It’s a good metaphor. Dell machine I use at work w Win 7 is a disaster. Many times a day I get weird behavior ranging from simply annoying to full freezes and crashes. Dell warranty repair is useless. Reinstall helps a while, but it takes days to get things back the way I want them, reinstall custom dictionaries, macros, template docs, etc.
Other users have it even worse with the machines just shutting down.
Endless virus scans turn up nothing most times.
Putting an SSD in my Dell laptop helped a lot and shortened the interminable startup to something livable.
MBP at home runs MONTHS between reboots.
“It’s a good metaphor. Dell machine I use at work w Win 7 is a disaster. “
We have one PC in house because originally Quickbooks was a Win only program. Now it runs on the Mac, so the old Dell is just around in case we need to look at some historical data. My experience with PC’s is that they ultimately get bogged down with internal $hit and run ever slower until they die. Now Macs run Windows (if you want them to) but we just never bothered to move the bookkeeping data.
Apple is a good product and since it’s sole source you can be assured that architecturally, every one is the same. I do prefer to run MS Office though, in the software department Mac is lagging. Their S/W products that “replace” Outlook, Excel, and Powerpoint are inferior. Probably though because MS has so much intellectual property protection that it’s hard to make a decent product without infringement. All that said, I am not a fan of MS as a company and how they do business.
“It’s a good metaphor.”
How about this then. Mac users drive Prius’ and Suburus ...