Thinking of changing from PC to IMAC, advice please.

System

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

This is my opinion not advice and I have nothing against Apple kit (except price) it is just my opinion

Apple laptops are some of the cheapest computers you can own due to the very low depreciation. My Macbook Pro at 2 years old was fetching just £150 less than I paid for it new on Ebay. Add to the fact that at 3 years old and 573 charge cycles later its still on the original battery with 87% of original capacity whereas a typical Windows laptop will be on its second and possibly third they're a lot cheaper to own.

Find me any other laptop you can buy in PC World etc that depreciates so little it costs just £75 a year to own.

another_casualty

If you already own an iPhone & iPad , getting an Apple computer is the way forward . What type of Mac to get is another question .
Don't discount Mac mini . Not too expensive ,and it is something that can be plugged into your tv .

EveryWhere

Tarambor wrote: »

Apple laptops are some of the cheapest computers you can own due to the very low depreciation. My Macbook Pro at 2 years old was fetching just £150 less than I paid for it new on Ebay. Add to the fact that at 3 years old and 573 charge cycles later its still on the original battery with 87% of original capacity whereas a typical Windows laptop will be on its second and possibly third they're a lot cheaper to own.

Find me any other laptop you can buy in PC World etc that depreciates so little it costs just £75 a year to own.

This is just misinformation. Why are you propagating this nonsense? PC World? :rotfl:

My Toshiba laptop cost me £240 almost nine years ago. I replaced the battery last year, for £5. Added SSD for £30. Upped RAM for £20 or less

£295 over nine years is £32.78 per annum.

If I was going to buy a MacBook, I would just pay £150 more and buy a new one. £1100 for two years old or £1250 for new. Who is in the the market for a two year old MacBook at a discount of £150 from new? Only an idiot methinks.
It's not the cheapest to own, you've spent more than £1000 on it. There is the opportunity cost of you spending say £1250 and I £250. I can invest that £1000 in other things, therefore reducing my costs even further as compared to you.

macman

Why not start with a Factory Restore of your current PC? At zero cost.
'Slow when browsing' indicates an out of date browser or a slow internet connection-not a time-expired PC.
A modern PC will work perfectly well with an iPhone or iPad.

Frozen_up_north

EveryWhere wrote: »

This is just misinformation. Why are you propagating this nonsense? PC World? :rotfl:

My Toshiba laptop cost me £240 almost nine years ago. I replaced the battery last year, for £5. Added SSD for £30. Upped RAM for £20 or less

Talking of misinformation, a laptop battery for £5? How long before it bursts into flames while charging?

Where do you shop, a PC scrap dealer?

EveryWhere

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

Talking of misinformation, a laptop battery for £5? How long before it bursts into flames while charging?

Where do you shop, a PC scrap dealer?

What misinformation?

The genuine Toshiba part cost £5 via eBay.
I also have purchased a new genuine Toshiba part PA3727U-1BRS extended battery for £9.99 from XSonly
https://www.xsonly.com/products/toshiba-pa3727u-1brs-high-capacity-12-cell-notebook-battery A bit more expensive at the mo..

Clearly because you paid a ridiculous amount for your Apple product and are gouged every time you need to buy an accessory, the prices that I quote for my parts must be a shock to your system.

RumRat

OP....My advice would be see if you can possibly find someone with an iMac and give it a whirl and ask pertinent questions in real time.
Personally, the only reason I wouldn't buy one is the cost. I can do more for the money with a PC.
As for learning a new OS, it's not going to be difficult, whichever it is.
That is why it's a purely subjective decision that only you can make.

The only other advice I can give is, don't ask, on a general tech forum, which is best or easiest, iMac or PC, as it will always, without fail, result in a war with irrelevant rubbish being spouted on both sides. As you can clearly see in this thread.

Good luck with whichever you choose.

prowla

A cool thing on a Mac is that iPhone messages come up in the Mac's message app to.


Ease of use - I rate the Mac above Windows 10 and Linux, though I've always had a hassle getting a middle button functionality (which I need).


Performance-wise, I found that the Mac could not run Virtual Machines very well and the CPU & fan would go loopy. (But if you don't use VMs, then that's not particularly relevant.)


I also found that some web sites would really hammer the CPU.


MS Word & Excel work fine on the Mac, but some of the colours are not the same and some of the actions/controls you do are different.


I found some hardware incompatibilities (especially mice), but generally all is OK.



File portability, web browsing, email are generally fine.


My Mac mini has just failed on me, so I've shifted to a Mint Linux system as my main PC; I find I can use either/or.


All in all, if you want a Mac, then go for it!

EveryWhere

RumRat wrote: »

OP....My advice would be see if you can possibly find someone with an iMac and give it a whirl and ask pertinent questions in real time.
Personally, the only reason I wouldn't buy one is the cost. I can do more for the money with a PC.
As for learning a new OS, it's not going to be difficult, whichever it is.
That is why it's a purely subjective decision that only you can make.

The only other advice I can give is, don't ask, on a general tech forum, which is best or easiest, iMac or PC, as it will always, without fail, result in a war with irrelevant rubbish being spouted on both sides. As you can clearly see in this thread.

Good luck with whichever you choose.

Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black....

Every post on this thread is as relevant and on-topic as yours. It's not as if you aren't prone to posting wholly off-topic nonsense on threads.
Cheeky ........

EveryWhere

prowla wrote: »

A cool thing on a Mac is that iPhone messages come up in the Mac's message app to.


Ease of use - I rate the Mac above Windows 10 and Linux, though I've always had a hassle getting a middle button functionality (which I need).


Performance-wise, I found that the Mac could not run Virtual Machines very well and the CPU & fan would go loopy. (But if you don't use VMs, then that's not particularly relevant.)


I also found that some web sites would really hammer the CPU.


MS Word & Excel work fine on the Mac, but some of the colours are not the same and some of the actions/controls you do are different.


I found some hardware incompatibilities (especially mice), but generally all is OK.



File portability, web browsing, email are generally fine.


My Mac mini has just failed on me, so I've shifted to a Mint Linux system as my main PC; I find I can use either/or.


All in all, if you want a Mac, then go for it!

Good review. Though it certainly wouldn't inspire me to spend that much, with all of the shortcomings you mention.
But as you say, if one really wants one and money is not an object.