Macs were the first PC that were used by the Printing and photography professionals
and excell in these areas.
I use them, and sold them in the past as a publishing system sales specialist, the software is
excellent, professional, and expensive if you only want to wordprocess, email and social network using
the internet.
WINDOWS PCS I have a
Toshiba laptop and it is excellent, great specs on all of them - Toshiba only make laptops therefore
there good at it.
Also had
Packard Bell PC's and Laptops and they are great too.
HP and Hewlett Packard Printers are two different manufacturers.
Compaq are very unreliable in my opinion, and Dell are cheap because there not as good as the older, longer established
manufacturers and do not use the latest chips, modems and screen controls.
Its a bit like shoes, you get what you pay for - Amstrad PC's used to crash if you turned a kettle on in the next room
because they did not contain power fluctuation protection etc.
Sony are also excellent laptops too, but, dont go spending a lot on technology at the moment - theres a big new item coming soon.
TOUCH CONTROL SCREENS
Windows 7 technology can use Touch Screen technology now available on Blackberrys and the latest touch screen mobile phones and this will be standard on new pcs and laptops hopefully soon - Xerox invented this technology years ago, and I worked with them on this for printing machines and large volume photocopiers - hopefully it will be available to all of us.
My advice is to get something basic, but good quality that will runt Windows 7, and be compatible with the future technology
Everyone will have different experiences with manufacturers, its the 80/20 rule, 80 percent of your customers will usually be happy but there will always be 20% that have different expectations or experiences - thats life!
This is my experience and my opinion only, its your choice in the end - but hope this helps you
Happy Shopping

Snoopy