ZPhoto wrote:
You obviously are knowledgeable and enjoy building and maintaining your machines. The software side of using a windows machine is probably where I have jumped ship. It seemed like I was constantly dealing with upgrades, patches, compatibility issues, etc. After dealing with these issues at home and work, I decided to switch to Mac.
Software upgrades are free and automatic. I just don’t have to deal with trying to make something work today that worked fine yesterday.
I still deal with those issues daily at work where I’m trapped with Microsoft/ Windows.
My personal experience has been Mac = satisfaction and Windows = frustration.
I’ll pay a couple extra dollars up front for years of simplicity and satisfaction.
You obviously are knowledgeable and enjoy building... (
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Lets see how that really works
Upgrades and patches are free - you can opt to have them pushed to your machine automatically
Compatibility issues are normal - certainly not as bad as the ones Mac users have experienced with Catalina and legacy software lately.
There is always the etc - but that is true for both platforms
So at the end of the day, currently, you are more likely to experience Catalina-based software incompatibility issues, OS-based security issues, and about the same amount of "etc" - I still think there is no clear advantage of a Mac over a PC, and the PC is cheaper.
Oh, I don't "like" building computers - I happen to be very good at matching software requirements to computer hardware so I built a business around it. One of the things I like about Xotic.com is that I spec what I want, and they build it just the way I like it. The other group I like a lot is Puget Systems - who specialize in custom machines for a host of high end applications. This way I don't have to build machines - and I can go out and take more pictures. That's the one thing that is pretty hard to do with Mac. You have few choices in that department. Oh, and you get to pay more for a machine that has more or less the same internals as the Windows counterparts. SMH . . .
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-performance-PC-Workstation-vs-Mac-Pro-2019-1716/I'd put up a Puget Systems benchmark for Lightroom, but I can't due to software incompatibility specific to current version of MacOS.
Why do the Mac fans get so defensive and offended over facts - for the same $$ spent, you get more with a Windows machine, or for less $$$ you get the same performance as a Mac. If you are going to bring up compatibility issues, then you'll need to be specific. I have been building these things for years, and my 10 yr old machine still runs everything I through at it, though recently some Windows 10 - only software is causing me to update my system OS, so I am just about ready to buy a new laptop. I can neither afford nor justify a Mac given my needs and workflow. I use Qimage for printing, and SyncBack to manage my backup and archiving, and neither are available on the Mac platform.
As a consultant it was important for me to provide fact-based evaluations - thorough, unbiased, honest, and easily researched. I have no emotional attachment to either platform - for me it's all business. If there is a serious incompatibility issue, or malware issue, etc it usually comes out in the literature. But broad generalizations based on the state of computers 10 yrs ago are hardly worth considering in today's world, where there has been so much industry convergence that the only real differences are the Apple merchandising and "Uniform" that all their products share - you know, that "Apple" look, and the price tag.
I don't have to demonize Apple products to make Windows stuff look good. That is a really good approach to use to maintain credibility.