Wednesday, August 6, 2008
We're talking Apple vs. PC here! ;-)
This is an interesting blog post from the Houston Chronicle's Tech Editor on the price difference between the two systems.
But eWeek's Joe Wilcox says that, while he wasn't looking, that has changed. Windows-based computers -- and particularly notebooks -- are now much more powerful than Macs, and a lot cheaper. He thinks Apple not only must lower prices, but is actually planning on it.
If Apple lowers prices, that's good for everyone. Apple has always been too rich for my blood. The aforementioned post sums it up nicely ...
Of course, Mac fans will tell you -- ad nauseum -- that Apple computers have other benefits, ranging from better reliability and stability, to great service and support, to fewer hassles with security malware. There's also the fact that Macs can also run Windows, but the reverse isn't true (unless you're willing do some hacking and violate some EULAs). But then, when your budget is the bottom line, those secondary benefits become, well, secondary . . .
One of these days I'd like to own an Apple (besides my iPod), until then I'm happy with my PC. I find that people who have the most problems with PCs are generally the type of people who are relatively clueless about how to maintain them in the first place. (With that said, I'm fully expecting mine to crash now.)
For all the geek chic that powers the "choose Mac" crowd, you've hit on my reason for joy over our having made the switch -- the idea that your PC won't crash (as often?) if you maintain it well.
I don't want to spend as much time crossing every technological T to make sure my computer works as I do actually using my computer. I don't want to have to be a computer nerd to keep my machine from blue-screening me to death.
How about just making a computer that works?
That's why I'm glad we made the switch to Mac.