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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Drawbacks of getting a Mac? Well, from the basic perspective, I see none. I've used Macs for nearly ten years now, and I've never had a serious problem with one. I've owned my own Mac for four of those years (first a Blue iMac, and since last November, an iBook) -- and I can truly say that I've never had to do anything like reformat the hard drive or any other fun stuff like that. The biggest potential drawback is application availability. First, Apple has recently started pushing OS X on all new computers -- but some applications aren't quite ready/available for the advanced OS yet. (Older programs that work with OS 9 need to be converted -- "Carbonized" -- to work natively in OS X. They can still be run in an emulator-type environment called "Classic.") However, most of the major applications are now available for OS X. Microsoft Office, Adobe products, and so on. The only real "problem" that I could point out would be from a Trekker's perspective, if you're interested in gaming. The majority of Trek games aren't available for Mac. They've been promising us "Starfleet Command II" for the past six months, but it's been repeatedly pushed back. Other games like "Armada" never went for the Mac at all. (Although both "Elite Force" and that DS9 game about the Pagh-Wraiths are both available for Mac.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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