coke or pepsi mcdonald's or burger king subway or starvation classic debates
such as these are not just the domain of the food industry as today we're going
to cover the age-old question right here on techwiki
pc or mac it can be difficult to get an objective
answer this question given how much passion die hards on each side of the
equation have and how quick some of them can be to attack the other as a clearly
inferior platform so let's look at how these two options actually differ it
turns out that once you get past the differing operating systems much of the
underlying hardware is more or less the same between pcs and macs at least for
now most macs in the wild use x86 based cpus just as most pcs do and there's
typically nothing too special or mac specific about other parts like RAM or
storage either indeed some enthusiasts have even built their own computers and
found a way to run macOS on them although apple discourages people
building these hackintoshes which you can learn more about here the fact that
many folks have gotten macOS to run on off-the-shelf hardware punctuates how
similar the platforms are from a hardware perspective so why all the
fighting between pc and mac inheritance and ah
a main point of contention is the significantly different ecosystems that
you're buying into pc fans think of their side as
inherently more free and open and american just joking about the last part
and to be fair there is some truth to that from both a hardware and software
perspective a standard pc especially a home built one is compatible with nearly
any piece of expansion hardware out there provided you have the correct
slots headers and ports on the other hand macs are notorious for being very
restrictive with what you can upgrade many attempted hackintosh configurations
for example simply don't work well because macos is quite finicky about
hardware as far as software goes it's more of a mixed bag but recent
developments have swung the pendulum in favor of pc as well if we're talking
about being able to install what you want when you want although microsoft
does have the microsoft store that tries to get you to use vetted apps with
Windows 10 it's still a non-issue to simply download whatever program you
want and run it to your heart's content and of course there's nothing stopping
you from using an alternative operating system like Linux either macs have more
of an uncertain future on this front although they don't have the same
restrictions on what you can install as iOS devices the elephant of the room is
what's going to happen with the new apple silicon lineup including the
recent m1 chip we give more details on it up here but it's a non-x86 ARM-based
chip going into the newest model macbooks and mac minis and apple appears
to have plans to put them into desktop imacs as well because most desktop
computer programs are written for x86 many developers may not want to bother
trying to write for the m1 except for those that have large install bases on
macs already and don't even get me started on how hard it is to game on a
mac already so while apple may not actively restrict non-app store programs
the company may have shrank a software universe that was already quite a bit
smaller than what's available on the pc even further it looks like you might not
even be able to run bootcamp on an m1 system which allows you to dual boot
macos and Windows on a single mac for example but that doesn't mean going with
pc is a no-brainer apple has a large following for a reason and while yes
part of that is because apple's marketing has successfully positioned it
as a lifestyle brand their ecosystem has a reputation for simplicity and
functionality and design and again there's some truth to all this as well
although you can only get a bonafide mac in a very limited set of hardware
configurations the positive is that macOS is tightly integrated with the
hardware that apple offers with the result being that macs tend to be a
little more stable and if you do run into a problem it's often easier for the
end user or apple to troubleshoot it rather than trying to work through the
bazillion possible hardware combos in a pc isolate which component is causing
the problem and then try random solutions that may or may not work
imagine we didn't have stack overflow and apple's tight control over its own
ecosystem means macs also have a reputation for being more secure
although the cynical take is that that's simply because not as many people use
max and not as much malware as written for them in reality both are true but we
want to be clear about something max can and do crash and they do get malware
infections your overall odds are just a little lower than they are
on a Windows based pc but that extra bump in security and stability is enough
to convince many people to pay a premium for apple products although part of the
added cost is a brand tax it still makes the mac an attractive option for folks
that want a machine for simpler tasks and that just plain work or for creative
types like photographers musicians or video editors that apple actively
targets by the way that need the extra processing power in a package they feel
is less likely to crash during the middle of an important project so our
answer for which one you should go for depends completely on what you want to
use your machine for how much you prioritize customizability over a one
size fits all ecosystem and whether you want the supposed sex appeal of an apple
product plus if you have enough money to even
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