I am about to invest in a 24" iMac in next month and get rid of my 4 year Dell Dimension 2400.
There is no comparable 24" integrated, quiet, pretty, attracts friends, windows system
For many years I wanted to switch to Mac. Finally, after several nervous intents, 16 months ago I purchased a 17" MacBook Pro
I'm not sure what you guys use you computers for but I/we are totally reliant, have been since we first went onto the web with our formulas in 1997. Windows platform sucks. This has been proven to me time and again when my computers bomb out unexpectedly. Besides the systems I have given away, our last windows computer, used only for one or two specifics, such as Quickbooks, would not boot up, just one week ago. We went into our storeroom to see if we could find a power pack. I was shocked to see 5 towers and 3 monitors in the storeroom, all problem systems. Needless to say, we couldn't get the hard drive to work so my son purchased a cradle that converts to USB and we got the files off the drive.
Slowly I started switching my family onto a Mac. Each birthday, we purchased our sons a MacBook Pro. My daughter has the 13" and finally, after a very nervous transition, my wife, as of 10 days ago, has the new Mac Air and she loves this little light weight (3 pounds) laptop, she works on it all over the house.
Two of my sons are MCSE qualified, they did the course several years ago. They understand windows systems better than most and they all said to me, after about 10 days on a Mac (the exact same thing I said), why did I wait so long?
Mac's are quiet, pretty, fast, don't require severe virus protection. Don't scatter files in a million places, fragmenting hard drives, which causes windows to slowly slow down over time until one day, poooooof!
Windows sucks! I don't want to debate you Tom. I am simply talking from personal experience. Yes, Mac's are a little pricey but in my case, I think we will save money in the long run.
Brian