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Dragonfly,
Just to chime in here, i too have a mix of pc and mac, And here is what i use and why.
I currently do 3d animation for film and broadcast, and as such will always us a pc as they are faster and able to handle a bigger work load. There have been a number of studies by various site that i visit, ie www.cgtalk.com. Now, i am sure that i will get some flack from the other camp, saying that you can get a mac to match a pc... simply it is not true. I cannot walk into the apple store and ask for an 80 core machine with 256gigs of ram, they would look at me like i am insane.
Next advantage to the pc, they are upgradeable, macs for the most part are not. Yes i can put more ram, or more HD space into them, but they are limited on what they can use for video cards and you cannot upgrade the processor after purchase. What ever upgrade you do, will cost you more they the pc as well.
Now there is an advantage to the mac from not being able to "upgrade" it. For instance i have never ran into the apple having irq and memmory conflicts based on my Video card not liking my processing ram, or having a DLL not likeing some other DLL and causing crashes and other weirdness. The macs i have are solid, well more solid them my pc :P But having said that, my Pc crashes maybe once every two months. ( and i am working with files that are gigs in size, and computing fluid dynamics )
Ok, It may sound like i am anti mac.. i am not, like i say, i have two of them. There are things they are great for. I love the ease of networking with them. I love the simplicity of them. I like their security for surfing, They are designed well, and like i say for the most part run out of the box. (haveing said that i got one for my GF for Christmas last year, and it did not work right out of the box, lol, had to reformat ) The two macs i use, are, one a new macbook pro and a macpro. Both of these have bootcamp installed and also run windows when i need more pc power. I can tell you that when in windows they are very similar to a similarly speced pc, ( as they should be, as they are just well controlled pc assemblies.)
I use the macbook for surfing, shooting tethered, pic editing, and travel. I found it to be a great design, and better built then any pc laptop i could find. I also like all the features it offered. But you pay for them.
the macpro i bought so that i could do an actual comparision vrs pc my self. now i use it for my photo stuff. I do believe that it handles and edits 2d editing and compositing faster then a comparable pc. The speed diff is not a huge gain though. I also wanted to use Aperture.
So in the end i would echo what has been said before. If you want design, and a system that is pretty stable. Then a mac is a good choice. If you want some freedom and more power for less $$ then PC is the way to go.
again, i am pretty unbiased and believe the each have a place, they are tools, and each have uses and "perks" Just choose the one that fits you the best..Hope that this helped.
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