Thanks for clearing up your point , my fault for not reading the whole thread. I see the point you are making now.
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Why Macs are better than PC's?
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Thanks for clearing up your point , my fault for not reading the whole thread. I see the point you are making now.
Could be...but I am talking about how Apple designed awesome notebook body like MBA so ultra thin...How come no one want to buy a Compaq notebook with better performance than Dell?
I find it repulsive that people would destroy computers and phones just to get YouTube attention. There are very deprived people out there whose lives would be transformed with those devices.
idk.. I think it's funny.
and in a roundabout sort of way, it's telling of build quality.
I mean, how to car manufacturers test build quality? they crash the car.. I did a prototype for a sculpture last week which includes a skim coat of concrete.. how did I test durability? dropping it and hitting with a hammer. no YouTube views sought.
anyway.. I didn't mean to upset anyone when posting that.. srry
Lol. Car crash tests are there to test passenger safety. There's no real use dropping a laptop from 20 feet high or putting a phone under a ton of pressure in a single square inch.
I'm sure laptop makers do their own drop tests from shoulder height. But it's none of their business if people accidentally damage gadgets like that. It's the insurance company's business.
I have both PC's and Macs. While I prefer Macs because of the OS, the hardware is no better in reliability. I'd rate PC's better in that area because parts are readily available and much cheaper. Mac parts are overpriced. Again, It's all about your personal preference..
You are talking about something else, thats called brand image which apple has...
thats the only reason they are on the up, they created "cool" not good.
"Linux freaks" - lol, so true!
Bit of an exaggeration, I mean clearly all PCs aren't even the same.
Reasons I like OSX better than Windows:
1> Utter lack of malware compared to Windows. UNIX in general is more difficult to hack than Windows for that matter and OSX is certified UNIX. This is a BIG one as I hated running malware checkers all the time and rebooting all the time after Windows Updates, etc. (although OSX isn't totally immune from having to reboot for some updates).
2> Stability. OSX is extremely stable for the most part (at least in the final versions of a given major update). By this I mean other than for a major update or something, I generally never HAVE to reboot my Mac. I have seen occasional odd problems crop up (like something flashing bits on games that goes away if I reboot) and in the past I have had full system lockups, but it was usually iTunes that was the culprit (e.g. my PowerMac could run over a year without a reboot most of the time, but there was a few versions of iTunes that caused catastrophic lockups and that was one of the few times where Apple did get directly back to me on Feedback and to their credit, FIXED the iTunes bug in short order that caused it (on two different occasions over several years).
3> OSX doesn't generally get slower over time for things like booting since there is no registry (which is also a source of crashes and other problems if it gets corrupted) and hardly any disk fragmentation. Disk fragmentation may not be the problem it used to be with solid state drives on Windows, but with a conventional drive it's pretty terrible (NTFS isn't quite as bad as Fat/Fat32, but it still fragments).
4> Easier to restore full system backups (Apple isn't paranoid about protecting OSX so you can boot from "clones" of Mac drives via something like Carbon Copy Cloner. OSX has no qualms about booting the full system from USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt external devices or even different partitions on internal drives (e.g. I used to have two internal large drives in my PowerMac G4 and I could boot OS9, OSX Tiger and OSX Leopard off different partitions and then backup the entire thing to the second drive and boot off the same partitions that drive instead if needed to restore another one all without any external backup drives. It didn't care if I booted off the original or backup drive. It made no difference to OSX or even OS9. You can boot off other devices for Windows PCs, but due to the draconian protections on Windows, good luck booting from a backup (it will think you pirated it and lock it up at some point until you call Microsoft for a code and convince them you changed a piece of hardware or booted off a new drive).
5> Windows 8 is hideous looking, but then so is Yosemite, so maybe you shouldn't mention this one....
In general, I prefer most of the OSX interface save a few things like multi-monitor support. OSX USED to look AWESOME compared to Windows, but Windows7 definitely improved with the Aero inteface only to make itself look like crap in that "blocky" looking startup screen.6> Ability to run Windows (and Linux) either directly or in VMWare. There's no real technical reason VMWare couldn't do the same in reverse for Windows (i.e. run OSX in VMWare) except for Apple's arcane licensing that prevents it. Still, this is definitely an advantage for switching TO a Mac and being able to run things only Windows has).
7> Logic Pro. I love Logic Pro for making music and it's simply not available on Windows. I'm sure there's some in reverse for Windows as well, but the entire reason I bought my Macbook Pro in 2008 despite having a desktop Mac was to run Logic Pro on a machine I could move around for recording and editing in different rooms/environments.
Reasons why I think Windows is better than OSX in some areas:
1> Better gaming support from the OS and hardware vendors (good luck even finding Apple hardware that is up to snuff for gaming since they refuse to offer it). Drivers get more fine tuning in Windows as well.
2> Better multi-monitor support in Windows itself (drop menus are typically available on all windows as opposed to the top of the screen and until Mavericks, you had to move to another monitor to use them; there is still piss poor support for the dock on other monitors, particularly if you use side-mounted docks and Apple has done NOTHING about this for the past few years. Ironically, something like the Mac Pro makes it simple to use LOTS of monitors, but OSX still needs more improvements, IMO.
3> More commercial software availability in general
4> Longer lifetime support for older versions of Windows (Apple ditches support for older versions whenever the hell it feels like it while Microsoft typically offers at least security support for older versions of Windows for many years (over a decade in the case of XP). Support for my PowerPC Mac dried up pretty damn fast after Leopard even though many Mac Pros were perfectly usable for many years afterward in terms of hardware.
5> Touch screen support. Microsoft has already embraced touch-screen capability. This allows them to merge tablets with Windows for a hybrid product (Surface) and offer touch screen options in other areas like flight simulators for flight controls (just touch the switch on the screen instead of moving a mouse or trackpad arrow).
Maybe some of this is user error... but still all about "preferences"
2 - stability, is subjective.
3 - slower, all depends on the tools and crap on the device. iOS is shocking now, much worse than windows (not a direct compare i know).
4 - unless something has changed windows employed shadow copy and it was a simple click on the folder and hit the previous versions tab.
5 - pick your fav colour. OS looks like windows or mac did 10 years ago.
6 - you can do that in windows virtual PC, and it was free.
Its all subjective....
2 - stability, is subjective.
3 - slower, all depends on the tools and crap on the device. iOS is shocking now, much worse than windows (not a direct compare i know).
4 - unless something has changed windows employed shadow copy and it was a simple click on the folder and hit the previous versions tab.
5 - pick your fav colour. OS looks like windows or mac did 10 years ago.
6 - you can do that in windows virtual PC, and it was free.
Its all subjective....
That's actually optional, you have the choice to turn it off if you like (choice is something Apple is actually very uncomfortable with).
Furthermore, it's not different than Launchpad. Both display giant icons of applications... but for some reason criticism of that went under the radar for Apple. Why? lol
You also realise those designs come with limitations. The current MB with just one port??!
Yeah they have all but killed the ability to upgrade, and get more life out of your machine.
If you had read my post, you would have realized the "humorous post" was from a while back. Before Retina displays, and when the green button did exactly what the writer said. Not yesterday on Yosemite. "Aged", I said. And I didn't write it.
Lighten up, Francis. Sheesh!
AGREE 100%! These guys should get a real job! But hey, we live in the 'Social Media Area'... All NOT about the message itself, but just attracting attention! Wasting hardware of any brand on this stupidy is such a waste of resources indeed! And it is even a very stupid comparison, with non real sientific based tests. Wow what a losers these guys are!
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To test real life build quality, you have to test under the same circumstances and parameters for all devices, the video is just plain ********* stupid!
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Oh come on. They paid for it ... they can do what they want with it. That's like the starving children argument. My cousin destroys gadgets on YouTube to test their durability and whatnot and people complain in her comments all the time about how people could use those phones. If she didn't do anything like that, her career wouldn't be on YouTube. I mean she reviews gadgets mostly, but she'll occasionally trash a phone or gadget to see how they hold up. If you buy something you're not obligated to give it to someone else cuz they could use it more.
Having said all that ... the video is indeed ridiculous.
Durability of products are tested within a lab envoirement, any amature testing (like these lads) are plain stupid to perform and a waste of money, not to any use of the manufacturer/users and also not to forget The Youtube's viewers time.
I'm absolutely no fan of these videos! They're all fake copy-cats of "will it blend". This guy knows what he is selling and wants to prove that not only your bananas + strawberries and so on can be blended by his machine. Perfect Marketing that serves a real life purpose with a twist, IMHO!
But hey, we all have our fettish! ;-)
Cheers
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When your job is to get hits because it brings home the bacon ... you get the hits.
it's supposed to be stupid.. i mean they filled old computers with 50lbs of concrete..
still, i bet you were surprised the air still worked after that.
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further.. if you need help finding the humor in it..
hint- it's moreorless a parody on mac vs pc arguments.
they realize it's a stupid argument with no real answer as most if not all points are entirely subjective..
so the 'ultimate showdown'.. 'battlezone'.. etc is playing off that.
that people think they're being serious or attempting to demonstrate a real or accurate or fair test is their own fault. srry
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