Computer
Buying Guide
Part 2: Apple Mac OS X or
Windows?
The raging debate of the ages... solved.
Article date: October 15, 2007.
Article by: Howard Sherman, The King of All Geeks
Easy answer: It depends.
You Should Buy an Apple if You Want a Good,
Reliable Home
Computer
If you're a home user and you want to go online, check
email, surf the web, print some pictures, etc. etc. than an Apple Macintosh
is the computer you want.
Why?
Apples just work better and they come with excellent
free software right out of the box.
The Apple Mac line (iMac, MacBook, etc.)
hardly ever get infected with spyware or viruses, they almost never crash
and they're easier to use.
I hate to tell you gang but roughly 75% of
RoyalGeeks.Com residential service income comes from Windows computers that
are difficult to connect to wireless network, easily
get infected with pop ups, continually crash for no good reason, or won't
start at all.
That hardly ever happens with an Apple.
The Royal Geeks have witnessed the palpable
frustration on the faces of our customers. A lot of you are fed up
with paying a geek to come to your home sometimes as often as two or three
times per year to get your computer or your wireless network straightened
out.
We understand. That's why we urge all home-based
computer users to go with the Apple Macintosh every single time.
This advice is doubly-true if you have kids. You
love your kids but, God bless 'em, they can infect a computer faster than
you can possibly imagine. I've actually seen a kid infect a
Windows computer to the brink of needing repair in under 10 minutes.
Repeat: That can't happen on an Apple Computer. Life
will be easier with an Apple. As we like to say -- an Apple a day
keeps the geek away!
Windows Looks Better in an Office Environment
For medium to large companies, Windows Server 2003
(and the forthcoming Server 2008) cannot be beat for interoperability,
communication and collaboration. In a native Windows environment it
naturally follows that Windows XP and Windows Vista work best.
With all respect to Apple, there are some business
applications you just can't run on a Mac. I still urge business users
to consult us and see if your office can run optimally with Apple computers
running OS X instead of Microsoft Windows. If they can, great.
That's where you need to be.
But if you just have to have Windows computers because
your office depends on critical applications that just don't run on the
Apple, then it's a no-brainer; Go with Windows.
Don't sacrifice business productivity or income
potential for the sake of being hip; there are just some things you have to
have Windows for.
Whether you decide to make the change to the Mac or
stick with Windows (or both!) you can take comfort in knowing that Mac and
Windows systems can easily communicate with each other on your home or
office network.
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