Don't Get me Wrong....

I do like PC's, really. There are a lot of great things you can do with them like listen to music, having a wider range of film and audio editing software and apply for jobs at certain places. Not to mention games but I'm more of a platformer anyway so that last doesn't really apply to me. Windows XP is a great looking OS and Vista looks pretty. But like the old saying goes: With a lot of responsibility comes a lot of the viruses.

With a PC, I feel like I'll get completely flooded with viruses any second. Heaven forbid I should go to an innocent looking webpage for kids and blammo! I get something nasty (which thankfully hasn't happened). Since I go to relatively few trusted sites and sit behind a hardware firewall then I feel I'm safe. Maybe I've completely swallowed that whole pap about Windows machines from varying levels of Windows bashers being so insecure when really I, the user, should just be careful about what I do online which I like to think I am.

But, at this point for what I do, there seems to be only a few minor differences between Macs and PC's most of which are sheer habit. For instance, I use the keyboard much more frequently on my Mac because I've memorized where everything is, but on a PC this can get a little awkward and slow so I use the mouse more often. I do like the totally clean-ness the desktop can get in XP if you want (I just have the trash can on mine). The fact that XP has a disk defragmenter already built in is a good point in my book. Yahoo! Music also works on my PC, which is great. This is gonna sound really crazy but I do like the forward delete key, I mean one whole key devoted to just that. What will they come up with next? Then there's lots of fun little toolbars like Google and eBay. The programs I use on my Mac like Yahoo! Chat and Skype have much more interesting functionality on my PC.

I really thing people should look at what they intend to do most of the time and let their interests decide what kind of computer they should get. If you are just starting out then I think you should get a Mac. On the other hand if you are a hardcore computer user, then a PC is probably the way to go. Although at this point, since the Mac can also run a Windows OS, PC hardware may just go the way of the dodo in a few years. And if Apple plays their cards right, they may just have Microsoft wrapped around their pinky finger.

So this whole "Mac vs PC religious war" (and, let's face it people, in some quarters it has come down to just that) really boils down to habit and taste like Coke vs Pepsi. It's almost trivial. And it doesn't help matters at all when the heads of the competing companies and their cronies act like big greedy bullies and mudslingers. And Linux just smirks in the corner.