My god these arguments are so OLD OLD OLD and TIRED TIRED TIRED. I have heard these arguments 1000 times! If you are going to waste your time coming in here and provoking responses from Mac fans, you might as well come up with some better arguments, no?
If these are honestly the best arguments you can come up with:
- you can get a two button (or more) mouse from Walmart and plug it in to your Mac. Both buttons will work. You're out $20 or whatever for the cost of the mouse. So glad we've covered this.
- 2 ghz overclocked Athlon blah blah blah means NOTHING to the average consumer, nor should it. We are at the point in computing where the faster computer doesn't make a whole lot of difference to the average user's workflow like it did several years ago. HD, RAM, Mhz specs are all pretty much superflous stats these days for most people.
For the people who *need* powerful computers like these, they will research the computer best for them and purchase one which will best justify their expense. For a business this is simply trading one asset for another. Computers are tools, Macs will be bought if they make sense to the consumer/business.
A price difference based on specs like Mhz alone in and of itself should not deter you from getting a Mac. If you want one, buy one. You are not some brilliant consumer if you buy a PC over a Mac because it is 300 Mhz faster (or whatever) and $200 (or whatever) less. You are not getting better "value for your money" because they are completely different computers! Am I getting better value for my money when I buy an orange from the grocery store that is priced cheaper than an Apple?.... hmmmm... that orange is so much more valuable than that "silly Apple". I'm brilliant.
There is some software that Macs won't run and some hardware with no drivers available, but don't waste your time parroting what other people have told you unless you want to talk specifics. Otherwise.... *yawn*..... too much work to finish this sentence.
Re: your PC never breaking down. Emperical evidence is a very limited foundation for basing an opinion like this. All computers break down. Apple has a slight advantage due to the vertical intergration between their software and hardware. Applecare is an extended warranty program.
Yes, there is a larger number of breakdowns of PCs because there is a larger number of PCs in the market. Computers break down. Why not look at the *causes* of these problems?
Personally, I'm pretty tired of spyware, viruses, security patches... more security patches, an intrusive paperclip thing telling me to sign up for .Net and win a free Dodge Stratus, the usual sorts of PC problems. Of course, Macs are not without their problems too, I just find the problems Macs are faced with to be less annoying and the company less annoying.
Save us the argument about how there is more spyware and viruses and security problems because there are more PC users. While this is certainly an important factor, most Unix security faults are things like buffer overrun errors and non-severe bugs and stuff which can pretty easily be dealt with from my understanding.
The whole Outlook/virus thing was a fundimental flaw, the whole registry thing is a fundimental flaw (in my opinion), Windows is a fundimental flaw. I'm no security expert, but all of these security exploits just seem like one rerun after another.
What you could use for a good argument though is calling me on how I just wasted my time with this lengthy reply.
Riiight... I'd like to think of Apple as the company who produces clown cars for circuses 
