If that’s an actual question (rather than rhetorical), there’s an actual answer: the OS. Windows 10 is either terrible, awful, crappy, inefficient, or maddening depending on the day. Horrific power management. Peppered with ads and junk ware. Mac users learned long ago that spec wars are meaningless. Not only does a smooth, user friendly environment make the experience far more than a “better CPU” does, Macs’ SW/HW/ecosystem integration make actual task performance often take less time in real world use. Of course, a PC user might have Geekbench scores to brag about while Mac users are enjoying their smooth experiences and unrivaled build quality, so there’s that.
So 4 years on my desktop without any significant issues, 2 years of my Lenovo laptop running without issue, and 6 months in of my school using PCs without issue. As a former Mac user, I can tell you Windows 10 works absolutely fine, and any "inefficiencies" are easily lost in the vastly superior hardware. As for the Ads, yeah they exist.. for about the 30 seconds it takes to clear them away.
Honestly, Mac OS can be as polished as it wants to be, still doesn't change the fact that media production requires computing power that Macs simply don't have these days.
As for build quality, that isn't really a fair thing to say about all PCs. Sure a 400$ Acer laptop is going to be poorly made, but my Lenovo is a solid machine thats just as well built as my MacBook Pro was. My desktop I built myself is a well crafted machine, 4 years strong without a single hardware failure.
Honestly when you just spout off the usual "its a terrible junk OS" line, it makes me think your only experience with Windows was running launch day Vista on a Pentium III. If it was as terrible as you make it out to be, professionals wouldn't load it onto their very expensive machines.
Oh right, sorry to burst the bubble about Mac OS's "tight hardware intergration", but when I had my MacBook Pro, I ran Windows on it in bootcamp, and Mac OS was only a few seconds faster at most at heavy tasks. Mac OS runs on the same hardware as PCs do these days, and considering the myriad of configurable options for Mac hardware, the OS isn't nearly as tightly integrated as it was a few years ago.
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Define "media creation". Is that youtube or twitch channels?
Wow, thanks for that condescending attitude. Not that theres anything wrong with creating content for YouTube or Twitch, either of which can have extremely demanding workflows. But me I just stick to rendering animations and physics simulations in Maya, editing 4K RAW footage in Premier and After Effects, color grading that footage in Resolve, editing lovely 16-bit images in Photoshop, texturing 3D objects in Substance Painter. You know, just lightweight work that requires a decent CPU and something stronger than a mid-tier AMD laptop GPU.
Windows. Windows 10 is simply horrible even with the Fall Creators Update. It is a complete bug fest. The UI is a complete un-finished, inconsistent mess. You can't turn off telemetry, you can't stop automatic updates. Power management is so utterly bad. I close the lid, should go to sleep, put it in my bag, go from work to home, two hours later pull it out of my now hot bag with the battery almost dead because even after two year of updates Windows 10 still has sleep issues/power management issues. The E570 has the latest Intel Kaby Lake, so it is NOT a chipset issue. Tack on all the here today gone tomorrow UWP junky apps that Microsoft tosses into the OS, plus all the tacky advertisements, that you can mostly turn off but why should you ever have too do this??
macOS while not perfect either is 100000X > than Windows 10. Every complaint I have about Windows 10, is not there on macOS. Example, I can pull my fully charged Lenovo off the charger, shutdown. Open it 48 hours later and it is either dead or almost dead. Do the same for my Macbook and it will be at 98% charge. Heck a week later the Macbook will be at 90% or more.
You can turn of telemetry pretty easily. Theres many 2 minute tutorials on how to do it. Same with the advertisements. I agree I shouldn't have to, but honestly its a minor 5 minute inconvenience I have to do once a year. As for the power management, honestly it sounds like your laptop is defective. I've got a Lenovo laptop and it sleeps when I close the lid without fail. I feel like you've taken a few bad things about Windows and blown them up to be something bigger than they are. Everyones experience is different, but I've use Windows for the last 4 years on my desktop and the last 2 years on my laptop and it has never once caused me to be unable to do work.
The fit and finish of the hardware, case, screen, trackpad is 100X better on the Mac. The Keyboard on the Mac is not great but I transitioned to in a few days.
This isn't exactly a fair comparison. Yes MacBooks are well made, yes there are some horrendously bad PC laptops, but honestly any PC I've seen/used thats over 1000$ the build quality is decent. My Lenovo is easily as well made as my MacBook Pro was, with the exception of the trackpad, though for me thats a non-issue as I always use a mouse. Same goes for the displays. Yeah no kidding a 400$ Acer laptop has a terrible display, but my Lenovo's 1080p screen is plenty crisp at 15", and has excellent color and contrast, and I don't find myself missing the Retina Display from my MacBook at all. And now you can get a plethora of PC laptops with 4K screens, so they've caught up on pixel density.
Integration with my other Apple products....simply fantastic. iCloud is way, way faster than OneDrive.
And thats good if you have Apple products, but the only Apple product I have left is a 2nd Gen iPod nano.
