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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, October 06 2002 @ 02:25 pm EDT

Mac OSX is superior to windows XP in many ways (of course it is still buggy). So from an operating system point of view, the Mac is superior.

However, PCs are much better from a hardware point of view. If you compare what $3,000.00 will get you with a MAC and then compare what that will get you with a PC, PCs simply blow the mac away. Not to mention, Mac hardware is not only expensive, but offers only limited hardward upgrades.

So far apple\'s superior OS and loyal user base has kept it alive because people are willing to pay the very high premium for Mac hardware. But not for much longer. My partners and I use macs in our graphics studio, but 2 out of the three of us have decided that from now on, we will replace our macs with PCs since macs are just too expensive (photoshop, golive, etc. all run just as well on a pc).

The AMD v.s. Intel price battle and the availability of numerous chipset manufacturers has dramatically improved the price/performance ratio of PC hardware. As a result, the premium you pay for a mac compared to a PC is increasing rapidly and I think more and more mac users will begin to find that they can no longer justifiy the cost.

Also, most new technical innovations (DDR Ram, 266Mhz Bus, AGP, etc...etc.) are all PC innovations because the PC market has many competitors and the user base is large enough to absorb the R&D cost. Apple is just one company with a small user base. As time goes on they will continue to fall further and further behind and will (as they pretty much do now) just follow the PC hardware market\'s lead and release things like DDR Ram, etc.

So I think its inevitable that apple\'s os will need to run on PC hardware at some point so they can offer their users competitively priced hardware.

Sure this means you can just buy the apple OS and not the software which will cost mac some hardware sales. However, Mac can become like a Dell or a Gateway and still sell hardware. They can have their computer components made by independent manufacturers and bundled as Apple products and supported by them. Mac loyalists and people who like \"pretty hardware\" will be willing to pay a slight premium for Apple branded PC hardware.

Simply put, the hardware advantage of PCs will make the mac professional user base dwindle to the point where mac wont be able to survive by selling IMacs and IPods to college kids. They will need to switch to the PC platform to survive.

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