I have a mac pro which ive bough in 2006 and to this day it still is the best computer ive seen amongst my friends. Now to be fair ive scrounged quite a bit and shred sweat and tears for it to get to its current position.

Im somewhat of a hybrid. Im a proffesional gamer (yes i make my lviing off of playing games, neat huh?) and a programmer. Also I take photography and sculpt as hobbies. Now that in perspective i still recommend the mac over the pc. why? because it just works.

Dont get me wrong im not a mac-fan boy. I used to be, until my x1900 after 1.5 years has gotten me into soooo many hate-screams. It fails you see, it fails on an epic proportion, its weakness: overheat and poor conductors. I agree with you that the upgrades apple provides are WAYYYYYY over the top for consumers. But there is an alternative.

I currently have a Sapphire Ati 4890 1 Gig flashed working in my mac. It has been chosen as one of the best G.C. of 2009-2010 with its speed + heat dissapation. I concur with this as it has revived my dying mac. Now im gaming at everything full with direct-x 10 on my vista partition. (yeah i got vista…weird right?) but see, with Snow Leopard the mac has pushed the industry to the 64-bit age, and wanting to use dX10 leaves you with only 1 option. Vista. Sure theres Win 7 but as ive learned from many PC software/hardware companies its better to buy a product after its first price-cut.

Thats when the forums are full of answers rather than unanswered ones.

I even got a new BENQ monitor for 200$ (2nd hand) and am going to enjoy doing my daily routines and hobbies and (a little)games on the mac side where-as when im going for tournaments & sponsorships; windows side.

The mac doesnt slow down as rapidly as a pc would. Thats the main buy point for me. my old pc’s are now useless thanks to hardware + software incompatabilities and other such things. A common pc is good for, what? 4…maybe 5 years tops?

the macbook i bought my mom still works as it was since day 1. And thanks to its user friendliness no mom-nag.

In conclusion there are other alternatives to using a mac. You can go ALL-APPLE which will cost you much but will give you 0 trouble or you can go hybrid which will give you trouble at first. but after a while itll all be OK.

Like i said; it just works. You just got to bend it to your will thats all.

Sure, I could buy a second PC (well, actually I can’t right now) but that would mean having a second monitor and computer just gaming — I’d be better off just buying a console and hooking it up to the living room TV, far more convenient.

Also, I did spend almost $2K on this iMac, I should damn well be able to play some games on it, shouldn’t I? Stupid pride, I know… I do try to support Mac versions of games when they are available, but it’s tough when they’re usually old ports or significantly overpriced. For example, the new Prince of Persia can easily be found for $5-10 for the PC version, and triple that price or more for the Mac one. There are too many examples of this (also see Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Sid Meier’s Pirates, etc.).