Not so much a question but admission of defeat

Over the years, mainly as a musician, I have had to listen to the Mac/PC war and the misinformation traded back and forth. The usual one is how much better/faster/cooler/ etc... the Mac is compared with the fruits of Bill Gates' womb, the Windows PC.
Since 2007 I have bought a new iMac in 2007 which had to go back to the Apple Store twice to have a new motherboard fitted but at least while it was still in warranty; a 2 year old secondhand Macbook Pro (2006) in 2008 which has died with the nVidia GPU video chip issue just 1 month after the extended 4 year warranty period that Apple put in place to recall the million plus video chips affected. I'm being told that the cost of repair would exceed a new i5 laptop.
Also an iPod Nano 4th generation that I bought my wife 2 years ago has also died with the "known" white screen of death (look it up) where the screen whites so much it is impossible to see the menu items even though the device is still working.
The Mac 'thing' in the music world is because nearly all top studios used Protools HD or TDM fronted by an Apple Mac which only had to display the software on scree as all of the DSP processing was done on the PT digidesign/Avid chips so the Mac CPU had little to do - hence the reason it appeared to run seemlessly.
Am I just an unfortunate Mac buyer or are there loads of you out there suffering in silence not wanting to say that I've spent good money on over priced toys that look and feel good?
My own small studio runs on an Intel Core Quad PC from ASUS, bought in 2006 and has never let me down.
I recently cleared out a cupboard and found a Dell Latitude Laptop bought in 1994 and still going strong running Windows 95!!
I'm sorry but my experience in the Mac world has been just dire and there is no part of the 4 year experience that in any way I would or could recommend Apple products to anyone - but hey they look really cool.
Denny aka Leviset

Rysz wrote:
Apple products consistently score better in satisfaction survays and have fewer returns and repairs.
As a 20 plus Apple user I can agree with that, however Apple changes things so much that one doesn't get the value for the higher money spent in return.
While Microsoft still supports the 10 year old XP and 5 year old Vista, Apple has shunned support for Leopard 10.5 that was released 4 years ago, then supported it for only a mere 2 years.
A Dual Processor PowerMac G5 is about as half as powerful as today's quad core Mac's, still a very usable machine and a hefty investment, however Apple issues no security or stability updates for it's 10.5 operating system.
10.6 is a Intel only operating system, so PPC users can't upgrade.
And 10.7 ditches Rosetta, which allowed a PPC programs to run on a 10.6 Intel Mac.
Am I just an unfortunate Mac buyer or are there loads of you out there suffering in silence not wanting to say that I've spent good money on over priced toys that look and feel good?
In the course of 10 years, I've bought a pricey Dual Processor G5 with a 30" monitor, a Intel Core 2 Duo 15" and now a 17" MacBook Pro (for 10.6) for total apx $12,000 in hardware and about $3000 in software. (Another $8000 in music)
My friend bought one Dell Pentium Tower with XP ten years ago for $1200 and another $300 in software and now is looking around for a new machine as XP is finally taking it's toll. He wants a laptop to take with him on road trips.
So I recommneded he get a Windows 7 i5 or i7 laptop for about $500-$600 and let me slap a new 7,200 RPM hard drive and Linux Like-XP on the old Dell which will make it like a brand new machine again.
Did you really think I would recommend a Mac laptop that is basically the same hardware for $1500 including AppleCare and tax, suffer with the same fate I did in these last few years with all the hardware and operating system changes, just to let Apple ditch him on the side of the road in two years?
I don't recommend Mac's to ANYONE anymore, except to the very wealthy with money to blow where being stylish is more important than practicality and even then I'm winding up putting Windows 7 on it via Bootcamp because there is always a program they must have and there is no Mac version.
So out of 100 clients, I'd say 20 are on Mac's and 50% of those are direct booting into Windows, hardly touch OS X.
But they can tell all their rich and/or liberal friends they use a Mac. LOL

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Hi all i hope you can help me here.
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Hi Meyer,
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