"Commonality..." Mediocrity.

"the average person,..."   I don't think that would be the average Vue user (see mediocrity above)?

"So I stick with PCs..." Like...flypaper? (Let's see, My Commodore CBM 80, Vic-20, C-64, Amiga 1000 and 2000, dozens of PCs -- many self-built, 2 Quad-cores, 4 PC laptops, and one Shuttle [presently building quad-core]). Damn me for voicing the excellent quality of one lone Mac! I should be ashamed of myself for not sticking, as if a Windows hood ornament, to a cheap steel box!

"Can't play most games on MACs. WHy have consoles when most games are better on PCs?" Game makers are leaving the PC market in droves -- to game consoles -- sorry (BTW, with a 35 second boot I can play my PC games).

"So, think of Joe Public, guys, when you are fighting.." Who's fighting, and who is this "Joe Public? (see "commonality", and "the average person"  above).

This lone Mac of mine will likely last me until many PC owners have either tossed their Windows PCs into the recycle bin, or through their window -- which ever comes first. In fact, I'm sure I will be one of them (hopefully, it will be the recycle bin).

Here is the unadorned, unvarnished truth. Before I purchased my 8-core Mac, I had tried to figure out a (1) Dell 8-core build (but it didn't have the more advanced Xeon, yet cost more), and (2) HP...same problem as the Dell. (3). So I went to Newegg and created a list of components. Alas, I could built a PC equal to the Mac Pro, at almost the same price! But then this mysterious logic hit me!  All these parts, put them together and cross my fingers, and then all those separate, individual component warranties to worry about, along with trouble shooting to verify just what might have failed. Bad idea! So, I got a new Mac Pro 8-core for ~ $2600.00.

It is the finest PC I've ever owned, and runs Windows better than any PC that I presently own!

Enough said, but now I know why graphics pros prefer Macs. Commonality, the average person, and Joe public can live in mediocrity all their lives as far as I'm concerned.