Is an apple better than a PC?

too many pros and cons for me to type so read this:

http://www.switched.com/2008/08/06/mac-vs-pc/

For style, Macs cannot be beaten. Macs have beautiful exteriors. The magnetic cords are pure genius. The internal hardware is identical that in Windows PCs. So all that crap about "Macs have superior hardware" is a bunch of hooey. Macs have the same interior hardware (hard drives, optical drives, processors) as Windows PCs.

Macs tend to use the highest screen resolution available for the screen size, and Mac OS X generally uses very high-resolution program icons, so when you do that mouseover magnification effect, you don't see pixelated icons.

In terms of features, Macs do all the basics that Linux and Windows PCs do. iPhoto manages your photos. Mail is your mail client. Safari is your browser until you replace it with a better one (Camino, Firefox, or Opera). iTunes manages your music. Just as with a Windows PC, you'll have to install an office suite, but there is a free one available--NeoOffice, which is the Mac-native version of OpenOffice.

Macs are not any easier to use than Windows PCs, but that doesn't really matter anyway, since "easy" is subjective, and people tend to get familiar with even difficult or counterintuitive tasks pretty quickly (how long did it take you to memorize the Control-Alt-Delete key combination or to go to the Start menu to "end" the computer or shut it down?). Several things in the Mac interface are very annoying, especially if you're used to the Windows interface:

1. The plus sign on windows does this thing called "zoom" (except in iTunes, where you'll transform the window into a "mini-player" and back again) instead of maximizing the window. Presumably, this changes the shape of the window to exactly fit its contents, except that in Finder's column view, you'll still get truncated filenames displayed... and if you change documents or webpages to something that requires another shape, you'll have to press the zoom button again to resize things.

2. There's no easy keyboard navigation for the top menu (no equivalent of Alt in Windows)

3. There is a universal toolbar at the top of the screen, which is another one of those "nice in theory" things, but it's annoying if you have a very large screen (say, an Apple Cinema Display or extended desktop), since the menu for applications will be far away from the windows for those same applications.

4. You can't cut and paste in Finder. Or you can but it's not intuitive. You have to look up how to do it.

Some advantages:

1. Mac OS X has a beautiful interface with very smooth animation.

2. Even though OS X has a point-and-click interface on the surface, underneath there is a sophisticated Unix-like filesystem hierarchy and a fully functional bash shell for terminal commands.

3. Software installation isn't as easy as Linux distros' package management, but drag and drop into the Applications folder (once you get used to it) is at least easier than the setup.exe-next-next-next-next-finish routine in Windows. Unfortunately, a few software packages for Mac OS X do make you jump through the installation wizard hoops.

4. If you buy into the whole Apple experience (and can afford it), it's nice how everything is guaranteed to work together (Apple TV, iPhone, Apple Airport Extreme, Macbook, Apple Cinema Display).

As for security, Macs aren't invincible. No operating system is invincible. If you're connected to the internet, there's always the possibility your computer can be compromised. Macs' security defaults are better than Windows'. Windows makes you administrator by default, which means if there's any kind of security breach, it immediately has access to the entire system. It also means security breaches are harder to clean up, as you can't just delete the compromised account--you have to reinstall the entire operating system. Windows also has more autorun features and integration between its web browser and the operating system (good, old Internet Explorer), not to mention that it hides file extensions by default (making it easier for malicious files to appear harmless).

You can secure Windows. Most people don't, though, because a secured Windows isn't very convenient to use (every tried administering your system using Run As from a limited user account?). So instead of securing Windows, they run useless "antivirus" software in the hopes that nothing bad will happen.

Antivirus software is flawed, though, as it is in a constant arms race against newer threats. If a new threat appears, your antivirus won't automatically have updated definitions to detect that threat or remove it. And if it tries to guess viruses instead by behavior, it ends up with a lot of false positives and makes people generally paranoid ("A tracking cookie? I have a tracking cookie? How do I get rid of it?").

The truth, though, is that the biggest security threat isn't the software. It's the user. Most users have no idea what's secure or insecure. They download software from all sorts of untrustworthy sources and then get al

apples are good but u have to pay way more for just look and name so if u wanna pay 3000 for a apple thats equal to a 2000 dollar pc be my guest also i dont like the setup its really annoying and hard to get used to and i've heard they freeze alot

Saw some MACs today in a computer store. I thought 'God, what awful looking things those are. What are they/' I was thinking. Then I saw They were MACs. No thanks. I will use a PC anyday. At least they look decent.

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