Get a PC. You'll feel better.
When you want to pay nearly twice as much for the same functionality to gain membership into a pretentious club of uninformed users who through their own ignorance feel superiority and a connection to a dead founder of a company that tricked the Mac culture into believing they aren't wearing hand cuffs.
It makes sense to get a Mac if you need to run software that isn't available for Windows. Otherwise, Windows offers machines that can beat Macs in whatever area you are interested in. The cheapest machines are Windows and so are the most expensive. You can get Windows machines that are faster, lighter, have more…
When You Shouldn't Get a Mac
Always.
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