Hi daydreamer, I'm not sure that's something I want to get into. Everytime that kind of discussion comes up it turns into a war between myself and the Apple fanatics and the thread ends up getting closed and people get banned. I'll give it a quick shot though and hope for the best...when it comes to basic hardware, PCs and Macs use mostly the same Intel processors these days and similar other components. But that's about where it ends. There are many more options in the PC world, especially when it comes to motherboards, video cards, sound cards, TV tuners, Blu-ray players, etc... PCs have always offered users the ability to customize their systems to the level they need, whether it's basic office work or hard core gaming and other intensive work like graphic, audio and video processing. The fastest processors are only available on the PC platform and there is a much larger variety of system levels available. In the past Apple may have been the darling of the graphics world but that was more based on software availability than hardware power. These days, the same professional software is available on both platforms for the most part. Macs still do rule the desktop publishing area though.
What I don't like about Macs, and have never liked, is being locked into whatever Apple decides to make available. There is basically no choice in hardware components and you either buy what they offer or you don't. Being a tech, I like to build my own systems and modify them or upgrade them whenever I want, something that is impossible with a Mac. The variety of software available for PCs is also much more varied than on a Mac. I've also always been a gamer, something that until very recently was not really an option on a Mac and even now there is such a huge gap that it will never really be closed. Games that were available on PC 8 years ago are only now coming out on the Mac platform and the new games coming out will not run on Macs at all. For gamers there are only two real choices, a PC or a console.
When it comes to OSX.whatever, I still prefer Windows, especially Windows 7. I have never liked the Mac user interface and probably never will. That also comes down a lot to the control over the operating system that I have in Windows that I feel Mac OS lacks. A lot of that feeling may be based on my knowledge of Windows and lack of same when it comes to Mac OS. All I know is that in business, Windows rules the roost and most business software is written for Windows. And I earn my living supporting businesses and hence, supporting PCs. And with over 90% of the personal computing market, the money is in supporting PCs.
To make it short and sweet, I like having freedom of computing. I like having the system that I want to have, not the one that some company wants to sell me. I like to have the flexibility to build the system I want and need and upgrade it if and when I choose with the components I choose. That is impossible with the Mac platform. I've been in the computer business since before PCs or Macs existed and I've seen a lot of changes. The computers we have in our homes today are more powerful than the computers that put men on the moon. No matter what someone chooses to buy, PC or Mac, they'll get a powerful and high quality computer that few people will ever use anywhere near it's capacity.
There are two men to thank for where we are today in computing, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Without the competition between them, we would be nowhere near the level we are at today. I may not like his business practices or his draconian methods of control over his products, but Steve Jobs has been a driving force in the industry and I don't think anyone can ever replace him.
