Mac vs PC Hardware

The hardware is the same. Made by Foxconn, Intel, Asus (in the past at least) Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, LG...it's really all the same.

But a product is only as good as it's designers, and Apple designs every aspect of theirs to extreme precision.

RAM and other resources tend to go a long way with OS X in comparison to Windows. I've experienced 768mb of RAM in my single 1.25ghz processor PowerMac G4 from 2001 feeling like my 2005 AMD 2.x GHZ dual core processor with 1GB and Windows.

As far as how smoothly things work, OS X (and any Unix or Unix-like system, for that matter) will always top Windows.

Think some computer is too old? It's just too old for Windows. We still install Linux on Pentium 3's and use them today.

 

Well, the hardware is pretty much the same. Apple uses Intel chips, the same as found in other Intel systems. RAM, HDD, screens, DVD drives, and a lot else are bought from various mfgrs. The chipset is pretty common too. Apple does do some tweaks of its own, like the batteries and charging. Apple does layout the board themselves, but the components are common.

There is a bit to be said about 2gb ram better on Mac than PC; there's lots of people say OSx utilizes ram better than windows.

The difference is OSx in my book.