Ah yes... so many posts about how macs are better for graphics. This was true about 10 years ago and the reputation has stuck. However their performance and ease has not. PC's are much more widely used in graphics processing today.

Will you get laughed at for useing a PC if you walk into a graphics design shop? Sure, they'll laugh only to mock the way that people think that the Mac people would laugh at you. Mac's are pretty and have more eye candy. They can do pretty much the same things that pc's/windows do... just have some fancy buttons and diffrent wording for the same features.

I'm for PC's... in case you can't tell. I used to go around to local schools and clean/fix computers. Most schools would have at least one "lab" for each type of computer. Typical lines would be "the mac lab is all broken again" ... "the pc lab? they never crash! what's wrong with the mac's?" ... "we need to replace the mac lab with more pc's". Granted they were used by grade school/high school students all day. But it was mostly the Mac's that had problems.

Mac's are EXPENSIVE!!! Flashback again to when I was working at schools on pc's/mac's... a cdrom drive for a pc was about $80-100. Mac? $300-400. For slower drives... why? Cause they are SCSI and apple can charge what they want... you have no choice. (schools had special contracts)

Ease of use? That's an opinion. I think Windows is easier than OS 9 or OS X. There are plenty that would argue otherwise.

Macs USED TO BE the bomb for graphics. PC's have surpassed them a couple years ago, but the MAC/Graphics reputation has stuck. Unfortunatly.