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I'm not disagreeing with you on that... i'm taking about the other direction.
Windows has almost every program that macs have (Ie there are very few mac exclusive applications). Nowhere did I mention macs don't have at least one piece of software that can do most things, as it does have that.

My point being that there's no reason to get a mac for "mac software", as most of its available on the PC as well. (other than the few exceptions)

 

Right but it doesn't mean just because you can run "almost" anything on a Windows machine that a Wintel PC should be the only game in town because it's not. What you fail to understand (or if you do you are ignoring the fact) that having a Windows equivalent of a piece of great Mac software doesn't mean it's good software. What I have seen is that most Windows equivalents aren't as good.
Also there is so much more open-source software that a Mac runs natively that doesn't run on Windows at all. There are quite a bit of companies that make fantastic and popular software that is Mac only and they are dedicated to the Mac only.
Right now (with an exception of a piece of corporate business software) most used applications in the industry run on both platforms. I'm not even going to include the gaming software because most people that install Windows on a Mac don't use it for that, it's generally for running a few pieces of Windows software for their work.

Before the Intel switch and before you could install Windows natively on a Mac Apple had done quite well selling Macs and the consumer has been generally happy with running a Mac as a "Mac". Most of the major labels make the same versions of their software for the Mac OS and Windows.

BTW the music industry is owned by the Macintosh, it's the preferred platform. This is an area where Windows is just not welcome. There's a place for both platforms, in the enterprise world it's Windows (but not for long).

 

You mean Ipods, right?... I'm pretty sure I can listen to my music on my PC just fine, not sure what you mean by "macs" owning the music industry.

Theres way more (prob about the market share) of open source for windows only than mac. And for 99% of programs, I can give you a windows equivalent thats as good, or better than the mac version.
If you wish, name some "mac" software, that you think don't have comparable windows versions, i'll refute them.

It really makes no difference about the 5% of people who owned macs before the intel switch liked using it as a "mac".... There's nothing wrong with that, they just prefered OSX for whatever reason, and not being able to run some software either didn't bother them, they didn't need it, or they didn't know about it.

If we're going to get back on topic, I was just trying to convince him to save money... Nobody can argue that macs running windows are better for gaming (on a price standpoint) than a comparable windows laptop. If his main concern is gaming, there is NO point for him to buy a mac... If he had other intentions, he didn't make them clear in his post.

 

I don't believe there is any wrong opinion out there...if someone wants to buy a Mac to game because he/she likes the Mac design, that is perfectly fine...I agree, if you don't plan to use Mac OS X, there are better price-for-performance notebooks out there with other factors taken out such as size, thickness, weight, etc. But it doesn't make it "pointless" to buy a Mac to game, if one wishes to do so because of design, aesthetics, or just the ability to run OS X when he/she wants to.

 

As "in tune" as you seem to be I thought you would've understood what I meant. Guess not. iPod?? Are you serious? I meant that Macs own the music industry in terms of being the preferred platform for the recording industry.