10 legit things that make Mac's better than PCs challenge.

[QUOTE="sleepingzzz"]

Simple,

Windows is built on garbage.

Mac OS is built on Unix like Linux.

Linux is better, but if you want a simple and easy user interface than Mac is the way to go.

A lot of people here don't own a Mac so they won't be able to know the difference. They think it's Windows with a different look. You would have to own one for a few months to tell. Less bugs, less viruses, less crashes. I left my Mac on once for a full month without restarting and never got any errors. I can't go a week without having to restart a Vista machine that is constantly being used.

Better user interface. Better security.

Birdy09

1. no random updates that all the sudden makes everything not work

2. no viruses

3. everything runs the way its suppose to

4. the look awesome

ok thats all I got.

SpideR_CentS

they look good. thats all

sikanderahmed

1. no random updates that all the sudden makes everything not work

2. no viruses

3. everything runs the way its suppose to

4. the look awesome

ok thats all I got.

SpideR_CentS

[QUOTE="Birdy09"][QUOTE="sleepingzzz"]

Simple,

Windows is built on garbage.

Mac OS is built on Unix like Linux.

Linux is better, but if you want a simple and easy user interface than Mac is the way to go.

A lot of people here don't own a Mac so they won't be able to know the difference. They think it's Windows with a different look. You would have to own one for a few months to tell. Less bugs, less viruses, less crashes. I left my Mac on once for a full month without restarting and never got any errors. I can't go a week without having to restart a Vista machine that is constantly being used.

Better user interface. Better security.

Zero_epyon

I tried using a Mac in an Apple store once, who's genius idea was it to remove right click? I understand that the whole draw of Mac's is that they're more simple to use than PC's, but seriously, are Mac users so stupid they cannot comprehend the complexity of more than one mouse button?

I tried using a Mac in an Apple store once, who's genius idea was it to remove right click? I understand that the whole draw of Mac's is that they're more simple to use than PC's, but seriously, are Mac users so stupid they cannot comprehend the complexity of more than one mouse button?

Rob-Belmont

Macs have right click.

2 finger tap for secondary click. :(

I tried using a Mac in an Apple store once, who's genius idea was it to remove right click? I understand that the whole draw of Mac's is that they're more simple to use than PC's, but seriously, are Mac users so stupid they cannot comprehend the complexity of more than one mouse button?

Rob-Belmont

[QUOTE="Birdy09"][QUOTE="Zero_epyon"] Don't think this is system wars worthy but I'll give it a shot. 1) Reliability - This is my top reason. I have had my computer on doing general office work, Virtualization, Basic Web browsing and programming for 3 months straight. Only have to reboot for a system update. 2) Compatibility - Works seamlessly with my iPhone, iPod, Windows Servers, Exchange Servers, Apple TV. 3) Hardware - I have a mac pro at work. It's has 2 quad core xeon cpu's with 12 GB of ram. It's hard to find something like this for pc unless you want to build it yourself. 4) Virtualization - Yes windows can do it too but it's more technical than that. Mac is built on unix which faster and more stable than windows. Therefore my virtualization projects run better on a mac. And it's not just windows, it's linux and os x server. 5) ilife - a free package of web designing, music creating and photo editing software that comes ready to go. 6) One version of the OS. No need to choose which features you want or not. It all comes standard. I can't think of any more at the moment. A lot is hard to describe. You have to use one to see. Once you do you'd be speechless like the rest of us.Zero_epyon

can't think of 10 things but

less virus problem, compatiblity with devices are easier (not a lot of driver problems), umm....

i could think of more negatives than positives

LyfOfAManti

Honestly, if people are interested in getting an overpriced Mac they might as well just get a box with Linux, any flavor but Ubuntu seems popular.

Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming. I was a hater before I got one. Worth every penny, especially if it's a laptop. I don't need to justify that to you.Stumpt25

Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

Honestly, if people are interested in getting an overpriced Mac they might as well just get a box with Linux, any flavor but Ubuntu seems popular.

rp108

I bought Macbook once without doing much research, it turned out to be a pretty big diseaster. It was my fault though, if I would have done some research before I would know the compatibility problems that I would face. Eventualy I gave it to my mother and went back to Windows. OSX just isn't any alternative to Windows for me, most of the software I need and use is Windows only. I could get some of it to run on OSX with stuff like Crossover or parrells, but it's clunky, troublesome and buggy. I could get Macbook and install Windows, but hardware wise I also find Macbooks to be pretty lacking in energonomy departament compared to my beloved Thinkpads. Plus I don't really like the way they look

I bought Macbook once without doing much research, it turned out to be a pretty big diseaster. It was my fault though, if I would have done some research before I would know the compatibility problems that I would face. Eventualy I gave it to my mother and went back to Windows. OSX just isn't any alternative to Windows for me, most of the software I need and use is Windows only. I could get some of it to run on OSX with stuff like Crossover or parrells, but it's clunky, troublesome and buggy. I could get Macbook and install Windows, but hardware wise I also find Macbooks to be pretty lacking in energonomy departament compared to my beloved Thinkpads. Plus I don't really like the way they look

AdrianWerner

Why would you run parallels over BootCamp?

Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming..Stumpt25

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming. I was a hater before I got one. Worth every penny, especially if it's a laptop. I don't need to justify that to you.Uptown

Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

I'll be honest and say I havn't used a mac in about ten years but when I had mine OS 7.3 left Windows 95 in the dust. So even though I switched to PC simply because the game isle at bestbuy is huge for PC and tiny for mac,even the newest versions of windows cant compare towhat the mac OS was 15 years ago.

I can do whatever I want.Stumpt25

[QUOTE="Birdy09"][QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming. I was a hater before I got one. Worth every penny, especially if it's a laptop. I don't need to justify that to you.Stumpt25

Suit yourself, you don justify because you cant, like most of them ;)

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming..AdrianWerner

Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

Uptown

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Ugh -- Macs are better than PC's for everything except for gaming..Stumpt25

[QUOTE="Uptown"]Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

AdrianWerner

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier. Apple makes elite notebooks.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

[QUOTE="Uptown"]Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

Uptown

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier. Apple makes elite notebooks.

No DLLs
Camiloken

10. PDF and other standard / open source technologies included or part of the OS.
Camiloken

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier.

Uptown

[QUOTE="SpideR_CentS"]

1. no random updates that all the sudden makes everything not work

2. no viruses

3. everything runs the way its suppose to

4. the look awesome

ok thats all I got.

Verge_6

What I don't understand is how every mac I've ever used has frozen since the beginning of time, but with Windows it froze occasionally on 95, then not at all by the time Vista came around.

[QUOTE="Birdy09"]

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"] , works in my favour actually, thanks. I can do whatever I want.Stumpt25

Suit yourself, you don justify because you cant, like most of them ;)

I've owned my mac book pro for over a year now so here goes. I have 2 pc's also.

1. it's unix, so it's ultra stable, my macs been turned on since I got it, I only reboot it every few months.

2.Terminal, if your a geek like me and love using bash and scripting then it is just amazing, it gives you a level of control over your computer that you just can't get in windows.

3. Snow leopard costs $29 for the full standalone OS, and it never even asks you for a cd key :p

4. Included software, garageband iMovie, Iphoto etc etc are very high quality.

5. Modern features like expose' , spaces (allows 16 desktops)

6. force quit. ever get sick of that "program is not responding" on windows that wont close? force quit closes straight away no matter what.

7. aesthetics, there aluminium, have motion sensors and light sensors, mag safe is a life saver.

8. passionate community

9. virtualisation makes it easy to run linux,unix, windows etc at the same time. with the exception of directx all your windows software will run fine

10. Bootcamp, natively run any version of windows. My macbook pro happily plays crysis on medium-high settings, most other games run maxed.

AND YES THEY'VE HAD RIGHT CLICK SINCE THE 90s!

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

[QUOTE="Uptown"]Truth. They make the best notebooks hands down.

Uptown

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier. Apple makes elite notebooks.

That argument could work if I would be using some random Acer laptop. But I'm using Thinkpads, so you're out of luck. Feature and build-quality wise Thinkpads at least match Macbooks, altough they're focus is completely different, so it depends on one's needs which he will find better. I personaly definitly find Thinkpads to be far superior for my needs than Macbooks

[QUOTE="Uptown"]

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier.

DJ_Lae

Half as much, of course it should cost half as much....most windows pc's are made of cheap plastics, that creak and warp, with tiny trackpads, no backlit keyboards, lackluster batteries, weigh a ton and are thicker than most college books....you get what you pay for sir. I could buy a Nissan Sentra, but the Maxima looks alot nicer.

"cbf" sure... ;) Birdy09

:? Well... yeah... I still haven't bothered to create a single list...

[QUOTE="Uptown"]

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]"One of the best" I could agree with. But "hands down the best"? Nah, that's very debatable

AdrianWerner

Find me a windows notebook with the feature-set of a MacBook Pro, with the build quality of a MacBook Pro, and is 5.5 pounds and 0.95" Thick like the MacBook Pro. They put the best possible product out there in the most portable design possible. Any windows laptop with the same feature-set as the MacBook Pro still lacks the 7-hour battery, still lacks the sturdy aluminum finish, still lacks a multitouch glass trackpad, and still generally lacks a backlit keyboard....and is about a pound and a half heavier. Apple makes elite notebooks.

That argument could work if I would be using some random Acer laptop. But I'm using Thinkpads, so you're out of luck. Feature and build-quality wise Thinkpads at least match Macbooks, altough they're focus is completely different, so it depends on one's needs which he will find better. I personaly definitly find Thinkpads to be far superior for my needs than Macbooks

Ahh yes the IBM Thinkpad.....same design since 1999

Ahh yes the IBM Thinkpad.....same design since 1999

Uptown

So that is your biggest argument after he comes with a viable option? Besides I myself own a Samsung nc20, works like a charm and delivers for an affordable price what I want from it.

[QUOTE="Uptown"]

Ahh yes the IBM Thinkpad.....same design since 1999

_Pedro_

So that is your biggest argument after he comes with a viable option? Besides I myself own a Samsung nc20, works like a charm and delivers for an affordable price what I want from it.

His vialble argument to what I said? THinkpads dont have the same build quality or featureset as a MacBook Pro by any means. Responding with "THat argument would work with an Acer but not my IBM THINKPAD!!!" is irrelevant.

Ahh yes the IBM Thinkpad.....same design since 1999

Uptown

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His vialble argument to what I said? THinkpads dont have the same build quality or featureset as a MacBook Pro by any means. Responding with "THat argument would work with an Acer but not my IBM THINKPAD!!!" is irrelevant.

Uptown