Before Apple switched to Intel processors, every component except for the motherboard and processor is interchangeable with the PC component. Now that apple has switched to Intel, you can even change the processor, as long as its an Intel Core Duo.
When you buy an Apple computer, your really just buying the right to use OS X on your PC. Some people have hacked the OS X to run on any PC, but that leaves no room for updates, without hacking the updates as well.
So technically, there really isn't a PC vs. Apple battle. It is just Mac OS X vs. Windows (XP, VISTA). And yes, Linux is better, which is why Mac OS X uses Linux as the core, with just a nice GUI on top.
I have spent 18 years enjoying Apple products, and in my spare time, fixing Windows based PC's. In that time, I have only had Hard Drive failure's on my Apple computer's. I have seen quite a few hard drive failures on Windows base computers as well. Hard drive's just fail after extended use, nothing more to it. Only other issue I have ever seen besides hard drives, is the Windows OS crashing. I have had to reinstall Windows OS (95, 98, XP) on many computers for my friends and family, mainly due to that infamous "Blue Screen of death." I also have removed numorous viruses, spyware, and other malicous code from the many Windows OS based computers, and many of them I had to do manually since no Anti-Virus could detect them.
This is why more and more people are choosing to switch to Apple computers. Their OS is just more reliable. It has nothing to do with the hardware, since the hardware is the same.
And for those of you who think that the MAC OS X system can't use any software, or use any upgrade, then you are wrong. Currently, there are 4 ways to use any Windows Software on a Mac. Dual Boot with XP, Two different ways of Emulating XP so no reboot required, Cross Over which allows you to install Windows software on the Mac itself, and there is a company that offers the use of any Windows software over VPN client. And as far as the Mac not being upagradeable, you can update anything, just some components are harder to get to. CompUSA can change out your hard drive or cd drive for $29.99, which makes things much easier.
Any BSOD I've ever had to deal with has involved a bad driver (99.9%) or bad hardware. Once I isolate which driver/hardware has caused it, it is a simple fix. If your answer to a BSOD is a reformat and reinstall, then I am not a bit surprised that you decided to take the Apple route. Clearly you do not understand Windows.
Now for an experiment. Take an nvidia Riva TNT 128 (or any other 10 year old video card) and install it in your Mac. Now I know you won't get a BSOD, but I will be infinitely surprised if your mac were to automatically download and install the necessary up to date drivers for it to work. XP and Vista will do just that. You see, Apple doesn't have to deal with the plethora of third party hardware out there. So yeah, it just works. Just as long as you're ok with only being able to get it in white.
I find it odd when people profess to be power users, yet still believe BSODs are a commonplace, and occurrence in the MS world.
Actually, most of the BSOD that I have encountered were due to a missing .dll file or missing system32 file. I must clarify, when I say reinstall the OS, I ment the "Repair" install which just replace's the system files, I only had to reformant once. What I don't understand about Windows OS, is how your system could be working fine for weeks, then all of a sudden, .dll files start to become missing and system files disapear. Your right, I would rather not have to deal with these hassles, which is why I prefer Mac OS X over Windows.
On a side note, I have Windows XP installed as a Dual Boot partition on my Mac, and suprisingly, Windows XP runs much, much more smoothly with Apple Hardware. I suspect the reason for this is because Apple doesn't grabe random hardware to shove into their computers. Each compononent is compatible with each other without any hicups. I have built Windows Based computers before, and trying to get the right combination of hardware together at the right price is fun, yet tedious.
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Before Apple switched to Intel processors, every component except for the motherboard and processor is interchangeable with the PC component. Now that apple has switched to Intel, you can even change the processor, as long as its an Intel Core Duo.
When you buy an Apple computer, your really just buying the right to use OS X on your PC. Some people have hacked the OS X to run on any PC, but that leaves no room for updates, without hacking the updates as well.
So technically, there really isn't a PC vs. Apple battle. It is just Mac OS X vs. Windows (XP, VISTA). And yes, Linux is better, which is why Mac OS X uses Linux as the core, with just a nice GUI on top.
I have spent 18 years enjoying Apple products, and in my spare time, fixing Windows based PC's. In that time, I have only had Hard Drive failure's on my Apple computer's. I have seen quite a few hard drive failures on Windows base computers as well. Hard drive's just fail after extended use, nothing more to it. Only other issue I have ever seen besides hard drives, is the Windows OS crashing. I have had to reinstall Windows OS (95, 98, XP) on many computers for my friends and family, mainly due to that infamous "Blue Screen of death." I also have removed numorous viruses, spyware, and other malicous code from the many Windows OS based computers, and many of them I had to do manually since no Anti-Virus could detect them.
This is why more and more people are choosing to switch to Apple computers. Their OS is just more reliable. It has nothing to do with the hardware, since the hardware is the same.
And for those of you who think that the MAC OS X system can't use any software, or use any upgrade, then you are wrong. Currently, there are 4 ways to use any Windows Software on a Mac. Dual Boot with XP, Two different ways of Emulating XP so no reboot required, Cross Over which allows you to install Windows software on the Mac itself, and there is a company that offers the use of any Windows software over VPN client. And as far as the Mac not being upagradeable, you can update anything, just some components are harder to get to. CompUSA can change out your hard drive or cd drive for $29.99, which makes things much easier.
Any BSOD I've ever had to deal with has involved a bad driver (99.9%) or bad hardware. Once I isolate which driver/hardware has caused it, it is a simple fix. If your answer to a BSOD is a reformat and reinstall, then I am not a bit surprised that you decided to take the Apple route. Clearly you do not understand Windows.
Now for an experiment. Take an nvidia Riva TNT 128 (or any other 10 year old video card) and install it in your Mac. Now I know you won't get a BSOD, but I will be infinitely surprised if your mac were to automatically download and install the necessary up to date drivers for it to work. XP and Vista will do just that. You see, Apple doesn't have to deal with the plethora of third party hardware out there. So yeah, it just works. Just as long as you're ok with only being able to get it in white.
I find it odd when people profess to be power users, yet still believe BSODs are a commonplace, and occurrence in the MS world.
Actually, most of the BSOD that I have encountered were due to a missing .dll file or missing system32 file. I must clarify, when I say reinstall the OS, I ment the "Repair" install which just replace's the system files, I only had to reformant once. What I don't understand about Windows OS, is how your system could be working fine for weeks, then all of a sudden, .dll files start to become missing and system files disapear. Your right, I would rather not have to deal with these hassles, which is why I prefer Mac OS X over Windows.
On a side note, I have Windows XP installed as a Dual Boot partition on my Mac, and suprisingly, Windows XP runs much, much more smoothly with Apple Hardware. I suspect the reason for this is because Apple doesn't grabe random hardware to shove into their computers. Each compononent is compatible with each other without any hicups. I have built Windows Based computers before, and trying to get the right combination of hardware together at the right price is fun, yet tedious.