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MacMYTHS vs. MacFACTS Pick your favorite myth and I will try to give the facts By:David K. Every ©Copyright 1999   When to buy a PC? Is Apple the BMW of Computers? PCs and Ice Cream -- details of choice. PCs and Clones Mac Emulators for the PC -- are they as good as a Mac, or close to the quality of PC emulators for the MAc Windows is as good as a Mac Advertising is the difference between Apple and Wintel MacOS has evolved less than Windows PC's are more Popular (Popular or Best?) Macs shouldn't be used in education because the business world uses PC's Macs cost more to upgrade Apple has been copying Microsoft (who innovates) Apple/Mac may go out of business any day now Apples Sales/Market share is declining Graphs and Quotes of Apples demise Mac Development Developers are leaving the Mac Copland (MacOS 8) was a failure Macs cost more than PC's Initial Costs Installation Productivity Maintenance   Switching to PC's saves money       Macs don't have enough software Mac Software Distribution Macs get their software later PC's are more Powerful Macs aren't as expandable as PC's Macs aren't as "Open" as PC's Macs don't have enough Operating Systems Macs don't have enough Clone Makers   PC's are faster Understanding Performance Perceived Performance Processors (not just MHz) What's the difference between RISC and CISC? CPU Performance (Benchmarks) MMX means something Next Years Pentiums will be faster than the PPC's I/O Subsystems Hard Drive   Macs crash more than PC's Macs don't have memory protection PC's have Plug&Play   Macs don't have MT (Multi-Tasking) Macs MultiTasking doesn't work well enough Macs don't have MP (Multi-Processing) Macs don't have a CLI (Command Line Interface) Macs have too much emulation Other  InterfaceMacs stole its UI from Xerox (MS didn't steal its UI from the Mac)   Hardware and Software- Teach the technologies, to better understand the arguments / points. Reference - Support of many of these points Created: 1/21/97 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home