well it does make sense, longer battery life, more stable, and able to run windows if needs be - at the end of the day, apple does make some of the best hardware out there.

Since you have so much free time, go to the Adult Entertainment Expo and survey that group. :)

Wee, an Apple vs. PC flamewar on a Sunday. Here, let's make this more complicated. Okay, is this tally of just the press corp, or the combination of press and blogger groups? I know they've been herded into two different groups. So please, explain. I would think bloggers would use Macs and press would use PC's.

Another thing, someone slap that woman for using one of those stupid plastic cases they sell at Apple stores. Those things are more asinine than what Colorware does. I saw someone in one of my classes with one of those and ridiculed him without end. I was like, what's wrong, not cool enough to apply Tool or Nine Inch Nail decals to your MacBook.

I agree, I had plastic cases or skins for things. They look so tacky. Do it right, learn how to spray paint.

@deadhouseplants:

Decals on your notebook computer is the digital equivalent of the tramp stamp.

@deadhouseplants: I'm in the press lounge, where press AND bloggers are allowed.

And what percentage of the PCs actually worked without crashing?

Totally. How many Vista users? I don't count VISTA as a real OS- owning a vista PC makes me feel more like a rape victim than a user. My therapist prescribed me this macbook- and I dual booted Ubuntu-Im on the road to recovery, but my ass is still sore from the likes of Microshaft.

@tonashideska: Spoken like a true "my $#!+ don't stink" fanboy.

I'd suspect that the answer to your question is at or near 100%. I doubt that any reporter or blogger would take a problematic machine with them to CES.

Myself, I have a Gateway with XP on it that I've owned for at least 5 years now (might be 6; I don't remember exactly when I bought it.) It has not ever presented me with the BSOD, except for the time my HD crashed. Hardware failure, not the OS.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Thank God you guys didn't switch to that "dreaded" Georgia font too. Thank God!!

As for the plastic (Speck) cases. I've got to say that the academy I work for purchased them for our 80 faculty members and there has been a significant reduction in the ... "oops I dropped something on my aluminum MacBook Pro and bent it" category. I love my Mac don't get me wrong here but why in the hell can't they make these things a little more ridged? Seriously! I've seen plenty of G4 PowerBooks and MacBook Pro's with bent DVD drives because people can't seem to pick up their computer with both hands... the damned things just bend...

With that said I can run Windows when I am absolutely forced to, Linux when I feel like it, and Leopard the rest of the time natively... I like choice.

Ordinarily, I don't pick sides in this, but since I'm reformatting my PC laptop right now because of a virus/malware that infected it, I'm picking Apple this round. Good ole MacBook - except for the drive failure, the slightly peeling trim and the 15 month-old that only has about 1 year left in it, I know I can count on it.

MAC 4EVAH (at least until after I reinstall all my programs on the PC lappie.

@chafnerjr: The flexing is a serious problem for iBooks, and to a lesser extent, most laptops. The way they connect most graphics chips to laptop boards doesn't handle bending very well, so if you start to have video problems, you'll need a new motherboard. [www.applefritter.com]

@CHAFNERJR

MacBooks do tend to bend and dent - just like the Ti PBs, they wear very badly.

I hope I'm never silly enough to buy a laptop with metal housing.

MacSkank...the next best thing to the MacSkin; and available at a bargain price!

what did I win? =P

I really want a mac, I wish I could afford one. I bought 5 PCs instead. It was cheaper. They are slow and they crash sometimes (less with linux) but I have five. It would be hard to share one mac with 5 people.

Poor people buy PCs.

my mac crashes or locks up far more often than my pc

Troll.

@Navin R Johnson: I'm poor, and I have a mac. I do this crazy thing called saving my money up.

@Navin R Johnson: And that is why the MacBook is one of the least expensive laptops in the 12"-13" range.

Perhaps less time bloviating and more time researching is in order.

Wow, what a Scientific Poll! Who would have thought, that the creative types, the non-technical journalists would use a computer with training wheels, the Apple computer. Soooo shiny!

Note to self: There's nothing like a Mac vs. PC flamewar to drive traffic to your blog.

Do you Windows guys just use Windows, or do you develop on it?

If using Windows is like getting repeatedly kicked in the balls, developing for it is like putting your nuts on an anvil and pounding away with a sledgehammer.

You bang away and bray about how dumb Apple users are, yet you've been using an inferior fax copy of the Mac the whole time you've been on Windows. You really can give up the suffering, and we won't mock you for taking too long, either.

Never mind. Bad dream. You're right. Windows is great. Macs suck. Now bend over, time for another "treatment."

Yawn. Mac vs. PC.

And even more of a yawn? Bloggers at a massive electronics convention with nothing else to talk about but what each other are talking about:

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Actually programming on *nix is 10x better than on a Mac, but who's really caring here. Yes, I know it's freebsd, but whatever. In a business environment, Windows still rules the roost, and anyone who says otherwise really needs to stop blogging at Starbucks and get a reality check.

I dropped my mac book pro pretty hard on my terrace once.. from about 4 or 5 feet right on the edge.. sure it dented it.. but the bitch ran just as poorly as before, no change in the frequency of color wheel of death.

Oh! another good survey would have been to see how many of those macs were running Parallels/Fusion.

Everyone I know that has a mac has Parallels or Fusion.. including myself. After all I do have to actually do WORK on my laptop on occasion.

ZOOYORQ: I don't understand, why do you need Windows to do work? Any productivity program has a Mac counterpart, unless your work requires use of some proprietary programs that are Windows-only...

@Tator Tot: Depends on what you're doing. As a UNIX guy, we have racks of servers pumping bits to browsers of every stripe. Mostly Windows. As a Mac guy, I have a comprehensible UNIX-based desktop that I can open up terminal windows and ssh out, etc, that I have a good chance of being able to debug if it fucks up, that I don't have to reinstall or just eat it if it screws up, and that, unlike running Linux/Windows or FreeBSD/Windows dual-boot, I can launch Photoshop or Word or Final Cut or Logic without rebooting.

Just because most of my users use Windows doesn't mean I have to -- the app is web-based. This is one of the factors in Microsoft's monopoly undoing itself.

*lol* This rough numbers seems to follow the current trend in sales: last year, stateside mind you, roughly 1 out of every 4 laptops sold was a mac.. Interesting, when you think about it..

@tyme: The simplest way to answer that TYME would be to say that (and I'm being honest here..) developers put more time into creating most of the applications I rely on in windows then "porting" or "making it work" on Mac. So my applications run smoother, faster and are more reliable in windows. :\ I like the Mac OS.. I just wish the software side of it was more current and supported.