This is a tough on form my personnel point of view. I suppose it depended on what you want form your computer. Personnel I would not recommend either Pc or Mac over each other they do the same thing just each one has its advantages over the other. Recently a friend of my had delivered a new Mac G4, I went round and had a little play and realised that was not comfortably with Macs, where I am comfortable with PCs. We both are doing different course but both are computer related (I’m about to start computer systems, theory and network with computer science)) and he is doing a course on wed development, computer graphics and suchlike. Now if you go to the computer suits most of the computers for my course are PC, where most of the computer in his suit are Macs. Both course stress the importance of being literate on PC and Macs as well as many OS platforms. So i think if you have never had a Mac before but feel you would like one, ask yourself this. Can I afford the time to get comfortable with a Mac? If you can answer yes then its worth considering because then you will increase your general base knowledge of computers. If you cant give up that time then perhaps sticking to what you know. If you can an idea would be to keep your current PC perhaps upgrading the spec if that is why you are changing it over, and purchase a Mac. That way you'll be laughing because you'll have both large classes of computer types. If you had this set up you could use one to work on and one to "play" with. What i mean by play is sticking on different OS and learning them, doing all the things to them that you cant do to your normal work computer for the nagging feeling of if I totally kill this computer and it take me a long time to fix it i cant work. Anyway not really any help but that my opinion on the matter.

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