mac advice

[orbitalpunk]

well it seems im gonna return the mac. ugh, this is the second time ive been in this situation. I bought a G5 a year ago and its computing power was unacceptable with my 3D work. Now its Photoshop. Since it using Rosetta, its just so slow. And since adobe wont be releasing a universal binary for photoshop until the end of 2006, its just not worth it. One other thing that really bothered me and might prevent me from ever trying Mac again was the pushing of buying products. This really bugs me. Places this occurs is every single time i open iWeb it offers me to sign up for .mac. A $99 a year service. Also I cant use iChat unless i have a .mac account. And yes, i could use a jabber account like google talk with it, but it was still a disappointment. Also you need a .mac account for photocasting in iWeb. Another place was in Garage Band under the Garage Band menu title "shop for garage band products. I dont need to see that every time i go to that menu. Most companies have this on there online store. Not embedded always in there app. Anyways, I really dont mean to just bash apple. Yes im a long time windows user but i consider myself a computer enthusiast no matter what maker it is and am always looking for a better solution to things. Maybe ill give it ago in a year when the desktops are out and all apps are in universal binary. But if apple incorporates more products to buy in there OS, its a deal killer for sure. I dont need commercials in my OS. a great artist by the name a Banksy said "commercials are like rocks being thrown at your brain". Sure feels that way to. Thank god for Tivo.