You can debate PC vs. Mac till the cows come home and
you'll never find a right or wrong answer, so I'm going to give you
some facts and let you make your own decisions. To give you a bit of a
background, I am both a Mac and a PC user and will give you an honest
opinion on the pros and cons of both.
Macs were designed with one
thing in mind - design work. They excel at graphic design, video
production, and even audio work. This was 30 years ago. Today they are
still just as good as they were for all of the above purposes. However,
that's the extent of what they can do. Until the switch from the IBM
Power PC processors to the new Intel based Macs, at least. Now they can
do more - if you take advantage of the Boot Camp feature and dual boot
Mac OSX with Windows XP. That opens up a whole new realm of
possibilities as the line between Mac and PC becomes less clear.
PCs
were designed with one thing in mind as well - business apps. PCs were
terrible at editing graphics, producing video, and editing audio. That
was also 30 years ago. With the video gaming industry constantly
pushing the limits of what PCs can do, PC engineers had to constantly
reinvent the wheel in order to keep up. The result is a machine that
can do everything the Mac can do and more. Not only is it possible to
run any program the Mac can run (they make Windows versions of all the
popular Mac software), but a PC also has the processing power to run
all of the most number-crunching intensive business applications as
well.