And the winner is...

Scan the win-lose ratio and you might conclude that the PC has served the Mac with a brutal punishment beating. In practise, it’s much more finely balanced. Partly that’s because when Mac is at its best, we have no problem recognising that it can be utterly delightful. It’s also worth remembering that Apple’s well implemented Boot Camp dual-booting utility means you can often have your mac-OS cake and eat Windows at the same time.

Ultimately, however, so much of this comparison comes down to personal preference. For us, the power, flexibility, freedom, and configurability of the PC is what it’s all about. If you’re dead serious about getting things done your way, and not being held up or messed around by somebody else’s idea of what makes a good computing platform, PC wins hands down.

Where Mac makes sense for us is as a secondary system with a relatively narrow remit. Powerful desktop PC at home; a thin slice of tasty Apple portability on the move. Sounds good to us. But if there could only be one, there can only be one. And it’s the PC.