I have recently looked into it and as a student with my limited budget, if I was to buy a new computer tomorrow, it would be a PC system. I can get a pretty decent system while being unable to afford an entry level mac. It fits my needs and budget.
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Originally Posted by rubicon
...Mac hardware outlasts PC hardware - an older Mac will boot and run pretty well. Windows XP on a Pentium III 600 mostly sucks, so there is no argument that old PC hardware runs as well.
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This is why I wanted to chime in. Since my laptop died, my primary computer is a PIII-600 running XP. I initally put XP on it (up from 98) for ease of networking, although I don't see a reason to switch back. The only performance problem I have is a printer spooling delay. I run Firefox, a couple coding developments, most Office applications, etc, without delay. Photoshop takes a few seconds to load, but it also does on a 3.4 ghz machine with a gig of ram. Well, sometimes Maple makes it think for a few seconds, but I think that will happen on any system.