Yes... Out of passing interest, I did a quick search for "what can Macs do that PCs can't", and it was mostly this sort of unquantifiable nonsense, taken and repeated almost verbatim from the various Mac ad campaigns. That, and 'well, they look very pretty!" - which is more or less the same logic my three-year-old daughter employed when choosing her Fisher Price faux-computer tat.

If Macs really do 'just work' - why are there forums devoted to their various errors, and why do they have a repairs department? Why does their marketing strategy seem to hang itself on being some kind of nerdy lifestyle choice, rather than telling you what the things can actually accomplish better than a cheaper, generic alternative?

I'm cheerfully ignorant of Macs, which was why I was asking an honest question on the matter, and I'm genuinely interested in finding a decent answer. I've never, ever had the vaguest hint of a problem getting a PC to do exactly what I wish it to do, and tend to lump complaints that other people can't as irrelevent PICNIC errors.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 1:52, Reply)