This is going to be my first useful thread and hopefully will help people who are going to purchase a new computer. Im going to warn you that Im not a native english speaker so my english is not going to be the best but it should be readable. Feel free to add anything you know or ask me any question. I'll try my best to answer the questions you have.
Ok, so let me start off by saying that Macs are better as a laptop. Why? Unless you're a serious gamer or a video editor you'll probably wont care what hardware is in your laptop. And even if you do you need to spend at least several thousand $$$ to get a laptop that can come close to a custom build gaming or workstation Desktop PC that cost less than 1k. So if you have the money you should probably go with a mac as it is very user friendly and has a very good customer service. Another benefit for getting a mac is that you can repair almost everything you break. There are repair services for macs all over the internet and there are a lot of spare parts that you can get to repair you're broken mac like a trackpad or a loose keyboard, for instance. So, if you're going to get a laptop try to save a couple more $$$ and spend it on a macbook or a macbook pro. There are a few exceptions though, for example if you're very tight on budget, you could probably get a laptop that cost around 400-500$ that will perform as good as a 999$ macbook but I reccomend most user to go with a mac laptop.
Now, for a desktop, I reccomend most user to get a Window based PC cause it can benefits both Gamers and the average consumer. If you're into gaming, you can build a killer rig that can walk all over a 5k$ mac pro for under 1k$. Also, you can customize almost every part of a PC. For example, if you want to run many application at once, you can build a pc with a 6 amd core pc with lots of ram for a very good price. Or you can turn your PC into a gaming beast by getting an i7 cpu with a high end graphics card that will beat most PC for less than 2k. If not, you can buy a premade pc that can do everything a 2000 $$$ Imac can do for about 600-700$.
So this conclude my guide for people who are going to get a new computer/laptop and I hope this will help some people. Feel free to post any comments or questions below and thanks for reading! 
