I think you missed the point. The iMac isn't perfect. I can go "on and on" on the many gaps with the iMac machines and with Mac OS. Every time I bring up an gap, people think I'm attacking their "super perfect" iMac, Mac OS or Apple company. Would I pay "Dell, and it was $950 " NO. Like many, I got "sucked into the hype" of iMac and after a few months of using it, I notice it isn't perfect. It has gaps. For 2 to 3 times more price then my HP Laptop, I expect more. Much more. Thus, I no longer have "that WOW" feeling. Think of it this way.... If I bought a BMW instead of a "generic" Chev, I expect much more from that BMW as well. After all, BMW has a market repuation of smooth and easy to drive. Much better then a chevy. If iMac and OS is that great (better then a Windows clunker), do tell me the Apple native solutions (without 3rd party solutions) for the following?
- Ability to change Font & Menu sizing without text distoration? Windows 7 has a DPI ratio in a central location. What's Apple's Mac OS solution?
- Ability to play BluRay on the iMac. No, not 3rd party solutions. Native solution from Apple?
- Ability to change iSight Web Cam settings from within Mac OS? Why do I need to buy iGlasses (3rd party solution) to change simple things like lighting and zoom?
Like I keep saying... IMac and OS have "gaps". And they will continue have gaps - until people lobby - to fill these gaps. I'm not attacking your family's culture or religion. Just saying that iMacs (today's models) has gaps. And, they can do much better.... Sorry if others cannot agree (and cannot provide native solutons to my above 3 examples).
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All OS's have gaps. Just some more than others. It is what are you willing to live with that counts. You're missing the point of why people use Macs in the first place. All the points you made are relatively minor issues. As opposed to Windows which have gaps that are major issues. Not saying there are not major issues with OSX, there are, but what are you willing to live with and what issues are major to the user is what counts.
No native solution for a touch mouse support. Even though touch mice exist for Windows. Everything is touch screen PC. That is major. Not a minor issue.
Most PC's you buy don't work properly with updates with the hardware you purchased. That is also major.
Macs are relatively immune to viruses because of the file system of the OS, which is based on UNIX. Windows is a virus magnet. And I don't want to hear about there are more Windows machines is the root cause. That is utterly false. Windows machines are easily infected because of the file system used on the OS.
The Mac’s software installation model requires that a user provide explicit approval before anything can be installed.
While bugs have existed (and probably still do) on both platforms that have, in the past, offered paths for exploitation (image renderers, the bind program, etc.), the large majority of exploits on PCs occur not through these paths but because users click on attachments they receive in email and those attachments carry malicious payloads. On PCs (prior to Vista) these could run simply after being clicked on (launched) by a user. No such path exists on Macs.
While you can click on an attachment to launch and run something on a Mac, doing so whether intentionally or accidentally will render a dialog forcing both acknowledgement and approval.
Even so that the target is smaller in the Mac world, there are also fundamental differences in how OS X and Windows 7 support and control the installation of software as well as how users and files control their access to important system resources.
Unix-based operating systems such as OSX (and NTFS-aware applications on Windows NT based platforms) only allow their users to run executables within their own protected memory space.Unlike Windows users, most Unix users do not log in as an administrator user except to install or configure software; as a result, even if a user ran the virus, it could not harm their operating system.
So whatever program the virus enters though or is ran from, is essentially contained in that program or file. It will not infect the rest of the system.
There are more Windows users than Mac users excuse is laughable. Linux has more viruses than Mac OSX and has way less users. OS9 had more viruses than OSX. To this day there has not been a outbreak of a virus on OSX, not one. Zero, nada, zippo, nothing. Even though there are millions of OSX users and millions of copies out there. Again a major issue.
The Mac, which draws its lineage from Unix, is significantly stronger in terms of protecting itself because it has roots as a multiuser platform.
PC's slow down over time. Macs do not. And I can go on, and on.
We all on here own or have owned a PC. Most on here know the differences between the two.
I currently have a HP elite with a intel i7 980 and my Mac i7 boots up in half the time. And yes I removed all the bloat ware off the PC. The Elite does not connect my ipad and iphone most of the time. I get error messages on updates on pre installed software that came with the PC. I constantly get hardware driver issues, constantly.
I have to resize the screen each time I start the computer due to a flawed compatibility between the graphic card and my monitor, which all came with the computer and is all made by HP.
Most people are sick of the bullcrap PC's give most users. Most of the time everything just doesn't work, or work well. That is a fact of life for 95% of PC users. Macs just work, and work well, and are for the most part problem free. Aside from the minor 'gaps' you just mentioned.
Macs just work when you want them too and how you want them too. PC's don't. It's as simple as that.