Things You'll Need:
- Mac OS Computers
- Mac OS 9.0
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Step 1
Tell your Windows friends that Windows 95/98 is a great graphical user interface, and it ought to be: It was borrowed from the Mac OS!
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Step 2
Mention that, even though the Mac seems more expensive than a comparable PC, price comparisons are best made over the useful life of a system. The Mac lasts about twice as long as the PC - with continuing support.
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Step 3
Relate that PowerPC processors run faster and more efficiently than even Intel Pentium II processors of the same clock speed: 400 MHz on a Mac is faster than 400 MHz on a PC.
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Step 4
Remark that setting up hardware and installing software is much easier on a Mac. If your time has value, you'll be interested in knowing that configuring files and resolving problems with peripherals are virtually unknown on a Mac; they have cost long weekends on a PC.
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Step 5
Note that on the Mac, networking is built-in and a snap to set up; so is 16-bit stereo sound. For a PC - you guessed it - they're add-on features.
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Step 6
Relate that sound and video are always automatically included and configured on the Mac, but require a card and configuration on a PC.
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Step 7
Tell your Windows friends that Mac files automatically recognize the creator application; Windows files require a three-character extension. Changing a Mac file name doesn't change how an application recognizes it.
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Step 8
Try mentioning that Macs with multiscan monitors can switch resolutions and change color bit depth without rebooting; PCs need an add-on utility to do this.
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Step 9
Note that although Windows allows 255-letter file names, and Mac OS only 31, (a) some Windows applications seem never to have noticed, (b) long file names are not compatible with Windows 3.x or DOS, and (c) just try fitting a 255-letter file name under one icon!
Comments
Saphyn said
on 6/6/2007 That's why Macs had to set up Boot Camp, right?
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 If you've ever upgraded a low end PC I am sure you found the two dissimilar, but perhaps you would be more swayed to the dark side of PC's. The high end PC, with an AMD processor, is great. Forget Intel Pentium, it's garbage. PC has an advantage when it comes to gaming, and Mac has an advantage when it comes to sound and video editing. I wish I had one of each! Depending on what you want your system for (decide by that), you can't say that one OS is truly better than the other.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Come on, PC users. You only stand up for your PCs because they're all you have. MacOS is strange to you. You probably couldn't even afford a Mac. That's most people's excuse. I have a PC. A reasonable little one, too. I also have a Power Mac G3/350. Which has had the most use? The G3. Why? I can't even bring myself to face the barren, gray world that is Windows, knowing that my happy, talkative Mac is there, waiting for me to boot up OS X to do something useful, or at least have a bit of FUN with the interface. Oh, and by the way, if Mac was 'stolen' from XEROX, which it wasn't (Apple had shares in XEROX who were happy to share design ideas with them) where do you think Windows came from?!
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 I like the pretty colors. The cases come in more and nicer colors than the PCs do. They look better, and they are faster, too. I like 'em.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 On a Mac, you can boot onto the whole OS from CD, Zip, Floppy, RAM-Disk, USB and FireWire drives, Shared Sysfolder, basically any storage device that can hold the System folder. This is an excellent feature for repairing corrupted systems.