I think in years past one could make the argument that the Apple was a much superior product to the PC. Now However I don’t really think one can make that argument. PC’s are great machines and the latest Windows is very stable, I haven’t had it crash once in the last year or so I have been using it. Graphics, always a strong point of the Macs can be done just as well on the PC, although the majority of graphic design work is still done on the Macs.
In my opinion, the MAJORITY (notice I didn’t say every single Apple user) of people that purchase Apple that are consumer users do so because of the image. They want people to think of them as edgy and it lets them belong to a “club” of sorts.
When my sister recently purchased her Mac laptop I thought she was a moron. She doesn’t have a pot to piss in (although she is certainly trying, job market is tough so she is working at a $10 an hour job). I tried to convince her that a comparable PC laptop could be purchased for about $1200 less, but it fell on deaf ears. She just HAD to have a Mac, but she couldn’t give any good reasons.
Yeah, she went on about how Macs were better at graphics. So what, she doesn’t do anything with graphics.
She then said how much better the OS was. Well, Windows 7 is a fine operating system, perhaps in some people’s opinion not as good as the Apple OS, but certainly good enough for her internet browsing and emailing.
Then she went on about how PC’s are more prone to virus’s. So what, for less than $80 I can get a world class anti-virus software and I am smart enough not to do things that increase the chance of getting one. When I first started using a computer on the internet I got some viruses. I can’t recall getting one on my machine in the last 6 years or so. Seems like a flimsy excuse to spend and extra thousand dollars or so.
And then the Granddaddy arguments of them all. “Macs NEVER crash”. Funny, tell that to my friend Mike who is a proffesional graphic artist. Hate to tell you, Macs crash all the time. Especially if you are doing very very memory intensive tasks. It happens, no big deal. But don’t try to tell me that Macs are perfect machines that never do anything wrong. It is still a machine.
When all was said and done she bought the Mac because she wanted that little Apple logo on the case. She wanted to be in the “in” crowd. Her choice, that is okay. However, don’t complain about being broke, you would have had an extra $1200 if you had bought a PC.
