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So my current PC is running on its fifth year of life and is starting to exhibit signs of its age. For one, performance is suffering terribly and now I am starting to get concerned about my hard drives. I have started backing my stuff up more vigilantly than I have in the past. So now the question is, do I build me another PC or do we move the Mac platform?
While I still consider myself a novice when it comes to PC building, it was a lot of fun to build my computer. Since I work primarily with information and people, it was nice to do some something that was tangible and that I could point at and say, “I did that!” As I started to consider getting a new PC I had a flutter of excitement at the challenge of building a new PC. Now of course it is increasingly more difficult to live in a non-Vista world and the specter of going to Vista really prevented me from pulling the trigger at NewEgg (the finest online pc-related commercial website I have used).
I am pretty convinced that the Mac is the superior technology and has much better engineering behind it, not to mention the genius of their marketing. They continue to stick it to PC’s in nearly every arena and it is beginning to show in the marketplace. I am pretty impressed by their Operating System and think that they are pretty reliable on the hardware side as well. But, I am having a difficult time leaving the “matrix.” For those of you who have seen the Keanu Reeve’s movie The Matrix (on TNT edited of course!) you might recall the scene where Joe Pantoliano is conspiring to betray the rebels and is eating a steak dinner with an “agent” and he basically wants to forget that the real world (one run by computers and enslaves humans for energy) is in fact real, but rather prefers to have his memory wiped and exist in the “virtual” reality driven by the computers. The hardships of reality were less preferable to the ease and blissful ignorance of being in the matrix. This is the dilemma I have been facing. Do I leave the “Matrix” in order to get the truly superior product, but one with limited applications and unfamiliar interface? Or do I acquiese to the “Matrix” and live a life of CTRL-ALT-DELETE and the blue-screen-of-death?
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I’m just going through reading past entries, and I had to comment on this one. The Mac does not have limited applications available to it. With a little program called VMWare or Parallels, you can run all the programs you are used to, and besides, the programs that Mac offers are far superior anyway. Go with the Mac. That’s my suggestion. Oh, and just run a search on the Mac Mini as a media center. It will blow your mind what people are doing with such a tiny computer!