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Originally Posted by jon boy
well to be honest i am not sure i was thinking of a mac but there are things that you cant do on them that you can on a pc am i right? plus i am getting a special deal on the pc so it seems like a better option as of now.
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The things you can't do: 1) Run Internet Explorer since Microsoft stopped making it for Macs. This hardly matters since Firefox is a superior browser (I don't like Safari myself, but lots of people do, haven't tried Chrome which doesn't have a Mac version yet, but will) 2) Play a lot of PC only games (I've know a total Mac Geek to get a Windows laptop purely to play games on). However, if you get a Mac with boot camp, you can of course run both. I'm not a PC gamer and have never cared.
Things you can do on a Mac you can't on a PC: the only significant one I know is run Garage Band which is a great little lo-end recording program. I like Audacity too, which is available on both, but it's way buggier. You can't run the other iLife stuff on a PC either, but it's not particularly special. iMovie is o.k. for really short videos, I suppose.
Performance wise, I still believe Macs are better for audio, video, and photography/graphics, as recently proven by the fact that the Microsoft "I am a PC" commercials were outed as being made on a Mac. Also, Macs are still way more secure. I've never known a Mac user to get a virus or spyware, and I've known several PC users who did (as well as several who's security software made their computer run slow!)
That said, the differences get smaller every day, and if you get a good enough deal on your PC, why wouldn't you go for it. Unless it's a Dell, and then run away as fast as you can...