I occasionally post articles about why you should consider owning a Macintosh. For the record, I have only found three groups of computer users who are better off without Macs: animators, architects, and video game afficionados. The first two groups are certainly taking second glances now that the G5 has reared its head and is kicking serious benchmarking ass. The gamers are still happy building their own machines and tricking them out like Hot Rods, so they'll never be won over to the Mac side. They'll also never get laid.

But to the rest of you, if you need to buy a computer, save up. A Mac may cost more than that $299 piece-of-poo eMachine you're spying (as soon as you add up all the amenities required to run it, you could have purchased an eMac), but you'll save time and money not having to put up with Microsoft's shoddy software.

Case in point: Why students should learn Windows and not Macs -- so they learn that life sucks.