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coke or pepsi mcdonald's or burger king subway or starvation classic debates

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such as these are not just the domain of the food industry as today we're going

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to cover the age-old question right here on techwiki

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pc or mac it can be difficult to get an objective

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answer this question given how much passion die hards on each side of the

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equation have and how quick some of them can be to attack the other as a clearly

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inferior platform so let's look at how these two options actually differ it

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turns out that once you get past the differing operating systems much of the

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underlying hardware is more or less the same between pcs and macs at least for

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now most macs in the wild use x86 based cpus just as most pcs do and there's

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typically nothing too special or mac specific about other parts like RAM or

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storage either indeed some enthusiasts have even built their own computers and

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found a way to run macOS on them although apple discourages people

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building these hackintoshes which you can learn more about here the fact that

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many folks have gotten macOS to run on off-the-shelf hardware punctuates how

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similar the platforms are from a hardware perspective so why all the

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fighting between pc and mac inheritance and ah

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a main point of contention is the significantly different ecosystems that

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you're buying into pc fans think of their side as

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inherently more free and open and american just joking about the last part

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and to be fair there is some truth to that from both a hardware and software

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perspective a standard pc especially a home built one is compatible with nearly

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any piece of expansion hardware out there provided you have the correct

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slots headers and ports on the other hand macs are notorious for being very

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restrictive with what you can upgrade many attempted hackintosh configurations

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for example simply don't work well because macos is quite finicky about

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hardware as far as software goes it's more of a mixed bag but recent

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developments have swung the pendulum in favor of pc as well if we're talking

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about being able to install what you want when you want although microsoft

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does have the microsoft store that tries to get you to use vetted apps with

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Windows 10 it's still a non-issue to simply download whatever program you

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want and run it to your heart's content and of course there's nothing stopping

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you from using an alternative operating system like Linux either macs have more

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of an uncertain future on this front although they don't have the same

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restrictions on what you can install as iOS devices the elephant of the room is

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what's going to happen with the new apple silicon lineup including the

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recent m1 chip we give more details on it up here but it's a non-x86 ARM-based

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chip going into the newest model macbooks and mac minis and apple appears

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to have plans to put them into desktop imacs as well because most desktop

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computer programs are written for x86 many developers may not want to bother

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trying to write for the m1 except for those that have large install bases on

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macs already and don't even get me started on how hard it is to game on a

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mac already so while apple may not actively restrict non-app store programs

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the company may have shrank a software universe that was already quite a bit

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smaller than what's available on the pc even further it looks like you might not

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even be able to run bootcamp on an m1 system which allows you to dual boot

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macos and Windows on a single mac for example but that doesn't mean going with

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pc is a no-brainer apple has a large following for a reason and while yes

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part of that is because apple's marketing has successfully positioned it

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as a lifestyle brand their ecosystem has a reputation for simplicity and

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functionality and design and again there's some truth to all this as well

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although you can only get a bonafide mac in a very limited set of hardware

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configurations the positive is that macOS is tightly integrated with the

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hardware that apple offers with the result being that macs tend to be a

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little more stable and if you do run into a problem it's often easier for the

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end user or apple to troubleshoot it rather than trying to work through the

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bazillion possible hardware combos in a pc isolate which component is causing

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the problem and then try random solutions that may or may not work

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imagine we didn't have stack overflow and apple's tight control over its own

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ecosystem means macs also have a reputation for being more secure

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although the cynical take is that that's simply because not as many people use

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max and not as much malware as written for them in reality both are true but we

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want to be clear about something max can and do crash and they do get malware

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infections your overall odds are just a little lower than they are

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on a Windows based pc but that extra bump in security and stability is enough

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to convince many people to pay a premium for apple products although part of the

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added cost is a brand tax it still makes the mac an attractive option for folks

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that want a machine for simpler tasks and that just plain work or for creative

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types like photographers musicians or video editors that apple actively

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targets by the way that need the extra processing power in a package they feel

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is less likely to crash during the middle of an important project so our

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answer for which one you should go for depends completely on what you want to

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use your machine for how much you prioritize customizability over a one

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size fits all ecosystem and whether you want the supposed sex appeal of an apple

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product plus if you have enough money to even

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buy the cheapest apple product though i wouldn't count on your mad final cut

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