I really dont want to start a Platform war (Disclaimer inserted here:
Lov'em Both), but I've always leaned to Macs because by the time you
are said and done, that is, adding things to the PC, subtracting
things, and calculating life span of the PC, it ends up costing the
same just going with a mac.
Oh I know. I don't like PCs particularly. But I am writing software, and so far every user is Windows. And there are a bunch of minor differences on mac and windows so I really have to test it on my own machine. Also I want to demonstrate it can run on XP. I am thinking that there might be some things useful to do with the computer for music too but not exactly sure what.
Those various annoyances are not just annoyances. If you have any kind of life, then spending extra hours unproductively is a frustrating waste. For example, if you put aside 2 hours at the end of the day to do some music, and instead you are messing with re-installing a system or whatever, then your whole allocation of time is gone.