Once you go Mac... well...
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- jagara
Okay. Was a religious PC guy. Saw (some) of the light. Bought a 3000 $ Macbook Pro.
My experience? It's a good machine. Stable. Mostly problem-free. OSX is very well-designed, and does, i admit, beat Windows.
The verdict after 2 years, for the user experience? Mac is better. Slightly.
But... 2 years after buying it, the OS has become somewhat flakey/glitchy. Already had it repaired twice (battery suddenly stopped working, needed replacing, power switch broke). It's behaving, well, pretty much just as any high-end PC laptop would.
I'm probably going to have to buy a new laptop within the next two years (i usually get a new one every 3 years or so. So that is totally expected).
In the 3000 $ pricerange, i could get a ridicolously powerful PC laptop. And taking the normal things into account (design, user experience, durability), i'm considering going back to PC. Haven't made up my mind (don't need to, yet).
Not interested in re-heating the ANCIENT and EXTREMELY BORING fanboy war. I'm just interested in knowing, if any of you went Mac and back. And why.
- set0
I honestly find it torture trying to use windows after years of mac. If you're happy using it then it makes sense to get a faster better more easily upgradable machine.
- mekk0
Went back to PC after a year or so, never looked back. Swtiched back in 2011
- i_monk0
Use whatever works.
- chossy0
First computers I bought were macs. I have bought 5 or so. Only one of them didn't develop a problem. Each one of them cost me too much money.
I now just build my own PC's it's incredibly rewarding and cost effective. Never had a single problem with my PC's, upgrades are cost effective aswell, whack out mobo whack in new processor and mobo normally never more than £400 to upgrade after initial outlay which again is cheaper.
I like the modular way you can approach PC's.
Regarding the OS, I know how to work windows and mac so it doesn't give me any troubles, also 99% of the time I am only using the application so I rarely use the OS anyway.
I spent too much money on apple products in the past now I won't touch them after my great experiences with PC's
- vaxorcist0
Hackintosh... best of both worlds if you don't mind the hackery, and / or you have friends who love fixing little things for you....
I do love the mac in some ways, but I've been around both for so long I no longer think much of the difference.... except for the Unix command line, and the ability to cut-paste directly into the VI editor in unix command line, vs DOS or some windows-unix-command-line interpreters which aren't so direct or elegant....
That said, I get cheap PC laptops as I travel a lot and fixing an old Dell laptop is much cheaper than fixing a MacBook...
...and buying Windows to run on your Mac seems insanely expensive when you can get a cheap PC for only slightly more than a boxed Windows edition....
- section_0140
Hackintosh 4 life...except when I'm doing Apple related development. I use the macbook for that.
- chossy0
I thought about a hackintosh but it looks like an incredible amount of hasstle and a bit of a kludge, and I am super paranoid about my systems working perfectly so I have to go with a proper set up.
- These days, it's super easy and stable. My music studio (firewire interface, midi controllers) is on one and works perfectsection_014
- jagara0
A friend of mine swears by Hackintosh, and it works for him, but it is WAY too nerdy and timeconsuming for my tastes. And new problems surface every time he upgrades the OS. Not for me, but I've considered it, especially after watching this:
- utopian0
GREAT YET ANOTHER FANBOY THREAD!
- "Not interested in re-heating the ANCIENT and EXTREMELY BORING fanboy war."monospaced
- monospaced0
Well, if your OS is acting glitchy, that's not because your machine is 2 years old, it's probably because something's there making it glitchy (read, you did something to it). If you prefer Mac OS to Windows, then go that route, but it's hard to poll QBN on the topic if you don't even state what you need it for in the first place.
- and if you had it for only two years, those batteries would have been free or extremely cheap with Apple Caremonospaced
- jagara0
Right.
Graphic design: PS, AI, ID, BR
Light video editing: AE
Music production and sound editing: Ableton Live and Adobe Audition
And daily life...- So you paid $3K for a MBP and your verdict is it's better than a PC. I think you answered your own ?.monospaced
- Unless you don't think the hardware/case design/materials and OS are worth the extra $500-$1000.monospaced
- True, good point...jagara
- hereswhatidid0
I've tried a couple times to switch to mac but some short deadline invariably pops up and forces me to stick with PC for efficiency's sake. My biggest gripe is the file browser.
- I find Column view to be very efficient and more like Windows.monospaced
- finder gets worse with every new version.kingsteven
- loving the new 'can't click on the last file because it's behind the fucking scrollbar' feature...kingsteven
- I actually prefer the filesystem to Windows, but to each their own. I hear Mavericks will have a significant upgrade to Finder.monospaced
- Use TotalFinder for replacing OSX's finder. Has tabs and auto-expands the columnsfyoucher1
- Mavericks will have tabs in a few weeks.monospaced
- I love the file browser in Win7-8. Being able to copy/paste a network path like a URL and jump directly to it is greathereswhatidid
- I like Spotlight on the Mac and how you can live-search anything instantly.monospaced
- scarabin0
hackintosh all the way. get your ridiculously powerful pc laptop and run osx on it in less than an hour
- Does'nt i have to be a very specific model to run OSX well? Laptop, not tabletop, i mean?jagara
- The hackintosh hardware options are actually pretty vast.monospaced
