I've been using PC's since MS Dos, and prior to that I was using Workbench on the Amiga.
For some reason I've always hated Apple... with a passion bcos:

- I hate their users attitude; are generally superficial retards with no f'ing idea, who can only come up with BS like "Windows crashes, Macs don't"
- Their expensive
- I thought they had no SW
- No games
- Not expandable
- No right or middle click

But recently I was told I could buy, use for 2 weeks and return an Apple product... so I bought a MacBookPro retina used it for 18 days and returned it... and then bought another which I'm keeping.

Here's what I like:

- It's REALLY configurable... everything is a file (no registry), it has little apps which launch other apps and the Apple Dev site tells you all about them.

- USB3 flies, on my Win7 NEC USB3 I can copy a 20GB file in ~4:40 minutes, the Mac will do it in 1:50. It doesn't tell you how fast it's transferring but I used an app that said ~200Mb/s, the PC will start off @ 320Mb/s... then end at 90.

- It's fast, my equivalent Mac software actually performs much better... it could be bcos of my 1GB/s SSD, but my comparison PC has 2x256GB RAID0 and much faster GPU... but the Mac apps just seem to load everything faster.

I had a lot of issues adapting to the new OS, but a couple hacks/apps later and I've got right/middle clicks, and everything I used in a PC.

What are your thoughts on the Mac vs Windows.

Reminds me of the comedian a few (OK, many) years back who said

"who needs a 486, nobody can wank that fast"

Still true it would seem

I use both, i don't go past the first 10% of what they both can do, but i love my Mac's

jbshack said..

I use both, i don't go past the first 10% of what they both can do, but i love my Mac's

^ I'll second that. Chrome instead of Safari , Mac works like a charm. No issues for the last 3 years.

Little Jon said..

What about versus google

At my son's school, a leading GPS school in Brisbane, they have changed to BYOD (bring your own device) with minimum specs, 17cm screen, minimum 5 hour battery life, WiFi capable, CPU, RAM, graphics and memory sufficient to run Google Docs. All work will be saved to the Google Cloud.

Specialized subjects such as graphics, music etc will require a dedicated capable device/PC/Mac.

It seems to be the way of the future.

Apple vs Windows

We had a windows machine which I used for music production...missus got a video camera (older cassette type one) and wanted to put on the PC to edit....3 months 4 different cords and half a dozen patches/downloads/new editing software later we finally had the content on the PC and could edit...near the end of this process I decided to go back to Macs for music so I got a new imac plugged the video i and the boss was editing 5 minutes later....thats why I like them when you ask it to do something it does it...when you plug something in it works

Tux said..

.when you plug something in it works

Apple is great when it's one device . Try "just plugging in" an apple device onto a domain and see how it "just works"

Autodesk has a zillion dollars and not much to spend it on, so they invest in everything. They offer A'cad for Mac, plus for tablets of both apple & android flavours.

But I've never heard of it being used on a Mac. I could imagine some crusty old arty types who used a board to do the more artistic cad (set design, home renos maybe) might choose Mac. Never in a business environment.

cisco said..

Little Jon said..

What about versus google

At my son's school, a leading GPS school in Brisbane, they have changed to BYOD (bring your own device) with minimum specs, 17cm screen, minimum 5 hour battery life, WiFi capable, CPU, RAM, graphics and memory sufficient to run Google Docs. All work will be saved to the Google Cloud.

Specialized subjects such as graphics, music etc will require a dedicated capable device/PC/Mac.

It seems to be the way of the future.

solves a few of my issues with work related files used by multiple companies ( surveyor x 2, civil works contractors x 3, planners, drafters, engineers x 3, hydrologist, landscapers, fire management, environmental x 4, geotechs, water corp, shires, etc), fortunately most like using .dwg autocad format
can be hard changing a few of the set ideas of a few of them though (eg WC wont allow dropbox links or google docs, they like 6 sets of A1 paper, signed and certified in blue ball point, )
would let me sit back and wait for the wind to come in

Tux said..

Kamikuza said..

Tux said..

Apple vs Windows

We had a windows machine which I used for music production...missus got a video camera (older cassette type one) and wanted to put on the PC to edit....3 months 4 different cords and half a dozen patches/downloads/new editing software later we finally had the content on the PC and could edit...near the end of this process I decided to go back to Macs for music so I got a new imac plugged the video i and the boss was editing 5 minutes later....thats why I like them when you ask it to do something it does it...when you plug something in it works

dusta and cisco has it - if you'd had the right hardware (PCI video capture card) it would have been 5 minutes.

Fixing an apple...
Search the web, reset the SMC, reboot, search some more, try black magic ceremony, sacrifice a goat, give up take the machine to the store... and it works as soon as they turn it on.

Not all the built-in hardware works... SD card reader - in and out for hours trying to get a card to work, take it upstairs to my PC with the $5 card reader and BANG works straight off, first time.

So I needed to get another video card added to my PC to do something that my Imac did straight out of the box

and some codecs

Tux said..

Kamikuza said..

Tux said..

Apple vs Windows

We had a windows machine which I used for music production...missus got a video camera (older cassette type one) and wanted to put on the PC to edit....3 months 4 different cords and half a dozen patches/downloads/new editing software later we finally had the content on the PC and could edit...near the end of this process I decided to go back to Macs for music so I got a new imac plugged the video i and the boss was editing 5 minutes later....thats why I like them when you ask it to do something it does it...when you plug something in it works

dusta and cisco has it - if you'd had the right hardware (PCI video capture card) it would have been 5 minutes.

Fixing an apple...
Search the web, reset the SMC, reboot, search some more, try black magic ceremony, sacrifice a goat, give up take the machine to the store... and it works as soon as they turn it on.

Not all the built-in hardware works... SD card reader - in and out for hours trying to get a card to work, take it upstairs to my PC with the $5 card reader and BANG works straight off, first time.

So I needed to get another video card added to my PC to do something that my Imac did straight out of the box

With a name like Tux shouldn't you be plugging Linux??????

I don't know much about any computer but how stupid are the apple stickers on cars. I find people right into their apple are the same people with trendy clothes name brand but living at home with mum at age 29/30

FlySurfer said..

dan111984 said..
Welcome to the family.. Don't forget to put your apple sticker on the back of your car.

To the right of

?

That would be cool..

Like **** I'm going to tag every single file that's dumber than start rating photos, songs or videos LOL

Hate having to run secondary apps to get Safari to toggle through tabs with trackpad gestures... especially with all the options built in already.

The problem with Mac OS is there are so many fernicaty ways of doing the simple things that Apple forces you to use... then overwrites all your custom settings at the next OS update /rolleyes

Why would I want to do that?
"Is this a good photo? Let me not look at the photo but check the rating. Ah yes, 2 stars - clearly not worth looking at. Good thing I don't use Thumbnail view, then I would have had to look at it..."
Whee, I make me laff.

I've been using a PC as long as you, it sounds like - and have never had to reset my custom settings why should I spend time learning how to restore settings?

Apple... telling you how to use your **** since forever.

cRAZY Canuk said..Oh and office namely excel sucks

There, I fixed it!