There are only two calculation programs for the Mac, and there are dozens upon dozens of calculation programs for the PC. For those on a limited budget, PCs are much better choices.Ģ. you pay hundreds of dollars more for a Mac than a performance-equivalent PC. Some of the main reasons to purchase a Windows PC instead of a Mac are:ġ. (I am occasionally asked about Linux, smart phone apps, or other operating systems, and in my SoftStar News column, I have started to add articles on programs for these platforms.)ī. So unless you have a very compelling reason to go with the Mac platform, the best choice is to get a PC running under Windows. Even in more common areas of astrology like astromapping, transit graphing, or Vedic astrology, the programs available for PCs are the by far the best, and offer functions not available on the Mac. If you want to be able to use a specific technique, or chart a newly discovered planet, or explore a specialized branch of astrology (like Huber, Hellenistic, Cosmobiology, Chinese, Medieval, research, financial, etc.), you will need a Windows PC to be able to do the calculations. (In 2012, less than 7% of computers sold are Macs.)Īs a result, while there are only two Western astrology programs for the Mac, there are hundreds for Windows PCs.
As a result, PCs outsold Macs by a landslide, and astrology software companies focused on writing programs for PCs. But very quickly PCs dropped sharply in price - because IBM allowed other companies to make them - making them much more affordable to astrologers (at the time, Macs cost about three times as much). When PCs and Macs were first introduced, they were very expensive.
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