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Hey Eddy,
I'm a graphic/interactive designer myself, 7+years professional experience. I trained for 4 years on Mac OS9 then OSX so believe me I know what I'm talking about. PC's are far better machines on a dollar to performance ratio, Macs don't even come close. For less than half the price of a Mac Ican configure a beast of a machine that'll outperform and outlast any Mac at the same price point. Another fact: Adobe products (especially those acquired from Macromedia) are all optimized to run far better on PC's than Macs and have been for years. More recently, have you used 64-bit PSCS4? Windows only my friend, and NO BENCHMARKS on any Mac will even come close. I operate exclusively on PC's and can bang out design comps just as good as anyone on a Mac can. With Apple, you're paying for the brand, nothing more...they've just got a killer marketing team that over the years (and partly due to Microsoft's silence until recently) have brainwashed most of the less tech-savvy into thinking Apple=Nirvana.
Dylan, you're obviously NOT a power user and obviously have little to no experience with Windows Mobile. No one in their right mind would ever compare an iPhone to a Windows Mobile Professional device, feature for feature...it makes no sense. The iPhone is a fashion statement, a gimmick. I was one person hoping that the iPhone 3G would address the plethora of shortcomings on the iphone as I love the iPhone UI...and it didn't. From it's comparitively weak application set to good hardware hobbled by Apple's restricive licensing and software application, once you get past the fancy UI you cannot on any level compare an iPhone to a WinMo device. I've had 3 business partners take the iPhone plunge and return their units within months (okay,one gave his iPhone to his wife instead of return it) and get Blackberry (1 guy) and WinMobile (2 guys). Enterprise users would rather use a Blackberry or WinMo over an iPhone anyday. Techies (especially those in networking and tech-admin) would use a WinMobile device over an iPhone anyday.

Want to know what I did with my Kaiser (WinMobile) a week or so ago? Client called to say he needed a quick change to a button graphic on his website but I was not at my desk but in a hotel lobby. He emailed me the server info, I quickly fired up and downloaded the necessary files via Resco FTP, made the quick change using Pocket Artist 3 (good photoshop clone) and because I was having trouble reconnecting with the server I emailed him the necessary file to upload. From network admin to quickly editing a small website graphic, these are things a power-user uses his device for, not just pinching the screen to make it zoom in and out (and even THAT isn't an Apple innovation...the Safari browser's zoom feature set was first flawlessly impemented YEARS ago on a Windows Mobile browser: anyone remember Picsel?).
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"

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