How to set up your new Mac or PC notebook

Computer reviews rarely explain what it is like to unpack a new device and get it working.

Well, it’s time to redress that balance. We’re going to walk through the process of unpacking and running two notebook computers – an MSI Megabook S262 and an Apple MacBook – which are roughly the same price at £799 and £749 respectively.

We’re not going to review them, however. Instead, we’ll be showing what users of a brand new notebook computers can expect.

For years, owners of Windows-based PCs and Apple Macintoshes have enjoyed tossing verbal brickbats at each other.

Mac fans criticised their Windows counterparts for being boring and nicking all Apple’s ideas; they fired back that Macs were overpriced and that the people who used them were fashion victims. And on and on…

The fact is, both operating systems are pretty good. Both have strengths and shortcomings. Nowadays Apple and Microsoft are using the same Intel processors, so the hardware’s pretty much the same – even if it looks different on the outside of the case, the guts of Macs and PCs are pretty similar.

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