LOL don't think for 1 minute that switching to mac will be the end of computer problems
I don't expect that. I'm under no illusions. But when something isn't working, surely the intelligent thing is to try doing it slightly differently, until it does go right?
I use both, Mac in the day job, PC at the studio, and both types receive an equal amount of swearing. The smug Mac heads here at work try to tell me how good they are etc etc bla bla bla, but every now and them I catch them trying to quietly fix an issue without letting the people like me (Mac, PC or anything users that believe all computers have been put on the earth to frustrate us) hearing about the problem.
What sort of issues? I'm always (loudly) trying to fix some fundamental, rudimentary issue with my PC - like getting basic sound & vision to work. Getting programs I've bought to work properly, without crashing. Getting the computer to wake up, turn off properly and even to stay on while I'm working, without it switching off of it's own accord, whenever it feels like it. Getting the mouse to work. Getting a pen tablet to work consistently. Printing without scores of error messages telling me things that aren't true. Are these the sort of issues your Mac user colleagues are suffering on a day-to-day basis? You expect computers to fail every so often - but in 20 years I've never owned a PC which works 100%. On the other hand, I have friends, colleagues and relations who say their Mac was ready to use the second they brought it home. I read reports of people saying how their Macs ran and ran and were still going strong when they'd outgrown them and needed a more powerful model. You see them advertised second hand, still going strong. I go to work in theatres and I see plenty of sound engineers at work with my own eyes - and it's Mac, Mac, Mac, everywhere I look. Many of them go home to their PCs and play hard core games and they love that - but at work, it's all Mac, Mac, Mac. So I think it's time for a change.
All computers are just circuit boards, hard drives and cables, it all boils down to the software you put on them and how you set them up. If you have a windows machine, set up windows as a platform only, don't load games, internet, any other crap, and just load recording software, you will get a solid performance.
Course they are. And they're all going to develop faults and errors at some point. Shit happens with all electrical stuff. But I've never had solid performance from any PC in 20 years - ever. I never use games (not interested) and I do keep my DAW machine off the internet.
But the difference, as I'm sure you already know - is that if you're on on a low budget, you can build a PC out of a pile of Chinese junk. Which is the only reason PCs can be dirt cheap. On other hand, you send off for components, they arrive broken or with manuals in pigeon English and you can make wrong choices. If you showed me a motherboard, I wouldn't know where to begin choosing the right processor. Macs are only built by Macintosh - as a complete product. So of course I know that if I spent more, I could build a PC which rivaled a Mac in terms of quality and performance. But I can't build PCs can I? I'm just no good at it. Last time I tried building one, I nearly set fire to the curtains, because the PSU literally blew a sheet of flame into the air. I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me, when I am messing with computers.
So I'm going to try becoming a victim of corporate marketing - and just suck it and see. What have I got to lose, except my hair? So I'm going to shave my head, wear a turtle neck sweater and join the ranks of smug, satisfied Mac owners, who love the way their technology all syncs together and just... works.
Or maybe I'll try it and think "What's the big deal?" But I'll never really know for sure until I experience it for myself.
Okay - so I've got the haircut and the sweater so far. Now I've just got to find out a way of affording one... Maybe I'll find someone I can trust, who's selling one in working order?
We'll see...