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Originally Posted by Omaroo
"For what they can do"? What does that mean? LOL! It's up to the availability of apps isn't it?
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That's part of it yes (for a long time Mac's were light years ahead of Windows for desktop publishing and WYSIWYG applications so many people used them for that). But Another aspect is that due to their often all-in-one type hardware design it is harder to add specific hardware for certain applications.
For example, I work at an electronics firm where we have several robotic production lines that require a computer with a custom controller card. The only computer that can utilise this card is a PC running either Windows or Linux (we run both). Now it has to be a PCI card because the system needs to run in real-time and communications over say USB or RS232 would be just too slow. Several embedded programming development tools we use here also only run on a Windows/Linux based PC as typically they have been the most common tools for that kind of work. Often virtual machines will not emulate hardware correctly or run too slowly for then to be useful. With the advent of USB, a lot of this is changing and many tools I've used now have Mac counterparts.
It's all good, I could care less what O/S I use and I've used a lot but if a system doesn't offer what I need then I have to use what will and for the majority of what I do Windows and Linux does it.
(Doesn't mean I don't occasionally drool over my friends MacBook *grin*)