Mac or PC?
The question has been asked by millions of people and on
millions of recreational and professional websites, now petGro is asking and
the answer is being given.
The three things I recommend considering before a decision
is made are…
1. Total experience in market production
2. Available software and security systems for both systems
3. Overall cost of servicing and purchase
1.
The Macintosh system has achieved huge sales over the last 25 years. In the 3rd
quarter of 2012, 4 million macintosh machines were sold, but over 15 times that
many PC’s were produced and sold by different manufacturers. This continues a
trend of many more PC’s being sold for business and consumer use over the last
25 years. (Fig1) PC’s have been around longer, have sold more units, and have
had more firms competing to perform well with the windows operating system.
2.
Software available for businesses has been established for the windows
operating system and has been being upgraded and made secure by thousands of
competing firms for the last 25 years. Security systems are better established
at dealing with malware threats on the PC system, even though there are more
threats. SAP runs significantly better on the PC system than the Mac system.
3.
PC’s are substantially cheaper for purchase than are macs, there are millions
of people in the workforce who are familiar with maintaining and servicing the
machines, and upgrades can be made to PC’s (especially desktops) with much more
efficiency and effectiveness. All parts of a PC can be upgraded more cheaply
than the replacement cost of a new macintosh.
It is therefore my recommendation that petGro purchase new
PC’s instead of new Macintosh system.