Iam giving a speech on Mac's. Its a persuasive speech to show how Macs are better then PCs. I pretty much have all the info i need already but am posting to see if you guys have any extra stuff to throw out there.
Without knowing what you already have, it's hard to know what to add. I agree with what D3v1L80Y says, but it doesn't help you really.
Here are the main advantages of an OS X Mac over a Windows based computer
- Security. Macs are inherently more secure than Windows based machines for 3 main reasons
1) Unix based operating systems have more levels of security by default, because you need explicit confirmation from the admin user to change certain system files
2) There are virtually no viruses written for macs. I am not sure why this is, but poor old Microsoft are targeted far more heavily as are Windows reliant corporations.
3) Internet Explorer. This is a huge hole in the Windows OS, which lets everything and anything in on most people's machines. Of course this can be mitigated by using Opera or Firefox
- Fewer hardware configurations. OS X is written for a handful of hardware configurations over which Apple has almost complete control (if you exclude external devices). If you take 10 average windows PCs, they'll probably have at least 100 combinations of CPU, Motherboard, gfx card, HDD, Audio hardware and monitor. This generally means OS X is more stable and you are less reliant upon 3rd party hardware vendors keeping drivers up to date and bug free.
- Stability. Keep a WinXP machine up for a few weeks without a reboot and see what happens. Complete crashes are now rare (believe it or not) but the machine will get very slow after a few days without a reboot. OS X won't do this.
- Faster. IMO, OS X is faster than Windows, like for like simply because a windows machine is usually bogged down with far more services and background applications keeping everything stable.
- Memory management. Install 4 gigs of RAM on an XP machine and it'll be barely faster than one with 1 gig, unless you use a single application that requires a huge amount of memory, such as a video editing application. OS X though will use whatever you give it to cache programmes, searches, indexing your files as you use them and all sorts - meaning memory is never wasted.
- HDD indexing. Search for "picture" on Spotlight and then on WinXP on a 100gig drive. Xp will be searching for a good 10 minutes on a machine that's been used for a few months.
- Interface. OS X just looks nicer.
- Design. Macs are designed to look good. I honestly believe Dells, for example, are designed to look as horrible as possible... and they do pretty well. Sony makes an effort to look "cool" but Windows based machines, especially laptops, fall well short of Apple's standards.
er... that's it for now...