Originally Posted by tictac

My 70 year old Mother in Law tends to struggle with her thermal paste these days so has gone off building PC's. She often used to get confused when configuring her virwall and anti-firus see what I did there?software.

These days, she much prefers knitting or, turning on her MacBook, chatting to us on Skype, looking at the photos we send her, then switching it off and making a cup of tea.

You're probably right what you're saying though

My tinkering days are over now and I save time by using Macs.

It's no surprise to me that someone like you would be running OS X

Have a good one

Originally Posted by Hutch

No it's not. You're comparing two pre-built systems - the whole point of PCs is that you can build and/or upgrade them yourself - lots of people save themselves huge amounts of money by rolling their own (a job anyone could do these days). For instance my PC is a Quadcore Q6600 with 4Gb of Kingston DDR2-667 RAM, an Nvidia 8800GT graphics card and an Asus P5K-VM motherboard (built-in 7.1 surround sound etc).

Closest equivalent to that is a Mac Pro - which Apple will sell to me for $2949. However my PC, cost me the grand total of $810. My 24" MAG display (every bit as good as Apple's) cost $410 - Apple would charge me $899 for a 23" model. Oh - and those are the prices are in USD from the supposely cheap US Apple store. Same PC, same spec from the Australian Apple store is $4219AUD. For that money I could build two PCs that would leave any Mac Pro in the dust performance-wise.

Incidentally - I'm currently running OSX on my PC as I type.