They're both good classes if you're a lazy player. The question is, do you prefer to solo, duo and group or do you prefer to raid? If you're a lazy player in the first category, Mage is a great class. If you're big into raiding, however, Wizard is a better choice.
Speaking as someone who has both, I enjoy the Mage more. The Wizard is really just a very boring class if you aren't actively raiding. It's an excellent class for mobilizing allies and killing raid targets, but quite terrible for everything else. Druids are leaps and bounds more fun and useful than Wizards for everything except raid kills. If you're thinking you want to play a Wizard and aren't a hardcore raider I would strongly advise rolling a Druid instead.
The Mage is a lot of fun to play in groups. Low actions per minute make the class very relaxing, but you're still contributing a lot of DPS and some good utility. The Mage is also quite good at grinding out plat by brute force (i.e. killing guards, seafuries, giants, mass killing mid-level dungeons) but isn't a very capable dungeon soloer on the level of a Necro, Enchanter or Shaman. Even still, If you like to solo the Mage is superior to the Wizard in every way.
Overall, as an analogy, consider the Wizard an insufferable diva: undeniable talent in your limited niche, but if you aren't singing (blasting raid mobs or porting people to raids) no one really wants to be around you because people think you suck. On the other hand, consider the Mage as a talented and versatile karaoke singer: you're never really anyone's first choice ("Need DPS, Monk or Rogue pls"), but you can roll with pretty much anything (duo/trio like crazy) and people rarely leave disappointed when you're done ("Wow, I forgot how awesome CoTH is and how much DPS Mages can put out").
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