by SiddFisher

Created on: July 18, 2009

A Mac rarely gets the better of PCs in any criteria imaginable. Even when talking of long-term investments, a PC is a much more value-for-money choice than a Mac. The performance to cost ratio for a PC is much greater than that for a Mac. Moreover there is much more flexibility in the configuration of a PC than a Mac. To better understand the advantage of buying a PC over a Mac, let me illustrate with a story.

Two friends, Sidd and Sam, decided to buy their first computer from their own hard earned money from working at Electronic Arts. Both of these guys were young, so naturally played games, did designing and other developer stuff on their office computer. They had only worked for a month and so did not have a lot of money to spend. Their monthly wage was something like 8000-9000$. So both of these guys decided not to spend more than 1500$ on the computer. So the budget was now fixed.

But there was one more problem. Both of these guys were in a dilemma regarding what to buy. A PC or a Mac.

Sam said," Hey Sidd! Why don't you buy a PC and I'll buy a Mac. It doesn't make a lot of difference does it, because if any of our computer isn't very good, we can upgrade it with next month's pay." Sidd agreed to this suggestion. Both of them went to a cyber cafe after that to place their orders. Sidd logged on to newegg, while Sam went to The Apple Store. After quite some time both came out with a satisfied smile in their face.

Sam sighed aloud and said," Whoa! That was exhausting. But I'm happy with my selection." Sidd asked him," What did you buy?" Sam grinned and said," I got a 24" iMac. What did you order?" Sidd sadly said," I only got a stupid 21" PC." Sam tried to console him by saying that he could buy a new bigger display next month. The noticeable factor here is that both of these guys aren't very hardware-savvy on the surface, but let me tell you, when Sidd got home, he smiled an utterly wicked smile. Why? because he had placed the order and had checked the Apple Store. Still don't understand why he's smiling as if he'd just got the better of Sam? OK I'll elaborate.

When Sidd checked out the Apple store for a Mac that lied within their budget, he could only find one. The configuration was:

CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core2Duo

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1066MHz

HDD: 640 GB

Video Card: GeForce 9400M 512 MB GDDR3

The configuration was just good enough for some gaming. And the price: 1499.00$

Now check out Sidd's choice:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (2.8 GHz

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