Why should we stick with Mac Os/Macs?

[ryanflucas]

Self employed IT Specialist here.

I can't for the life of me get used to Windows post version 7. 90% of my clients use Windows and it keeps me pretty well employed. For personal use, I can't see myself ever going back to Windows. I use an iMac for work and personal + iPad Air 2 + iPhone 5C. I grew up with Microsoft products and liked Microsoft as a company with Bill Gates. Post Gates the company no longer interests me. It was too arrogant and money-hungry. When it came to video games, I found myself growing to dislike Xbox as a platform. I ended up switching ecosystems and going entirely Sony. Sony is the next best thing to Apple in console gaming.

 

[polee]

Perhaps the baseline, but not the high-end. You pay excessive amounts for processor and RAM upgrades and only the €2,799 15” MacBook Pros have dedicated graphic cards. For that kind of money you get incredible laptops from other manufacturers.

This is so true. The high end Windows notebooks are so expensive compared to Macs, and nothing beats the quality of a Macbook. I am not a fanboy. I own a Lenovo 11s, but the money I have paid for a macbook air is worth every single cent I have spent on it. Can't say the same about the Lenovo...

 

[Toltepeceno]

The wife has two windows laptops she is using right now. She has a 6 year old samsung that is just about in as good condition as when she got it, looks much better than most aluminum laptops the same age. She also has a new 17" hp envy with dedicated graphics and 1080 screen that cost a little over 800.00 (5th generation i7) and in a macbook pro it would cost 2400.00 and in my mind that's a HUGE price difference. The envy's are well made, the son has one he has had a few years.

Aluminum is nice, but ever wonder why military rifles like m-16's use plastic and not aluminum? Plastic is not what it used to be and aluminum dents and scratches easier. Same with glocks, etc. Guns take far more abuse than laptops.

That being said I have a mac mini and will probably get a macbook pro later on. It depends on windows 10, I have not checked it out at all. There are reasons to like mac, no questions, but anyone that thinks prices are the same is delusional. Prices for the 15 or 14" envy's are in the same range with the same specs and when you can get three of them for the price of one macbook pro with dedicated graphics it makes the "same price"argument pretty ridicluous. The daughter is using my old windows laptop I got in 2008 and it's in very good condition, still faster than osx on this mac mini before I put in an ssd and it has the original 250gb spinner.

Also, look at the sager laptops from exoticpc. VERY well made and less than half the price.

Again, everything I own is apple. Phone, tablet, appletv, mac, but I have not deluded myself into believing windows computers cost the same.

The answer to the op's question is that you stick because you like the os as apple any more has about as much problems as anyone else. I think despite the problems I have had with yosemite I like osx a lot and at this point better than windows. I have no plans on going back and I used all of the windows versions and dos before that. I built a LOT of desktops through the years and sold them, never bought a pre built for myself either.

 

[jf1450]

A Microsoft Patch Tuesday a couple months ago with 30+ updates followed a week or so later with 20+ optional updates finally put me over the edge. I turned off my Asus G75VW and haven't turned it on since. Windows 10 won't change that.

 

[navaira]

Why I am on Mac OS:

1. Time Machine
2. Dock
3. No Registry
4. No "do not switch off your computer, installing update 95 out of 229"
5. No viruses
6. Adobe CC, Reason and Spotify run on Mac OS

Why I worry I might have to leave Mac OS:

1. iTunes/Apple Music
2. Jony Ive and his boys ruining my beautiful system

Why I won't leave Mac OS:

1. I would rather bite my head off and eat it than use Windows again unless they get rid of the constant updates, registry, viruses, malware, crashing programs, Windows 10 design (there is something that looks worse than iTunes 12.2!) and those bloody tiles
2. Adobe CC, Reason and Spotify do not run on Ubuntu

 

[Toltepeceno]

I truly understand you guys on the updates, they are a pain, but osx is not without problems. The command line tools updated downloaded 13 times before it took and the itunes one 5 times. My problem is we have horrible internet here and the whole area a few months ago dropped to 56k dial up speed. These one and two gig updates for each version update are a real nightmare. The windows ones are at least smaller and I can download a few at a time. I guess there's a reason, price not withstanding, why only 6% have apple products here. For places like this, third world, I wish I could get an installation disk for each version.

 

[cynics]

My previous opinion is starting to waver.

With every update of OS X and iOS I ask myself this question more and more. Features I don't or can't use being added, features I do use being removed, more bugs some so strange they are hard to replicate and not enough people will have them to be addressed in a timely manor, iCloud operation can work flawlessly own day and not the next....

Overall I still prefer OS X and the Apple ecosystem as you can probably tell from my sig but if someone offered me new hardware that was new and of similar specs I'd have to do a lot of soul searching to determine whether I would switch or not. I went from being happy in a lush walled garden to feeling a bit claustrophobic.