There’s more operating systems out there than these two guys nowadays.
And I HATE Windows 10.
BING sucks!! And Cortana annoys the #### out of me
It’s like having a nagging girlfriend. :)
AND they charged me 20 bucks so I could watch DVDs!!!
It was ALWAYS free.
Those ####s.
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I just love these religious threads. /sarc
Study statistics are flawed. The average replacement timeframe is greater than every 6-24 months. That’s what is killing personal computer manufacturers today.
With the pay as you go Windows and Office 10 business model, the life cycle cost differential between Apple and IBM-based machines has now closed considerably.
My family has three relatively new IBM-based computers (two large screen desktops and a touchscreen laptop) that are primarily used as Internet access devices. Everyone of them is going to be replaced in the next 3 to 4 years with an Apple equivalent as they reach their individual points of performance failure (technological or physical).
Then there are the security issues.
It’s just a tool, man.
Windows, Mac, Linux. I deal with them all day long in my work. Each have their strengths. I personally prefer the Mac. My 4 year old laptop runs just as well now as when it was brand new. Never had that experience with a Windows machine.
That said, I make my living with Windows servers.
I did IT work as govt employee for 13 years for the USG, at DOD and US Dept of State. At State you literally learn job (over a dozen) that an Army Signal Battalion. Having seen both operating systems along with all the functionally of servers and using several other O/S’s.... I hardly evvery go to the computer anymore after getting the Smart Phone. Especially (religion) LG phones and the current LG V20 riding on the back of a Samsung Edge S6. Once you can swap out batteries.... it ended the PC boggie. Now LG just needs a Hot-Swappable Battery.
Also an “age thing” I think...when I was young I had more time than money (time to do “home built” PC’s, diagnose, upgrade, etc.), as I got older I have more $ than time and don’t have time to mess with the MS BS....updates, viruses, slow downs, and other “maintenance” (i.e. msconfig.exe). After 20+ years of MS-DOS/Windows (I left when Win 8 came out), I switched to Mac and am very happy that “It Just Works”. I admit that I do still have a pretty powerful Win 7 “home-brew” machine around for a few Windows games, but I boot it less and less as I find more iOS and MacOS games.
LOL! "Parental assistance" must mean "daddy's money".
If not that, then they must mean that these teens are relying on their parents for advice on a selecting a computer/device. I find that very hard to believe!
I was in Costco last week. Cruised by the computer display.
There , was a shiny new 13” laptop, a Dell IIRC, $1300. Wow, for that I could buy a nice MacBook!
Love my 2012 MacBook Pro I bought used in order to get high end machine that has it all.
Hate to thought of going back to a PC, but.
OTOH I’m really pi$$ed at Apple. Why?
They took a wonderful machine, the MacBook , and stripped it of its usefulness. All in the name of esthetics.
Want to run a DVD? gotta buy a separate optical drive and lug it around.
Want to check your camera SD card? More peripheral hardware.
Want to plug in a USB device? Thumb drive? Again, more stuff.
Trip over the power cord? Oops ! What happened to Magsafe?
So you end up with a skinny, pretty portable machine and a backpack full of adapters and drives.
Guess they expect you to put your life in ‘The Cloud’ and download as needed.
Not me.
I have both. Each has pluses and minuses. I switch between them often since I use them for different purposes.
Mac since 2011.
Just a quick tip for those MS users who are considering a switch to Mac.
Apple doesn’t have an internet icon, they call it Safari. Took me 3 hours and a phone calk to find that out when my wife brought an iPad. The whole world knows it’s called the internet but Apple has to be different...
Windows user since 1980’s. I have 2 Win 7 Desktops, Win 10 Laptop, Andriod LG G5, Samsung Android Apad. Win 8 was Pain.
I am not an Apple fan. 82 YO Grandpa. I am the Family goto guy to solve Computer issues. I worked in the Military Computer arena
Just putting in a good word for Win 10. A couple thoughts:
- Touch on a full OS PC and large screen is brilliant. I find myself reaching for the screen on my one non-touch monitor all the time, and I plan on replacing it w/ touch soon.
- Win 10 syncing between all my devices is seamless and so productive for me.
- I’ve recently bought 3 pc’s w/ Win 10 from Dell & HP and the OEM bloat is so much less than it used to be and easy to remove.
- Cortana can be a great tool. I turn off “heh Cortana” and only use it for on-demand commands, and can be very useful.
My wife won’t be moving from Mac to PC, but I won’t be going the other way, either.
Problem for Macs/Apple is, that, that kind of survey always seem to reflect the same kind of answers, yet, the Mac share of “PCs” still hangs around 6-7%, no matter what the price-points and no matter the perception of better quality, and no matter how much hype surrounds Apple stuff.
Apple was caught napping by the MS Surface devices, and now Apple is having to catch up to try to retain even their loyal followers.
Nevertheless, the market share for MS and Apple, will still be the same a year or more down the line, with the greater possibility being that, Apple will lose market share.
I have been a MS user since 1981 when I bought my first computer for home use (PC jr) running Dos 1.0 as I recall. Over the years I went through many of the iterations of windows (I skipped Vista and Win 8). I always found there were ups and downs in each new version and I learned to adapt.
But with the dawn of Win10 I said “Enough!”
Since all of our other devices were Apple and they “just worked”, I decided to make the jump to an iMac and s$$$can the PC. I have no regrets.
I did make one concession to allow me to continue to use Quicken; I installed Parallels Desktop and Win 7 and I have all that I need. If Intuit ever came out with a Mac version of Quicken that was as good as the Windows version, I would switch in a heartbeat. Unfortunately their Quicken for Mac just SUCKS!!!
I still help friends with PC/Windows problems, but I draw the line at Win10 and say “Sorry, I just don’t go there”
Bruce Jenner?
You have to have a high income to afford a Mac pc : )
LINUX is FREE. Most peoples’ eyes glaze over when I tell them that. XP was the last stable Windows. Been using LINUX now since they created a GUI.