I’m getting sick of my PC’s freezing up. It seems to be a daily occurance these days. I gave up macs about 10-12 years ago. As I recall, the Macs seldom did the freeze up thing. Does that still hold true today or do they freeze up as much as PC’s? Do the Macs start up faster and run better? I’m thinking of switching back.
So you’re the one…
Switch 5 years ago from PC to Mac - and have not experienced any freezes or the like - no virus problems - easy to use et. al. Go for it.
I’ve got five macs and one pc. I don’t use the pc much, compared to the macs, so I can’t objectively compare them. I haven’t had any issues with either mac or pc, so far, but I don’t use the pc on the internet.
If Avista is running fine for you, then that’s where you might want to stay. FWIW, My mom converted from her pc to the new 24 inch imac, recently. She’s happy. That is one cool machine.
If you’re in Calgary you can have my iMac, it never worked worth a damn. My Macbook was nice but about as robust as a tissue paper and was accidentaly broken by my three year old dropping a stuffed animal on it. I am happily Mac free now and although I like the concept of the product, the poor quality and planned obsolesence is annoying. My best computer is a 4 year old desktop PC.
All systems in time need to be replaces or repaired (nothing is immune from use).
Macs are cool and really expensive.
If you buy a PC with Vista from Lenovo, HP or Dell, turn on auto updates, use IE8 in privacy mode and create profiles…you will (compared to Apple):
pay less
have a more secure computer
have less support costs
have a lower cost of ownership
But…Macs are definitely cooler.
Maybe it is because I buy the cheapest Dell’s on the market…
Got tired of PCs hanging up, grinding to a halt, antivirus software corrupting the machines… Went out last year and bought 3 Macbooks (now have 3 PC’s, 1 PC based notebook and 3 Macbooks). I’ll never go back to PC’s.
Macks are well worth the extra cost if you value your time. I got tired of having to constantly troubleshoot the kid’s PCs. Now that they have Macs I don’t need to do anything.
Does that still hold true today or do they freeze up as much as PC’s? Do the Macs start up faster and run better? I’m thinking of switching back.
The macs of today are very different from what you worked with previously. In short, the answers to your questions are no, yes, yes, and you should.
Two and a half years on this baby, not a single virus (no anti-virus installed), no hardware problems, runs as well now as the day I took her out of the box. I use PCs at work, can’t imagine bringing one into my home: Crash, Burn, Repeat…
I’m getting sick of my PC’s freezing up.
Fuckin’ Obama!
I have this tourettes-like tick I have developed from the PC with my thumb and forefinger that I call the Ctrl S syndrome. I Ctrl S stroke about every 20 seconds so I generally don’t lose much work.
Are those facts?
I’ve switched to a Mac 4 years ago, preferring to buy my own computer than using the PC work provided. If you’re going to use it 8+ hours a day, you might as well do it on the machine that best works for you.
I find the Mac much better thought-out so it justifies the additional down payment and then some.
PC at work. Crap. Freezes regularly.
Mac at home. No problems.
Ditto!
Yes, those are facts. More than happy to discuss, esp if we agree on the parameters.
If your company allows you to support/manage your own machine, I could understand that decision.
+1
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3 Macs.
3 Windows machines. One of these is a door stop. One gathers dust on desk. One is laptop that takes 6 minutes to boot up.
Get the Mac.
Check out Mac prices on http://www.expercom.com/. Most Mac prices are the same. Where you save is on add-ons, shipping, no tax, etc. I have gotten all of ours through them…
Total cost of ownership is acquisition cost + operation costs, right?
I agree that Macs are more expensive to buy. I disagree that operation costs are higher: I had to take mine to support only twice over four years (and that’s much less than what my PC required).
I also disagree that PCs are more secure computers (as in vulnerable to viruses).
Business or Personal use?
At the end of most PC (Windows, Linux, etc) vs Mac TCO studies, the last line will be “in the end, it’s not about cost”.
But, is it?
I agree that Macs are more expensive to buy.
Before I bought my MacBook Pro last year I priced out a similarly-as-possible-spec’d Dell notebook. Price was actually a hundred or so bucks more for the Dell and that was with a slower processor than what I was getting on the MBP as Dell didn’t offer one that fast.
Mac doesn’t sell anything at the super low end, so they appear to cost substantially more than PC’s because the entry point (i.e., lowest priced & lowest spec’d) is higher.