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What makes a Mac better than a PC?

I'm thinking about making the switch.. Any thoughts?

by sparky1991
asked 4 months ago

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Nothing. It's a give and take. Yes the build materials and quality can be nicer than a budget PC but you also get quickly locked into "i" everything. I am planning on switching away from Mac for my next computer.

When you look at spending equal amounts of money the PC and Mac aren't all that different in quality. If you like OSX more than Win 7 then great, but I don't think you could say that one is intrinsically "better" than the other.

Experience? I own a Win 7 Laptop, iMac, Android Phone and an iPad.

jeremytheindian
4 months ago

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I always ask die hard mac people; what is advantage of unix based file administration over windows nt for the average user. I get a lot of blank stares in coffee shops.

Buy what you like but don’t like things because they are trendy.

icet1986
4 months ago

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The components of macs and pc's are largely identical. They are most all Intel based now. The parts are made in exactly the same factories by the same company, Foxconn (Apple, HP, Dell, Acer, etc etc).

So, if anything, it's the software and user experience.

meh3884
4 months ago

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Oh god... not this argument again. ;)

Nothing... it is more a matter of opinion than anything else.

You will find people who honestly believe that Mac hardware really is better (or worse) or that OS-X really is better (or worse) than Windows (or Linux).

I have some Mac hardware, but then I don't have to pay for it and I get brownie points at work for using it, even though I run Windows on all but one of my Macs. (My Macbook which mostly lives at home doesn't even have OS-X on it; my main machine at work is a 27" iMac and still has OS-X on it, but has only booted Windows for at least the last six months. I also have an older 17" iMac at work with OS-X but I rarely use it.)

baqui63
4 months ago

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I'm a lifelong Mac user, never owned a Windows machine.

Years ago, there was a big difference. Now, not so much. Decades of "borrowing" ideas from each other have made them largely the same experience. I can only come up with one compelling argument for the Mac that isn't colored by my own bias. You can run Windows and OS X on a Mac at the same time, and Windows will run just as smoothly as if you were using a Dell.

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