I have a mac problem

How so?

Tell me why you, I or anyone else posting in this thread needs a 64 bit OS for their desktop computer?

How does it actually improve the experience?

Ive got a mac powerbook as my main home computer and it pisses over a pc anydays - And im easily the most hardcore pc geek type bloke on here so what i say is what is right!!!!!!!

.... anyways - The mac operating system is absolutely fantastic and if you arent bothered about playing games on a pc then a mac does everything a pc does, but more elegantly, easily and polished.

Macs look shit hot

Macs are build to a much better standard than most laptops

For creative use they are much nicer

They break down maybe 1% of the time a windows machine does.

They raise approving glances when your using one on a train

OK yeah right sillyness aside - you can buy a g4 ibook for 700 quid - that has wireless, a combo drive and a load of other things... that really isnt a ton of money more than a similarly specced and built windows machine costs.

Ill agree that macs come at a premium to windows pcs, but its not as much as alot of people think - my powerbook cost about 1300 quid but for the same money you might get a sony vaio with only similar specifications and speed - im comparing with sonys because they represent the premium brands which is the best basis for a comparrison i reckon.

The reason i said excluding games is because developers dont bother porting games to the mac operating sytem, its not because the systems themselves arent capable of anything. The few games that ARE made for macs aswell run perfectly well (I had world of warcraft on my powerbook for a while and it ran perfectly)

as for the posers things... yeah they are posers laptops in a way, but its just the same as buying expensive clothes, or shoes or getting an expensive haircut - Some people want them to be different and the slight price premium sets them above other people like other things do.

Myself, i wanted something compact, stylish with tons of features - for the same price range i couldnt see anything better other than another sony vaio, but ive already had one of those so wanted a change.

The operating system is a work of art though - its light years ahead of windows.

g4 1.3ghz 12" with 768mb ram, bluetooth, wireless, 60gb HD, nvidia 5200

Not entirely (and im not saying that to be pedantic) - Apple have spent a shitload of time and money adding things ontop of the BSD core, core image, core audio etc etc - its not JUST because of unix, but it did allow them to probably get to where they are much faster than microsoft ever will with having to keep tweaking their age old windows legacy code.

Those are fair comments but people dont buy macs generally because they are the 'highest spec' - some do but its not the most important factor for them

It goes without saying that mac OSX is streets ahead of windows in terms of being 'finished' tho. I use a windows machine at work and the number of times that thing craps out on me is stupid..... The whole spyware issue is just laughable with windows.