Apple’s Macintosh computers, or better known as “Mac”, has been around as long as Windows, but only recently gained popularity. Macs has been rising so fast that now people often relate the word “expert” to Macs. So, lets count down the top 5 reasons to use a Mac.
5: Boot camp
Lets start with the basics. You like Windows? You CAN use windows… while using one of the most tough, advanced and zen-like laptop. Or if you still use a CPU, desktop. But really, apple’s hardware is enough to sell their products. I have dropped my Macbook a dozen times while transporting(lid closed), and it still works. The MagSafe charger port saves your laptops from those people who always trip over your cable. Sure other companies has laptop with better specs, but do they survive a fall where it bounces? Think about that.
4:Â Spotlight
Organizing your files is vital to using Windows , as you lose something, you lose it forever. Trust me, I lost plenty of files before. But using a Mac, you can slack quite a bit by using spotlight. What it does is it search your entire Mac for that file you name, all while you are watching that youtube video or tweet stream. All you need to do is to click the icon of a magnifying glass (or command-space for the cool kids) and type in the search term. Within a few seconds, a summary search results will come out. The summary is strangely accurate. In fact, most of the time, to find your most used apps, the first letter will do it. It is also filtered to file type, top hits, and dictionary. Yes, the killer feature is dictionary. No more opening web browsers for dictionary.com. Some word on the web you don’t know? Spotlight it and you will know immediately.
3.iLife
iLife is not a single “thing”. Its actually 5 of the best entry-level creativity programs I ever seen. IPhoto is like Picasa, but this time, optimized for Mac. You can make movie out of your photo albums easily by sending it to iDVD, and adding songs from itunes. It can edit photos with the standard hue, tint, etc… and add filters to it without opening photoshop. Did I mention you can organize photo in albums and get apple to print it out for you? That is cool too. Imovie is your standard basic movie editor, but much better then Windows movie maker. Hack, it don’t hang every 2 minutes. GarageBand is used even by experts to edit podcasts and make music. Its so easy to use, even a 6 year-old kid can make his own song. It exports your songs to itunes, so you can show it off (and get shouted at) . iDVD lets you make menus in DVD, complimented by the rest of iLife. Lastly, iWeb, which allows you to make webpages on MobileMe easily.
Yah, my main point is this few programs are awesome.
2: Programs are now compatible
Still not convinced about switching? I am pretty sure your excuse is “There are so little programs for it!” If that is your excuse, you really need to get up to date. Since the Mac boom, everyone started programming for Mac. In fact, if you want a succesful program, just make a clone to a very popular windows program. For example, adium to replace live messenger and raptr for xfire. If you can name me more then 1 major program which is on Windows and not Mac, without a alternative, the program is probably too obscure.
Also, if you are too angry about not being able to use steam, you can also use boot camp.
1: The prestige
Now, really, why would you really want to use a Mac? Of course, it is to stand out among the crowd. After years of Apple’s “I am a Mac” brainwashing, people have come to relate the term “Experts” to “Macintosh”. Think about it. The main reason I don’t use my Ipod touch or Mac in public places (eg. Mcdonalds) is to stop people from staring at that white fruit shining ever so brightly. I even met someone on the bus staring at my ipod at intimate distances. Words can never explain this. I will let the simpsons explain it.
God bless the Simpsons.
Yup – Mac is by far the favourite of many. Unfortunately here in South Africa a Mac costs twice the price of the equivalent Microsoft computer. So that settles that then in which I buy, even if I would prefer a Mac. Until they sort their pricing out they will never take a big chunk of the market here.
Yup – Mac is by far the favourite of many. Unfortunately here in South Africa a Mac costs twice the price of the equivalent Microsoft computer. So that settles that then in which I buy, even if I would prefer a Mac. Until they sort their pricing out they will never take a big chunk of the market here.
Yup – Mac is by far the favourite of many. Unfortunately here in South Africa a Mac costs twice the price of the equivalent Microsoft computer. So that settles that then in which I buy, even if I would prefer a Mac. Until they sort their pricing out they will never take a big chunk of the market here.
Yup – Mac is by far the favourite of many. Unfortunately here in South Africa a Mac costs twice the price of the equivalent Microsoft computer. So that settles that then in which I buy, even if I would prefer a Mac. Until they sort their pricing out they will never take a big chunk of the market here.
“Have” you used Windows? In the Enterprise, mac does not mean “expertâ€, it means “home computer”. If you want to look cool, get a mac. If you want a job, learn windows. Unless you are working at a young Internet startup, of course.
“Have” you used Windows? In the Enterprise, mac does not mean “expertâ€Â, it means “home computer”. If you want to look cool, get a mac. If you want a job, learn windows. Unless you are working at a young Internet startup, of course.
“Have” you used Windows? In the Enterprise, mac does not mean “expertâ€Â, it means “home computer”. If you want to look cool, get a mac. If you want a job, learn windows. Unless you are working at a young Internet startup, of course.
“Have” you used Windows? In the Enterprise, mac does not mean “expertâ€Â, it means “home computer”. If you want to look cool, get a mac. If you want a job, learn windows. Unless you are working at a young Internet startup, of course.
@doke01 – It's been my experience (as a geneticist) that Mac's are dramatically more expert in their interconnectiveness, networking, and capability because of their strong backbone of UNIX and X11, upon which the bulk of advanced scientific software is written. Driver support on a Mac is a non-issue: I've never plugged anything into my Mac that it hasn't recognized, contrary to my experiences with Win2000, XP-Pro, and Vista.
Sure, a Mac can be a superb home-computer right off the bat, but the development tools and UNIX back-end give it a powerful oomph Windows can't easily muster in the “expert” category.
@doke01 – It's been my experience (as a geneticist) that Mac's are dramatically more expert in their interconnectiveness, networking, and capability because of their strong backbone of UNIX and X11, upon which the bulk of advanced scientific software is written. Driver support on a Mac is a non-issue: I've never plugged anything into my Mac that it hasn't recognized, contrary to my experiences with Win2000, XP-Pro, and Vista.
Sure, a Mac can be a superb home-computer right off the bat, but the development tools and UNIX back-end give it a powerful oomph Windows can't easily muster in the “expert” category.
@doke01 – It's been my experience (as a geneticist) that Mac's are dramatically more expert in their interconnectiveness, networking, and capability because of their strong backbone of UNIX and X11, upon which the bulk of advanced scientific software is written. Driver support on a Mac is a non-issue: I've never plugged anything into my Mac that it hasn't recognized, contrary to my experiences with Win2000, XP-Pro, and Vista.
Sure, a Mac can be a superb home-computer right off the bat, but the development tools and UNIX back-end give it a powerful oomph Windows can't easily muster in the “expert” category.
@doke01 – It's been my experience (as a geneticist) that Mac's are dramatically more expert in their interconnectiveness, networking, and capability because of their strong backbone of UNIX and X11, upon which the bulk of advanced scientific software is written. Driver support on a Mac is a non-issue: I've never plugged anything into my Mac that it hasn't recognized, contrary to my experiences with Win2000, XP-Pro, and Vista.
Sure, a Mac can be a superb home-computer right off the bat, but the development tools and UNIX back-end give it a powerful oomph Windows can't easily muster in the “expert” category.
And if you want to seem credible, learn to use quotation marks properly.
In many industries (especially the arts) Mac has become the industry standard. I work in SEO and work exclusively on a Mac without a problem… in fact, since I switched from the company's PC to my MacBook I haven't had to deal with crashing, snail's pace processing, compatibility problems, freezing and losing files.. should I keep going?
And as for those young Internet startups… yes, some don't go far. Others do, though. Do you really think they'd abandon their Macs? Yeah right.
I used Windows for about 12 incredibly frustrating years before I converted to Mac, so I'll ask you: have YOU used a Mac?
And if you want to seem credible, learn to use quotation marks properly.
In many industries (especially the arts) Mac has become the industry standard. I work in SEO and work exclusively on a Mac without a problem… in fact, since I switched from the company's PC to my MacBook I haven't had to deal with crashing, snail's pace processing, compatibility problems, freezing and losing files.. should I keep going?
And as for those young Internet startups… yes, some don't go far. Others do, though. Do you really think they'd abandon their Macs? Yeah right.
I used Windows for about 12 incredibly frustrating years before I converted to Mac, so I'll ask you: have YOU used a Mac?
And if you want to seem credible, learn to use quotation marks properly.
In many industries (especially the arts) Mac has become the industry standard. I work in SEO and work exclusively on a Mac without a problem… in fact, since I switched from the company's PC to my MacBook I haven't had to deal with crashing, snail's pace processing, compatibility problems, freezing and losing files.. should I keep going?
And as for those young Internet startups… yes, some don't go far. Others do, though. Do you really think they'd abandon their Macs? Yeah right.
I used Windows for about 12 incredibly frustrating years before I converted to Mac, so I'll ask you: have YOU used a Mac?
And if you want to seem credible, learn to use quotation marks properly.
In many industries (especially the arts) Mac has become the industry standard. I work in SEO and work exclusively on a Mac without a problem… in fact, since I switched from the company's PC to my MacBook I haven't had to deal with crashing, snail's pace processing, compatibility problems, freezing and losing files.. should I keep going?
And as for those young Internet startups… yes, some don't go far. Others do, though. Do you really think they'd abandon their Macs? Yeah right.
I used Windows for about 12 incredibly frustrating years before I converted to Mac, so I'll ask you: have YOU used a Mac?
under boot camp the expression I have dropped my Macbook a doesn’t times should be a DOZEN times eh.. nice artictle though.
First, I don't need to use “quotation” marks to “seem credible”. I am already “credible” without them or you wouldn't have responded to me as you have.
Second, the arts, education, startups, and who? Oh, yes. Those in the SEO field. Pretty much Apple's core group for many years (seo is debatable since I am sure there are quite a few who use PCs). As for speed, macs have always been slower then PCs. Why do you think Apple had to switch to the Intel chipset? Crashes? Well, you have me there but Windows has to support a multiple of the programs that Apple does because there are a significantly larger number of users and developers for the Windows platform. Apple hasn't had to contend with that level of success. Losing files is a result of laziness. Apple uses the same hard drives as anyone else and they all have similar failure rates. Compatability problems?! I've plugged in boards 10 years old and installed software from the 95 era on my PC and it has worked. Try that on a mac.
Finally, I didn't say that startups should stop using macs. Some of the most successful, like Twitter, do. However, the majority of Enterprises do, and will continue to use, PCs. To change would be extremely cost prohibitive. Just being pretty won't cut it. Why do you think Apple added Exchange support to the iPhone? They see it as a way for them to enter the Enterprise.
Oh, and I have used Apple since the Apple IIe as well as the first IBM PCs and Windows since Windows 2.0. I currently own, and use, a mac mini, an iMac, 2 windows PCs, 3 Windows laptops, an iPod, a Zune, a blackberry, and an HTC TouchPro running Windows Mobile, an AMD machine running Ubuntu, and two VMware servers running multiple linux and Windows based OSes. Is that “credible” enough?
…. okay, could you please do my OCD and me a favor and just stop misusing the quotation marks altogether then? Yeesh. http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
You're completely right about the SEO field; many of my colleagues use PC's. It's a matter of preference, and respectably so.
PC is faster? You make good jokes. Yep, the Intel chipset switch was a smart and necessary move for Apple. If it works, use it.
Losing files is a result of not saving every 2 minutes, and you know as well as I do that it's not unheard of (or even uncommon) for a PC to freeze, crash and lose a file mid-save.
Welcome to my entire high school experience.
Are we on the same wavelength here? I'm talking about application/program failure and file compatibility. Why I would even consider reverting to old hardware or software is beyond me.. updates are meant to be improvements (although Vista tried it's best and succeeded on disproving that idea).
If you use Mac's as well as PC's, I really don't understand why you would attack it? The point is, anything that can be done on a PC can be done on a Mac.
And then some.
Oh, shit. Damn, spellcheck failed on me…
Awesome man yhis is great post
For stand alone personal use MAC is better. But if you are little beyond that, need to use your notebook in a office environment it's definitely should be a Windows PC. Also there is no point to pay extra to get same results.
“people often relate the word “expert†to Macs”
My impression of a Mac user: Some cool rich dude wearing shades and using the latest expensive gadgets like iPhone. A computer -user-.
Linux user: The true geek, sitting in a dump surviving on cup noodles, snacks and red bull. A computer -developer-.
Just my two cents. Mac <not equal> expert. Linux <equal> expert.
Please take no offense though, that was just my opinion. Not necessarily fact
wanted to watch the video.. but it's no longer available.. =(
btw.. i switch to mac no long ago..
cool stuff =)
wanted to watch the video.. but it's no longer available.. =(
btw.. i switch to mac no long ago..
cool stuff =)