Why are macs good

I realize some Windows users will take offense at this comment, but it serves to capture the different ethos between the two users. The Mac platform for me is an intuitive and creative operating system. It not only helps me with basic tasks, but it lets me transcend them as a powerful creative tool.

When I leave the ground, my creative juices flow like the waters of the Amazon, and a positive torrent of wild thoughts and creations spring forth into the world in which I live. This perhaps explains the extreme emotional attachment people have for their Macs. A Mac is more like a piece of furniture or art as opposed to a cold pale beige business tool. I have gone to mac from pc and find that I am far more productive in the mac environment than the pc.

Instead of figuring out how to make pc do what I want, I just do it. The mac environment is far more intuitive. No longer do I have to mess about with software and hardware that isnt working. On the back of using the mac I have changed my my mobile to an iphone and I am now enjoying the world of mobileme and everything that brings.

Yes, there is a premium to pay on the design and the mac equivalent of excel is terrible to use, but other than that, there is no way I would ever revert back to a PC. Full marks to Apple, they have got it right. Perhaps the difference in perception is because PC users tend to be employed, and not drug addicts. Not to mention more self reserved. For that reason, a Mac can last running newer aplication over the time, longer than PC.

For that reason you have to buy pieces of hardware in order to keep working your PC with the last software in the market. You can add parts to increase the value of a PC. They adapt to the way the world of computers advance. I just upgraded my home PC to have a 3. The Yes side is once again inverting the case. Developers HATE having limited hardware to work with, less processing power and less graphical power and less ram means less creativity.

This is comming first hand from a developer. On mobile operating systems it is different as they are genuinely intuitive. Macs have a better performance than a pc. Apple creates the operating system, Mac OS X, for the computers that they design themselves. In the other hand, Windows and Linux have to be compatible with all the alternatives that the PC market offers to users. For that reason a Mac can run faster than a PC, even with less technical specifications. Better performance is created by the mainly by the hardware, not the software.

PCs and Macs both use the same parts, but when Apple sells the same parts in their computers, they charge a lot more for them. Mac users do not understand the concept of Price:Performance ratio. This ratio is used by all computer hardware enthusiasts to gauge the value of thier computer. Currently Hewlett Packard has the worst, Gateway the best. Apple is 3rd last in Price:Performance.

And my computer doesnt have malware! Macs are definetly more easy to use, especially when it comes to applications. I used to use Word for all of my projects, but now I turn to Pages, the Apple version.

Pages has all of the options right there for you. I use Macs instead of Windows for all of my school projects. No, you do not need an iPod to use iTunes. With a PC, you have to buy an mp3 or an iPod to get iTunes or a similar app. Microsoft fully owns their office suite.

Also, why would Apple have to develop all the applications for their own operating system? Microsoft sees a need to develop for Mac OS X, and so they did. Just because a competing software company is developing applications for a platform that is not their own means nothing. Also, what is the problem with using iMovie?

Is there a problem with fun? There is little learning curve, and makes it very easy to do what you want. Macintosh iLife is fare more intuitive than Windows Live.

In the defense of the PC, however, some of the Macs most popular things got their start from a branch of Windows computers which are the biggest competitors to Macs, whose company is headed by the multi-millionaire, Bill Gates. I know this as a fact because my father and I both have Microsoft Windows computers made in , before Mac computers were really in the picture.

This means that these programs were either created by Windows and then sold to the Apple company for a large sum of money or were taken by Apple and improved without the copyright of Windows.

And what is the point of iTunes with no iPod? Macs do not ask for a restart on every single app installation.

They ask only for critical core updates and therefore allow a user to save time and effort. Windows 7 based applications do not require a system restart, this argument holds no ground. Mac have prefect graphic compare to other operation system, that most of graphic designer in the world use Mac. This arguement holds no ground, it makes no sense to anyone who knows anything about graphics. Please go to amd.

This is a non-debate. Sure, Apple hardware looks quite slick, and they may well look pretty on-screen too. But that does not make them inherently better at everything. A high-load server is probably best off running on Unix, Solaris or Linux rather than an Xserve.

Video editing is better on Macs, and business productivity on Windows currently, whereas many 3d animation studios make use of Linux render farms, and several airlines used pared down Linux kernels to run in-flight entertainment systems.

A broad, sweeping X is better than Y means nothing when they are targeted at different markets. Macs come packaged as a single unit, one catch-all operating system. While this may well be fine for home users, in other environments it is not particularly apt. Why run a Mac as a firewall box when a stripped-down, specialized Linux distribution ipcop can do the job more efficiently?

Macs are very good, yes, but they are not the panacea the proposition side believe they are. Set up a group policy… dang, not there either. Startup scripts? Surely you can image the Mac and restore a dozen of them to their original state!

Sadly, no you cannot. Macs and Windows PCs are not aimed at the same market, as the poster of the argument claims. PCs and Macs both aim at the wide variety of computer markets. In the office, Mac technologies make networking and data sharing excessively easy, and their general immunity to viruses makes them safer workstations. As a server, Xserve has a dedicated support team that knows the hardware inside out, and is much easier to use than a Linux alternative.

The reason why this debate exists is that we believe that in all the markets, Macs are more capable than PCs. You have to pay a very high premium for the stylish looks and ease-of-use of a Mac. Comparable PCs can be bought much cheaper, a natural consequence of there being so many different suppliers all competing for market share. Which means you get more for your money by buying a PC. The fact that the PC-component market is crowded is only good for consumers, as it increases competition and drives prices down.

This cannot be good for consumers; monopolies never are. Let the Mac users wail in denail. I will hold on to my PC until the end of Microsoft. People pay for looks and style. This is an undeniable fact. Why else do we have catwalks and fashion houses? Mac computers are more expensive, but that is because they are better computers in terms of style and ease of use.

A Skoda costs less than a Mercedes that does the same job, but if you gave people the option, more people would choose the Merc any day. The argument that the premium is excessively high is also a non-starter.

Furthermore, is the fact that there are many PC and PC component suppliers a good thing? It is easier to get a greater range of spare parts for a PC than a Mac.

For Macs, you often only have one choice at one price like a command economy , for PCs, there is a greater range of choices and a range of prices and qualities. Mac OS X is not optimized, this is a misconception spread by Apple, they use the same Kext based drivers as linux, which are less reliable than the Shell based drivers of Windows.

This is a common misperception about Macs. Macs use the same hard drives that go into PCs, which means you can easily buy any SATA hard drive from the same sites you order your PC hard drive and replace the one that comes by default with your Mac.

And we have to take in mind, that indeed they are pieces of hardware as Ram, videocards, ans other which are no Mac compatible. Mac users think that they are better than anyone else. They are also full of themselves and think they are cooler than the rest. Such an attitude can lead to anti-social behavior. It can also lead to Mac users losing their friends as people will tend to ignore them.

This debate was started by a mac user. Every debate of this kind is started by a mac user. This is a complete generalisation. Every debate of this kind is started by a Mac user. That is in no way true. Some Mac users do like to think that their computers are better than most other Windows or Linux computers on the market. Something interesting to think about is that if every debate made in this way was started by a Mac user, how many PC users even want to stand up?

How many truly think that they are able to back up their points if every debate of this kind is started by a Mac user? It is a well established fact that no Mac gan go a year or two without experiencing some kind of a hardware defect. With the old machines iBook, Powerbook, etc , it was usually the hard-drives and logic boards that drove users crazy. But with the advent of the new Intel based machines, problems have started popping up everywhere. Macbooks have faced random shutdowns which almost led to a class action lawsuit against Apple , discoloration, chipping, display dimming and other such problems.

The life expectancy of Mac hardware is still horribly low. And since its almost impossible to replace many critical and defective parts within Macs, a defect can cause you to throw away your machine unless, as mentioned above, you had the oversight to purchase applecare well in advance.

This is not a problem with Apple, this is a problem with all laptops, which contain hard drives that were not created to be portable. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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This helps support our journalism. Learn more. This is especially true when you use apps natively engineered for the new processor, like the Safari web browser. You can still download and install apps made for Intel's x86 chips the ones in every PC you've likely ever owned.

That's because Apple has a transition tool called Rosetta 2 that will automatically ask to be downloaded alongside these apps. It's what enables them to work well with the M1, often better than on Intel Macs. But over the past year, many apps—like Adobe Lightroom and Google Chrome—have made M1 versions available, so you shouldn't have a problem. If you're worried your favorite app might not work, do some research and scour forums to see if an M1 version is available, or if the x86 version runs just fine.

The MacBook Air lasted me more than a full workday, with the battery hitting 22 percent after I ran it almost nonstop from 9 am to 7 pm using Safari and work apps like Slack.

I had to plug in the previous Intel model by 4 pm. M1 machines also can instantly wake up from sleep whenever you tap the keyboard or trackpad or lift the screen, just like when you tap your iPhone or iPad to wake it up. That's a stark difference from older MacBooks that took several seconds to light up. There's also no fan in the MacBook Air, meaning it remains whisper-quiet even under the heaviest loads.

There is a thermal heat spreader to dissipate heat, but it also never gets too warm. It comes with gigabytes of storage, but you can upgrade to another model with an extra graphics core and gigs. Unless you need more storage, the extra core isn't worth the jump in price. My biggest gripes with this machine? The p webcam isn't great, and M1 Macs only natively support one external monitor.

There are some workarounds you can employ to connect it to multiple displays. Apple didn't play it safe with its newest MacBook Pro In addition to a inch version, the company is also offering a inch model for the first time ever. We haven't tested them yet, but they're the ones to buy if you've been waiting for the most powerful MacBook with Apple's silicon.

Both screens are larger than their chassis— Yep, you heard that right. The new and improved p webcam sits in a notch at the top-center of the display, but there's no Face ID here, just Touch ID baked into the keyboard. That said, the menu bar that flanks the notch doesn't eat into your or inch screen space. It'll all feel a great deal smoother too, because Apple added ProMotion, which enables a Hz refresh rate. You can read more about it here. The best part of these two new MacBooks?

Apple had erased the pesky Touch Bar for a row of physical function keys instead, and you finally get more ports. This is the first time a MacBook has had this many ports since Additional perks include microphones that are decent enough for recording a podcast, a six-speaker sound system, and the return of the MagSafe charging port, which lets you magnetically connect the charger to the MacBook Pro. You can still charge it via USB-C. You can feel safe in knowing that the MacBook won't fly off your desk when you trip over the wire.

You have the option to outfit them with either the M1 Pro or the M1 Max processors, which we go into in detail below.