Mac or PC

[reverie]

ion-storm said:

You could if you really wanted buy a bluetooth card for your windows machine and use a wiimote on it. I don't see how this is a selling point for mac. For that matter you could also use a sixaxis, or a 360 controller.

As a side note I would say buying electronic equipment because "it looks good" usually means you get the shaft spec wise. Not always, but in general. Anyways there is only one mac that actually looks good. A mac pro. The rest look like some sort of fisher price "my first computer" insult to the computer world.

re the WiiMote,

I didn't say you can't have Bluetooth on a PC. I just mentioned it because it's an $20 extra value in an iMac that was not listed in Ben's comparison. And I mentioned the WiiMote for people who have no idea why they would use Bluetooth at all. I could also mention wireless keyboards and mouses or your mobile phone. Bluetooth has several uses.

The iMac also comes with Firewire for your video camera or external hard drive. I'm just mentioning the feature. You don't have to tell me that you don't need any of that fancy stuff. There's a big difference between "I don't need this feature" and "I could get the same features for half the price". If you don't need the features, fine, than a cheaper machine is for you.

re specs in well designed machines,

This is kind of contradicting your first paragraph. An iMac has lots and lots of extra hardware features and there's never been a Mac sporting Celerons or Pentium 4 processors. The specs are good, except the graphics card, which is great for most users (it does have DVI out after all and does all the eye-candy in Mac OS X that many Vista users don't get on their older machines), but it's not for hardcore gamers.

Oh, by the way.

Regarding games. 

2 of the most mentioned PC games this year were Peggle and Desktop Tower Defense. They both run fine (native) on a Mac. What are you saying? They don't need hi-end PCs? How come they are so much fun and named among best games of the year by many gaming critics?

Civilization 4 and The Sims series also run fine (native), as an example, and World of Warcraft (native). The Mac has lots of native games.