Please list EVERY single piece of hardware AND software that comes in the box. Now go to a BRAND name PC maker and spec out an IDENTICAL machine, including 3-party software it doesn’t include. Let’s be fair, please don’t use the argument of a hogpogged together home-made PC where your labor is valued at nothing and all the software is pirated. If you’re honest you’ll find the prices are very close.

… And what about the “slingshot” effect of the mouse on all Mac products? Will the mouse behave just like on a non Mac?

When IBM rolled out their “PC” to compete with Apple, they ran commercials featuring Charlie Chaplin. Before that, I think Apple may have used the term “personal computer” but they also used the term “micro-computer”.

No matter, IBM’s commericials broadcast the phrase “Personal Computer” into American homes and linked the iphrase “Personal Computer” to their product.

This is what put Microsoft on the map. Within a short time, IBM PC “clones” started popping up and by the time the Macintosh came out in 1984, IBM had stolen the micro-computer market away from Apple. Microsoft went on to infect millions of computers (and in my opinion, single handedly delayed the GUI interface from being integrated into society as a whole for another 10 years).

There used to be a comic strip called Bloom County. Berke Breathed inked a great spoof of the original 128k Macintosh and IBM PC Jr. I still have the Gene Simmons Sunday strip that I clipped from the Sunday newspaper and hung on my father’s refridgerator with magnets.

http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mbp/bloom/bloom.html

I can write with absolute certainty that Apples have been called Apples and IBM and compatibles have been called personal computers since the early ’80s.

If there was a time when Apples were commonly referred to as “Personal Computers” it was before my time and it was probably during the late ’70s.

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wrong… there is plenty of non-Apple hardware that supports OSX x86.

“While you can run virtual machines on OS X, you can’t run OS X inside a virtual machine.”

wrong… in fact the first leaked version of OSX x86 was inside of a VWware virtual drive, already installed.

“Playing “Windows games” through virtual machine software is going to be hit-or-miss.”

but it is getting a lot better, especially with VWware. Especially on Linux, which pwns Windows and OSX.

My question was if you are not going to use Mac to run OS, what the use to run just XP on it, it’s just waste of money, while you can but a really good deal of PC to run windows XP fine, and more effecient.

So I’m just adding this comment to clarify that I’m not against MAC, on contrary I think they will rule in 10 years from now, may be even less.

Thank you for taking the time to answer.

That being said the assumption when you’re talking about PC is still any computer that runs Windows. The concern about whether to buy a Windows based computer or a Mac should come down to 1) Cost and 2) hardware specs for the games (since the question dealt with a gamer) The hardware in the lower priced Macs (mac mini/macbook) don’t quite compare with a comparably priced Dell (for example). Plus you’d then add the additional cost of a Windows license.

There’s no clean cut answer. Mac or Windows-based Computer? You really have to judge what you want to do and which will allow you to do it best.

Personally I have Dell laptops running windows, a home built rig running Windows and a Macbook Pro. And love them all (for different reasons). Choose the tool that’s suited for the task at hand.