Why windows is better than mac os. Experience using a MacBook or why Mac sucks? Macs don't have right-click because there's only one button on the mouse.

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have gained experience using a MacBook.

My first impression is very positive:
- everything is beautiful, elegant, stylish
- thoughtful charging cable - with magnet
- large and comfortable touchpad that supports gestures
- high-quality screen

Next, I decided to call a friend, an experienced poppy grower, and asked him to tell me about the features of poppy.
It's funny that the first thing he told me, almost verbatim, was: “The most important thing you have to learn is that the Mac is made for p@#$aces. Welcome to our ranks!” ;)) In general, we joked, talked about the peculiarities of working with Mac and I continued to deal with it on my own, and in the following days I began to do part of my work with it, and to pull a friend on occasionally arising questions.

Here are some other benefits that were discovered:
- I liked that Mac OS has a dashboard with widgets that can be called up with one button.
- and I also really liked that the installation of most applications is quite convenient: you drag the icon into the application and that’s it.
AND IT'S ALL!

As I got deeper and worked on the Mac, I began to find more and more disadvantages and gradually began to turn into a Mac-hater.

Here are the cons I found aka why Mac sucks:
- It turned out that in Mac OS you cannot expand the window to full screen!! I was simply shocked! What designer could have thought of making such a limitation? I found out that there are third-party hacks/plugins that solve this problem - but this is a real perversion.

It also turned out that you can resize the window only at the lower right corner. And at the same time, the cursor still does not know how to change its image - i.e. It’s not clear whether you captured the window or not.

I finally realized that the Mac sucks for me when I saw that it didn’t have keyboard layout Russian Typewriter.
I am used to writing in Russian using the fast touch typing method. And it requires a layout like a typewriter. Since there is no such layout, apparently poppy people don’t like to write a lot?

And another confirmation that Mac users are not “writers” and it is not convenient to type text on a Mac - there is no DELETE button on the keyboard. And that button called DELETE works like BACK SPACE. I was told that fn+delete solves this problem, but I I haven't been able to get used to it yet.

I really didn’t like that switching the keyboard to Russian is inconvenient and unusual (for me as a Windows user). It is clear that this is a matter of habit, but I expected that such things could be customized. But it turned out that switching the keyboard cannot, in principle, be changed to the usual “ALT-SHIFT” - for some reason all hotkey combinations must contain some kind of symbol key.

I really started to spit when it turned out that when the Russian language is turned on, copy/paste (CMD+C / CMD+V) does not work. But fortunately it turned out that these are only programs for Adobe Air so buggy. But for some reason they are so buggy only on Mac!

And the Mac completely sucks, if only because you can’t log in as a second user. The system can have several users, but only one can be logged in. It's that simple stone Age operating systems engineering!

Mac sucks because it doesn't have HIBERNATE! There is only Sleep mode which eats up the battery. Hibernate existed in Windows already 10 years ago! Well, is it really the Stone Age?

Mac sucks because the application menu is always only at the top of the screen, and when there are a lot of small windows on the screen, you have to run the mouse from window to menu and back and this is extremely inconvenient.
And you can often see the window of one application on top of the others, but it turns out that it is not active, but another application that does not have a window, but has a menu, is active.

Mac sucks because... Closing the window does not close the application and I have to think every time whether I am closing the last window and if the last one is closed, not by clicking on the cross, but via CMD+Q (or using the mouse through the menu). This is extremely annoying.

And yesterday I discovered one more thing where Mac is not user-friendly. In standard dialogs modal windows“Save As” and “Open” I spent quite a long time looking for how to go to the folder above. As a result, it turned out that the combobox that opens with a linear list of folders is actually a list of all overlying folders from the parent to the top one. Visually, this is not indicated in any way, and therefore if you don’t know the hierarchy of folders on the disk, you’ll never guess.

After installing more apps I realized that with the installation and launch of programs, not everything is so smooth. When installing a complex application, it is not clear on what basis it is determined where it will be installed. Most applications are installed in Applications. But for some reason xCode was installed in the Library and I looked for it there for a long time. And Mono is also hidden somewhere.
But I still couldn’t run the program under Mono. “Open app with...” for some reason does not allow you to select executable file mono.

The main inconveniences listed above are software ones, but the MacBook itself, as I wrote at the very beginning, is elegant and almost ideal.
But there is also a flaw in this ideal. The USB holes on my MacBook are only on the left and it turns out that the tail of the mouse barely reaches from the left edge to the right - i.e. It is inconvenient to work with the mouse. Apparently gay people really made Macs? ;)

Conclusion? For me, Mac is definitely worse than PC. And I do and will do on it only the work that cannot be done on a PC (there is software from Apple that, for strategic, understandable and correct reasons, is only available on the Mac).

And now you can choose for yourself which is better for you - mac or pc.

PS. (from 10-Apr-2011)
I'm shocked - the long-outdated XP picked up a bluetooth headset with a bang and Skype offered to work through it - everything is like on the latest Win7. I didn't expect this. Just as he didn’t expect at all that the new, fashionable Macbook wouldn’t want to work with the same headset - he saw it, thought about it and said that he couldn’t find some services.
Macophiles, will you say that I just need a headset? ;))
(I ended up pairing a Mac with a headset, but Skype still doesn’t work through it, although all the settings are set correctly - all audio streams are through the headset)

And today I discovered that Mac stopped seeing my second wifi router - rebooting everything did not help. All the devices in the house see it, but Mac doesn’t see it.

In general, I don't like Mac. For me, Mac is like playing paintball in a wedding suit. It may be beautiful, but it’s not practical at all.

When I was asked to write about the Mac Pro, I initially declined. Not because Apple's new miracle computer is not interesting, not at all. It’s simply not very correct to evaluate professional tools if you yourself are not a professional of this kind. Roughly speaking, if a fifth-grade student at a music school is given a Stradivarius violin to practice, he is unlikely to be able to appreciate it and demonstrate all its advantages.

In response to the refusal, I heard that many thousands of people around the world were waiting for my assessment of the Mac Pro. Crude flattery - effective tool convictions, and within a couple of days this perhaps the most unusual desktop computer in the world arrived at the editorial office of PC World.

I already wrote a little about it in a report from the October Apple press conference, where the Mac Pro was first shown live, without a glass cover. In our time, when desktop computers few people are interested, Apple managed to attract serious attention to its brainchild even against the backdrop new iPads And MacBook Pro. Of course, never before has such a powerful, I would even say, uncompromising computer been so compact and quiet. Moreover, the exterior matches, having nothing in common with traditional system units.

But, as they say, there is a nuance. When we see Pro nearby with a MacBook, we understand - this is written in make-believe. In fact, such a full-length laptop can be used not only by a seasoned designer or video editor, but also by someone who likes to post photos of food and cats on social media. The screen, speed, powerful battery, comfortable keyboard - all this is good for solving absolutely any problem. But the Mac Pro is really tailored for specialists working with complex 2D and 3D graphics, processing video with highest resolution, recording multi-channel audio, etc. and so on. But a cat lover may not notice any difference at all, for example, with Mac mini. Which, with at least a five-fold difference in price, can cause conflicting emotions.

Official portrait

I'm just Mac user mini. Older version of this wonderful small computer It’s been on my desk for about a year now and, despite the previous generation processor, it satisfies my household needs entirely. Typing texts, processing RAW files from Sony cameras DSC-RX100, occasionally - video editing in Full HD. And, of course, fierce, indomitable Internet surfing. There was an idea to replace the classic hard drive with an SSD, but after increasing the volume random access memory from 4 to 6 GB the slight slowdowns disappeared completely, and I decided to just wait new version on Haswell.

And here is the Mac Pro. It is sold in a very compact box, which you can put in a branded bag and take home in your hands. Weight is about five kilograms, you won’t get too tired. Inside we are unexpectedly greeted by... pieces of foam plastic. They, of course, are quite elegant compared to their counterparts from boxes with TVs and monitors, but personally I don’t like the foam Apple packaging I haven't come across it at all before. Perhaps it would have been worth using a cork to come into contact with such an exquisite device, since the task of severe economy in in this case obviously not standing. But - as it is. The box contains only the computer itself and the power cable. Everything else is offered to be purchased independently, based on your own needs and capabilities.

Six Thunderbolt connectors are, of course, very cool. But I personally would like more USB.

And you can buy a lot of things. Keyboard, mouse, trackpad - that's understandable. And it doesn't hurt to be decent acoustic system(with or without wires), a monitor (up to three standard ones with a resolution of up to 4K, or as many as six using the Thunderbolt interface), external drives (USB or Thunderbolt, as you see fit) and so on and so forth. By the way, if you, like me, have a newfangled monitor with a resolution higher than Full HD, for Mac connections Pro, you won’t need special, expensive adapters; a regular HDMI cable will suffice. Thanks to Apple for introducing HDMI 1.4 support.

I ordered the younger one to study Mac version Pro, although even its characteristics are very impressive. 4-core Intel Xeon E5 with base frequency 3.7 GHz (up to 3.9 GHz under load), 16 GB of RAM, two graphics AMD cores FirePro D300 with two gigabytes of GDDR5 VRAM on each (for those who don’t like big names, let me clarify – these are analogues of the Radeon HD 7850). Only the SSD capacity (256 GB) hinted that this was basic model. But, given the six Thunderbolt connectors, there is no problem connecting external storage and use it at the same speed as a regular internal HDD or SSD. Let me emphasize - just ordinary, because the SSD in the Mac Pro is simply prohibitively fast, and something external cannot catch up with it. 900 megabytes of read and write is no joke.

Co with the lid removed The Mac Pro looks almost more impressive than with it. This is just some kind of orgasm of engineering. Everything is not only thought out to the smallest detail, but also simply beautiful.

Even the textolite of the memory modules is matching!

Or they could have installed regular Hynix, like everyone else.

If the capabilities of the listed hardware are not enough for you, but you still have plenty of money, Apple offers many interesting opportunities to spend it. First, pay attention to the second standard configuration Mac Pro with 6-core Xeon E5 and two AMD FirePro D500 (3 GB video memory per chip). Finally, for the most demanding and wealthy people, there is the opportunity to create their own configuration with a 12-core Xeon E5, 64 GB of RAM, a terabyte SSD and two AMD FirePro D700 with 6 GB of GDDR5 video memory on each. The dimensions of the computer will not change.

Impressive? Personally, it makes me shiver. Especially considering that the Mac Pro is practically silent in operation. It gets really hot under load, so I wouldn’t recommend putting chocolates on it. But it doesn't make noise. For those who work a lot (work, not just sit) at a computer, this is a very important argument in favor of the new Apple product. Because making a powerful system is not difficult, but making it behave unnoticed is a different task. And before there was an opinion that it was simply unsolvable in such compact dimensions. It also uses one large turbine-type propeller, which is installed on top and draws air through the entire body. This probably imposes certain obligations on cleaning the table and the room as a whole. Because extracting dust from a vacuum cleaner bag is much easier and cheaper than extracting it from the bowels of a Mac Pro. By the way, the system turns on with a sound reminiscent of the starting rattling of hard disk heads. It's a funny feeling.

Setting up a new Apple computer is traditionally simple - just connect to home network and feed him the saved image Time Machine. After about an hour, the Mac Pro already had all the settings and applications from the Mac mini. I sat down at it and began to do my usual things, listening to the sensations. The sensations were silent. There was no difference at all with the Mac mini. More precisely, the presence of an SSD significantly reduced the loading time, and applications opened more quickly, but in general - exactly the same picture.

I launched Photoshop CC and began applying my favorite effects to the photos. And again I felt nothing. Everything was as fast as it was - and it remains so. The knowledgeable guys advised me to open something 40 megapixel and create twenty layers. Then, they say, you’ll get into it. But my design career ended 14 years ago and most likely will not resume. Therefore, I did not experiment with layers. But in Mac performance Pro I have no doubt.

Video processing in Final Cut Pro X uses not only the processor, but also graphics cores. Therefore, it is impossible not to notice the acceleration here. It takes about four times less time to create a finished video than on a Mac mini with its mobile Core i7 and integrated graphics Ivy Bridge. But if in the case of Full HD we just have a pleasant acceleration of work, then when we switch to 4K resolution, the Mac Pro becomes the only truly effective working tool in the current Apple rack. In the end, the difference between 10 minutes and half an hour is good, but not critical. But when you have a choice between half an hour and two hours...

Regarding installation benefits high quality sound, then I confess that I don’t understand anything about this at all, and if that’s the case, I won’t even try to pretend to be an expert. But knowledgeable guys say it’s a smart thing.

What is my conclusion from my experience with the Mac Pro?

If you are a very wealthy person and the tasks you solve on your computer do not include continuous video editing in 4K, mixing albums of domestic first-tier pop stars and lifting their bust after photo shoots for glossy magazines, you should not buy a Mac Pro. If money is burning your pocket, buy an iPad, an iPhone, a couple of MacBook Pros, a Mac mini for each room in your country house, and a 27-inch iMac for your office. Seriously, it will make a lot more sense. Because the benefits of the Mac Pro cannot be felt in typical home-office applications. Even in games, it competes on equal terms with the new generation 27-inch iMac, especially if you don’t get greedy on the latter’s GPU (by the way, my Mac mini under study outperformed the new Tomb Raider seven times). To put it simply, installing a Mac Pro at home is as logical and convenient as cutting bread with a medical scalpel. Some will be impressed by your daring, but most will twirl their finger at their temple.

Mac Pro is a product for professionals. For those who shovel serious amounts of data every day, no matter what kind - graphic, multimedia or scientific. For them (more precisely, for those of them who feel comfortable in the OS X environment), this computer will be an extremely useful acquisition and, as a bonus, a solid decoration for their desktop. Considering that there are simply no analogues on the market (I'm talking about the combination of performance and form factor), the price does not look too high.

Since the author of the article on the Apple resource doesn’t boom boom on MacBooks, we’ll explain.
1) Questionable portability? Do you know of something with the same performance, screen and price that lasts longer? I didn't find something. And the fact that you don’t use all the features of the touchpad is your problem personally, because it completely replaces the mouse, and force touch allows you to quickly search for information in the same browser without opening hundreds of tabs.
2) Versatility, multitasking - do you seriously consider Macos single-tasking O_o?
A wide range of supported applications - if you run Windows, then why the hell do you need a Mac? And if you are a generalist like a web developer, then there will be no problems on a Mac.
Expandable platform - 8-16 GB of RAM is not enough for you? Or a terabyte SSD? Everything else, I’ll be surprised, is wired into your Windows laptop.
3) Yes. You can watch videos on it AND ENJOY. The reason is trivial - no matter how many laptops on Windows I tried, all of them had glare. And in dark moments in films they are very disturbing. It was especially sad to see them on a gaming Asus for 350k. That is, Asus was unable to cram a matrix of at least the same level into the top-end laptop that Apple has maintained since the first retinas in 2012. As for “an iPad is suitable for everything else,” I laughed. Good luck quickly transferring a document or music to a friend, good luck writing an article. The iPad was and will be a beautiful photo frame with access to the Internet. No serious person will use it for work or study as their main device.
4) How did you screw up this Siri... Have you used Cortana on 10k? And after that you call Siri bad?! Why are you all waiting for that voice assistant will predict your desires and fulfill everything you want?! Folks, this is a voice assistant, not an AI, yikes!

@Mes Zadrot, don't touch the iPad. with proper skill - a very useful thing)

@pifag0r, I touched it, even groped it - I decided to hold out without a MacBook for two weeks and took a 12.9″ pro from a friend. Honestly, I couldn’t stand it. As a bedside tablet, the iPad is ideal, but nothing more. And taking into account the fact that Apple has a 5.5″ plus, the meaning of the iPad is completely lost.

@Mes Zadrot, my iPad was just collecting dust for the first six months after purchase... now I use it every day) I just really like it) if I have free funds, I’ll buy a new one)

@MesZadrot,
1) what kind of performance are we talking about? For the sake of relative noiselessness, the processor severely overheats and drops frequencies. No video card - fact. Regarding the screen, any laptop with a Samsung 156 matrix, of which there are many, is, if not better, then no worse, and the contrast will be even higher. Regarding the charge, maybe not more, but there are models with 8-10 hour work, why more? Are there really so many work scenarios that the spinners need 12 hours without charging!? And even then, at maximum brightness and under load, the Mac doesn’t hold up that much.
2) I generally agree, but most people only need a Mac for office/safari/movies... and just a brand
3) most likely we are talking about Asus g7.., probably the matrix was tn, one laptop is not an indicator, I described an example of matrices earlier, it is not alone, there are many laptops with luxurious matrices from LG, Philips. If the issue is resolution, then gaming laptops most often do not have 3K and 4K resolution - I think it’s clear why.
That's right with the iPad.
4) never used either one or the other

Many have heard about Mac computers that they are better than their Windows counterparts. Often such reasoning lacks specificity, so in this article we have collected 10 reasons that can motivate a reluctant Windows user to switch to a Mac.

10 reasons to forget about Windows forever and switch to Mac OS X

1. Single manufacturer of hardware and software

Yes, this is Apple’s main trump card and its path, chosen by Steve Jobs at the dawn of the company’s founding. Of course, the path of licensing your OS to different hardware manufacturers is more economically profitable - and we saw this in the example of Microsoft. But when it's not about profit, but about user convenience, Apple's choice is better for everyone: and for users who don't have to worry about program compatibility and don't have to rush between service center hardware manufacturer and technical support of the OS developer if something doesn’t work.

Apple has been accustomed from the very beginning to keep everything in its hands

One company is responsible for all your mistakes - Apple. This is also convenient for the manufacturer himself - again, he doesn’t have to worry about supporting “Chinese” hardware that is unknown to nature, he doesn’t have to rack his brains about what unimaginable combinations a very competent user would think of connecting expansion cards in, and he doesn’t have to release a million patches to correct the compatibility problem with some rare application.

2. Autonomy of MacBooks

As strange as it may sound, OS X is much more energy efficient than Windows. This means that a computer running OS X consumes much less electricity. Here MacBook Air Issue 13 of the second half of 2013 works up to 12 hours - and this is without any “turn off everything you can, set the backlight to minimum and sit without moving or breathing in front of the screen,” but in normal operation mode. Yes, Intel processors Core 4th generation, on which they are made new Macs, consume less energy than the 3rd and 2nd (and earlier, of course), but that’s not all: PC laptops based on Haswell have already been released, but they still work for 5-7 hours.

According to work autonomy Apple computers Always ahead

But even if you are only interested in desktop computers, benefit from Mac use there is: when the author of these lines replaced his desktop Windows PC with a Mac mini, electricity consumption in his one-room apartment fell by a quarter.

Moreover, Mac mini is not some kind of stub of a computer, as some people think, but a full-fledged desktop on full-fledged desktop processors. Except that, graphics system he has a typical one.

3. Versatility

Sometimes it happens that you need to use several operating systems on one computer. And don’t think that this need arises only among Linux users and Mac users. At my previous job, the author of these lines was faced with the fact that an employee was required to work in both Windows and Mac. And while it’s easy to work with Windows on a Mac, the opposite situation causes many problems.

Even grandma can easily master Mac OS X

Certainly, virtual machines available for any system. But as effective as Parallels Desktop - only for Mac. You can work with any Windows applications as if they were written for Mac. But on Windows there is no such thing. Well, which system is now more functional?

By the way, the myth about the limitations of OS X is just a myth. Often people who talk about some kind of banal fencing in OS X confuse this operating system with iOS.

4. It's Unix

The OS X kernel is called XNU, and XNU is essentially a modified FreeBSD - a Unix-like operating system, like GNU/Linux, for example. Operating systems, called Unix-like, are characterized by increased stability and high performance due to optimal interaction with computer resources. Additionally, any Unix or Linux user will feel right at home by launching OS X's "Terminal".

5. Cheap and high-quality software

When you install Windows for yourself (or buy a computer with Windows), what programs are at your disposal, besides the OS itself? Well, there’s Notepad, Clock, WordPad, Calculator... There’s also a set of programs Windows family Live (film studio Windows Live, Windows Live mail) that expand the functionality of your computer, but not many of them you really want to keep, and they need to be installed separately and spend time on this.

In general, Apple believes that the user should not waste his time setting up his computer - and we completely agree with this. “Working on a computer” is not “working on a computer.” The user needs to write texts, read and analyze data, compose music, draw, edit videos, and not install programs and patches or delve into configuration files.

To get more from a Windows computer, you need to install additional software, part of which costs a lot of money. For example, if you want to seriously study music, you will have to buy some Cubase for over 800 dollars. If photography: Lightroom for 5,500 thousand rubles and Photoshop for 22 thousand rubles. It seems a bit expensive.

You won't go broke on apps for Mac OS X

Office applications are also not cheap. Minimum set Microsoft Office it will cost from two and a half thousand rubles, or 250 rubles per month by subscription.

But if you buy a Mac, it's different. Just by turning on the computer, you get the opportunity to use both a full-fledged office suite from Apple and an application for working with music Garage Band (which, in fact, is enough in many cases, but if you need more - Logic Pro, a full-fledged music studio with a large set of high-quality effects, virtual instruments and presets cost only $200). There is also an editor iMovie video, the functionality of which cannot be compared with the simple “Windows Live Movie Maker”. Moreover, all this is already installed on your computer and ready to work.

Additionally, you can buy (literally in two clicks in Mac store App Store) batch RAW converter, part-time cataloger Aperture - only 2500 rubles, which is more than half the price of a similar Lightroom. And the Pixelmator application, which will be sufficient for the vast majority of Photoshop “masters,” will cost only a thousand rubles.

Unfortunately, stealing applications under OS X is also, as a rule, easier than under Windows - apparently, there are more honest people among OS X users. On the other hand, what is the point of spending money on developing serious protection against pirates if the majority necessary programs affordable even for a student?

6. Single logical interface

Microsoft still can't seem to decide which is better: the newfangled tiled Metro or the classic Desktop. Users suffer from this: as soon as you get used to the tiles, as soon as you launch an application that does not support Metro, you have to return to the old one. It is especially inconvenient for tablet users: in the classic interface, working with your fingers is a complete torture.

There is no such problem in OS X. Apple did not mix entities: a tablet is a tablet. It works under control mobile iOS and is controlled by fingers. And a PC is a PC, it runs “adult” OS X with the usual graphical interface: cursor, windows.

The Mac OS X interface can be taught as a logic textbook

Don't think that we are against innovation - perhaps one day a touch interface will appear in computers. It is even possible that Apple will also produce such PCs. But it must be a well-thought-out interface, such that if not every application, then at least 90% of all programs support it.

By the way, the same top panel with a menu for all programs in OS X - also very convenient thing. All settings are always in one place.

7. Updates

OS X, unlike Windows, will never say when turning off or, more importantly, when turning on the computer: “Hey, user, I don’t care about your business, I need to update here, so wait a minute. Or 10 minutes. Or half an hour, well, you understand, right? Go for a walk". Of course automatic updates Windows can be disabled, but why, because having an always up-to-date OS is convenient and safe?

Most OS X updates are installed in background and don't even require a reboot. And if a reboot is still required, the OS will ask whether you want to perform it right now or wait until you finish your work.

After all, the OS is for the user, not the other way around.

8. You can forget about viruses

No, of course, companies that make money by selling antiviruses will scare you: you, the user, will not be able to feel safe anywhere! You are attacked by malicious viruses from all sides, both on OS X and iOS, and even your Digital Watch Casio is not protected from the evil infection!

Antivirus companies can understand: the growth of the PC share is gradually declining, while the growth of the Mac share is rapidly increasing. So they panic. Only, firstly, official representatives of these companies often act ugly, calling any malware a virus, although they themselves know very well (they should know if they are truly specialists and not impostors) that this is not so. It’s just that people are used to being afraid of viruses, that’s why they use this scary word.

Evgeniy Kaspersky is very pleased so far

And secondly, there was, in fact, only one epidemic on OS X, and it affected a relatively small percentage of computers, or rather, even one subnet. By the way, specialists from anti-virus companies also understand perfectly well that what needs to be measured is not the number of infected computers (in that story there were about half a million of them - this is also scary), but the number of infected subnets. But they will never tell you this either and will keep pointing at you with this old story, convincing no, not to postpone the transition to Mac, but to acquire an antivirus license. Well, let's say for a year. And then renew the license.

So - go to Mac and forget about viruses and antiviruses. May your OS X always receive current updates(after all, this will not bother you at all, as we have already found out) - and Apple will take care of you. Because, unlike Microsoft, it has no one to blame, in which case the user will come to complain to them.

9. Expensive Mac? Cheap Mac!

There is another myth that computers Apple expensive. People who believe in this myth either have not studied the market themselves, or they believe that a computer consists of a processor, hard drive, motherboard and memory sticks. And the screen (if we are talking about a laptop), battery, case - all this, it seems, does not matter.

Well, perhaps someone really doesn’t care what size a laptop or desktop PC is, how much it weighs, what quality the screen is and what it all looks like, in the end. But no matter what the user’s priorities, everything costs money - there’s no escape from it. Two different computers with the same performance will cost different money if one of them is more compact. Compactness costs money because many computer components (the same HDD) take up a lot of space. Cramming all this into a compact body so that nothing overheats is not so easy - this is a serious task for engineers who need to pay money. And if a company is not satisfied with the first solution it comes across, like Apple, and is ready to revise the concept over and over again until optimal, close to ideal, proportions are achieved, this also costs money.

When looking for a MacBook alternative, you need to be patient and have money.

When you buy a car, not only the engine and not only the presence of a built-in audio system are important. Silence, convenience, design - all this costs money. Everyone understands perfectly well why two cars developing the same maximum speed, can differ in price by almost an order of magnitude. It's the same with computers.

If you try to find MacBook Air competitors in all respects, you will find that these competitors cost as much as the MBA itself, if not more. And you won’t find any competitors to the MacBook Pro and iMac in terms of price, performance and size. Some manufacturers (let's not point fingers again) sell huge, heavy boxes for the price of an iMac, with a much lower quality screen.

And don’t think that the desire to buy beautiful computer- "show off". Why is buying beautiful furniture, beautiful wallpaper, a high-quality and attractive kitchen set for your home not a “show-off”, but a computer is a “show-off”? Is it really worth spending a lot of money on beautiful furniture, only to then have a computer standing among this furniture that looks like an ancient toolbox?

10. Ecosystem

We left the most obvious for a snack. The author of these lines has many friends who use Apple products only for the sake of the ecosystem. Even if other arguments in favor of the Mac haven’t convinced you, this one simply must.

All Apple devices They have a similar design, operating principle, and most importantly, they interact perfectly with each other literally at the press of one button and completely wirelessly. For example, you can easily connect to a working Macbook desk, standing next to your iMac, and transfer files from one desktop to another as if it were one computer. A portable devices: iPod, iPad and iPhone can also be synchronized with your computer by pressing one button. Just mark what songs, movies and programs you want to see on your device.

All Apple devices are extremely easy to integrate with each other

Of course, there are some analogues of such an ecosystem under Windows, but, alas, everything is not so well thought out and in order to make it all work, sometimes you need to press not one, but a lot of buttons. I also constantly “google” on the Internet - which button to press, otherwise I did everything according to the instructions, but it doesn’t work. And Microsoft itself is constantly changing solutions: it either releases Zune for synchronization, or replaces it with Windows application Phone.

Android is even more complicated: the ecosystem exists, but the best integration of “Android phones” is achieved only with the operating system Chrome system OS, which, by the way, we recently wrote about.

They say that computers Mac is better their Windows brothers. To make this kind of reasoning more specific, in this article we have collected 10 reasons that can motivate an inveterate Windows user to switch to a Mac.

1. Single manufacturer of hardware and software. From the very beginning, Apple was accustomed to keeping everything in its hands.

Yes, this is Apple’s main trump card and its path, chosen by Steve Jobs at the dawn of the company’s founding. Of course, the path of licensing your OS to different hardware manufacturers is more economically profitable - and we saw this in the example of Microsoft. But when it’s not about benefits, but about user convenience, the choice of Apple is better for everyone: and for users who do not need to worry about program compatibility and do not need to rush between the hardware manufacturer’s service center and the OS developer’s technical support if something is not works.

One company is responsible for all your mistakes - Apple. This is also convenient for the manufacturer himself - again, he doesn’t have to worry about supporting “Chinese” hardware unknown to nature, he doesn’t have to rack his brains about what unimaginable combinations a very competent user would think of connecting expansion cards in, and he doesn’t have to release a million patches to correct the compatibility problem with some rare application.

2. Autonomy of MacBooks. In terms of battery life, Apple computers are always ahead.

As strange as it may sound, OS X is much more energy efficient than Windows. This means that a computer running OS X consumes much less electricity. Here, the MacBook Air 13 released in the second half of 2013 works up to 12 hours - and this is without any “turn off everything you can, set the backlight to minimum and sit without moving or breathing in front of the screen,” but in normal operation mode. Yes, processors Intel Core The 4th generation, on which new Macs are made, consume less energy than the 3rd and 2nd (and earlier, of course), but that’s not all: Haswell PC laptops have already come out, and they still work equals 5-7 hours.

But even if you're all about desktop computing, there are benefits to using a Mac: When this author swapped his Windows desktop PC for a Mac mini, his studio apartment's electricity consumption dropped by a quarter.

Moreover, Mac mini is not some kind of stub of a computer, as some people think, but a full-fledged desktop on full-fledged desktop processors. Except that it has a standard graphics system.

3. Versatility.. Even grandma can easily master Mac OS X.

Of course, there are virtual machines for any system. But as effective as Parallels Desktop - only for Mac. You can work with any Windows applications as if they were written for Mac. But on Windows there is no such thing. Well, which system is now more functional?

By the way, the myth about the limitations of OS X is just a myth. Often people who talk about some kind of banal fencing in OS X confuse this operating system with iOS.

4. This is Unix.

The OS X kernel is called XNU, and XNU is essentially a modified FreeBSD - a Unix-like operating system, like GNU/Linux, for example. Operating systems, called Unix-like, are characterized by increased stability and high performance due to optimal interaction with computer resources. In addition, any Unix or Linux user will feel right at home by launching OS X's "Terminal".

5. Cheap and high-quality software. You can't go broke on apps for Mac OS X.

When you install Windows for yourself (or buy a computer with Windows), what programs are at your disposal, besides the OS itself? Well, there’s Notepad, Clock, WordPad, Calculator... There is also a set of programs from the Windows Live family (Windows Live movie studio, Windows Live mail) that expand the functionality of the computer, but not many of them you really want to keep, and you have to install them separately and spend money on it time.

To get more from a Windows computer, you need to install additional software, some of which cost a lot of money. For example, if you want to seriously study music, you will have to buy some Cubase for over 800 dollars.

Office applications are also not cheap.

But if you buy a Mac, it's different. Just by turning on the computer, you get the opportunity to use both a full-fledged office suite from Apple and an application for working with music Garage Band (which, in fact, is enough in many cases, but if you need more - Logic Pro, a full-fledged music studio with a large set of high-quality effects, virtual instruments and presets cost only $200). There is also a video editor iMovie, the functionality of which cannot be compared with the simple Windows Live Movie Maker. Moreover, all this is already installed on your computer and ready to work.

Additionally, you can buy (literally in two clicks in the store Mac App Store) is a batch RAW converter that doubles as an Aperture cataloger that is more than half the price of the similar Lightroom one. And the Pixelmator application, which will be sufficient for the vast majority of Photoshop “masters,” will cost only a thousand rubles.

Unfortunately, stealing applications under OS X is also, as a rule, easier than under Windows - apparently, there are more honest people among OS X users. On the other hand, what is the point of spending money on developing serious protection against pirates if most of the necessary programs are affordable even for a student?

6. Single logical interface. The Mac OS X interface can be taught as a logic textbook.

There is no such problem in OS X. Apple did not mix entities: a tablet is a tablet. It runs on mobile iOS and is controlled with your fingers. And a PC is a PC, it runs “adult” OS X with a familiar graphical interface: cursor, windows.

A single top panel with a menu for all programs in OS X is also a very convenient thing. All settings are always in one place.

7. Updates. Reboot is a last resort method when completing a system update.

OS X, unlike Windows, will never say when turning off or, more importantly, when turning on the computer: “Hey, user, I don’t care about your business, I need to update here, so wait a minute. Or 10 minutes. Or half an hour , well, you understand, right? Go for a walk." Of course, automatic Windows updates you can disable it, but why, because having an always up-to-date OS is convenient and safe?

Most OS X updates are installed in the background and don't even require a reboot. And if a reboot is still required, the OS will ask whether you want to perform it right now or wait until you finish your work.

After all, the OS is for the user, not the other way around.

8. You can forget about viruses. Evgeniy Kaspersky is very pleased so far.

No, of course, companies that make money by selling antiviruses will scare you: you, the user, will not be able to feel safe anywhere! You are attacked by malicious viruses from all sides, both on OS X and iOS, and even your Casio digital watch is not protected from the evil infection!

Antivirus companies can understand: the growth of the PC share is gradually declining, while the growth of the Mac share is rapidly increasing. So they panic. Only, firstly, official representatives of these companies often act ugly, calling any malicious program a virus, although they themselves know very well (they should know if they are truly specialists and not impostors) that this is not so. It’s just that people are used to being afraid of viruses, that’s why they use this scary word.

And secondly, there was, in fact, only one epidemic on OS X, and it affected a relatively small percentage of computers, or rather, even one subnet. By the way, specialists from anti-virus companies also understand perfectly well that what needs to be measured is not the number of infected computers (in that story there were about half a million of them - this is also scary), but the number of infected subnets. But they will never tell you this either and will poke you with this already old story, convincing you not to postpone the transition to a Mac, but to acquire an antivirus license. Well, let's say for a year. And then renew the license.

So - go to Mac and forget about viruses and antiviruses. Let your OS X always receive the latest updates (after all, this will not bother you at all, as we have already found out) - and Apple will take care of you. Because, unlike Microsoft, it has no one to blame, in which case the user will come to complain to them.

9. Expensive Mac? Cheap Mac! All Apple devices are extremely easy to integrate with each other.

There is another myth that Apple computers are expensive. People who believe in this myth either have not studied the market themselves, or they believe that a computer consists of a processor, hard drive, motherboard and memory sticks. And the screen (if we are talking about a laptop), battery, case - all this, it seems, does not matter.

Well, perhaps someone really doesn’t care what size a laptop or desktop PC is, how much it weighs, what quality the screen is and what it all looks like, in the end. But no matter what the user’s priorities, everything costs money - there’s no escape from it. Two different computers with the same performance will cost different money if one of them is smaller. Compactness costs money because many computer components (for example, a hard drive) take up a lot of space. Cramming all this into a compact body so that nothing overheats is not so easy - this is a serious task for engineers who need to pay money. And if a company is not satisfied with the first solution it comes across, like Apple, and is ready to revise the concept over and over again until optimal, close to ideal, proportions are achieved, this also costs money.

10. Ecosystem.

All Apple devices have a similar design, operating principle, and most importantly, they interact perfectly with each other literally at the touch of a button and completely wirelessly. For example, you can easily connect to the Macbook desktop next to your iMac and transfer files from one desktop to another as if it were one computer. And portable devices: iPod, iPad and iPhone can also be synchronized with a computer by pressing one button. Just mark what songs, movies and programs you want to see on your device.

Of course, there are some analogues of such an ecosystem under Windows, but, alas, everything is not so well thought out and in order to make it all work, sometimes you need to press not one, but a lot of buttons. I also constantly “google” on the Internet - which button to press, otherwise I did everything according to the instructions, but it doesn’t work. And Microsoft itself is constantly changing its solutions: it either releases Zune for synchronization, or replaces it with the Windows Phone application.

Android is even more complicated: the ecosystem exists, but the best integration of “Android phones” is achieved only with operating system Chrome OS.

Why windows is better than mac os. Experience using a MacBook or why Mac sucks? Macs don't have right-click because there's only one button on the mouse.

1. Single manufacturer of hardware and software

2. Autonomy of MacBooks

3. Versatility

4. It's Unix

5. Cheap and high-quality software

6. Single logical interface

7. Updates

8. You can forget about viruses

9. Expensive Mac? Cheap Mac!

10. Ecosystem

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