I am sure you have all seen the commercials by Apple with a person who represents a Mac computer and a person who represents a PC computer and how the gag is that a PC is either too slow, or too full of programs to run right. Well I have used PCs for most of my life and at work a Mac for two years and I am here to say they are more alike than different.
The easiness issue comes up. Which one is easier to learn to use? They are both the same level of easy to learn. Mac comes with a window environment with icons that represent programs and guess what? So do PCs. Macs come with ITunes regardless if you have an iPod, and just as easily you can install it, by cd, on to a PC, with any iPod. Macs have a titles screen at the top of the page where you can select other options. So do PCs. The start button opens all kinds of other programs and functions for the general user. Now in the past I would have agreed, Macs are easier, but it was this reputation that spurred Microsoft to build version after version of windows and to make it easy enough for anybody to use, just like a Mac.
Basically it comes down to this, if you like computers but are a novice. Don't okay anything that says delete, format, or change setting on a computer until you have mastered the other parts of the computer. A computer is like an electronic keyboard. Everyone knows how it works. You press a note key and music comes out but to make music you have to practice, practice, and practice. It's kind of like driving, you saw your mother or father drive but it wasn't until you took driver's Ed that you came to realize how hard it was to drive. They made it look easy because they have been practicing long enough to get the right reactions.
It is the same with a computer. It's okay to press buttons. I have met many people who are afraid of computers because they accidentally deleted a file, formatted the hard drive, change a setting which was detrimental to the computer. Basically a PC or a Mac will have a screen that will pop up and either warn you that you will delete this program forever are you sure you want to do this? Will say deleting will affect your computer, or the option you have picked will change the computer, are you sure you want to do this? Someone else did this, complained about it, and these help messages were added to keep idiots like you and me from doing something really bad to the computer.
Obviously if you get a message like this, you say, "Okay I need to find someone who has more skills to help me with this problem." It could be an older brother, a friend, your mom or even your wife. Whoever it is, that is the person you want to go to and ask should I do this? Other than that each computer is a book. You fan through the files and programs, experimenting with each one to see what each one does. As you experiment you learn what to do the same to get back to that program or what to do differently so as to next time get the best results.
That's why I don't believe there is a difference between a PC and a Mac, except in price, and that may come down as more of Apples computers are made with Intel microchips and maybe one day AMD chips. They both are cheap chips in comparison to the procceding chip maker IBM.
So whenever the commercial for Apple about Mac and PC computers come on I laugh and say poor PC how they pick on you and Poor Mac how bloated an ego you have.
