Thanks for getting the correct answer out there whilst I was I bed 
The amount of misinformation I get from ignorant Windows users about Macs is staggering. Hell I still hear the ‘one mouse button’ thing.
Having used desktop computers in my work since the TRS-80, including those running CPM, DOS, Windows, SVR4, BSD, and OS X, I’ve heard more stuff like the above about Windows than all the others combined. I think to keep a Windows PC running useably well typically requires being a hobbyist plus staying on top of a treacherous competitive world of computer security.
I’ve used a Mac exclusively for my home computing for a few years now and spend ZERO time fighting with security software. I have essentially forgotten the whole topic except when it comes up in debates like this, and when it screws things up at the office (where there’s a huge IT staff to help deal with this mess). The first clue about computer security is that, at best, it is an unrewarding thing that almost nobody would want to deal with if they weren’t forced by necessity to.
This. This is the whole thing. If you want to pick something other than computers as your hobby, Apple is better. I really wish it was perfect, but there’s no question it’s closer than PCs.
Hmm, the only places I’ve ever noticed running into malware are on porn sites and “free software” sites.
Linux is for computer geeks.
PCs are for corporate people whose IT dept wants to ensure they never even see a nut or bolt, let alone can control it.
Macs are for creative types and fussy people with too much money.
Everybody else has been using their iPhone exclusively for years, unless they can only afford Android.
That may not be very accurate but it’s at least more accurate than your silly generalization.
Or, you can do what I do, and build your own “Hackintosh.”
Then, you can have the best of both worlds- all the enjoyment of fighting BIOS and driver issues, with the pleasure of running OS X.
You don’t really sound like much of an ADVOCATE for the PC here.
This is just not accurate.
How would a user know in advance that the site they are going to is one “they shouldn’t”?
When a user goes to a blog run by WordPress, how are they supposed to know about the vulnerabilities?
There is a pretty good chance that you have some sort of malware sitting silently on your PC right now. The anti-virus vendors, even with multiple on the same PC simply can’t keep up with identifying the signatures. 30% of all PC’s in the US are infected, but keep in mind that corporate PC’s probably have the most defense and are most likely to be clean, which means for home users that percent is most likely higher.
These days almost all PC brands are made in the same Chinese factories, they might use slightly different components.
Whatever happened to all those Mac fans who told me Intel chips were total crap. Did they all die off?
I like to walk by the Apple store so I can see arrogance billowing out the door.
Being a Mac has little to do with your work, as it is a function of software. If a specific piece of software you prefer is only available for Apple, so be it. Everything you can do on an Apple computer has equivalent options available in windows based machines. Apple makes a solid machine, you will never hear me say otherwise, but they are no better in build or component quality than windows based machines of similar price point.
I am a computer tech, and run no active antivirus. I check it every 4-6 weeks, and its usually totally clean.
Some people beat the hell out of their cars because of their driving style and will always have car problems, some people beat the hell out of their computers and will always have computer problems.
Every recording studio I have been to uses Macs.
Why?
Because Macs don’t randomly crash halfway through a session and leave you with an angry client who refuses to pay.
Yet the only issues in my business are the occasional hardware failure, the same kinds of hardware Apple builds on as well.
I guarantee I see WAY more computers than you do on a daily basis, and see plenty of screwed up Apples.
There’s little debate that the 68000 series of chips were more elegant than their Intel counterparts, and the PowerPC processors were better in many respects, too, but it’s hard to compete with the enormous marketing and manufacturing resources that Intel has. Just look at AMD for an example of that.
Just now I clicked on a file in a folder in order to launch it. It doesn’t launch anything; it just pages the whole window to the right. That’s not what I wanted to happen. It’s not intuitive. Double clicking something as simple as a file in my window should do what I expect it to do. Little things like that are what make me miss my Mac. I’ve used Windows and Mac both extensively, but those little things about Windows piss me off. My Mac tries to be nice to me. Sometimes it fails. My Windows is being a dick to me for reasons I don’t understand and Windows doesn’t give a shit if I understand. But Apple is really pricey. Conundrum.
Those brilliant people at Apple switched to “inferior” Intel chips due to marketing? I guess they are not so smart after all.
I would like to get a Mac Book Air but I need to run Windows. Was looking at a Lenovo ThinkPad T430. The price is right. Never ran Windows on a Mac. I’m hesitant. Mabye a Mac Pro laptop to run Windows instead of the Air? Dunno. I code in C and interface with TCP. I should know this but I’m really busy.
If you really want me to get into all the nitty-gritty details about Apple’s switch to x86 architecture, I can.
But I sense that you would rather just post snarky comments.
Duplicate post.
A MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM can run Windows using Parallels just fine.
I have an Apple iMac and a MacBook Pro. I also have an iPhone 5. Love all of them and have never had problems with any of them.
Huh? We can talk about annoyances with either OS, but I can’t say I understand or can conceptualize what is going on.
If we’re talking Win8, that’s a separate issue there that we can’t justify, but you aren’t talking about Windows in general. If we are generalizing I can bitch about Apple arbitrarily changing the scroll direction in Lion (I understand the justification, but like in Win8 it makes sense on a tablet but not if you are using a mouse).