[Technology] P.C. or Mac?

[nicko31]

As an IT infrastructure person I hate Apple. Really, why can't they keep to industry standards ? My hate started 30+ years ago when you had to get a network to carry Appletalk to get them working on a network. Glad they've been forced to use USB-C for charging.

They want proprietary standards so they profiteer from consumers whilst pretending what they offer is somehow superior.

 

[LamieRobertson]

TV and phone. Laptops are for my children.

iPad Air and phone …MacBook and pc for son with money to burn

 

[Simster]

Horses for courses init. We use both where I work.

Macs look slick and the software runs very well. On the flip side, Mac Books are absurdly heavy to carry around compared to their PC counterparts, the technology is always a bit dated and they tend to be expensive for what they are.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

Use a PC, Chromebook.

Would like a Mac but can’t justify the cost.

When I used PCs they were replaced ever 3 or 4 years because they got so slow. My Mac is 8 years old, boots in seconds and behaves like new. Nothing wrong with PCs per se, but Windows is ****.

 

[Badger]

I got an M4 Mac Mini recently, which was a replacement for my 2013 MacBook Pro, which was itself a replacement for my Titanium G4 Powerbook from 2001 (I think?).

I like Macs because I don't need to buy a new one every couple of years.

You don't need to buy a new PC every couple of years either. It's not like it used to be, the performance increases are much smaller these days. I have an Asus laptop I bought in 2020 and I don't notice any performance issues.

 

[Hotchilidog]

I've been using Macs since the days of the SE/30. Am now using a Mac mini which absolutely flies. Mac all the way.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Seeing as I'm extremely tight fisted, I won't be paying out millions of pounds getting a Mac. I loathe and detest windoze, so when support ends for win 10, I'll be converting full time to one of the many FREE linux OS's

 

[Triggaaar]

A decent windows machine can do everything. A Mac can't.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I went to Mac in about 2009, and I would never get another one. Overrated nonsense. Having said that, I need to use Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook etc... they're horse-shit on a Mac

 

[RandyWanger]

Strange your company would send a 2 year old MacBook back to apple. Even if it was hardware related, screen or water damage, always cheaper to write off the laptop and send you a new one (assuming they do a 3 year refresh cycle, replace in 4th)
Anyway, yes, Mac over PC any day. Easier to use, less troublesome, no driver issues, updates rarely break things now, endpoint protection is so much better, device management with ABM and MDM. The benefits keeps on coming. Even the cost factor isn't there anymore.
To get a decent windows laptop is as much as a Mac now, and you'd rarely get the 3-4 years of depreciation on a PC.

 

[boik]

Once you've had Mac, you never go back.

Used macs, loaded Linux on both of them. Hardware is good bur expensive, software too restrictive for me.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Strange your company would send a 2 year old MacBook back to apple. Even if it was hardware related, screen or water damage, always cheaper to write off the laptop and send you a new one (assuming they do a 3 year refresh cycle, replace in 4th)
Anyway, yes, Mac over PC any day. Easier to use, less troublesome, no driver issues, updates rarely break things now, endpoint protection is so much better, device management with ABM and MDM. The benefits keeps on coming. Even the cost factor isn't there anymore.
To get a decent windows laptop is as much as a Mac now, and you'd rarely get the 3-4 years of depreciation on a PC.

It was a screen issue that was fixed for free under applecare. A single part was damaged (I strongly suspect in transit by me or over zealous airport security) which they already had in.

We are an international company and work remotely in distributed teams. It was take it to the Apple Store and get it fixed free under warranty or buy a new one for £££££££. There's no local IT hardware team that make that decision.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Mac all the way.

 

[chip]

They can both be irritating at times. My MacBook won't connect to any network at the momement and new ones seem very expensive for the power and won't run the biophysics codes I use any more. I recently purchased a Dell (no choice) convertable for some imaging work and am actually pleased with the performance for the low price. Windows does seem to have far to many irritating problems, often after updates. I don't recall that being a mac problem apart from the current one. I also have Linux on a decent laptop which works much better than with windows. I guess it comes down for what works best for the individual and the tasks they want/need to do and none seem to do everything I need best. I also found that mac and windows versions of word don't have the same maths fonts, but then I should be using LaTeX.

 

[Happy Exile]

I have to use Windows for work but got myself a used MacBook Air for personal use a few weeks ago and love it. That purchase was triggered by switching from Android to iPhone in the summer, mostly just because I got a good deal on an iPhone 15, and wondering why it took me so long. I'd not owned anything Apple since the 2nd gen iPhone and now can't imagine going back to Android and Windows again. Everything just seems a little bit easier on Apple things.

The Apple Watch is wasted on me though. One came with the phone and maybe I'm missing something major but I don't see the benefit in having one at all if I've already got my phone with me, so that'll probably be given to Mini Exile soon.

 

[tronnogull]

Mrs T and I had Macs for decades and much prefer them over windows. However, Mrs T needed a new machine about a year ago because she has got into some fancy photography stuff. I inherited her old iMac as mine was more than 10 years old and struggling on old MacOS versions.

However, we couldn't stomach the cost of a new iMac for her. It wasn't the base cost so much but the fact that they charge rip off prices for RAM and hard drive upgrades. And, they don't make it possible to buy a lower grade machine and subsequently upgrade yourself.

So, she went windows and, once she was used to it, no issues at all.

 

[Mustafa II]

Macs are better, they're built well - but they're a rip off.

Can build a better PC for a fraction of the price. Can make them look better too, if you're that way inclined.

Not a lot between the OS'.

You're essentially paying excess for a brand name with Apple.

 

[Hovegull]

Chromebooks are great
I bought one for a couple of hundred, it does absolutely everything I need it to and it starts and loads up instantly
Unless you are a heavy user I’d recommend it
I had a MacBook for years and used about 20% of its capacity and ability.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

As a gamer i am very much enjoying the steam deck which uses a linux based os. now if i could just get a steam os for my pc and some way to ignore the tedious apple/pc warriors that would be super.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I've been using Macs since the days of the SE/30. Am now using a Mac mini which absolutely flies. Mac all the way.

Drawn using cricket graph and edited in MacDraw. On and SE/30. Piece of piss. Published in 92 in a leading research journal. The figure shows the variable is similar in 20 different groups in a complex experiment.

I still can't emulate this using PC shite.