Originally posted by: iamtrout
THANK YOU.
I'm beginning to see the subtleties here. It really is like comparing apples to oranges, because Macs and PCs are used a lot for different purposes altogether, correct? (PCs for games and other blah blah blah and Macs for more "serious" things like work and more mundane things like browsing) And it's not all about the hardware but the ease of use/reliability of the supported software also.
Am I getting close?
ok, a serious answer this time
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imo much of the issue with macs comes down to several things; 2 of which tie into each other: 1) it's pretty much proprietary, 2) it's spendy, both for software and hardware, and 3) it's performance is nowhere near pc's for the price.
the first 2 go hand in hand. as it's proprietary, there aren't dozens of options from other companies for the same thing. this keeps selection low, and prices high, and applies to both hardware and software.
the last.. well, this is a bit of an old quote, and take it however you like (there's also been tests done where mac outperforms pc but argued the "tests" were heavily slanted in favor of the mac) but should give you an idea:
We ran our After Effects and Photoshop benchmarks on this machine, nine in all, and saw a speed improvement that was far beyond what we anticipated. Mac users will be disappointed to see that this new Dell machine, while priced $629 less than the Mac Dual G4 1.25 GHz machine, was nearly twice as fast on most of the nine benchmarks we ran. (Even though the Mac's dual G4 chips have been sped up to 1.25 GHz and offers faster DDR RAM, apparently this wasn?t enough to keep up with the newest and fastest from Dell and Intel.)
there's a huge performance disparity, even given the significantly lower price of the pc's.
as for "up sides", one thing that can be said for mac's "proprietary" design is that they are generally more space efficent and do have some interesting desktop designs. also, hardware support is much easier, and far more "plug and play", although pc's have been much better in recent years. much is stated the mac has better stability, and i attribute that mostly due to it's proprietary design - pc's can tend to have parts from a variety of vendors, and peripheral compatibility issues are certainly more likely with a pc, tho i think that OS X having a unix foundation plays a part as well.
many people claim that macOS is simpler/easier to use. while i think this was a good argument years ago, it's pretty much a tossup now. both interfaces are pretty inutitive and easy to navigate.
macs also excelled is graphics and video editing at one time, but that's changed as well. iirc not too long ago i read that adobe released it's latest video-editing software only on the pc. overall mac has some decent (tho arguably limited) amount of productivity software, but games are an entirely different matter. mac has a number of titles but it's nowhere near the amount avail. for pc's, and frankly what does get released for mac is often way after it's avail. for pc's.
there are certainly die hard mac fans, and i'm sure there are indeed some valid reasons as to why, but from my limited use of mac, i easily prefer the pc whether i'm running linux or windows...
hope that helps.
