The Mac Pro
[The Mac Pro] is, by far, the most amazingly fast, spacious, capable, and well-designed computer I’ve ever used.
I have no doubt that’s a nice machine, and I am certainly glad his all-too-familiar, all-too-painful wait is over. That said, can one of the Fanbois explain to me what makes Apple computers any better than a PC set up by an intelligent user? Admittedly, I haven’t used a Mac for more than about 10 minutes in as many years, but I’m failing to see what a Mac can bring me that I can’t accomplish for half the cost with an equivalent PC, and Ubuntu or the Linux distribution of your choice?
I’m not a gamer, really, and any games I would play (Frozen Bubble or OpenTTD) are running natively in Linux. I use an admittedly ancient version of Quicken, but at least it runs in Wine flawlessly. OpenOffice.org is enough to get me thru any of the Office documents I regularly encounter. I use Firefox and Pidgin in any operating system, so no loss there.
I get (from what I can tell) just as bulletproof a machine, on great hardware (I use a ThinkPad), without the Apple tax, and with 90% of the eye candy thanks to Compiz Fusion. What makes a Mac so much better?
