I use both mac and pc.  for software development and day to day operations i
tend to be on my pc more.  but i think that's just a matter of comfort and
longer use.

my suggestion is to go with whatever you are more familiar with and get busy
on the fastest.  at the end of the day i think it only matter that you can
get work done without getting completely frustrated with the machine you are
using. perhaps getting both?

as for the networking issues that some folks are raising...their is a
company here in Texas that makes several great products to make this easy.
www.thursby.com.  i use their product called "Dave" which makes my mac part
of my windows based network.  it was a snap to install and instantly made it
possible to share files and folder across the network.  I have found it
quite useful to take image files (of various sorts) from my graphics
designer and put them straight on the mac.  then access them from my pc
(across the network).  this eliminates 95% of the hassles normally
associated with cross platform sharing.

Gary Acord
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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:08 AM
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Subject: Re: Using Mac in museums


Good advice about one person's bad experience, since I've worked with
Dell machines for many years and are happy with them. As for ease of
use, that seems to depend largely these days on what system you're
brought up on--I find a Mac much harder to maneuver around on than a PC,
and the Mac people I work with find the opposite. (Of course, keep in
mind that Microsoft has "borrowed" many of the features that originally
made Macs more intuitive).

The greater software availability for PCs generally outweighs other
factors for me.

H. Newport wrote:

> I've been using Macs for a good 10 years.  Even my LCIII from 10 years ago
> works better that the piece of crap Dell PC I'm forced to use at work.
Talk
> about conflicts with applications.  My PC at work, which was purchased new
> less than a year ago, has some sort of conflict daily.
>
> Don't let one person's bad experience with a possibly defective machine
sway
> your opinion.


Art Harris
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Laboratory for Environmental Biology, Centennial Museum
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX  79968-0915
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