I think RedDavid made a lot of good points there.
He did point out the dodgy hardware element, which to me is still the pc's achilles heel. I had loads of problems with my pc. Boards blowing due to unplugging a usb pen, heat failure, dead pci slots etc. They were good spec ASUS boards as well. It always happend at critical times. Normally when I was mixing coursework tracks or writing llooong essays in the middle of the night. My latest pc board started frying wireless network adapters. It's an old P4 rig, and I looked at the cost of bringing it up to date. For the cost of purchasing vista, a new board/cpu pack, memory etc... and the fact that macs are now microsfot friendly...it made more financial sense to make the switch. I'd been dying to get back to mac for a few years, and the time was right !
Apple are the only people that design and build their hardware, so you rarely get issues on that front. Although they did actually get caught out using non TI firewire controllers. That was a bit naughty.. lots of people upgraded to new macs and got shafted when their firewire interfaces were all of a sudden incompatible.
They've also not fully supported the Iphone and Ipod Touch in Windows. I can't remember the issue, but I have a mate who bought one and he said it's the most expensive paperweight he'll ever buy !
Apple software updates have left a lot to be desired lately. They used to work flawlessly but they have given a lot of users, especially their core 'pro' group of video, graphic and audio supporters a lot of hassle with things going wild after updates..
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