Comparison of Mac Vs. PC

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"Hello I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" (Wikipedia). Many people who watch television or online videos might come across the "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign launched by Apple Inc. personifying the more youthful Justin Long as the cool, hip Mac system and the older, more seasoned John Hodgman as the PC. The "Get a Mac" commercial series depicts the efficiency and user friendliness of Mac while comparing it to the problematic PC. Though the commercial series might seem convincing in favor of the Mac products, the commercial would obviously hide the flaws of the Macs. The actually masks the fact that PC comes out on top at the end of the day with great efficiency, the ability to do a diverse range of work, and its user-friendliness. But now the question is, how does one prove that the PC is triumphant over Mac.

The answer is quite simple actually. All people really need to do prove that PC is better than Macs is to just analyze two things, the hardware and the operating system. The hardware of the computer is basically all the key components that composes a computer. Basically, the four key components of computer to analyze is the CPU which is the brain of the computer, the motherboard which the heart of the computer, the RAM which is the memory processing device, and the graphics card which generates images onto the monitor. In addition to the computer hardware, the next part of the computer to analyze is the operating system. Worldnetweb defines an operating system as a "software that controls the execution of computer programs" which makes the use of the computer possible (Worldnetweb). The two major operating systems (OS for short) in the world are the Apple Macintosh OS and Microsoft Windows OS. Now that the terms hardware an...

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...he reason why students, businessman, scientists and people at home all over the world prefer the use of the efficient, user-friendly, and diverse workability of the PC systems over Mac computers.

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