While platform choices have definitely gotten a bit more cut and dried over the course of the past year and a half, it's still not an easy decision to make. You still have to consider how much the machine conforms to your concept of "ideal" when you purchase it, such as how easy it is to perform any upgrades you might want down the road (particularly hard drives, disc burners and memory), whether all the ports you need are present, and so on.
Until the day when we can seamlessly run any application on any computer, we'll still have friendly jabs from fanatical users every once in a while. That's just the gauntlet we run.
Charles Fulton is Videomaker's Associate Editor and one of the aforementioned dual-platform members of the Editorial team.
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