“Christmas is approaching so folks are asking me which computers to buy as gifts to place lovingly under the tree. It’s a hard question, but I can make some general comments that’ll help everyone,” James Derk writes for Scripps Howard News Service. “There’s the Mac and Windows decision. Once, this was a slam-dunk for Windows, given that there were far fewer software titles available for the Mac platform. Today, the decision is much harder. Today’s Macs can, with a little software help, run Windows applications with surprising aplomb. The Apple hardware is a work of design and technical art, so if the receiver is into that kind of thing, then add that to the mix. You’ll pay a tad more for an Apple box but not that much.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Compare features closely between Apple Macintosh and a Windows PC and you’ll be surprised to learn just how competitive are Apple’s Macs compared to PCs from Wintel box assemblers.
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