Can you give some examples of the software being better? As far as I can see all the industry standard apps (i.e. Adobe CS, Quark, etc) are available on PC and work exactly the same.
Adobe CS...
Short cut keys are easier and not so clunky, where for some reason they are 4/5 keys on PC they are 2/3 on the mac.
Hardware acceleration options just work better.
My only experiences of Macs are that they are a bit different for the sake of being different
General response from people who have glanced at Macs.
Not different to be different, just have more ability to design and produce better more rich interfaces. You should see some of the iPad Apps. I do not want an ipad but the apps rolling out are not only very very useable and well designed they just look very lush doing so.
and I wouldnt want to spend the time learning the interface for a marginal productivity difference in the OS.
Since going to a mac at work I am LEAST 3 times faster.
Can you give some examples of the software being better? As far as I can see all the industry standard apps (i.e. Adobe CS, Quark, etc) are available on PC and work exactly the same.
Adobe CS...
Short cut keys are easier and not so clunky, where for some reason they are 4/5 keys on PC they are 2/3 on the mac.
Hardware acceleration options just work better.
My only experiences of Macs are that they are a bit different for the sake of being different
General response from people who have glanced at Macs.
Not different to be different, just have more ability to design and produce better more rich interfaces. You should see some of the iPad Apps. I do not want an ipad but the apps rolling out are not only very very useable and well designed they just look very lush doing so.
Pressing space bar on any file like a pdf and open it up to quick read or preview it is something the PC very much lacks, very easy to find and preview files that you hunting for, search is a lot faster and simply due to the nature of the design and same spec machines as a pc the Mac will boot faster and an app will load faster.
One of the guys at work has a faster PC then the mac I am on in every aspect yet I boot mine after his and I am up and running before him. Same apps boot faster and run smoother.
The whole single mouse button thing for instance, theres no way you can make a single button design more efficient than a dual-button design for one handed operation
Shows your out the loop by quite a few years mate, lol.
The mac mice have both a right and left click and have done so for some time. PC mice work on them (I use a logitech at work) and have done for some time.
In Windows you can just go to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder and copy it, but it seems to me Apple dont like you to change their OS at all and make it very difficult to do simple tasks like this, they just want you to run applications and browse the web, not do any kind of maintenance or tweaking. I had to go and get a number of programs and read countless guides to get the font files and then to convert them into what I would consider a standard format.
Again, When was the last time you used a mac mate lol.
I dragged and dropped a font in the font folder on the mac today - installed and was away. The preview was better.
In terms of the hardware/software marriage, I work from home and have my computer running literally 24/7. The only time I reboot is for software updates and it has been running for months without a crash - the last one I can even remember being caused by a graphics driver glitch. Can you Mac owners honestly say that or is the OS still as buggy as it used to be? You can defend the quality of the Mac hardware/software all you want, but Mac users that accuse PCs/Windows of being more prone to crashes because the end user doesnt know what hes doing or manufacturers dont release quality drivers, thats rather unfair. Windows 7 is pretty faultless in terms of stability. At the end of the day for me, Id rather have a custom spec, high peformance PC and my nice top end Dell 24" screen which altogether probably cost me less than £800 new, than go out and pay the rediculous prices for shiny Apple hardware which I cant change or upgrade as necessary, when for my day to day work there is no perceivable software usability difference. In fact, I couldnt do my job with just a Mac because for web compatibility I need to use a range of browsers - all of which are available on PC including the Mac equivalents.
Bar idiot fan boys mac users actually do not diss PC users, often they use pcs, play games on (still the best option by a mile)
Like was said - stack up a same spec mac vs PC and there is not that much of a price difference.
Mac go Hi end market and nothing else, look for Hi end PC and the prices are very similar.
You forget I do Web as well mate and I have IE running on my mac from wine and the all the other browsers installed as well. Very easy to duel boot windows Out of the box on a mac as well.
Ill just point out that despite my ramblings Im not an Apple hater or anything like that, each to their own and I think the iPhone is very good for what it does - but nothing they make is the be all and end all - I just cant stand the elitist fanboy attitude of some Apple users that their products are automatically better than everyone elses (definitely not suggesting that is you Goblin, despite me countering mostly your points).
But it is interesting that due to SOME Idiot apple fan boy attitude and Apples self centered arrogance actual apple products good or bad just get a bad rep from people who not actually know much about them just because of what they hear and see about Apple the company and the fanbase mania that comes with them.
I mention Iphone in threads and before even thinking people have gone off on the apple rip route not actually reading much into what was said. Just common reactions.
I thought Mac was a sh*tstorm till I actually started using it and seeing it.
With the mac sleep how it is on a macbook pro and the nature of the hardware and OS I barley need to fully shut down. Open the laptop and its on and I am away.