Reasons to buy a Mac

Awesome third-party Apps

Watson — THE killer web-services client
NetNewsWire Lite — the gold standard for RSS news readers
iStopMotion — free stop-motion and time-lapse movies with a DV camera
NetFlix Fanatic — manage your NetFlix queue with the ease of drag and drop

Awesome Apple Apps

iTunes
iMovie
iDVD
iPhoto
iCal — view multiple calendars in one grid. Let's see Outlook 2003 do that! Publish and subscribe to calendars on the internet
iSync — have your contacts and bookmarks on every computer in the world, complete with the look and feel of the desktop applications
Safari — the only browser to support text-shadow and RGBA color values
iChat — audio and video instant messaging client
DVD Player 3 — remembers where you stopped the movie, even if you remove the disk. Simple but Windows Media Player doesn't do it.

Awesome OS X Features

Exposé — manage your windows with smoothness like butter. See it live on Apple.com
Way-cool ALT-TAB application switching — features the incredible quality of OS X icons and you can use the mouse to click the application you want. No more tab, tab, tabbing around to the application you accidentally tabbed over.
The Dock — it looks great and solves the UI problems of the Windows Quick Launch bar, task bar and System Tray
Text Edit — the Apple version of Notepad now opens and saves DOC files and has fantastic typographic quality
Built-in Apache, SSH
It's not Microsoft — buck the norm

Monday, November 10, 2003

Comments

I think after this compellinng list, I'd be interested to buy a Mac. But one thing keeps stopping me for now.....the price. They are just way higher priced than an equivalent x86 based PC. I imagine that will change as more and more folks buy Macs though.

Laters, Todd

Posted by Todd on 11/12/2003 11:42:54 AM

Todd:

Your statement is based on assumption, not fact. If you compare a PC to a Mac, Apples to Apples, Macs are quite a better value than a PC. Many standard features on a Macintosh cost extra on a PC. For example, a --powered-- firewire port. Try to find one of those on a sub $1000 PC.

Tim

Posted by Grimes on 4/20/2004 10:54:03 PM

My $600 eMachines computer with XP does everything I need it to do and does not require a firewire port. Firewires are designed for Mac. A $600 Macintosh does diddly squat.

Posted by A on 10/19/2004 11:31:55 PM

Last year, I wouldn't have dreamed of purchasing a Mac let alone try anything outside of the Microsoft world.... (Development with Microsoft tools pays my bills) Within the past year, after knowing Mike, I have purchased not 1, but 2 iPods with all the accessories, including the Bose Speakers and the new iMac G5. Thanks Mike for showing me a better world ;0)

Posted by Dorienne Davis on 6/22/2005 3:03:48 PM

My family uses PC's and I personally will switch to a MAC as soon as I purchase my first computer. The total cost of ownership is significantly cheaper... so in the long run you're really getting a better deal if price is what's stopping you.

Posted by Taryn on 1/9/2006 8:17:00 AM