze pcs their entire life and never owned a mac. When these people ask me why they shouldn't buy a mac I have trouble finding a decent argument for buying a PC over a mac. Yes I tell them they won't be able to play as many games and will lacking the ability to use many practical applications on their mac such as business or engineering apps. That doesn't stop them. "Sooo pretty" they say.

I'm a diehard windoze pc enthusiast and all my other enthusiast friends are as well but a lot of clueless people are getting macs and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this. What kinds of a arguments are effective against young people looking for a new pc and think a mac will work better than a pc?
 
....why argue?

I've always said that your choice of platform should depend on the apps you want to run; nothing more. You are correct in that I find most engineering apps are written for the PC, but this may or may not be application in mind.

....and, no, we don't have any steenking Mac's around here..... :D

Regards - B.B.S.
 
If their arguement is so pretty then they are not truly buying a mac for what its worth. I dont think Macs are usless as many others belive but I wont buy one. I simply have no use for a machine with an OS that doesnt support my Apps (Not Apples Fault I know) or with hardware that I cannot truly customize. I wont lie they are pretty machines but I can make my PC look like a Mac but that allure wont last. I look back at the older Macs like the G4 and I can see the age. Pretty is not a good reason.
 
why not get a mac? just use bootcamp to install xp and you can use all the apps only made for windows, and still have os x.
 
When you're talking laptop for school, you should not be thinking about which games play on it, IMO. Might as well get a Mac, unless, maybe you're an engineering major of some sort, even then autocad on a laptop can't be much fun.

I think it goes something like this..

For girls: aww it's sooo cute.

Fur guys: I'm gonna get laid when the ladies see my MacBook.
 
Why not a mac? Cost maybe. Why pay mac premium for a comp that doesn't do what a windows machine will do?
 
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