What are the tecnical differences between P.C (windows) and Apple (Mac)?

I would really like to know the technical differences between the two for something I'm writing. I've read alot of posts on the internet that say simple things like "one is compatible with P.C the other is not." Or "one has security holes." I would really appreciate it if somebody knew concrete technical differences like, how graphics/tex/information is processed, specifically what makes Mac OS more streamlined and integrated, etc.





Just any technical information that you might imagine a computer programmer understands about their differences.





Thanks!

What are the tecnical differences between P.C (windows) and Apple (Mac)?
PC'S get viruses





Apple macs can't play video games
Reply:The only difference between them is the Operating System (OS). Mac uses a Linux based system (i believe) and Windows uses something completely different. Mac OS is a bit more secure in its creation whereas Microsoft left a lot of holes in their programming. That isn't to say that Macs can't get viruses though. Also, Windows based PC's cannot run Mac OSX....something about the configuration, you'll have to research that....but Macs are able to run Windows through Bootcamp or another program of the like.
Reply:u cant upgrade and like all oem computers ur limited with mac and about viruses ppl will catch up as soon as its worth it to few macs out ther
Reply:Macs have better programming.





They do play video games, just not all the junk you see geared for windows.





The speech recognition is great, I did not have to train Vickie. However--I am still training Huey (hp notebook/tablet) with inferior speech recognition. Sheesh it has to be trained to learn my speaking voice.
Reply:You'll get some very good answers on this I'm sure.





The main difference, obviously, is the underlying operating system. MacOS is a variant of linux. That's the main reason that hackers don't go after Macs...linux isn't bulletproof, but it can be darn close.





Also, since Windows has the majority of the desktops in the world, that's a much larger target for the hackers.





You can probably find alot of good discussion by googling using perhaps MacOS vs. Windows as your search criteria. I'm confident that PCWorld and others have good articles.





Good luck!

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