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This house believes Macs are better than PCs
This house believes Macs are better than PCs
This is a discussion on the Debatabase item titled: This house believes Macs are better than PCs.Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!
1 year 1 week ago
Having a PC that has died just a couple of months after buying it I am thinking ill go back to macs! (I am sure this could happen with a mac too, just happens that for me it has with a PC.)
1 year 1 week ago
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Macs and PCs use exactly the same hardware. You can run MAC on a PC too, if you'd do some hacking.
The hard disks are exactly the same, the RAM is exatclty the same, and most important the processors are the same nowadays, but macs have an apple logo on them, and therefore you pay much more.
If you take a close look at the exact specs of the macs, and build a Windows PC with exact the same, components where possible, and where the exact components aren't available using comparable components, you'd end up several hundreds of dollars/euros/pounds/etc cheaper.
Computer hardware is always about some specs. Most of the time: how many data can a component process per second?
You say Mac has memory optimalization. That is right. Windows Vista and Seven have it too.
PC is indeed value for money. It offers more value and more speed for your money than macs. Your whole story is nothing to be taken seriously. Feel free to contact me if you want more info.
P.S. take a look at your grammar. If you want to be taken seriously, please don't use internet language, but proper English.
1 year 1 week ago
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P.S. take a look at your grammar. If you want to be taken seriously, please don't use internet language, but proper English.
Spelling, punctuation and grammar really dont matter on this forum. A large number of our users are school students who may still be learning and another large portion has english as a second or foreign language so we would appreciate it if criticism of language is limited unless it is simply not comprehensible. Having said that acronyms like FYI make it difficult for anyone who knows English but is not a regular internet user to understand.
We have not helped by not having a spell check built in at the moment, it is on the to do list.
Might I also take the opportunity to point out we have a debate on simplifying english? It can be found at: http://idebate.org/debatabase/debates/education/house-would-simplify-english-language
1 year 1 week ago
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Some people value looks and brands as much as all the technology that is inside. Lots of people buy designer clothes for example despite their quality not being much better than unbranded goods. There is no reason why this should not be the same for computers. Mac users are buying the brand as much as they are buying a computer.
1 year 1 week ago
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I believe it is a matter of purpose. What is the main intention of obtaining a PC or a Mac? They are both better suited for different users, tasks and functions. For instance, a casual home user might prefer the Mac over the PC for its user-friendly and substantially more sophisticated interface, whereas a working adult might opt for the PC because of its convenient and easy-to-understand display.
Therefore, it depends who's point of view we are looking at before we can pass judgement as they are both made for different target users in mind.
1 year 1 week ago
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Apple looks good. Yes I agree .But there are lots of PC s also with good looks.
I believe WINDOWS 7 is as user friendly as MAC. There is not much difference. But if you are not a complete novice about computer and you want to make any changes in hardware. PC is always easy and convenient.
1 year 1 week ago
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This house believes Macs are better than PC
The point is which one is better MAC or PC. A person can buy designer clothes or Apple PC . But when we compare two products the name of the brand doesn’t matter much. It’s the product that matters.
1 year 1 week ago
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Apple has a wide no of support and service centres in US, UK, Germany Mexico & few other countries. But if you consider worldwide case PC have more service centres and supports than MAC. Especially in the emerging market like BRICS, Middle East, Africa & LAM markets where rarely there is good customer service and support of Apple. Whereas all these market have at least one or two major PC manufacturer who has excellent service and support. Like Dell and Lenovo in India , Acer in Indonesia ,Positivo in Brazil etc.
Apple charge premium pricing. But companies like Dell give accidental protection with much less price.
PC is widely used. Almost more than 93% computer used is PC. As a result there is many local shops who can repair and service PC but not MAC as they don’t have much knowledge of it. These kind of service is quite popular in Asia and LAM .
1 year 1 week ago
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I really must ask - why is this in science!? We should be arguing about more important issues. Also, go PC.
33 weeks 3 days ago
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That is because the category is 'science and technology' but we have been shortening the names. This will be more obvious some time later this week when the sub themes are implemented.
That said at the moment some debates may be in totally the wrong theme at the moment because we are reorganising them.
33 weeks 3 days ago
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The Computer speed depends on two things. Hardware & OS . Now as MAC has such a premium price they have the luxury to use better hardware.
i.e.High Speed Hard Disk , Better Quality Ram etc. Where as PC always try to achive value for money .
Another very important things is RAM optimization. Though MAC have introdued ram optimization before Windows but from windows 7 both OS have RAM optimization . So there wont be much difference in sped due to OS.
Lots of people says that Windows copy from MAC but FYI unix was first to introduce RAM optimization not MAC .
Speed also depends on how many program running in the system & how much u can optimize it. In case of windows user can optimize it more than MAC and have large no of available software resources than MAC.