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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, July 31, 2003

More on switching
See, the mainstream tech press does get it occassionally. In the Mercury News, we get advice on when (or if) to switch to the Mac, and this actually does make sense. "I should admit a slight bias. I use a Mac at home. I'm not a Mac zealot, however," Jon Fortt writes. "Over the past three years I have recommended and configured two Dell computers for my parents, because for the money, a Mac didn't fit their needs." While noting that Macs handle managing music, video, photos and wireless networks with aplomb, Fortt honestly and correctly admits that Macs are very much specialty machines, and not good for running games or Windows applications. What I really like, because he's right and Mac pundits will hate him for it, is that Fortt says that you should consider a Mac only if style is very important to you, you don't mind spending a lot of money, and you're into digital media. Conversely, you should skip the Mac if you want to save money, run the latest 3D games, or have a collection of Windows software you want to run. Yep, it's common sense. Yep, the Mac community will rake him over the coals for it too. But you know what? He's a Mac guy. So there's no built-in bias.

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