WHY MAC???

Question

I have been a PC guy but am now looking at a new laptop and a friend had suggested a Mac. Every Apple person I know always raved about the product. So I have narrowed it down to two machines. The Dell XPS M1210 or the MacBook. I use my computer for work (office, acrobat, & internet) plus movies, photo's, and travel a lot with it. I don't play games.
After spending the better part of a day reading the posts on here I am wondering why buy a Mac. It seems that common problems for the MacBook are;
- random shutdowns/reboots,
- numerous battery issues,
- CD's/DVD's not playing and/or being scratched by the drive,
- CD's/DVD's getting stuck in the drive,
- The proclaimed ability to run windows does not seem to be as flawless as portrayed
- Several websites not being able to be opened,
- But the one that got me is the numerous complaints about Apple service, with common replies of "impact damage" or "software problems not coverd by AppleCare" and requiring moeny to fix.
From what I have read it does not live up to the reputation of Apple being a superior integrated product with fantastic support. In other words not much different from PC.
So I ask everyone out there, because I was quite keen to switch to Mac, why buy a Mac?? How is better than a PC??
Thanks,

Answer 1

Well I guess I understand your point.... But think about this when you go to a hospital all you see is people who are sick or having problems with a health concern in their life. When you come to the discussion all you will have is people with problems trying to get them solved. Nobody comes in here to chat about how great their laptop is, they come here to share common problems. I have been a Windows user all my life. I never had any interest for macs until recently we put my HP Pavilion to the test versus a Ibook Pro. We did 3 hours of audio recording. I was so asahmed of my HP because it froze 6 times in 3 hours and when we put the ibook it did everything perfect. The next day I sold it and just a week ago I got my mac, infact im on it right now. This machine is absolutely amazing. The widescreen feature is mind boggling! Its a bright little screen that blows your mind. I got the mac with the 2.0 ghz Intel Core Duo processor and with the basic 512 mb ram. THIS THING IS QUICK!! It came with the DVD burner superdrive and its great. The OS X is real simple and very effective for what ever you neeed it. I thought I would take longer than a week to learn this system, but I already got it down. Other things like the bluetooth, allows you to transfer info between computers or cell phones without any wires. Battery timE! WOOO HOOO! Easy 5 hours on doing basic stuff and about 3 hours and 30 minutes playing a dvd or doing many things at once. I can have 15 pages of Safari(Internet Browser) open and the laptop will still be as fast as when they were closed. Ever heard of no virus, no spyware, no pop-ups? LOL i did not believe it either but now I get to surf the internet pop-up free with no risk of viruses or spyware attaching to my computer. You like to travel right. This computer has a very sleek design and is very light 5.? pounds. Pictures? The macbook has a built in camera called Isight it takes incredible pictures and also it is great for video chatting or video conferencing it comes with software for picture editing(cant think of te name) I thik its Iphoto. Ill tell you one thing about changing to a new system(you will expereince this). When you change to a new system for example from windows to mac. When something you dont have the knowledge of goes wrong, people have the tendency of blaming the machine immediatley without any doubts. This happened to me. This is my first mac ever and when the internet was not working properly, I immediatley blamed the mac for it, without realizing that my router was the one messing up. I bought office 2004 for mac and it is completely different to the windows software it is more stylish and better designed. Of course if you have problems adapting to mac, Mac offers a software called parallels for mac. This program allows you to run and install windows on your mac and run it parralel to OSX. Of course when you use windows you get all them dirty things on the internet that mess up your computer. This has been the best investment in my whole life. I am going to stick to mac until I die. LOL. Take it into consideration that im a college student studying to become a physical therapist. So I have to have a machine that I can rely on and that it will not fail me. Regrets? NO WAY! There is no such thing as perfect techonolgy in this world. But I can tell you that the Macbook comes real close to it.Anything you purchase in this world can come defective there is no guarantee on anything. But to me its the MAC OSX that makes this machine stand out. The security, the simplicty. The mac is very user friendly. I give it two thumbs up and recommend it to all!
I hope this Helps GLI77
If there is anything else I can help you with. Please let me know!
Gudberto J Nava