Reply To: Should I build a PC or pay too much for a new iMac

My 2 cents (I’m not an expert but have had to live with a PC for my design work for a while)
PCs slow down over time to a greater extent than a Mac – so unless you want to call on your son/friend to do your system admin I’d go Mac.
If the majority of your work is publishing via InDesign there is a benefit to having a PC as I discovered recently: Acrobat X1 Standard is on;y available to PC users. For whatever reason they have decided that Mac users can afford the $400 extra to buy the Pro version.
And LiveCycle (for proper PDF form work) is only available for PCs too which is a bit lame too.
Fonts: I bet that the fonts that were worth keeping would be fine on your Mac — you might have to lose some of those freebies you collected over the years but they weren’t really any good (I know form first hand experience when I rebuilt my library)
Scripts etc will probably be fin as they are .js right?
It’s a pretty even playing field but what does it for me is the lack of having to know a thing about ‘computers’ and still my Mac is virus free, as zippy as the day I bought it and hardly ever crashes and I’ve never had to call a guy to make it work/install/delete anything.