Hi,
This post is not flamebait, and neither am I looking to get a cheap rise out of the Mac community. So please take these comments on board with the genuine spirit in which they are intended. I'm not being disrespectful or anything like that - these are my genuine thoughts...
I've always been a Windows user from 3.1 all the way to 8. I'm a developer - a techie.
I bought an iMac 10.1 a couple of years ago and I'M SORRY BUT I JUST DON'T GET what the fuss is about.
I really am struggling to understand why there is so much emotion around having a Mac and why Windows is hated by the Mac community so much. Honestly I've tried. I promise I have. I just cannot understand why people rave on so much about their Mac!why does it upset you that people are happy with their computer
The argument that Windows is not stable and so prone to viruses is very old now, and frankly a bit boring.but in terms of viruses, pretty accurate Personally, I run Windows 7 and as a developer, I take it to the max and have never found any issue. It's rock solid for me. Whatever I develop, device drivers, very complex math routines, huge memory requirements, etc. it just works. im on a fairly new office pc. its running windows 7 as IT dont like windows 8. its running internet explorer 10 i think. i work in a hotel. guests ask me to help them by printing boarding passes, look for flights etc....i have to keep going back to IT with "right now jet2.com when i get to printing boarding passes it doesnt open. clicking on the reservations system gets me a "your colour system isnt compatible with this page, changed to windows basic" every time.And I've never had a virus either. our office pc has had many and my home mac has never seen one.
I run Windows on several servers, desktops and laptops. It runs great on everything I own. No Issue. EVER.
I find the Mac 10.1 (500 GB HD, Mountain Lion) 4GB RAM pretty slow. All I hear is the hard drive chugging away, like nothing is ever cached. In contrast, I have a virtually identical spec Windows PC - runs like a dream.it is a pretty old underpowered machine with a core2duo processor but my old mac mini 2009 was even less powered and it worked fine up til i bought an imac last month. could there be a fault with the drive?
I think the way some of the programs are designed (like leather bound diaries and wooden bookshelves) a bit patronising to be honest.i like it, apple doesnt now but im really struggling as to how it could be patronising. whats wrong with your on screen diary looking like a diary, why does it make you feel like a dummy? or do you hark back to the days of dos where you got a sense of pride from remembering the key sequences? Are we really dummies? Do we need to relate our little on-screen diary to the one I have on my desk?
I REALLY CANNOT get used to this ridiculous touchy mousy thingy. If I just touch the mouse in the wrong position for a millisecond a window zooms off the screen! buy a new mouse, your mac will work with any mouse your pc will And when I try to maximize a window, it doesn't actually maximize (i.e. take up the whole window - e.g. Safari).i have the opposite on my work pc. whenever im trying to rearrange 2 windows from different apps, say outlook and excel so i can see both, and im moving one anywhere remotely near the edge of the screen, it thinks i want ful screen, drives me up the wall.
I really am struggling to find anything at all you can do on a Mac that you can't do equally well (or better) on Windows. The available software for PC totally dwarfs Mac.but really, apart from games is there anything useful (for mainstream people) that you cant get on a mac And all the top stuff like Adobe Photoshop CS6, etc. is available for Windows anyway.true, these days the differences are far less than before, and when you are using an app, theres not a difference Gone are the days where if you were a designer, it had to be a Mac, in my opinion.doesnt have to be a mac. but then there were times when it had to be a pc, those are gone too
I'm sure you will all disagree, but I personally think ITunes is one of the worst-designed pieces of professional software ever. It's JUST AWFUL.i think its fab, but a lot of pc users dont like it, all i hear is " you cant drag and drop". you can but why would you want to??? for music, it 'just works', tidying everything up, downloading covers, streaming...funny that lots of pc users rightly like Plex for their movies and Calibre for their books but dont like itunes for the same reasons they like plex and calibre. but you never have to use itunes if you are on a mac any more than you have to use itunes if you are on a pc. of course you can if you want to on both
It makes me laugh every time I see a feature in the Mac that Apple has put an "i" in front of, or give it a fancy name, to claim it's theirs. "Expose" - it's a desktop manager. Brilliant. "Mission Control" - it's a menu with programs in it. well at least they didnt call it Windows 8 which is what microsoft did Brilliant. "Time Machine" - previous versions of filesbut done in a way thats very intuitive for a non techy user . Brilliant.
Am I missing something, or does this sound like the Marketing Department gets the bulk of the budget at Apple? so microsoft dont spend a lot of money on marketing? how many tens of millions did they spend marketing a telephone that sold somewhere south of 9000 units, some say as little as 500.....
I think Apple's claim that it is the "World's Most Advanced Operating System" is a bit rich, to be honest. It doesn't even have a built-in software uninstaller! (e.g. Windows Add/Remove programs) That's not particularly advanced, is it?i must admit, ive never thought, i wish there was a built in software uninstaller. i thought thats what the trash was for.
I hear in Mountain Lion one of the "key features" is that you can now have full-screen apps. Windows has had that since, well I can't remember how long ago it's that long ago.
And apparently in Mountain Lion, another "key feature" is the advanced App Store. I bet it is. More $$$.no, the same amount of just apple are making an easy way of steering the sales to them. personally i prefer steam for my games but its the same idea.
What I particularly dislike is Apple's very aggressive and domineering stance when it comes to things like the AppStore and having open protocols, etcwhy did you buy a mac then if you hate them so much are you a masochist. Everything is closed - everything goes through Apple. This used to be one of the biggest criticisms of Microsoft - but they have changed SO MUCH in the last few years. They are really embracing open source technologies. Their flagship development framework is totally open source, for examplebut their disc format isnt.....
On the contrary, Apple seem to be adopting the opposite approach with the AppStore, for example. I know I'm talking about the iOS specifically here, but they have single-handedly killed off Flash by not allowing it in to iOS. You may argue that's a good thing because it is. - but what right did they have for doing that?because its a good thing. They hide behind the official rationale that it's buggyit is. thats why they dropped it. thats why everyone else is now dropping it, and its as dead as a dead thing. (there's plenty of other buggy stuff in iOS). The real reason is because you can write apps in Flash - and that means bypassing the AppStore and therefore bypassing paying Apple. nope, its because it was buggy.the proof that you are wrong is that apple have pushed html 5 instead, an open standards better way of doing it, including writing web apps if thats what you want.It's that kind of attitude that annoys me slightly. Microsoft would have been butchered for doing that, but when Apple does it, nobody seems to care!because its a good thing
Anyway, this was supposed to be about my iMac, so let's get back to that.
My *honest* opinion is this:
The iMac looks cool. I mean it really does. It's gorgeous - a work of art. which is actually an important point for a lot of mainstream users. my imac is in the lounge. id have been cheaper with a mac mini and cheap monitor but imac looks nice in my lounge.
But isn't that it? Is there more function behind the form, that I'm just not seeing?looks good. works well. whats not to like.
Like I said at the start, I WANT to love my iMac not sure if i believe you to be honest- that's where all the apparently cool kids are these days. But I JUST DON'T GET IT.
So, please convince me. no one will convince you. its up to you what you prefer. as a developer and self confessed techie a pc might even be better for you, especially as youve used windows since day one. its like cars. for me an automatic car is far better, but other people might genuinely be better off with a manual (stick) car and others might just like them better. im not going to persuade them.What is it I'm missing?
Thanks.
, 98
