Aye. PC/Mac. Something I've actually not touched on. Anyways, been watching the ads at http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

They're actually quite funny, although, sadly in this really wierd...proprietary format, .mov or something...(*snort*). Assuming you have QT on your PC, watch em, I do reccomend it. Or, if you dont, get QTA I mean hey, it does everything QT does. And it doesn't even run that skanky thing at startup (why does QT need that?). Plus it's handy so you can re-encode MP4s you've, taken off Itunes. Like happy-tree-friends. Which is Itunes exclusive (my zen vision m loves em).

I'm not finished yet though, I just didn't feel like blowing my frontpage articles out of size. Which is why theres this really cool read more button...

Nice to know you're still with me here ;)

Anyways, I'm going to assume you've actually now seen the ads, and if you haven't I'll be nice and fill you in. They consist of two actors, named, "PC" and "Mac". Mac is portrayed younger and PC is portrayed older, and dressed in a suit...

The main basis between marketing Macs is that PCs are bad. Which is cute.

Most of them come back to stressing PCs are boring business devices, and Macs are more lifestyle (But lo, Microsoft Office on Mac is mentioned. Repeatedly). Macs make things easier to use, they just...work out the box apparently. Sounds fun. And their programs are better for listening to music (tbh, I've actually started loving WMP11, and for the record, I hate iTunes, and not because it's an Apple product. It's uniquely shite in its own right), better for photos (I mean, last Sony digicam I tried under windows didn't just *work* did it? Oh, shit, it did as well), better for videos (iTunes/WMP11 again here), better for designing websites (W T F?!), better for blogging (because good blog software is mainly...serverside PHP/ASP, it really matters if you use OSX over windows 3.1). Theres also making movies (Windows Movie Maker, although lacking a snappy title is actually incredibly decent, out of the box).

Now besides the fact most of their points are misrepresentative and, reguarly...untrue, I actually compared OSX to Windows XP here. Which I guess was kinda fair. But heh, apparently, Windows have this undermarketed slightly more up to date product called Vista. It handles Music, Videos, standard lifestyle tasks with aplomb. Media Centre in Vista is hawt, and the way Aero Glass looks and moves is just...inspired. It's animated and lively and somewhat snappy. But not annoyingly so. I don't get irritated by a death by powerpoint style UI in Vista.

On my straight comparison of the adverts by Apple between PCs and Macs, I am thus, happy to concede that Macs totally own PCs at lifestyle usage.

No wait, that was just the overused sarcasm coming into play there. I guess I should see someone about that, it must be so damn awful to read. Anyways, yeah, XP is no slouch at lifestlying it up. Vista even more so (down to that OSX animated UI stuff). So that was fun.

OMG! I nearly forgot!

You can play games on a PC! Haha! Who'd have thought. For boring, impractical business only machines, damn, they're good for gaming. I wont try and say it's impossible to game on a Mac, but if I was advanced anything beyond freecell level, well, yeah (Counter Point: World of Warcraft, a very large title runs on Mac, although I don't consider it redeeming). Shame for such a lifestyle lesiure machine it's absolutely dire at gaming.

Now, while I've had a good deal of fun there, I will not try and say that PCs are great because Macs are crap. I won't say Macs are crap because PCs are great. In fact, I won't even say Macs, or PCs are great. They both have their limitations. This makes me a better person, than the collective mind at Apple (Pwnt).

Oh, and this webserver runs...

Linux.