Tame

I have to admit, Macs are great machines. They're like the Audis or BMWs of the computer world. Those who own them, love them, and for good reason. I'm still no fan of the Mac Operating system, but the hardware is excellent and it creates an entire package feel that just clicks real well. But like their automobile counterparts, when they break, they really break. And lately, they break a lot more often than anybody wants to admit. At work, we used to be about 50-50 Macs and PCs, with the most macs on campus in our college. And lately, it's shifted to about 70-30 Macs to PCs, mostly because the guy in charge of buying computers is a huge fan of the new Intel-based Macs that you can load Windows onto (with extra software that must be purchased by the individual, not the school). So he is talking all the faculty into switching over, with moderate success.

We see a lot of macs, and a lot of them break, much more often than the PCs. And when they break, its almost always hardware which must be replaced at your own expense unless you bought the 3-year AppleCare Warranty. And the funny thing is still, when you go onto HP's website and put together a laptop with equal or superior hardware to the Mac laptops, it's still a few hundred bucks cheaper. We've done it a few times just to make sure. What Mac does have is a great deal of innovation and they pull if off with a sense of prestigiousness. Perhaps thats why they attract those mentioned in this article describing a survey of Mac users that describes Mac users as more openminded, liberal, less modest, and generally have a sense of superiority over the general public. In my experience I'd have to agree, but since I didn't conduct the survey myself, I have to take someone else's word for it.

Of course, I wouldn't mind having a MacBook Pro or iMac myself.