1. The Case
Try and find a case like the Macbook Unibody Case on a PC, You can’t! Look at the design and qaulity of the cases you get. They are defiantly top notch in both departments.
2. The Included Software
Don’t even tell me you get programs like iMovie , iPhoto, and Garage Band on a PC. While windows computers have come with Windows Movie Maker for a long time, it doesn’t even come close to iMovie. And nothing like iPhoto or Garage Band comes with windows either. The ease of use is amazing on all the applications.
3. Less likely to get virus
While it’s not impenetrable, you are less likely to get a virus because of the smaller install base of Mac OSX isn’t a target like Windows is.
4. You can still run windows
Still need windows? Run it along side OSX with a program like Parrels or by using Boot Camp.
5. It’s Extremely User Friendly
Users can sit down and learn how to use it quickly. All the user interfaces are intuitive and easy to follow.
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i honestly thought this was going to be a joke… with your love of the zune and all… obsession may be a better term…
oh, but i do agree, totally… i am a big mac fan for these reasons… they might not have the biggest choice in software, but what there is just works… and is dead simple…
This was a surprising article to hear from you, haha.
HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THIS: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/210279/rumor-microsoft-developing-zune-xbox-handheld-gaming-device/
The possible zune-xbox handheld device?
Yes, I just have not heard enough from my sources to know if it is true or not.
by the way, you spelled “definitely” wrong in reason #1.
1) You are correct – IF you enjoy looking like every other Mac user, which im presuming most owners do because they think they are oh so “cool”. If however you don’t want to, then you may want to look at the thousands upon thousands of different cases you can stick your PC into. Including a nice uni-body one here: http://www.casedesigns.net/mini/psile-extremely-welldesigned-in-white-or-black/
2) A common argument. Windows costs easily 3 times the price of OSX(and lets forget about the fact that OSX is built off the free UNIX base). And OSX comes with a plethora of software. Awesome, what a winner! BUT what you are failing to consider is that just as Windows is way more expensive than OSX, Mac hardware is way more expensive that PC for the EXACT SAME hardware(yes, everything is made in the same factory – get over it). So your argument is this: “I want to buy that horribly overpriced box of mints, because it has a 1c coupon included ABSOLUTELY FREE!”.
3) You may want to take a little gander at this: http://news.techworld.com/security/1798/mac-os-x-security-myth-exposed/
4) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hackintosh
5) This may be a good point, except that it is only true for users that count small rocks as technology. Get a regular computer “geek” who has used Linux and Windows extensively, and get them to try do something. It may be intuitive to its target market(clueless drones) but fails horribly at falling into the rest of the worlds standards.
1) WHO THE HECK WANTS THOSE PC CASES!? WTF? In terms of Mac, the cases do allow the battery to be condensed and last longer. Those PC cases only allow your computer to look fugly. Thanks, but no thanks.
2) Actually, that’s a false analogy, a correct one would be “I want to buy an overly expensive box of mints because it comes with some free and useful pieces of bubblegum that amount to the same amount of money, anyway.” Although I don’t condone saying that Mac comes with more included software, after all Windows comes with a lot of installed software — most of which you’ll probably delete anyway. But there’s some useful stuff and you’ve got photo viewer, etc. But then again, most apps do have to be downloaded and some you can find better — Picasa, anyone?
3) An article from 2004? Yeah, the most popular movie then was Mean Girls… a lot of stuff has improved if you catch my drift. And besides, the argument remains that less viruses are “out there” because less people use it.
4) Hackintoshes are a hassle and deal with legal issues and hardly work. Plus who do you go to when you have a problem? The community? When you buy something new you have official support and the community.
5) This is a total opinion from the original article but even if you claim that it’s only intuitive for its large mass target: what does it matter? That’s the target, your argument is a moot point about “true geeks” who delve in Windows and Linux is such a small percentage of even the online nerds we know about… imagine anyone else? Most people just want their computer to work and be easy to handle.
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In the end lots of this is personal choice. I will say that I dont like mac cases, and prefer choice, you will say you like looking like a sheep(biased I know
). I will say Windows 7 kicks the living daylights out of Mac. And that it doesn’t look depressing and gray. And that there are way more apps that work on Windows right off the mark. You will say that you like being depressed, and not “having an app for that”(ironic isn’t it?).
Either way, all to their own.
[Typed with my PC which spec per spec is identical to a Mac 3 times the price - discounting software obviously because that is subjective]
Oh yeah,
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