Willravel

I was raised on Macintosh, or rather Apple. I've always enjoyed the straight forward OS's over the years as well as the system stability. About a year and a half ago, I had to borrow a friends Compaq (that was new as of 2002). My Apple was outdated and it was time to start saving for something decent. I used the PC for about a year and some change. I found that Windows has much more support from many software and hardware companys. I found it odd that PC's had thousands more game titles available. To be honest, I'd never noticed before when I had been using Macs. I felt kinda stupid. I started playing games and using apps that I'd never known existed. It was fun, but I quickly noticed that the computer, though new, had a bad habit of freezing and crashing. It was odd to me, because I'd been on a computer that froze twice in 3 years before this. I called and talked to some friends that basically told me that 'this is part of using a computer' and to not worry. Don't worry? Why not? I called some help lines and they had some basic suggestions about trying to avoid situations where the computer was proned to act up, so I followed them. It was really limiting. I was told to try and not run more than one or two apps at a time, and have very few windows open. I was also told to delete any files on my comp that might have spyware. I did. It still froze. Then things started to go wrong with several parts of the hardware. Eventually, the whole motherboard was lost. I was saving up to get a G5 tower and a cimina display, but I needed a computer for work and school. I apologized to my friend about his computer and assured him I did everything I could to save it. He shrugged it off and simply replied, "It happens a lot."
I went out the next day to my local Mall Apple store and bought an eMac with a 1 GHz G4 processor and a GB of RAM. As soon as I got home I plugged it in and turned it on. It was like being in a different reality. This was a reality of less programs, but so much better computers! To this day (it's been about a year since I bought the eMac) my computer has never once frozen or crashed. I've never once had an application unexpectedly close with and error sign. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen one error sign. I have several great programs for work and school, including Microsoft Word, and I also play several really great games. I have been playing Unreal 2003 and 2004 and enjoyed every minute of it. Never freezing. Never having a sudden slow frame rate for some reason. I also play Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2. I don't mind so much about the fact that there are a lot of games out for PC that I won't be able to play at home. If I really want to play Mechassault, Doom 3, or Call of Duty I can go to the local network gaming center and fork over a few bucks an hour. As for my home computer, I have stability.
Now I know there are some die hard PC fans out there. This isn't posted to make you mad. This isn't here to start a war between Mac fans and PC fans. I just wanted some people to hear my conclusions about experiencing both sides.
If people out there on Mac's are really frustrated that they can't use some simple PC programs on a Mac, get VirtualPC or some other emulator. You won't be able to run high quality games or anything with a big load on it, but you can run simple programs without any problems.
Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment.