I bought my first mac in October of 2011. It was a mac book pro. I'm typing this on it right now. I have had zero issues. A pc laptop would previously last me about a year before they start to act up with some kind of hardware issue, and utterly fail within two years. That is what I think the biggest difference between the two philosophies- Apple is downright obsessed with designing the hell out of their hardware. My mac book was made from a piece of milled aluminum not some cheap plastic. One of the things that you could always count on breaking first on a PC laptop is where the power pin connects to the motherboard. For almost the past 10 years Apple makes their MacBooks with a magsafe power connecter so that is almost a physical impossibility. You're telling me in 10 years that all of the different pc manufacturers couldn't devise their own version of this? PC designers have been lazy for a loooong time. Now they don't do everything and they are certainly not perfect but they are by far a more thoughtfully designed precisely built piece of equipment.Can't make something that someone holds patents to you know. I really want to get off into this whole comment but people still don't get it, Apple = Training wheels playing it safe and PC = no limits survival of the fittest.
In the interest of full disclosure and to keep any windows fanboys off my back - Last summer I broke down and built my own pc. I wanted a custom media server with tons of storage and a windows machine is the only sensible solution. So there. Originally Posted by Accidental.Ci