derryl

The Mac vs. PC Debate Was Never Clearer

I have a 1 year old MacBook and an 8 year old Toshiba Satellite running Windows Millennium, both of which I use daily. Apple has a more stable operating system and my Mac is a bit faster on the net and of course has massively more memory, but the Toshiba is still a perfectly good computer (I also have a 30 year old Toshiba pocket calculator that still works fine). Before the Toshiba I had a Compaq that was prone to crashes and I ended up losing a lot of data on the last fatal crash.

I've picked up viruses a couple of times on the Toshiba and had to wipe the hard drive once, but this is more because hackers attack Microsoft and tend to leave Apple alone (or it's because Mac's are harder to attack, I don't know).

My point is that, first, not all PCs are created equal. I paid a lot of money for the Toshiba in 2001 but I'm not unhappy about it. It's every bit as good a computer as my Mac (my 4th Mac, by the way, if you include the old LC and the 2 iMacs I bought for my kids) and better in some ways. PC's main downfall is unstable Windows operating systems that are prone to hacking. They are also harder to set up if you don't speak "geek". But I much prefer Windows Millennium file system over Apple's and I find Media Player much more straightforward to use than iTunes; and I still use Word for Mac rather than Apple's word processor. So in my experience there is no clear winner in the computer wars.