Which is more user friendly, PC or Mac?

The war between PC and Mac is on again

Price

There are dozens of PC models that fall within $1000, while few Mac products sell for less than that price range. For example, we can compare the price of Macbook with that of Dell Inspiron Laptop.

Dell Inspiron Laptop

• $799
• 15" Screen
• CPU: (upgrade to) 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
• Memory: 3GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Drive: 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
• Optical Drive: Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM) - WRITES DVDS,CDS, READS Blue-Ray Disks

Macbook

• $1224
• 13" Screen (SMALLER)
• CPU: 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (SAME)
• Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (SAME)
• Memory: (upgrade to) 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (LESS RAM)
• Hard Drive (upgrade to) 250GBSerial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm (SMALLER HARD DRIVE)
• Optical Drive: (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) - (Writes CDs, DVDs, cannot read Blue-Ray) (WORSE AND 1/2 SPEED)

Design

When we consider to buy a computer, design is an important element that we need to think. Since different customers have different requirements for color, material, size of keyboard etc, PC seems to satisfy the customers' various requirements better. There are lots of restriction for buying a Mac, but not for PC. For instance, Silver is the only color we can choose for Mac. But for PC, the choice can be widen a lot. Different design makes PC more user friendly than Mac.

After-sale Service

Many computer companies produce and sell PC around the world, but for Mac, only the Apple Inc produce and sell it. So that, the after-sale service provided for PC is much more than that for Mac. The PC users can find their after-sale service station anywhere, and it will be a little hard for the Mac users.



-Xiaoyu Lu