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Compare And Contrast Apple X And Computers

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According to Merriam-Webster dictionary the word Computer means: "an electronic machine that can store and work with large amounts of information". Computers that we use today have undergone many years of evaluation and development. The history of computer development is referred to the five generations, vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors, and finally artificial intelligence computing devices. Moreover, each generation is characterized by a crucial technological development that basically changed the way computers operate. The most essential part in computer is the Operating System that enables us to use the computers. Mainly there are several computer operating systems that are used now days; whereas the most famous OS, which are widely used by people all over the world, are Macintosh OS X and Windows OS. …show more content…

Different people prefer different OSs, although both of these computers are used to reduce human work, Macintosh and Windows oriented computers are totally different in many ways.
The first obvious difference is that Macs are …show more content…

According to the Guardian new agency Apple was named number one in the annual Brandz global brand power list, with a value of $247 billion (Sweney, 28 May 2015). Moreover, now the inventor of Windows operating system, Bill Gets is the richest man in the world (Forbes, 2015). This statistics shows how much these products are used by the people. It’s important for us which kind of operating system we use according to our geographical location, if you are in Afghanistan it’s better to use PCs, because you don’t have apple support here, moreover you can’t find many software for the Macs. For me I prefer to

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