Switch to Apple…part deux
Here’s the deal. Hopefully this will fully make you understand why I, a life long pc user and pc advocate, am thinking about switchng to Apple. Or at least give it a try. It’s not all about price!
Please get that through your head. Yes the Mac mini is cheaper, and truly makes the Apple affordable, but that’s not the only reason to make the move. It just makes it easier. People seem to only want to talk about price. Why? So what if you can get a better pc for cheaper or at the same price? When I talk about cars, I dont talk about just price. I mean, I talk about everything it has to offer, amenities, safety, etc. So why do that with computers? You wouldnt want to buy a car if you knew it was just going to break down all of the time and cost you loads of money in the long run right? Remember the Hyundai’s of yore? This is the same thing with pc’s.
The biggest things for me to making the switch are the following:
Apple has a more stable OS.
This wont come as a surprise to many who are familiar with UNIX, but I am really up to HERE with all of the BSOD (blue screen of deaths) I get when working on my laptop. Especially when I have been working on financial projections. After not getting it for a few months, I now get it twice a day. Whats the remedy? Reformat my harddrive, and reinstall everything. I am tired of doing this. Especially when it takes me a better part of 2 days to get my computer back up to speed. Backups don’t help, as the system settings dont carry over like they say they would.
Better security.
Even though this could be due to Apple not having a big market share, which is why virus writers don’t attack it, it’s still better than having to update my machines almost everyday and worry about possible attacks.
Widgets.
One of the greatest inventions ever is the widgets for Apple. Granted they now have it for the pc, it just isn’t the same. I’ve done a lot of work onto some of my machines such as placing a dock bar to emulate the Apple’s dock bar so I can be more productive, but widgets take the cake. These little things can get you loads of information at a glance, working seamlessly in the background.
Expose.
If you work with multiple programs at the same time and want to be able to select one at a quick glance. This function is for you. When I first played with this feature I was enthralled. It’s one of those ideas that you just don’t know how you ever lived without. Yet I live without it everyday, and I kick myself in the head when I have 15 windows opened and need to find something quick.
Ease of use.
The pc to me has become quite alien to me lately, even though I worked as a pc tech and IT manager, these things just don’t make sense. Especially when they break down, but that’s another story. Whenever I get onto an Apple machine, things just seem to be where I would naturally think they would be, such as network controls.
All of these plus thousands of other reasons say give it a try. It can’t hurt. You won’t have to use the Mac as your main computer if you dont want to. You can just get used to it and play with it and see if maybe you’d want to upgrade to the G5.
OS updated regularly.
Apple is great at doing updates for the OS and giving it whiz bang features that Microsoft always tries to emulate, but it takes them years. Longhorn, their next OS was supposed to come out last year, then later this year, and now by last count wont come out until sometime in ‘06. Thats about 5 years on the same OS. Way too long for an update.
Thats my final take. Give it a shot.
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