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Why are there more shops selling pc parts? maybe that's where the money is, I know people that have had Macs for years and never had any part failures. As far as places to buy them, well I must be lucky there are 4 stores that sell Macs within 20 miles (one being an Apple Store, and the other an Apple only dealer). Now let's talk customer service, with a Mac you call Apple, with a pc you may have to make a few calls. I for one bought AppleCare®, if it does break they (Apple) will send someone right to my house to fix it, and it won't cost me a penny (pc's can't beat that). And tech support, well there again Macs rule Microsoft charges for tech support (even on new products) and with AppleCare®, you get 3 years of toll free no charge tech support (up from the 90 tech support) Software, I haven't had any problem finding anything I want (there are some 50,000 software titles for Mac OS out there), and with OS X you can run Linux/Unix titles too, and even windows it the mood strikes you (again pc's can't beat that). Most Software vendors write titles fr the pc first due to market share, unless they're bound by contract, if it sells well they make a Mac version. Intersting note here, Microsoft writes versions for the Mac first (Exlporer, Office) then adds the features to the Windows version later (Don't ask me why they just do, and that's from someone in the Mac apps division at Microsoft) Speed, well you can either measure that by mhz/ghz or a better measuring method thru put (I think that's measured in flops, instructions per second). Again Macs are capable of doing more per cycle than a pc, and there's less overhead in the OS.
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