To another friend with a Mac:
> Yup, saw that. You’re just jealous because you don’t have one! 🙂
Um. No.
Please give me one *compelling* reason I should go spend thousands of dollars on a piece of hardware so I can run MacOS when I already have a perfectly good Windows PC that does everything I need it to.
What is the one thing that I need to do, but don’t know about, that you can do on your Mac that I can’t do on my PC? What is the Mac’s “killer app” that would justify my buying one?
Video editing? I’ve already demonstrated that’s not true. Sony Vegas was plenty easy for me to figure out and adding a firewire card was plug and play. And I hear Adobe Premier is pretty good too.
Photo editing? Photoshop runs on my PC just fine.
Page layout/DTP? Hell, I’ve run Quark on my PC for years.
CAD? Can you even run SolidWorks or AutoCAD on a Mac? Probably under Parallels, but then you are running Windows, aren’t you?
GarageBand? Well, that’s one that doesn’t run on my PC. But there are others out there – see GarageBand for Windows – but I don’t do music editing. Rosalyn wants to though. But that’s not a compelling reason.
On the other hand there are lots of apps that I use that will *not* run on a Mac.
Sure, I could run Parallels, but then I’m running Windows on the Mac and what’s the real advantage of that? Why not just run Windows on a PC?
And I don’t want to hear “it’s just easier.” Or “hey, it’s a Mac.” Give me concrete examples that are worth thousands of dollars to me.
I’ll accept that you like your Mac. But stop telling everyone they should throw away all their PC hardware and spend thousands of dollars on one.
It’s very annoying.
