Digital BW, The Print

I was hoping not to hear this debate anymore but since you asked,
here's my take.
As you notice most people use windows platform either because they
have to (work, issues with file sharing etc.), or they just followed
the crowd (nobody's perfect) and considered that rebooting your
computer every once in a while is just part of the regular computer
experience.
Contrary to common belief, Apple's "in house quality control" has more
to do with the looks then performance since probably all machines are
assembled in China or other industrial countries.
The reason why you want a Mac is the operating system which is based
in large proportion on FreeBSD, one of the most stable and secure
operating systems, ever, if an application has trouble it won't take
down with it the whole system as it happens more often then not with
windows. 
The idea that if you configure a windows box properly or use only
choice hardware components, is wrong. One should do those to get
maximum performance from such a system not to just prevent it from
crashing.
Buy a mac and you won't regret it, both for general work and digital
black and white.

Andu

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jnhugo"
<jacknadelle@h...> wrote:
> 
> Every mac is made by apple with in house quality control while a 
> windows machine could be built by any number of hundreds of 
> makers.
> A properly configured windows machine should work fine but it is 
> not that easy to find one.
> We have two work stations at the lab - a Mac, I insisted, and a 
> windows machine-a pretty expensive Dell tower- the Dell is a  
> machine that has never worked right from the out set-windows 
> always wants to do things that you haven't asked for while the 
> Mac just hums right along. Same with my wife's Gateway- it is a 
> really good looking well designed machine but doesn't work 
> right-ie opens strange files unprompted-launches install 
> commands for programs already present-turns on by itself-
> connects to the internet unprompted..
> If you are a power user and can absolutely get the confiquration 
> you need windows works fine- if not a Mac is just "easier on the 
> brain"
> Windows are also very vulnerable to infections-Macs much less 
> so..