In a general way, I believe its better to have a Mac than to have a PC. I do have both tough.
Firstly, a lot of people also buy because they like the desing of the machine.
Well my friend, if one wants to buy a computer for its design, let it be. A lot of Mac users are artists and design lovers, and thats what they care about the most, more than hardware, if you have to respect that each person is unique.
I believe you are a gamer, and truth to be told, gamers make a simple mistake which is to believe that the faster your hardware, the faster your software will run. Altough this is true, it is not the best point of view. A better one is "the faster your software is, the best you can make use of your hardware"
I know you believe that your $900 PC beat any imac
.but it doesn't. As a matter of fact, I bet my $600 MacMini beats your $1000 PC And I only make this statement, because I own a MacMini and a $1000 PC
I can run the tests!
The secret is the operational system the runs on Macs, the OS X, its demands so much less hardware to achieve the same goal. Feel free to take your computer to an Apple store and compare some tests. Try launching applications and, compare bootup/shut down times for the computer.
In addition, Macs do have some hardware advantages, that makes you work faster. I can point a better key allocation in the keyboard, a touch sensitive mouse and bluetototh and wi-fi as standard on all models. With the mouse, you can scroll horizontally, control fast/forward on movie playback, and go back and forward on web brasiers
.it ridiculous saves you so much amount on time. Scrolling horizontally, on a 4000pixel image for example on windows is extremely boring. As mentioned too, the key allocation in the keyboard, provide very rapid shortcuts, which make your work also faster than in the windows environment.
There is also some unique features to the OS, like dashboard and Expose and Spaces and Stacks. You have no idea what that is, right? Well, search youtube. These features make your work on MAc insanely faster, which renders useless whatever hardware you have running windows
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So yes, we buy Macs, because we get our job done faster in OS X than in Windows. As a matter of fact, this makes windows computers overpriced
not Macs.
Of course, if you simply turn your computer and get right into a game
.it apparently makes no sense to get a Mac
.well, that is not entirely true
.A Mac running windows may be a better investment than getting a Windows machine. Let me point you to some facts:
whatever piece of PC hardware you get today, will be worth half the next year. In 2 years, it will be almost not worth selling. This doesn't happen to Macs. These computers maintain their resale value, for almost the same you originally got them for. So when you sell them to upgrade, you spend only a litlle more money for the top of the line current machine. When you add that to the equation, you will get to the result that upgrading Macs are cheaper than upgrading PCs. Bottomline: windows PCs are overpriced
do the math friend!
I recommend you to get a Mac next time you need to make an upgrade. If after some months using it, you don't like it, sell it on ebay, you will bet almost what you originally paid for. But I believe you will see the benefits of Mac OS X, and will no longer be interested in using Windows for your everyday computer usage.
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If you take the time to learn the keyboard shortcuts then things are as fast as you can be. I rarely have to click to do anything
Lol, this is funny. The shortcuts on windows are slower when comparing to Mac shortcuts becasuse of the key arragments on the keyboard. I wanst aware of this till I learned the shortucts with my first mac. Even at this Mac OS runs faster then windows, no matter the hardware underneath it.
