Why did you choose MacOs over Windows

[BigMcGuire]

I have just joined the mac community and I was wondering why people chose MacOS over Windows as their choice of OS?

I bought an imac before christmas and I am not disappointed with the apple experience.

Grew up on Windows. Was using Dos, Windows 3.11 as a kid, and 95, 98, ... you get the picture. I spend most of my day on Windows 10 at work.

I got a 2008 MBP gifted to me - which I used for awhile, never really got the hang of it. In 2012 I bought a MBA 13' and used that for a year - but not heavily. It wasn't until 2015 that I bought a MBA 11' and used it as my primary machine for 3 years and really fell in love with Mac OS.

I love the readability of Mac OS - I read a lot. Windows has jagged text and recently got rid of clear type. Love how the OS stays out of your way - no "Please Wait Windows is Updating" every few days. Applications seem so refined and work so well. I love Day One, Apple Notes, Arq, Notability, Carbon Copy Cloner.

But why do I love Mac OS? I can receive and send texts from ANY device that I have. (iPad, iPhone, Watch, Macbook). I can send/receive calls. I take a photo with my iPad, iPhone, or save a photo on my Macbook and it is instantly available on all my devices. Handoff lets me open a safari page I had on my iPhone with 1 click on my MBP or iPad. My watch logs me into Mac OS without any effort on my part (and rings my phone when I lose it). When I go to log into my bank account or PayPal - Safari automatically puts in the 2 factor text into the login box. There are dozens of things like this that make life easier - why I love Mac OS.

Mac OS has a beauty to it - a simplicity... after working with Windows 10 all day (Visual Studio 2019) - I want something stable, easy, refined to use when I come home after a difficult work day.

Mac OS just works in clamshell mode - with my Dell XPS, I close the lid after plugging in an external monitor and ... the laptop goes to sleep. I have to tell it to stay powered on when plugged in. Mac OS knows what I want and does it without any need of configuration.

I am a huge fan of Mac OS.

I make all my $ in Windows though.

 

[Arcade]

I first fell in love with the Mac computer in 1994/1995 after seeing the infomercial “The martinettis bring home a computer” I watched that commercial every Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 12:00 am to 4:00 am every weekend. When I got my first computer in 1999 I got windows because that’s what everyone I knew was using. It wasn’t until I got my iPhone 4s that I decided to switch to Apple completely and I refused to use a windows machine. This past Sunday I purchased my very first Mac computer 12” MacBook.

 

[Buadhai]

In 1984 I was living on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands working on a special project for the US Government. At the office I was using a Kaypro II, IBM System/23s and an IBM PC clone of some sort. I spent the Summer of '84 in Los Angeles to visit family and see some of the Olympics. I had planned to buy a Columbia PC luggable to take back with me. But then I went to the BYTE Computer Show in June at the LA Convention Center where I saw Jerry Pournelle (of Chaos Manor fame) playing with a Mac. He hated it. ("I don't need no trash can.") I was intrigued. I had read the February 1984 issue of Byte which featured the Mac on the cover, but I was unconvinced. Seeing it in action changed my mind. I borrowed some cash, bought the original Mac and have never looked back.

I continued to use PCs running Windows at work. I didn't much like them with their DIP switches, hardware interrupts, software interrupts, Centronics ports and all. What stands out most in my mind from back then is the ease with which I installed a CD-ROM reader on the Mac compared with the Windows boxes. Very telling.

When I retired in 2005 we were still using NT at work.

Since 1984 and aside from a couple of Raspberry Pies I have never bought any other computer for home use.

 

[Applefan2015]

Been a windows user for about 30 years, this year I wanted to try something else. I’m so far into the Apple so thought it was time to use macOS, so I picked up a MacBook Pro 2018.

So far it’s been a good experience.

I still use windows PC’s daily

 

[Argyboy]

It's just a nice, reliable experience. Windows updates are an absolute pain and utterly time consuming and unreliable. Whereas MacOS is stable, and generally reliable. I alternate between MacOS and Linux - have Windows on my gaming PC but purely for gaming. I will never use it as a daily driver again.

 

[Nosferax]

MacOS X is nice enough and is still supported by Adobe and other big software house. But it's look and feel can be replicated on Linux easy enough, especially with Gnome. If linux had the support of those big company I wouldn't see a need for MacOS X anymore.

Of course, if Apple would come to spin off their software division and make OS X available for PC I would go for it.

 

[burgman]

Us old folks who were around at the beginning of Windows and Mac have such a different perspective than someone just starting with Windows 10 and MacOS. Windows me then 8 drove me to Mac. I enjoyed the hardware like a working in a roomful of cheese grater Macs, great engineering work of art. Today I use both in work and play, but always end the day reading and listening to music on my iPad. Many negative opinions on Windows are from those who haven’t used the latest builds of W10, its very different than just a year ago.

 

[OriginalAppleGuy]

In 1984 I was living on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands working on a special project for the US Government. At the office I was using a Kaypro II, IBM System/23s and an IBM PC clone of some sort. I spent the Summer of '84 in Los Angeles to visit family and see some of the Olympics. I had planned to buy a Columbia PC luggable to take back with me. But then I went to the BYTE Computer Show in June at the LA Convention Center where I saw Jerry Pournelle (of Chaos Manor fame) playing with a Mac. He hated it. ("I don't need no trash can.") I was intrigued. I had read the February 1984 issue of Byte which featured the Mac on the cover, but I was unconvinced. Seeing it in action changed my mind. I borrowed some cash, bought the original Mac and have never looked back.

I continued to use PCs running Windows at work. I didn't much like them with their DIP switches, hardware interrupts, software interrupts, Centronics ports and all. What stands out most in my mind from back then is the ease with which I installed a CD-ROM reader on the Mac compared with the Windows boxes. Very telling.

When I retired in 2005 we were still using NT at work.

Since 1984 and aside from a couple of Raspberry Pies I have never bought any other computer for home use.

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OMG! I read that BYTE magazine. We had a subscription. Kind of miss those days of computer rags loaded with all kinds of goodies!

 

[Macbooks Rock]

I loved Windows, but first I tried Macbooks because they look better and thinner, but then when I moved to MacOS i loved them even more, The trackpad and its gestures are amazing and feel very natural, but the best thing is small pieces of softwares that Apple wrote to make my life easier like TimeMachine and spotlight make me think why not every other OS have them, I still have Windows on Bootcamp/Parallels Desktop though, but it gives me cancer everytime I need to use it, since it forces me to wait for Windows to update.