Originally Posted by Mr.tyro So why is a mac so good for designers?

They're not. It's a marketing scheme, but so few people seem to be able to grasp that. What you do if you have a product but were up against a huge, established company, is focus in on a niché. Once you have a cult following, the long-term marketing plan will have outlined the possible occurrence of individuals blindly preaching how good Macs are, and thus sucking in a wider audience without any direct advertising.

It's very clever, but a very old method of marketing. It has always worked though, and it will always work for as long as people do not understand how products are not marketed for our needs any longer, but rather to our desires -- with the form in effect, many millionaires and billionaires would still be claiming Government benefits.