Apple to enter games market?

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Words Of Wisdom said:

Macs are a niche product pure and simple.  Graphic designers and the like are the majority of Mac users.  A lot of times you will walk into a company and find a majority of windows machines with linux machines acting as servers in the back (sometimes IIS windows boxes).  Most real-world production work is done on windows machines or terminals.

Macs are also not by default more powerful than Windows machines.  Apple's hardware/vendor lockins are what reinforce this mentality along with the notoriously large pricetag attached (usually ~$250-$300 above a comparable windows box).  I'd guess that if Microsoft decided to start dictating to vendors and customers what hardware they would be forcing upon them that they could boast the same.  Luckily Microsoft gives the consumer a choice of their hardware.  While this doesn't mean the average Apple computer isn't powerful, it does mean that power comes at a price in terms of hardware choice and price.

Reformatting every three months is ignorance at its finest.  Most windows machines do not need to be reformatted every few months.  On FAT/NTFS file systems, a simple defragmentation once in a while will fix most problems.  Beyond that it's simply a matter of intelligently using the computer.  These days pretty much every piece of malicious code you run across requires some form of user error before it can be a threat and every OS is vulnerable to a stupid user (even Linux).

Macs and Windows each have their place and use in society yet both have many failings.  It's less a matter of one being better than the other than both being tools to be used for the right jobs.

 I've beaten this argument to death in the past and I lack the energy to do it again.

Let's just say that I used to troubleshoot both windows and Mac machines and it was an experience that will forever skew my perspective.