The overall quality would be much higher on a Mac, but they obviously have the odd glitch too. And the odd Friday machine, I'm sure.
The issue of the hard drives / IDE interfaces would exist on a Mac too. I had this problem in 2003 and had to buy a firewire enclosure to hold my old drive. Apple are more ruthless in ditching the old. Floppy drives went in 1999. Older serial ports were ditched in favour of USB around the same time. SCSI ditched for those ATA drives too.
DVI got switched to (the marvellously tidy) ADC and then back to DVI again, so expensive adapters may be needed to use old-ish Apple displays (like mine) with new machines (a problem I could handle).
I think not checking for firewire was a little odd, but most out-of-the-box consumers wouldn't be checking this and would find that their camcorders had nowhere to plug in. I'd have thought video was a pretty important application for a lot of users (after mail and net porn, admittedly), so to exclude it from such a machine, while not a surprise, still sucks.
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Drives would be an issue ona Mac too
The overall quality would be much higher on a Mac, but they obviously have the odd glitch too. And the odd Friday machine, I'm sure.
The issue of the hard drives / IDE interfaces would exist on a Mac too. I had this problem in 2003 and had to buy a firewire enclosure to hold my old drive. Apple are more ruthless in ditching the old. Floppy drives went in 1999. Older serial ports were ditched in favour of USB around the same time. SCSI ditched for those ATA drives too.
DVI got switched to (the marvellously tidy) ADC and then back to DVI again, so expensive adapters may be needed to use old-ish Apple displays (like mine) with new machines (a problem I could handle).
I think not checking for firewire was a little odd, but most out-of-the-box consumers wouldn't be checking this and would find that their camcorders had nowhere to plug in. I'd have thought video was a pretty important application for a lot of users (after mail and net porn, admittedly), so to exclude it from such a machine, while not a surprise, still sucks.