Mac or PC?

After 40 years utilizing PC’s Dos thru XP PRO operating systems, I switched to MAC with mac os with 10.5 op system, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad -Core Intel Xeon processor, 32GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM with ECC. I turned my hobby of many years into 2 photography businesses when I was told I may be going blind in 2006. Today with no glasses I see the whole eye chart even the bottom dot below the last letter on the right of the eye chart. I went with MaC in Nov 2008 because I was told it was Industry standard. Please understand I use to program in assembler — think, I did not know the diff between a Mac store or an Apple store.. or what a dock was on the apple. For three months with this big desk top I fought many crashes and to many anomalies to mention here. Having a post grad in physics/chem, I tend to be a little analytical; and, after three months Apple replaced my MaC desktop and renewed my apple care for another 3 years.As of April 2010, I have all the latest versions of software ( I use to program my own on the PC ) of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Suite, LR, and NIK suite, Onone software, Aperture etc… I have found the transition from PC to MAC today is questionable. Although it is a powerful machine ( really a server in all reality ) it lacks support for some of the latest technologies and also some company like HP do not provide drivers for some peripheral equipment. Much Software programming has become sloppy because of cheap availability of memory. Why was no esata installed onto this machine ? Apple would not install, but Mac store would. Although a good machine, When I have 4 TB of internal drives and 12 TB of external drives filled with pictures… The question with digital-photography becomes what is the standard going to be for file format ? Color Profiles ? 5 years from now will your raw files be readable or your DVD be “worm-holed”. I just had an External drive fail — so what if it had a 5 year warranty on the drive ? — the data to recover costs 2500$ USA — Raid or no Raid ? Bubble technology memory ? Tape drives ? What about film negatives ? interesting eh ? Son-in-law is one of top 250 electrical design engineers for Intel; and, he uses a PC with latest intel pentium chip sets. AND he still has to contend with storage of “electronic ‘digital’ media ” . So it seems to me M-Soft has caught up with Mac; and, if you say you got an apple because it does not get “viruses and bugs ” — maybe linux running machine would be the better choice… but who is writing the drivers and software for those machines. As a contractor – builder -real estate broker for 30 years, now photographer, I say this… Some people read novels, some people read the funny papers ( do they still print them ? ) More people read the funny papers than novels. So the take is fewer people will have Linux based machines, fewer MAC and even fewer will have PCs– MONEY is the issue too. Storage of your digital files…. or recovery or preserving the same is just as big an issue with the high MP cameras today.I have more money in my MAC and software than I did my whole college education — so what did I learn ? ( not counting software or nikon cameras & lenses and other photographic equipment ) !!! I will be with MAC as I am getting use to it now; and, learning more about it, although I see some compromising.
AND I can run more than one operating system on MAC desktop machine if I so inclined to do so… But the life of these machines, is probably only 3 years before they are outdated with new technology, if one is trying and can afford to keep up with technology. Enjoy taking pictures and learn the “shortcuts” on the computer. Thanks Shane PhotoZoo.com and lynda, and NAPP etc…. great people trying to help people manage their way through these changing times of photography –