I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could find some articles comparing Apple Computers to IBM compatible PC.

Also does any one know of any articles that recommend apple computers over IBM compatible machines.

I am trying to find information that would support purchasing an apple computer over a IBM compatible PC.

Google is your friend.

The Apple OS is nice.

There is your reason for purchasing an Apple.

BTW, that is the only reason.

The hardware is not better, in fact it is the same hardware as what I can slap into any PC. But Apple's prices for their hardware is substantially higher than what Dell and HP charge for the same product going into the prebuilt PC's. Go ahead and checkout the price for some Apple RAM.

yes... google is everyone's friends but microsofts and yahoo's

Flashback to 1984. Hehe, been a long time since I heard anyone call a "PC" an "IBM compatible".

yea IBM is dead except to cosoles

BTW unless you dont want to use any software i would go with PC coz if you waqnna run programs you gonna have to pay big time.
MS Ofiice PC 2007 (min price) £100
MS Ofiice MAC (min price) £400

oh and dont even think bout playing game on a MAC

well Open-GL games do work on mac, they just tend to have slower video cards and less ram making it more painful....

What everyone on this thread meant to ask you -

What are you buying your computer for?

@dobby IBM is not dead in the PC industry, in fact they have one of the biggest R&D budgets for computer related things. Just take a look at the IBM BlueGene and the Cell. These technologies eventually make its way in to the every day PC's that is why IBM is not dead. Most companies still use IBM for their companies because of their reliability and customer service.

I am doing a speech to persuade. My objective is to persuade the class to buy an apple computer. When I look at every thing though I don't know how I can sell apple.
Apple is more expenseive then most other machines.
Any thing a Mac can do a pc can do better. with the right type of software of course.

I was just looking for ideas from the community

The only Selling points that i can go on is that apple can run both windows, mac OSX and linux via boot camp or parallels/ VMWare Fusion
The fact that they are sleek looking machines.
I just dont see any other selling points
I think I might switch my topic at the last minute to why you should get a PC over a Mac.

Thanks for the replys if you have any ideas I would be greatful

By the way i own a new mac book pro for the sole purpose of learning the OSX system and run Windows via VMware fusion.

They are dead on the consumer side of computers.

Servers and proprietary software solutions are their bread and butter.

I know you haven't Googled yet. Go find pro Mac Sites, I know their out there. Once you land on one you will get a million reasons. All you have to worry about then is how valid the reasons are.

Edit: I just got 3,900 hits on "reasons to buy a mac". I know there is some material there somewhere.

Or 164,000 hits on "why mac". One of the top ones was why Mac's suck , but I'm sure you will find enough in there to fill a presentation.

I just watched that video "why macs suck", it's as funny as can be. I had forgotten about it.

Let's be honest with ourselves here, there isn't really any benefit to owning an Apple computer any way you look at it, so I really don't know what to tell you. It's simply an overpriced product that "trendy" people buy. They used to have a bit of a benefit back when they used the more efficient PPC architecture, but now they just use outdated x86 hardware. Basically, if you want something compact, or if you're that much of a loser that you feel you need to buy a trendy product, then go for the apple.

@amdfangirl: he said IBM Compatible meaning x86 based machines, not all x86 based machines run Windows, there are other OS's out there besides Windows you know...

"What applications can you run? Well, pretty much all of them — thousands of solutions for serious business or serious fun. You’d be hard pressed to find anything you can’t do on a Mac."

Games come to mind which cancels Apple's claim Macs are serious fun.

@ amdfangirl

Well for users who only surf the web, etc. Apple is easy to use. But for any one who want to mess with the guts of the OS this is not it. Just try writing a simple program for the Mac would require ~50 lines while for Windows and Linux you could do the same thing in ~15 lines.

Macs are no longer spared from Viruses and Spyware any more either. If you want ULTIMATE safety go with Linux :-)