10 Reasons
Why Mac is Better
than a PC
1.) Mac is well-connected: you can daisy chain up to seven SCSI devices internally or externally to the Mac. The typical Wintel machine does not include a port for connecting external devices. Rather, PCs have an IDE interface that only allows you to hook up two internal hard drives. You have to buy a SCSI card to hook up external devices or buy a drive to hook up to the PC's external (and deadly slow) parallel port.
2.) DOS is a pain: No matter what PC users say, Windows 95 still has DOS lurking in the shadows. Try using a question mark, a slash, or various non-letters in your filename-you'll get all kinds of weird error messages. And if you have problems at start-up, like a PC card is missing and your system expects it to be there, you'll drop immediately into DOS.
3.) 32-Character Filenames: Even though Windows 95 allows for 32-character filenames, just try opening that file on an older PC. This makes filesharing nearly impossible between Windows 95 machines and Windows 3.1. All versions of Mac OS understand 32 character file names.
4.) Mac is easier to set up: A 10-year-old Mac user was pitted against the Editor-in-Chief of a major PC magazine in a contest at a recent Software Publishers Association meeting to see which platform was easiest to set up. The 10-year-old took 16 minutes, 15 seconds to get his Mac system up and running, while the Wintel expert clocked in at 26 minutes, 15 seconds.
5.) Wintel machines are more prone to viruses: More than 8,000 viruses exist for the PC, with 100 to 200 new bugs introduced each month. The Mac has only succumbed to 40 or 50 viruses in its history.
6.) Macs are faster: With many Windows applications still in 16-bit mode, the 32-bit applications and RISC processors of the Mac leave Wintel machines in the dust.
7.) Quicktime, an Apple product: The standard in the Mac industry for video file formats is widely used by Windows because it is cross-platform and easy to use. Furthermore, Quicktime is integrated into the MacOS and so all of its features can be incorporated into applications and the internet.
8.) Macs are the choice for internet users: Even though in the total desktop market Apple only holds 8% of the market, on the internet 25% of the computers are Macintosh. Apple Internet Servers are used widely on the internet and a large percent of web pages on the web were created on Apples.
9.) Macintosh leads in graphics and color: Unless you are only doing word processing, the Mac is the best computer for graphic design and color work. Desktop publishing was created on the Mac with the advent of PostScript, PageMaker, and the LaserWriter. Even art departments of PC magazines like PC Computing, PC Magazine, and PC World use Macs exclusively.
10.) Mac is truly plug-and-play: Even though Windows 95 is supposed to be plug-and-play, the truth is that it isn't that simple. With a Mac you just install the hardware, click on the installer, and you are ready to go. With Windows 95, if you want to make any changes in the configuration, you could spend hours with technical support trying to override the closed Windows 95 system.
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