Mac Computers
Mac computers are made by Apple, a firm that may well be the biggest success story of the recent years. With aggressive ad campaigns and very well planned product launches Apple managed to convince customers to buy its products, although in most situations rival firms offer far more advanced and capable devices.
One of the most important facts about Mac computers and all Apple products is that they use a completely different type of operating systems and software that looks good, but does basically the same operations as any other commercial or non-commercial operating system and software.
There’s only one big achievement of Apple’s own software that sets it apart from other IBM-PC compatible stuff, MAC OS X improves Apple laptop battery life. Although all Apple laptop computers released since 2006 are fully IBM-PC compatible and they all run Linux and Microsoft operating systems, only their own operating system, the MAC OS X is able to give up to 10 hours of battery life, while any of the other operating systems drain the Mac laptop computer’s battery in less than 2 hours.
This was done intentionally by Apple in an effort to force it’s customers to use only MAC OS X on their computers, but it might be considered fair, because Apple doesn’t want to enter the operating system competition on computers made by other manufacturers, it simply wants to maintain monopoly on its own products. With the ongoing debate about which is the best computer operating system, users should know one important truth: none of the operating systems are perfect.
Although in every year better and faster hardware components hit the market, even the best programmer efforts result in operating systems that use only about 50% of the hardware’s true potential, so Apple gained some advantage by constantly uderclocking (lowering performance of) computer parts in order to save energy, but balanced things out by providing software that doesn’t point out such disturbing measures, because in most cases MAC software works as well as the others.
To beat Apple at it’s own game, manufacturers would have to come up with better operating systems at lower prices, but with similar results. Recently a few of the biggest computer manufacturers decided to contribute with large funds to the development of alternative operating systems, but we’ll have to wit a while until there will be significant result. It’s also unclear if these companies simply want to help Apple’s competition to make better software , or they want to corrupt competition (mostly Linux based operating systems that are free) by introducing such large funds into the game, trying to make them commercial products.
Whatever the result will be, in the near and further future it’s certain that all computer hardware will have to be compatible with standards set by IBM, so that the software industry may evolve by giving the users the possibility to choose any one of the operating systems, thus eliminating less-efficient solutions from the market.
I honestly never understood why people were so nuts about Apple laptops. my best friend bought one from the United States when she went on vacation and I thought it was simply not worth paying $1500 for that laptop. it only has one USB port and since she used an external mouse she was left with no USB port, one microphone jack and that was about it. I mean you could not even plug the internet jack in there. If she didn’t have a wireless router at home, she couldn’t use the internet. I found that to be a very stupid move. Not to mention there was no DVD drive and an integrated video card.