Negativity? Trolling? Truth?

I'm back!

Meaning, I've made the switch back... to PC (for the time being).

I am currently just using a laptop on loan from a client, and downgraded to Photoshop 6, but I am amazed at how much faster it runs than CS ran on my iBook! And not just photoshop... everything works at the instant I click it. Not more waiting for the mail to open, or that new browser tab to appear.

Although I can't count on having this loan compupter for long, and am reluctant to get too settled in, I have been looking at PCs and find some which seem to be very comparable (I can't really say for sure that they are better) than the new MacBook, but I am dang sure that the apps I use the most (Photoshop, email, Firefox, and text-editor) will work faster on the PC. For one thing, from what I read, Photoshop, which already runs unbelievably slow on my iBook, would be even slower on the new MacBook. Mail, which I was never happy with is slower than Outlook (I see that already when comparing my work mail on PC to my personal mail on Mac. And as for text editing, UltraEdit has long kicked BBEdits arse. I kinda forgot about it for a while until I started using Windows again for work.

I'm pretty excited about it. But strangly I am still not convinved that I should buy a PC - mainly because the MacBook can run Windows wich would make it possible for me to have Mac in the bacground for the rare time I have to test somethin on a Mac browser (as if any clients or clients' clients actually used Mac).

Of course then there is the issue of using Mac hardware which has, in my experience, proven to be much less reliable than my old 2001 Dynabook (which would still be workable if I had not somehow cracked the screen - as oppsed to the iBook screen which crapped out because it was cracked inside and scotch-taped together before I got it. But the MacBook is a newer Mac, so maybe they got better...