Windows Vista reminds me of the legendarily inexplicable Winchester Mystery House - a place with endless wings and far-flung rooms connected by twisty staircases and secret passages. They’re listed rough order of their positive impact on your everyday computing experience as I see it. But when friends toss the eternal “PC or Mac?” question my way, these are the points I bring up in favor of the Mac. I’m no hidebound advocate for the supremacy of Macs in every instance - the last two computers I’ve bought have both been Windows laptops, and I cheerfully and sincerely wrote an article called Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should be a PC to accompany this one.
Macs can leave you happier and more productive than you would have been if you’d bought a Windows system, and feeling you got good value for your money even though a Mac is never the cheapest option. However, lots of extremely rational reasons exist to choose a Mac running OS X over a Windows PC.
Contrary to Microsoft marketing honcho David Webster’s snarky recent assertion, Macs aren’t “ washed with unicorn tears” - at least as far as I know.
