I'm a Mac, I'm a PC Part 2

Continuing the discussion of Mac and PC commercials, here is part 2.

Study #2 I'm a Mac
Because no one goes to a store and makes a Mac purchase in Apple's commercial series, and the overall lack of any other brands to choose from in them, it is less important to rehash all the technical buying decisions of the PC market. Mac commercials focus on what people like to do with their computer. They make sure to compliment PCs on their productivity, efficiency and overall good business sense. However, that's where the kindness ends. The young, hip Mac guy talks about life stuff and says the PC in his late 40s is good at work stuff. I guess he forgot that part of life is working. Also, what about games? The vast majority of computer games are only available on a PC. Now it is true that there are a multitude of terrible titles out there, so many in fact that the term shovelware was coined because of the shovel fulls of terrible software. A point to remember, however, is that the largest PC games on the market, those triple A titles like World of Warcraft, the Halo series and others are also available on Macs. So are other important work stuff programs like Adobe products (Photoshop, Acrobat ect.), internet browsers and Microsoft Office.

Another thing is that Windows can now run on Macs, if the consumer must have the best of both worlds. Boot Camp allows a Mac user to natively boot up in Windows. This is not an emulation, just simply a computer that can run both systems.

Mac commercials go on to talk about how PCs crash to the infamous Blue Screen of Death, freeze, lock up, or otherwise fail. My personal experience with Macs has been that they hardly ever crash, if ever (my old iMac never has and it's about 7 years old), and are ridiculously easy to use. To someone who has used PCs all their life and maybe only saw an old beat up mac in high school that may not be true, but in general, both systems are easy to use if you take the time to play with them. Mac commercials also unfairly portray PCs asw somewhat dumb when it comes to life skills such as being up with current news and also portray Microsoft as being generally uncaring about its customers.

In the end, buying a computer in general comes down to your preference. Personally, I currently use a custom built PC (yes I built it) as my main gaming, internet browsing and chatting machine. I also use a white Macbook 13" for my schoolwork and other things. In the past I've used a mac tower, an iMac and countless PCs at college. Not everyone has the cash for both, so maybe an upgraded Mac notebook with both operating systems would be a good choice for those who feel they need both. Otherwise, stick to what you know, but do some research before you hand over close to $1000 and make sure you're getting the machine that will do what you want.