garyb wrote:
they're already owned by the same guy!
they already use exactly the same hardware!

which makes the difference even more clear...
I know you think there's not much reason anymore to buy a (more expensive) mac over a pc.
Indeed, they are just using the same Intel processor, which is perfect.
It's the software that counts tho, just like you can have a good or a bad plugin on sharcs.
The operating system in combination with the exellent hardware -put together by a single manufacturer- still is the key for it's succes.
An Intel mac can not be equalled with an Intel pc just because of they use an Intell processor.
Just came back from my weekly badminton sports evening.
A teacher, using mac at home, but confident with pc because of his work, needed a labtop to do presentations on spot, so he got a pc 'powerbook' from scool..
Man, what a troubles he had to get the thing do like it should.
Nothing is 'obvious', you always have to fight and to search and to tweak to get it right, he told me.
I admit I don't have any experience with an Intel mac, but knowing Apple everything is well thought through and tested from day one it's on the shelves, in a way Vista would like to have been the next years...
I prefer a meal put together by one cook in one kitchen, if I eat outdoor
