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I have been in the computer games industry as a professional artist since 1994, so I expect I have a bit more experience with every type of computer than your good self.

If you want something that looks nice on a coffee table go for the Apple.
If you want something that will blow your mind go Alienware.

That is all.

By what measure do you make them the market leader?

It's not an opinion either, they are terrible (largely the OS I'm talking about here, as since then changed from PowerPC architecture to Intel the hardware is identical to that of a PC, they just charge you much, much more!).

Apple's marketing on the other hand is superb, the whole 'it just works' thing is genius and even better that they've got the gullible to believe it.

10 years ago you could have said the same about 2 cores. But right now I'd agree with you, I was just pointing it out as you mentioned 6 core CPUs.

The comment about Macs was in response to another poster, I probably should have made that clear

Man who works in the games industry and recommends gaming pc's shocker!

I'm a designer and use Macs all day. I love doing so. I can admit that Macs, whilst pretty, reliable and very good at what they do... are far too expensive compared to competitiors for your average consumer.

What else would you expect?!

There is a reason why the design, publishing and media industrys have chosen mac over PC so they must work.

I will hold my hands up and say that I have never used one but unless you are video editing, desigining or doing other design stuff I think a PC is more than adequate of 90% of users who browse the net and use office a little bit. No need to pay the inflated prices.

I would love to own a mac as I dabble with a bit of design and video editing but the cost is prohibitive.

And I had you down as a techie. There's no reason a mac is better for any of those things; certainly not now. The software required is cross platform and the hardware is identical (well the architecture is, so you can use equivalent hardware).

Of course those industries are all style over substance, which is exactly what as Mac is.

Exactly..designers use them because by there nature they are better 'designed' aesthetically, PC's tend to be more work-man-like in appearance as they are simply machines to perform the tasks given to them. There is SO much nonsense about Mac's and what they allegedly can do..Photoshop is Photoshop whether you use it with an expensive Mac bauble or a PC. I should know, I have been using the program since it's inception!