Who likes Macs better than Windows?

Question

I personally like macs better because they... Well... I don't even know where to begin. Macs are better than windows overall. Everything.

I'm talking a brand new Lightning Fast Mac 10.4.7 iMac G5.

Answer 1

The mac os is superior to the windows os. All those commercials running right now, are absolutely true.

Answer 2

If you like spyware, adaware, registry mechanic, bluescreens, viruses, worms, security holes.. Then by all means please use Windows. If you actually enjoy using a computer.. Then get a MAC and run OS X.

It seems to me lately that OS X developers are much more inventive. This is why you will see Windows Vista incorporate so many of OS X's features into their OS. If you can't lead.. follow.

Being a User of Both Systems .. OS X has really come a long way. It does a great job of maintaing organization between applications. I also love the fact that everything is scalable in the GUI. Did I mention dashboard widgets..However, OS X's uninstall feature and Finder are still lacking.

Most Windows users hate the Mac.. However...oddly enough ..most have never used one.

Both Platforms have their own stengths.. I recommend using them both. Luckily.. If you own a Mac.. You can use them both.

Answer 3

Bear in mind that I'm both a research scientist by trade and have been using computers for more than fifteen years. I started with DOS on an ancient x86 computer and have had a reasonable amount of experience with both Macs and Windows-based computers as they evolved. I must say that I prefer Windows, even after having used a brand new Macintosh day in and day out for more than two months now at work. I changed research labs and the new lab uses Macs - the old lab used Windows.

Every day I work on my Mac, I feel like I'm fighting with it. There are little things that are wrong with it that need to be fixed. Example: why is there a white outline around the mouse that doesn't act as part of the mouse? If I click something and the black tip is not over the item I clicked - but the white border of the mouse arrow is, it still won't click it. I have to move the mouse and re-click it. Also, the Mac mice stink. They have multi-button mice now, but I've been using one since I got this new mac (a Mighty Mouse, I guess it's called) and I find right-clicking nearly impossible without slamming my fingers down on the very right edge of the single plastic mouse button.

Other problems I have with them - they're underpowered and proprietary. The new Mac commericals may say they work with everything, but just try to find the latest and greatest sound card, video card, RAID adapter, etc. for your Mac. You'll find that the best available for Macs came out two years ago for Windows machines.

The OS is also full of bugs. Finder, in column view, becomes impossible to use if you go into more than 4 or 5 folders of depth. The window expands across the screen, making it so I have to shift it to the left in order to continue browsing deeper into a directory. Windows Explorer never has this problem because of the two-pane window approach.

Further problems involve speed of response. I'm using a Mac with an Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz, so it's a fairly new machine. When I click "Applications" in finder, I can count - one one-thousand... two one-thousand... before the list appears on the screen. And I haven't installed anything on this machine except Firefox and a different chat program. When I click the Start Menu on my 2 year old PC at home, it appears, with all of my applications showing up right away - no waiting. This isn't just my Mac, either. My coworker has a dual G5 power mac and it has the same delay.

Other qualms that I have involve the dock. Why are the arrows showing which apps are running so small? Why can't I move the Apple and File menu's from the top of the screen to the sides or the bottom, like I can with the Taskbar in Windows? Why is it I can click on something in a non-active window on a PC (eg. click an icon on the desktop while I'm in Word) and drag it somewhere - and it actually does it. On a Mac, I have to click my desktop first in order to "activate" Finder, then click the icon and drag it where I want it. How stupid is that?

Like I said, it feels like I'm wrestling with a bear when I use my Mac at work. I am a scientist and an engineer. I expect things to work logically and respond immediately when I tell them to do something. That's something Macs can't even do... I'll double click a document for Word, for example, and it will take 3 or 4 seconds before ANYTHING happens on the Mac. The arrow doesn't change to an hourglass, no icon appears in the dock... What the hell is going on, I think, so I click it again. Then it opens TWO copies! It's just so frustrating. I'm very glad I'll be switching to yet another lab at the end of this summer, to one that uses Windows again. It will be nice to be *productive* with my computer instead of fighting with the way Apple's designeers believe I should be using my computer.

It's my computer, after all... shouldn't it behave the way I want it to, not the way Apple's people tell me it should? I right-click a button, it should pop up the menu right away. I accidentally click a divider in the menu that pops up (a horizontal line divider), it should realize that it was an errant click and not close the little menu window, as it does on a Mac (but doesn't on a PC). It's like it was thrown together by monkeys, and the reason it works at all is because Apple has exclusive control over the hardware it runs on. It's like a Nintendo - only Nintendo stuff will run on it, so it's expected it will run well.

That's why I found it surprising in using Apple's latest and greatest OS that there are SO many problems and so many frustrating little details that they didn't fix or perfect. They all add up to one big headache for me... and that's why I'll stick with Windows, at least until something better comes along. That thing, at the moment, is not Apple and their kludge, Mac OS X.

Answer 4

Sure Mac is a lot more 'high-tech' and all, especially w/ less viruses, but I don't think I could ever get used to a Mac cuz Windows and Macs are really different. Also, Mac gets you stuck in their Apple World cuz not everything for computers are compatible w/ Mac but most are w./ Windows.

Answer 5

People who are intimidated by windows Computers like Macs better. They're less powerful, less advanced, less efficent and less supported.
PCs are Personal computers. Macs are PCs, becuase apple computers aren't capable of doing much more than personal computing. The computers that track satalites, forcast ecconomic trends in the stock market and predict earthquakes are windows based computers, they just have more potential.
Macs aren't more stable than a Window's machine, in fact with the same wear and tear they run into more errors and crash more often, it's just that Mac users on average don't demand as much of their computers. Macs don't have any superior protection from intrusion software, they just present such a tiny portion of the computers on the internet that nobody bothers coding anything for them, much like few software companies bother coding benificial software for them.

Answer 6

I think it depends what you want to use the computer for. Macs have a much, much better graphics package and they're more user-friendly and they're especially more robust. However, they're not as compatible with most available software as Windows computers. Many people also prefer Windows because sometimes a Mac can be TOO user-friendly, so that you can't modify anything to your tastes.

Answer 7

Macs all the way Apple is the best but will be completely the best when everything supports it like they support Microsoft but i would pick a G5, G4, or a G3 over a Microsoft any day the G3 Keyboard is sexy There i said it and Apple graphics are way better plus if you download the new graphic enhancers it looks real

Answer 8

Well first off, Macs are a brand of computer and Windows is a software based program. an operating system. I think you are referring to PCs. I think PCs are better but Macs are not bad either.

Answer 9

New OS-X Tiger whips butt.
Older macs use to be a little geekish but the gui is almost fully integrated like the windoze one. Macs are still geekish, but geeky is freeky kewl!
I like both of them, but have 4 OS on 1 box and windows is not the default boot loader.

Answer 10

Yes, you're right. Macs are better than Windoze at everything. If you like windoze you're stuck behind a couple years... or you can go ahead and use it in BootCamp for mac. Can you run a mac on your windoze pc? No? Oh, guess not. Macs rule!

Oh and by the way Lisa, macs are NOT a brand of computer. Apple would be the brand. And yes, Apples are still better than PC's. So stop talking about things you don't know about.