I’ve hated PCs all my life, but I’ve had to use ’em. Up until two years ago that was the case. But now I’m an Apple guy, a sworn Mac supporter, user and follower. This isn’t just to piss off the rest of the PC users, or to be different, or to bask in the glory that I paid an extra few grand for my laptop — it’s because I genuinely believe a Mac is better than a PC. And I can say this because I have used both comprehensively!
I’ve stood by and watched hundreds of arguments between Mac and PC users. Most end in personal attacks and the conversation becomes a battle of words that leaves behind the core topic of which is better and why. I’ve butted into many of these arguments simply to point out that if you’re going to compare things, put apples with apples (no pun intended). It’s typical PC-user logic to compare Windows (an operating system) with a Mac (a piece of hardware). This is why the argument will never reach any point close to conclusion in the first place.
And the one thing that grills my pip the most about these arguments is that the know-it-all PC user somehow feels he can provide cutting-edge opinions about a system he’s dabbled with in a Musica store for two minutes, if he’s gone that far at all.
So I’m here to state my case and give real-life examples of why I love my Mac and how it’s changed my life for the better personally and in my work.
My initial decision was a little daunting. I had a great Dell 17-inch laptop that served me pretty well. I was using it to develop websites, store my photos, edit small videos, surf the net, use email and run the odd application here and there. My problem with the laptop was that it simply couldn’t handle what I was doing at all. So here I was with the latest technology and upgraded RAM, and all I wanted was to have five applications open simultaneously without Explorer crashing on a daily basis.
Enter my Powerbook … I never switched it off from the day I got it to the day it got nicked in an office robbery.
After that I opted to go top of the range and got myself the new Intel-based Macbook Pro — which I have shut down once for an automatic software update since November last year. If anyone can prove that they have done this with their PC, I will consider giving you my Mac.
People mostly agree with me that the Mac, as a piece of hardware, is far superior to their flimsy, bulky PC-based laptops. But they question whether OSX is better, worse, as flexible or as commercial as Windows. My answer is simple: yes, it is.
I have email, internet, MS Office, Adobe Suite, Messenger, Skype, numerous EA games and zillions of developer tools and applications. And they all run simultaneously at lightning-fast speeds all the time while I’m burning CDs, downloading music, listening to music and having a video conference. This is my typical software usage each day.
And if there is ever (which there has never been) a time that I require something that can’t run on my Mac, I can flip over to Windows either by booting up or by running a Windows emulator — which, believe it or not, runs Windows 10 times smoother than any Power PC I’ve used recently.
Anyhow, I’m not trying to convert anyone; each to their own. I just want people to be educated before they make claims and presumptions about something they have never experienced.
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