Mac or PC - Computer Advice Requested, Please!

Can't decide right now which is slower my home computer or my work computer.
Actually the home one - which is a dell PC - Inspirion 6000 lap-top and over 5 years old. Time to get a new one, which I hate doing - because, decisions, decisions. Guy at work told me - it all depends on how much money you want to spend. Mac's are great because no one has figured out how to design spam or spyware that can infect a Mac. But they are more expensive. Dell's depending on bandwidth and gigbytes can run between $1000-2000.

Anyhow please take poll below:

[Poll #1610569]

A second question - for the comments, please advise as to what kind of Mac or PC - would be best. My needs aren't fancy. Just want to be able to download music, occassionally vids, post photos, write, save book length documents to Kindle, along with my own written book length docs, do financial spreadsheets, net surf and blog to my heart's content.

Currently own a Dell. Am considering buying a MAC - but no clue what would be best. Also currently own an Epson Printer - which isn't the best.

Advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[ETA two hours later: Did a little research online, because poll results to date suprised me, and discovered difference between Dell PC and Mac Pro is mostly hardware and operating system. If you prefer OS/X then definitely Mac Pro. If you've never used anything but Windows - might want to stay with Windows. Mac Pro can do both Windows and OS/X and can load Windows operating systems. Windows has upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, finally, so isn't as nutty. Dell has better hardware apparently - 4GB at cheaper price to 2GB. Also more memory and more RAM (suprised me, thought it was the opposite.). Warranty is cheaper on Dell. And you can get a larger screen for a better price. (Note: if I get a PC it will be a DELL not another brand, only other brand would consider for PC is Hewlett Packard.) So...still on the fence.]

General Fandom Questions (and sigh, more on computer decision making)

The poll that I did at lunch regarding which computer I should buy - a Mac or a PC is in a dead-heat. Five to Five (not Five by Five...unfortunately, and only Buffy fans will get that joke.) And it reflects perfectly how I feel about getting a new computer - I honestly don't know which would be the better choice. ( frustration over choosing a computer )

Fandom related Questions:

1. Question for the Whedon fandom - assuming there are still Whedon fans on my flist? Do you think that Whedon resented Angel and Spike? That he truly intended Buffy to be a black and white universe where vampires represented disease and sickness and evils of immortality and nothing else? That the network and David Greenwalt are the sole reasons we got Angel the series and Spike for more than four episodes? And if it weren't for their considerable popularity - they would have been staked as originally planned? Finally - how do you know what the writer was thinking? Are we merely speculating based on assorted comments from actors (because we all know how reliable they are) or interviews with the writer and/or writers themselves? And to what degree is this information even reliable? Can we ever know? [I don't think so personally, but am curious what others think.]

2. This is a more General Question - that relates to both fandoms and well just anything that makes you want to rant on your blog - but is decidedly of the cultural persuasion and not, about politics, your co-worker, or your commute (because we all know why people rant about that. To rant is human.) By cultural persuasion - I mean music, art, books, tv shows, theater,
film...fictional characters and/or stories and their associated fans.

What turns you off? Really makes you decide - okay I'm done - I don't like this writer any more or don't like that character or can't stand that fictional relationship or
that tv show? Is it something you can pin-point or just a gut reaction? Do you know? Can you really explain it? Or better yet - do you even want to explain it? And what will make you want to scream at an innocent fan shipping or loving or adoring that character, relationship or tv show? Is it how they are shipping it or loving it? The mere fact that they are loving it? Or the reasons they've expressed for loving it? (I'd say why they are loving it - but I don't believe we can know that - unless people tell us and even then, I've seen people online completely misread the explanations given.) Do you know why it pisses you off?

What I'm really curious about - I guess - is what motivates us to dogmatically launch into a full-scale attack or rant on a fictional (relation)ship, character, or fan response to it. Sort of the opposite of the squee post. What motivates the rant post? Because let's face it - rant posts are more likely to back-fire and cause us pain. (Who here has defriended someone, banned someone, or been defriended as the direct result of a rant post they did? Show of hands? Oh come on, I can't be the only one, at least I hope I'm not the only because, ahem, that would be embarrassing.) So we have to be pretty motivated to launch into one, right? What motivates us to do it?

[I know those are complicated questions. Hoping people will respond, because I don't really know the answers myself. You can either answer in the comments or in your own blog - if your own blog - please provide a link so I can read it. ]

Two things that made me laugh today...or that are in the category of things that make you go huh?

1. Courtesy of flist (which was posting all sorts of funny things today)

Syfy has greenlighted a pilot that puts a spin on the traditional superhero genre

The network has ordered a 90-minute pilot, "Three Inches," from Fox Television Studios, writer Harley Peyton ("Twin Peaks") and executive producer Bob Cooper. It centers on an underachiever who gains the power to move any object using his mind, but only for a distance of three inches. He recruits a team of fellow heroes, each with their own less-than-spectacular abilities.

" 'Three Inches' is a fun, smart, offbeat spin on the superhero genre," Syfy executive vp development Mark Stern said. "It's a very postmodern approach, with a really wonderful, tongue-in-cheek script."

Added David Madden, executive vp at Fox TV Studios, "We felt there was something special and particularly twisted about this script, both in tone and in its sense of imagination."

The network hopes to at least pick up one of its two pilots. The other, "Alphas," also is about a team with superpowers. [Hey always good to have a back-up. Besides if ABC can do it with No Ordinary Family....]

This apparently is not a joke. Three Inches is the new pilot that James Marsters is doing, he's starring as the mentor figure. The concept just sounds like a complete satire on the whole super-hero genre, and a fairly witty one at that. But, often concepts can be funnier than the actual show.

2. Co-worker described how he had to re-carpet his mother's garage. Yes, you read that right.
Apparently his father was such a neat freak - he felt the need to carpet the garage. The car does go in the garage still - it just has a mat under the engine. And I thought seeing a 42 inch LSD tv screen in someone's garage in Maine was odd.