Question for NickFitz et al

[bogeyman]

Slightly off topic, but my daughter uses Photoshop CS3, Quark Express etc.. and other media related software a lot. I think a Mac is the natural home for this kind of software, but the Wintel box she uses does everything perfectly well. What would a Mac bring to the party that the Wintel box doesn't?

It's the community aspect more than anything else.

If you're working/studying with a group of people who mainly use a particular type of computer, you'll be left out if you use something else.

There are lots of handy little utilities and widgets that you can only get on one or other platform. People enthuse about them and swap them around. If your computer can't run the latest 'must have' gadget then that's decidedly not cool.

Superficial I know, but these things are important when you're a student.

[tay]

It's the community aspect more than anything else.

If you're working/studying with a group of people who mainly use a particular type of computer, you'll be left out if you use something else.

There are lots of handy little utilities and widgets that you can only get on one or other platform. People enthuse about them and swap them around. If your computer can't run the latest 'must have' gadget then that's decidedly not cool.

Superficial I know, but these things are important when you're a student.

Only if you are a weak willed cretin. Your post is one of the worst reasons I have ever seen to buy a mac at 2-3 times the price of a laptop which would do the neccesary job. It does sum up the typical mac fanboy mentality though.

[bogeyman]

Only if you are a weak willed cretin. Your post is one of the worst reasons I have ever seen to buy a mac at 2-3 times the price of a laptop which would do the neccesary job. It does sum up the typical mac fanboy mentality though.

I'm nobody's fanboy matey.

[blacjac]

It's the community aspect more than anything else.

If you're working/studying with a group of people who mainly use a particular type of computer, you'll be left out if you use something else.

There are lots of handy little utilities and widgets that you can only get on one or other platform. People enthuse about them and swap them around. If your computer can't run the latest 'must have' gadget then that's decidedly not cool.

Superficial I know, but these things are important when you're a student.

They weren't important to me when I was a student. I did meet students who found things like this important, but they were usually the obnoxious ****** who got daddy to buy them everything and now work in McDonalds.

[bogeyman]

They weren't important to me when I was a student. I did meet students who found things like this important, but they were usually the obnoxious ****** who got daddy to buy them everything and now work in McDonalds.

Ah! You were never in with the cool kids then

[tay]

I'm nobody's fanboy matey.

So defensive

[tay]

Ah! You were never in with the cool kids then

And thats why all your friends work at McDonalds.

[bogeyman]

And thats why all your friends work at McDonalds.

Oh please God! Not another one!

Hey Tay!

You must be the loneliest, most miserable bastard on this forum.

What is your problem exactly? Envy? Inadequacy? Plain stupidity?

You claim to be a Kiwi right? Where in Kiwiland do you hail from?

[tay]

Here

[bogeyman]

Here

Nice.

Now focking get back there you miserable twot.