Mac or Windows?

skimore wrote

For it being easier, that's personal pref thing. Give a mac to someone that hasn't used one and they'll say the same you do about windows. As for the stability I disagree. Don't' install a bunch a crappy apps on the pc and windows is very stable.

It seems to be the personal preference of many people who used PC's for years and then switched. Obviously on day 1 they were new to it but they still decided the learning curve was worth it.

Don't forget, Apple was the first to make a computer fit inside your home with the Apple II. As Harvey said, Windows has simply followed in Apples footsteps. Apple is responsible for the true meaning of "personal Computer".

Have macs at home. Both my wife and I use PC's for work (both at large corporations, me in a finance position, her in marketing).

For our personal use the macs are great. Why? Mainly just dead simple to maintain and keep running well. No perfect mind you, but easy. I'm on a 2008 iMac right now which hardly ever gets shut down - maybe once every two months. It runs pretty much like new. I did replace the hard drive (did it myself) a few years back since it was dying but hard drives are the same component in macs and PC's for the most part.

No issues with crossover use. I will say that I am a heavy user of Excel and find that easier to use on a PC than a Mac but probably just due to the amount that I use is on a PC.

I don't have much recent experience with PC's for home use. But my dad (75 y.o.) often calls me when something is f'd up on either his desktop PC or the laptop they bought a couple years ago. I have no clue how to help him in most cases. Their browsers (IE, Chrome) get filled with shit from god knows where (adware I think - and Dad ain't even looking at porn! ).

And then there was Windows 8. W.T.F. Their laptop still has it and every time I have to try and use it for something I want to bash the f'n thing's screen in. If I hadn't switched to Mac a long time ago, that would have made me.

My family should be getting a holiday card every year from Apple..We have 6 Mac and Iphones..It's just the path we chose..No arguing  that Apple has great service and high quality product..

But...My oldest daughter finds her mac struggles with Autocad and other engineering programs. She will be forced into buy a windows machine..

Ethan Snow wrote

Don't forget, Apple was the first to make a computer fit inside your home with the Apple II.

I wouldn't be using that reasoning for my purchase unless you need to be that cooler/trendier guy that likes the idea of saying "I use a Mac". Pick the one that does what you want at a price you are willing to pay

Ok here's  the old guy vote .

Used PC's exclusively from late 80's till about 4 yrs ago , had to that's what the college had and our home use was also PC .

Used several different brands , never had a preference . They all did the job to some degree, not always intuitive . However the problem  each would underperform our expectations in relatively short order ,usually seizing up or balking

So we went to Mac for both of us at home a couple yrs ago . Never going back baby ! Is it perfect ? Hell no ,nothing is , But suits our needs . Mac imho is more intuitive and has not gotten gummed up .

warp daddy wrote

Ok here's  the old guy vote .

Used PC's exclusively from late 80's till about 4 yrs ago , had to that's what the college had and our home use was also PC .

Used several different brands , never had a preference . They all did the job to some degree, not always intuitive . However the problem  each would underperform our expectations in relatively short order ,usually seizing up or balking

So we went to Mac for both of us at home a couple yrs ago . Never going back baby ! Is it perfect ? Hell no ,nothing is , But suits our needs . Mac imho is more intuitive and has not gotten gummed up .

My old parents used a cheap mac mini $500 they got in 2005 until 2015. I don't think there is a better value in computing assuming you have a monitor and keyboard laying around. It was still very functional but vendors decided to stop issuing updates for the OS and it would have been on me to figure out workarounds, so i told them to upgrade. I still can't believe that cheap mac lasted for so long.

Myself, I used my 2007 MacBook Pro to code professionally until last year.

I defy anyone to show me working pc's of that ancient age in both home and professional use. In the time I had my macbook pro, my brother had 3 pc laptops. All were cheap and all had their own headaches including the time spent looking for upgrades.

Software can always change, but OSX was such a leap forward from the shitty Microsoft stuff at the time (it basically came out when windows 2000/NT etc were in use) that there is no arguing about its dominance from 2004-2014. Maybe with the newer stuff it's personal preference, but over the last decade, no fucking way.

A big part of this is still due to the fact that macs are built on top of unix which is awesome and stable and pc's are built on bill gates' vision of a different way of doing things and I think his ego got in the way there, perfection being the enemy of good enough and all that.

Jason, What kind of Mac is she using? I run AutoCad too, and it works fine on my Mac. It's Mac comparable as it is. I also run Siemens Solid Edge, and that I have to run in Parallels, because its a windows based system. Both programs work great on my Mac. It works better than the oversized, inneficient PCs with 64 gig of ram that we use in the Lab. when it comes to engineering software, you do need a big machine, and that goes for windows too. Any entry level Mac or PC is not going to run that software very well. I have the 15 Macbook Pro, and its got all the power of one of those 10 lb brick engineering laptops, but it's even faster!

Maybe she doesn't need a PC, she just needs new Mac.

That's exactly it ML. Those white Plastic laptops kick ass.  

I am still using a PC I received as part of a promotion from Frontier. When windows slowed down I went to Linux. I am currently running Ubuntu on that box.