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1. On September 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm, Michel Fortin said :

I would go for the Mac. This transition to Intel is going to take a while to complete, and I expect software vendors to keep updating their PPC versions for the four years to come, probably more as in most cases it’s not very hard to support both architectures.

2. On September 17th, 2005 at 1:58 pm, Joël said :

I second that.

3. On September 17th, 2005 at 8:31 pm, Michael Sarver said :

I heard they are stopping the iPod minis for the new Nanos… Not sure if that affects your decision to buy or not, but figured I would throw it out there. One of the things that I am concerned about when I finally buy a Mac is losing all of my software.

4. On September 17th, 2005 at 11:37 pm, Remi said :

Another problem with the Mac is that I have to use Photoshop, Dreamweaver and other expensive software which are *cough* easier *cough* to buy on a PC than on a Mac ;)

On another note, it’s fun to see that John Oxton wrote a blog post about Powerbooks almost at the same time as mine.

5. On September 18th, 2005 at 12:04 pm, Jaimeeee said :

i would prefer the mac, its cheaper, and yeah, the intel thing will take a while

6. On September 18th, 2005 at 12:17 pm, Lewis said :

You definitely don’t need a X600 if you’re not gaming. A 64mb card would be plenty.

PC ALL THE WAY!!

7. On September 18th, 2005 at 1:25 pm, Thierry Bélanger Clermont said :

If you’re a gamer go for the PC. If not go for the mac.

You can find PC apps alternative very easylly. And P2P also exist for mac. ;)

8. On September 18th, 2005 at 2:34 pm, Remi said :

OK, now my mind is at:

PC: 30%
Mac: 70%

Now, what would be the best? 12″ Powerbook or 14″ iBook? Are iBooks so worst than Powerbooks?

Oh, another question: is 12″ a little too small?

9. On September 19th, 2005 at 2:58 pm, Remi said :

Well, it seems that everyone forgot this post, so I’m going to tell you here anyway, I’m going for the PC, for various reasons.

I’m gonna buy it on friday, so if you’ve got last-time arguments to convince me not taking the PC instead of the mac, it’s time to tell ‘em folks :)

10. On September 20th, 2005 at 6:51 am, Joël said :

Get a real OS. Buy the mac.
Otherwise you’ll have to wait for the release of… well… something approaching Tiger on the PC. And then again, you’ll have to pay for it.

11. On September 20th, 2005 at 11:00 am, Thierry Bélanger said :

Mac Tiger is the best thing on earth, really! :P

12. On September 20th, 2005 at 11:59 am, Remi said :

Joël, I’m fine with winXP but I’m planning — that may please you — to install Linux on it ;-)

Thierry, I know, I’m using it every day.

And I realized, after seeing one of my teacher’s, that a 12″ Powerbook is way, way to small. I’d buy a 15″, but it’s much more expensive!

13. On September 20th, 2005 at 2:33 pm, Joël said :

Linux on Mac is fine too ;)

And when you say 12″ is way to small, just ask yourself too small for what? OK, it’s 12″, but is 1024*768 not enough?
I really prefer having a smaller screen, but a lighter weight to carry. Just my opinion, of course…

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index12.html

14. On September 20th, 2005 at 3:39 pm, Remi said :

12 inches is not really good for web design; 1024x768 is quite too small.

15. On September 21st, 2005 at 8:00 am, Jeam said :

Take the pc and install MacOsX (if you read post on Computer Website, you will see it’s not a joke!)

16. On September 26th, 2005 at 2:15 pm, shiraz said :

I know I’m a bit late, but I’d definately recommend a mac. I’ve worked with PC’s for 10 years, and then I bought an ibook last year, and now I’ve almost abandonned my PC. I use it for web design as well. And graphics too. And music. OS X just seems like a much more natural environment to do these kinds of things. Another thing is that I was surprised at how easy it is to *cough* buy *cough* expensive software for OS X.