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What is the difference between MAC and WINDOWS

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What is the difference between MAC and WINDOWS

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OK, lets split this into two parts, as you’re clearly mixing up your Hardware and Software here. On the hardware side, we have Apple Macs (iMac, Macbook, Mac Mini etc) and PC’s (x86 or x64 Desktop computers, laptops, netbooks etc) On the software side (Operating system specifically) We have Mac OS X (Apple) and Microsoft Windows (Microsoft) – there are others, but lets not get into that right now! Apple Macs (Hardware) Since they began building systems based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors, are effectively the same basic hardware as a PC (Minus a few low level differences to the way they boot up) This means that they can now run both the Mac OS (Tiger – OS X 10.4, Leopard – 10.5, Snow Leopard -10.6 etc) and Microsoft Windows via Bootcamp (a Mac OS utility that allows you to create space on your hard drive to install a version of windows (XP, Vista, 7) and then help you through the installation, setup and installation of hardware drivers (to make the iSight camera etc work)). A PC can ru

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