I actually (mostly) like Office:mac 2011. It’s a lot more Mac-like than things like LibreOffice. That said, because I use Office 2010 at work professionally, I can use Office a heck of a lot more efficiently (faster) at work than I can at home using Office:mac. It helps that Office on Window still allows me to use the old accelerator keys, despite not having menus to support them.
I’ve been using the Office 2015 preview for the Mac at home, and although it also doesn’t support accelerator keys, it does still support traditional Mac menus. This means it’s a lot faster for me to read and choose what I want from the logical menus than it is to use Google to figure out which stupid ribbon tab and icon represents a function that I don’t use often enough to remember where it’s at (yes, I know, it’s 2015 and I still choose to bitch about the stupid ribbon).
Edit: I can’t seem to turn off the stupid cell animation, though. I hate stupid special effects. When I select a cell, I don’t need to get motion sickness watching is fly to a new cell.
Yes, pretty much this. Ever since Windows 7, Windows doesn’t really suck anymore. I still prefer my Macs, but at least Windows is reliable.
What crashes? Crashes these days are generally indicative of a hardware issue, not software. Previous comments ask about the RAM. The Windows memory test and Memtest have failed to pick up errors in the past for me. The test that has worked reliably for me is Prime95.
As for the platform, Apple vs PC, gaming is better on PCs.
All of those user interfaces are, as I said, a bad joke when compared to both Windows and OSX. Their user interface design is awful and generally not consistent.
But hey, this year will the year of Linux on the desktop ™.
Oh and for the record, I have Windows, Linux and OSX machines at home. Each has their own role which they are best at. Windows for games, OSX for general usage and Linux for my servers.
We have Mac’s at home because as the old phase goes, they just work. They have the Office for Mac but 99% of the documents we use work just fine on Libre Office, and the take less time to load. At work, it is 90% Linux. Miss DrumBum has a Mac laptop at school and they use Libre Office. The only issue she has had was a battery replacement about four years ago.
Finally, I have quite a few shares of Apple stock so I recommend you buy a Mac.
Everyone talks about Macs and malware, but my dad got malware on the one at church just trying to install an adblocker. Macs are not foolproof.
and, yeah, if Windows 7 is bluescreening so often, there’s something wrong. Hardware or drivers or a particular Windows update (the one upgrading to Direct2D 1.1–it doesn’t work correctly on some Intel GPUs).
Yes, if he doesn’t download a “required viewer” application or some other so-called required app, then give it permission to install.
That’s the equivalent of a poster-size statement saying “Here be Windows viruses.”
OS X supports Flash, but it isn’t installed at the factory. It must be downloaded, preferably from Adobe, not some site such as CNET that has a bad reputation for including shovelware, spyware and redirect malware in apps.
If a Windows user is familiar with Firefox, it’s the same on a Mac, so there’s nothing to relearn. But it should be downloaded from Mozilla’s site, NOT from CNET or from anywhere else.
I don’t worry about any of that. There are no Mac viruses in the wild (meaning outside of labs and wannabes in Russian basements), and no antivirus apps written for Macs can scan for OS X viruses, because there are none and no way to know what to look for. This has been the case for 15 years. Erstwhile Windows users find it hard to believe, though, and antivirus companies market to them.
I don’t open email attachments from spammers or retailers I may have done business with only because they may contain web bugs (and any retailers have only a Yahoo mail address).
OS X includes XProtect that runs in the background to help protect against malicious downloaded apps. Apple updates it through system updates. A user might not know it exists. It’s invisible.
If the adblocker was downloaded from a site like CNET that loads Firefox with crap, it would have contained adware and/or redirect software built in, and it would have required the user’s permission to install. The malware was not a virus.
