What Are The Plus Points Of A PC?

Apple has really raised the stakes in the past ten years, the release of the original iMac with its funky shape and bright colours made everyone sit up and pay attention to Apple again. The iPod rocketed Apple to fame again and made all their other products famous and imbued with that air of coolness. Although Apple is now a household name, they still lose out to MS massively in the business sector, PCs are a no brainer in this environment due to the cost.

Ask many people on the street which they prefer, Macs or PCs, and most will say Macs. Why? Because Mac’s are cool, Apple are defining the generation Y zeitgeist and making computer hardware sassy again. Windows PCs now have connotations with stuffy business types. In spite of Apple’s uber slick image and its obvious technical know how, a PC is simply a better choice for most home and office computing solutions.

Many Mac buyers, after unwrapping their shiny new machine, staring at it for hours, plugging it all and installing the hard drives, will get a surprise. Why? Because Macs have this software issue. Many staple applications that work fine on Windows will either not be available for Macs, or only available in a diluted, compromised form.

This realization somewhat takes the fun out of getting your new system when you ask yourself, what can I actually do with this? This is not to say that Apple products aren’t ready to use straight out the box, they most certainly, but because Apple programs are not used universally this can create problems.

There is a piece of software available that allows Macs to run with a Windows operating system, using all the usual PC components, but if you’re going to do this, why not just get a PC in the first place?