Mac and PC
Transcript: 1. Design: The Apple company has made the designs of their product one of the most important aspects to their name since 1984, with the first Macintosh. PCs on the other hand, are manufactured by hundreds of different manufacturers whom are only endorsed with another O.S (Operating System. 2. Price: It’s quite rare to find a Mac under the price range of $1,000. Though plenty of PC’s fall under even the $500 mark. 3.Technical Specifications: While the price of a PC may be lower than a Macs, some of the technical specifications may not be up to the “high-end” standard of Apples inventory. 4. Choice: Currently, Apple offers around five different lines of computers. PC though, come in a plethora of different shapes and sizes. Mainly due to the vast number of brands that are Windows and Linux based. Some popular brands include Dell, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway, and HP. All with different lines of PCs for a consumers choice. 5. Customer Satisfaction: One of the most noticeable differences between Mac and PC is customer satisfaction. With a number of 357 stores worldwide and growing, online support, and over the phone customer service, Apple has one of the leading Customer Service 6. Availability: When it comes to third-party retail stores, Apple is noticeably more selective than PC manufacturers. Although Apple has a growing number of retail stores, they still tend to build in large population centers. PC manufacturers on the other hand has a much greater availability rate with a different type of PC in every electronic store you can find. 7. Operating Systems: The Operating Systems between Mac and PC are the greatest difference that one would probably notice. Mac uses their self-made OS X software while PCs use licensed software such as Windows, and Linux. Though in the past, OS X software was regarded as the better of the two softwares. Windows has recently made tremendous upgrades to improve sluggish performance and other miscellaneous nuisances. Nowadays the choice between OS X and a PC based software leans more towards style preference. 8. Users: Apple has worked for a while now to create the image of Macs being the hip, and stylish thing to have, while portraying PC’s as old, nerdy and un-trending. Commercials such as these show what they were getting at. Although a bit stereotypical, there is a bit of truth to what they’re saying. 9. Software: Numerous amounts of software are specifically made for PC based operating systems. Business programs and a handful of games are PC exclusive which make the differences between Mac and PC a little hard get over sometimes.1 10. Security: Another big difference between Mac and PC is the level of security you can expect from viruses and other unwanted intrusions. Because the vast majority of the world's computers run Microsoft Windows, most attacks focus on PCs. Malware like Trojans, which trick users into installing them by pretending to be something desirable, like antivirus programs, and botnets, which quietly enlist computers into an army of zombie machines designed to distribute spam or advertise fraud, are now common threats to PCs, but rarely harm Macs. A personal computer (PC) is a microcomputer designed for use by one person at a time. Prior to the PC, computers were designed for (and only affordable by) companies who attached terminals for multiple users to a single large computer whose resources were shared among all users. The term "PC" has been traditionally used to describe an "IBM-compatible" personal computer in contradistinction to an Apple Macintosh computer. Top Ten Differences Differences Between PC and Mac Now The Question Arises Which One Are YOU? By: James Vernon Some main differences between Mac and PC are: Security Customer Service OS Price Design What’s A PC?? Sources What’s A Mac?? http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/personal-computer-PC http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Macintosh_computer.html Apple. "Apple Introduces Boot Camp." April 5, 2006. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/04/05Apple-Introduces-Boot-Camp.html Apple. "Apple Retail Store." 2011. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.apple.com/retail/storelist/ Apple. "Apple to Open 25 Retail Stores in 2001." May 15, 2001. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/05/15Apple-to-Open-25-Retail-Stores-in-2001.html Arthur, Charles. "Apple Computer Sales Grow Faster Than PC Sales for Five Years--But Why?" The Guardian. May 24, 2011. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/24/apple-sales-growth-pc-market Bertolucci, Jeff. "2010 Reliability and Service Survey: Desktops." PCWorld. Nov. 28, 2010. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.pcworld.com/article/211081/2010_reliability_and_service_survey_desktops.html Bertolucci, Jeff. "Reliability and Service: Laptops." PCWorld. Nov. 28, 2010. (Aug. 19, 2011) http://www.pcworld.com/article/211402/reliability_and_service_laptops.html Bloomberg Businessweek. "Who is Jonathan Ive?" Sept. 25, 2006. (Aug. 19, 2011)
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