To mac or not to mac

home_alone

A good guide is go into any computer selling shop apart from Apple and ask the sales guy which computer would he buy and odds on it will be the Apple.

kabayiri

A real problem for Microsoft surely is the "out of the box" experience. It isn't under their control.

I purchased a quad core i7 laptop; 4Gb ram; and a fast hard drive.

When you spend a grand on a laptop you expect an impressive experience. Alas it was so clunky and slow. I'm willing to accept the usual argument put forward on here, that it's 'bloatware' and lack of an optimised installation. Whatever the reason, it's basically unacceptable, and many non technical people will not have the first clue how to go about reinstalling everything. You don't even get installation disks, for heavens sake.

It didn't bother me, because I I don't use the windows installation on the machine much.

Rather than argue about MS vs Apple, maybe we should ask where MS go from here? They need some better leverage over suppliers I'd suggest.

23n1th

home_alone wrote: »

A good guide is go into any computer selling shop apart from Apple and ask the sales guy which computer would he buy and odds on it will be the Apple.

That is the silliest thing I've ever see anyone suggest. Have you been in PCWorld?

Silly Silly Kevin McCallister.

Enterprise-D

judderman62 wrote: »

and be aware a big chunk of the stuff folk say is sooo much better on a mac .... it's a myth - had mine about 18 months or so now and am hugely underwhelmed with it.

A lot of the claims - just are not true at all. Just one example - the slow up that you get over time of using a PC doesn't happen with a mac (for e.g. time taken to boot up) ... our computer says XXX not true - my mac , when I first got it, used to take 24 seconds to boot up... within just a few months this had increased to 44 seconds - almost doubled.

Sadly there are many such claims made that just aren't true.

Any computer regardless of whether its a Windows PC or a Mac will slow down a bit more over time, especially if you've installed additional software etc. A Mac isn't immune from needing a bit of housekeeping and maintenance now and again.

You can spend £150,000 on a new Ferrari, yet you could hardly argue that it requires no maintenance at all.

OSX will not cause any problems with fragmentation, thus eliminating the need to defrag. Maybe you had some addition applications set to run on start-up? Did you have a lot of stuff in the dock?

Regarding the Snow Leopard upgrade - this obviously seems to be subject to misinformation. There were a huge amount of changes, especially behind the scenes which made for a much smoother and faster running OS. Most of the OS and system applications were re-written entirely over to 64-bit only.

I can see why some people consider the Snow Leopard upgrade as a service pack, but in all honesty, its no different than Vista vs Windows 7.