Mac and PC Price Differences Grow, Does it Impact Your Purchase?

[Jondot]

I don't think I would want to use a mac because they can be pretty restricting.

It's all relative. I find Windows restricting after having used a Mac for a couple of years.

 

[Casio]

Couldn't it be possible to make use of a program like virtualbox to use a Mac OS inside a windows machine?

Real men can make OSX run natively on PC hardware too.

If you don't have the right hardware, you can emulate a machine to run OSX on it, but it's kinda fail and still pretty hard.

 

[Keef]

If you don't have the right hardware...

Speaking of which, what are the physical differences between a Mac and PC? Is hardware actually completely different, or the same parts with different things loaded onto them?

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Speaking of which, what are the physical differences between a Mac and PC? Is hardware actually completely different, or the same parts with different things loaded onto them?

They used to have different processors, but now I think all of them use Intels. The main difference is probably in the motherboards. They're just different.

PCs can come with all sorts of CPUs and graphics cards, while Apple uses a limited bunch.

 

[Casio]

Speaking of which, what are the physical differences between a Mac and PC? Is hardware actually completely different, or the same parts with different things loaded onto them?

Fundamentally they're the same now. Before switching to Intel they used PowerPC processors from Motorola. They're actually pretty good chips, but they obviously couldn't advance and scale them as quickly as Intel can. So consumer demand for more Hertz probably made them change.

The main difference now is that Macs are running EFI as Windows are still running BIOS (Same as the 80s). Everyone generally hates it, as it's kinda just a more restrictive version of BIOS. So go to wikipedia and do some reading Keefy boy.

Also if you open up a Mac you'll see some pretty crazy designs (Both Tower and iMac), in comparison to rather standardised PC cases.

 

[Moglet]

The cooling design on the Mac Pro towers is a very nice touch. They're so quiet too, the latest versions were actually very hard to measure using a normal decibel meter.