[waxcrash]

If found this on the web:

Apple Macintosh computers have been used within the print industry for many years and they have colour management built-in at system level. At the heart of every Mac is something called 'ColorSync' which allows input from scanners and output to colour printers to be viewable with a high degree of confidence on any attached monitor and, although not 100% foolproof because of the fundamental differences in RGB and CMYK, what you see on the screen is more or less what you get when you go to print.
Windows PCs are primarily designed as office machines for word processing, spreadsheets and database work. They are also very price-sensitive. So, there is very little standardisation of colour on monitors. An office PC is not a suitable tool for graphic design simply because you can't trust what you see on the monitor.

Do you think it is still true?

[godzookie2k]

yes, color management on the mac still whips up on the pc like its goin out of style.

[bmmp]

Very true.
But it has little to do with PCs themselves, it's just Windows doens't natively support color calibration. It's not their responsibility. It's the responsibility of the monitor/graphics card manufacturer, and it's Apple's vertical intergration with all it's hardware and software that allows Apple to sell it's products. Apple is first and foremost is a hardware company. Apple makes software, like colorsync, to sell their products. Which is also why you will never see OSX and FCP for Windows machines.

Color is very important to the design industry and although Colorsync is a bit complex to fully understand, it's not completely out of grasp.