Macs & Windows

 

The underlying rule with Mactinosh, is that they are a computer designed for people who don't know how to use a computer. Quite so in both the practical sense of the operating system and the hardware, as well as the marketing side of it too.

For example, customers who aren't very computer literate see one of those iMacs on display in a retail shop somewhere and think to themselves "Oh my, that's so pretty! I want one of those, it's so much prettier then that Windows PC next to it." And this really is a stupid thing to say because Windows doesn't actually have anything to do with what the display looks like. The person thinking this would be looking at the awesome 27' LED screen in the iMac which would be contributing to about a third of its total cost. On the official online Apple store the high-end 27' iMacs are $2,299.00 for all the specs and the peripherals, minus the monitor, which you can get on a Windows PC for around $1000. As a result it would be fair to say that the monitor is accounting for $700 or so of the overall price. Those customers would then compare this expensive, but very nice monitor to an average and small 19' generic display monitor that's connected to one of the Windows display PC's.

Sure it's a good monitor, it really is. For $700 you would bloody well hope so. For comparison, here is a better monitor valued at $479. Both 27' except this one has many advantages such as:

• Awesome 3D support and conversion
• 120hz refresh rate
• Less display latency
• HDMI Compatibility
• Much cheaper

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=558_1210&products_id=19221

 
If they were to have these monitors on display for Windows PC's next to the iMacs then people wouldn't think that Macs are prettier then Windows.

The other big advantage is that it's an independant monitor and not restricted to just your PC. You could plug it into a gaming console and then have it looking super awesome too, you could get a TV tuner in your PC for around $40 and then be able to watch TV on your super awesome monitor! Having the monitor inbuilt into the computer makes the iMac look slim, innovative and futuristic. Well yes, it does but it's really impractical. That is an underlying principle for Apple products. Looks/visuals>Practicality. That is a bad thing.

"But the OSX interface itself looks so much prettier then the Windows inferface, it's less cluttered and I like it more." As much as I disagree with that statement, that is an opinion and personal preference. Well guess what, you can get a theme that makes your Windows 7 look and navigate exactly like the Mac OSX.

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/22/mac-theme-for-windows-7/  

So now not only does your Windows PC have an outright better display, it also looks exactly the same as the pretty OSX on the iMac. Except the other thing to remember is a Windows PC should cost around HALF the price of what the iMac does.

I really could go on all day about stuff like this, but this is just an example of as I said how the selling point of Apple products are peoples ignorance. I hope I've shown how actually knowing your stuff shines the light on how Apple products really aren't as good as people seem to think they are, because they simply just don't know better.

I'm not neccesarily critising the preference of a Mac, it's just when people make arguements that have no validity such as the Mac "looks better" it gets me all emotional inside because of (This article.) Especially because the whole 'pretty' arguement tends to be the main one.

Convenient and easy. That is what I believe the only advantage of a Mac over a PC is. It's much more convient and easy to not get a better and cheaper monitor off PC Case Gear. It's convenient and easy to not go download the OSX theme that basically turns your Windows 7 into OSX. It's a lot easier and more convenient that instead of saving your money and getting much more out of your PC, you just go down to the Apple store and spend that extra 100% to pick up your Mac and instantly have everything you need, without worry of hurting yourself because you're on an Operating System where everything is spoon-fed to you.