What do you Do on a Mac?

[sgtaylor5]

Run my micro-business with my M2 Air 16/256: MailMaven for email (Zoho mail and Gmail), Corona for accounting, Numbers for finance, Nisus Writer Express (RTF word processor) for documents, Safari for the web, Jump Desktop for clients’ remote access. Nothing on the cloud if possible; that’s mostly because RTF isn’t really supported on phones and I don’t need to see my photos on my phone.

 

[Mrbobb]

Surfing, the occasional word document, spreadsheet, basically to access the Internet. Too boring?

What kind of full answer are you expecting? Computers including the Mac are modern day necessity tools. I am aware youngsters spend lots of time on their mobiles and less time on their desktops/laptops, but there are also many of us who prefer a larger screen.

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

I do still have my antique i5 9400f RX 580 PC I used to use for gaming, but I rarely ever even plug it in any more. In the past year and a half, it's been plugged in for about two months. I barely have a use for it any more!

Most of the games I play (when I have the time and energy for them) work better on my M3 Pro (Civ VI and Farm Sim 25). One day I might have the time and energy to dust off my old PC, run Windows Update for the afternoon, and play Euro Truck Sim 2 (until they update the Mac version properly), Age of Empires IV, Company of Heroes 3 (if I don't just play CoH 2 on my Mac), Train Sim World, or Forza 7.

 

[maflynn]

I like what others stated, what can you do on the Mac that you cannot on windows? 90% of the time, there really the answer is nothing. Most anything youj can do on a Mac, windows can also do that , and vice versa.

For me, being someone who's been part of the apple ecosystem and the wintel ecosystem since the 1980s I can provide why I use the Mac over my PC.

I largely migrated to windows mostly full time a few years back as I wanted to get more into gaming and I couldn't do that with the mac. Even with Crossover it was not viable 5 years ago.

Now a lot has changed since then, and between the performance increases in Apple Silicon and improvements with crossover 90 percent of the games I want to play can be done so with my M4 Max Studio. With that said, I had to buy a higher end Mac to make this happen - the M4 Mini and M4 Pro Mini were not suited to the task

What I like with Macs

• Consistency with the UI and UX.
• Quick look
• Install/uninstall apps are generally just drag and drop
• Quiet operation (no fan noise)
• simple/automated backups - time machine is so much simpler to use then any other backup application
• No Ads
• Little to no telemetry
• No recall (windows recording every single action you do on your pc)
• Better resistance and hardening to malware
• Memory usage/architecture is superior to windows
• Ecosystem integration
• Love, absolutely love the the fact I can use iMessage on my Mac - this is a game changer.
• Low power, 600 to 700 watts (and that being a mid-range pc) vs. 200 on my Mac.
• Spotlight is better faster and more potent then windows search.

What I like with Windows

• More customizable
• cmd shell/powershell. Yes the terminal app on Macs is potent, but I've been using dos/windows cmd shell since day 1, and I prefer it.
• Display scaling and font rendering. I don't need to change the resolution, I can just scale it by 125%.
• Fonts look better. In apps like Excel I have to scale up the spreadsheet to 150% on a Mac
• Shortcut keys - you need to do finger gymnastics for the most simplest of actions - minimize all windows shown on the desktop? win+d keys, on the mac cmd+option+h+m
• File Explorer better the Finder
• Upgradeable hardware
• Better GPUs

What I use my Mac for (in no particular order)

• 3d Printing
• Gaming (via cross over)
• Office Apps, excel, etc
• Online surfing stuff
• Content consumption
• Content creation (fusion 360) <- soon to be, I've yet to fully learn how to do this.

 

[walterwhite]

I perform support for mostly Mac's and Apple products but also PC's in my own small business that I do part-time. I have been running that business for more than 25 years now. I also support Macs for the Governor's office in PA. I certainly also use Mac's for my personal use. The only PC I use personally is one on my internal network that I remotely access from my mac.