Whoops. May have just angered someone at Bit-Tech. I dared to suggest than when pricing up a new PC the Bit-Tech enthusiast PC + Dell U2711 + rest of PC components costs the same as my new iMac (hence why I bought the iMac and didnt build a new PC) and is largely for the most part the same spec. How very dare I!!

What did you expect?

Common sense. An understanding of a machine meeting a persons specifications. A realisation that I'm not a raging Apple fanboy and made my purchasing decision based on cost versus performance and found a Mac does and can compete with a self build.

I guess it's too much to ask.

The general consensus is that because I didnt build my PC then I bought an overpriced toy for people who like shiny things and cant possibly know anything about PCs or be anything other than a basic 'user'.

Just got my Custompc magazine and it's got smaller so now I have a step down in my collection on the shelf...

Plus when you get older you need bigger not smaller....

*nods*

To a PC user / Gamer there is nothing worse than a mac user. You will always get the same response I'm afraid. Only mac users take macs seriously

Now pull up a chair and have a cuppa and don't worry it.

Think last months was the same but forgot to read it so didn’t notice, think it's time to knock the mag on the head.

Not true. I take Macs seriously. But the majority of the BT crowd game, so a Mac is no good. Also, the vast majority of the BT crowd ENJOY building their own machines - me included. So even a prebuilt PC would be frowned upon.

Just so there's no confusion I was responding to a news piece on iMacs over there. I wasn't randomly trolling the BT guys.

See - they all take it so personally!

Why the [LIFTED] can't people just let sleeping dogs lie?

If it's a product you want, go nuts. If it's not for you, get something else. Where's the need to go ranting about why you're not going with any given company?

But then I own and quite enjoy using both, which clearly means I'm in line for a pre-frontal lobotomy any day now.

Where's the fun in that?

That's bollox, I'm a PC user/gamer and I've used Macs, quite like them TBH and they were certainly fit for the purposes I needed them for.

I think you're referring to tw@s Caz, but they can be found in both camps.

PC user. Found every time I used a mac, they'd break down. My boss used to say I carried "static" and that's what caused it. Never had issues with Windows machines in the same way.

I'm just lazy. I know how to use Windows and it does everything I want.
Mac would mean learning a whole new OS, and most of my games wouldn't work.

Actually a mac is remarkably easy to learn. Even with my amnesia I was able to transition to OSX.