Haha oooookay. Someone really loves their Macs.

At least the PC guy would have friends :P

 To be fair, it's only from experience.

I've dealt with just about every OS out there: DOS, win3.1-4.0, WinNT Server, NeXT,  BeOS, Red Hat, Unix, etc. I'm not talking about time spent on one side of the fence. I've installed and run most of these on servers over the years and had to troubleshoot for some of them.

Mac OS 9 was...terrible. In fact, everything before OSX suffered a lot of the same problems similar windows builds did, viruses included.

But OSX is king, and when I say "king", I mean that a Mac running OSX is the ONLY computer I'll recommend to my computer-clueless relatives to own because then I get 2 tech calls from them a year, tops.

From Mac OS 1-9, Mac OS was a preference. Now, it's a necessity for me.

Misery loves company?

But seriously, any one of those PC guys could be an Ace Rimmer in disguise and you'd have absolutely no idea... 

 You know, I've always been pretty tempted to try this. At the end of the day, though, I'd rather not brick my OS X partition because I was using unsing unsupported hardware.

If I had all the money in the world for hardware, though, I'd love to have both a Macintosh and a Hackintosh.

 This is true, however it's also my job to deal with infected computers if the issue should ever arise. We do have AV software, but AV software isn't invincible.

And I do have an awful lot of users who are, shall we say, education resistant.

If I ever manage to infect a computer, I'll consider it a training exercise. 

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.

Has anybody else has troube with the new vista updates? I got some yesterday and when my PC restarted I had trouble booting up my harddrive - it's ok now after fiddling with it, but if it was the updates that caused that then it is pretty bad.

I've had firewire on my pc's since windows 98 se. Firewire is hardly anything to write home about.

Why would you mention a pentium 4? There has never been a windows machine running a power processor. Is it relevant? No. 

Not in the 14 years that I have used them.  These things may have happened to some people, but that video was like an infomercial where things are completely blown out of proportion. 

PC for me!

Macs are cheap knockoffs of PC's.