Subscribe by Email5 Reasons to Switch from Mac to PC
April 3, 2008 by Kiltak |
Yep folks, this kind of article has been long overdue… and guess what? It was written by a Mac user and Mac developer. The author’s number one reason to switch? Productivity trumps religion!
Yet, depending on how a company uses Macs, trying to integrate the computers into a company’s workflow can kill productivity, Keanini said. The applications never quite match up, data has to be massaged to be useful, and the company has to design work-arounds for each issue, he said. Source.
What would be YOUR reasons to switch from a Mac to a PC?
Edit: BestTechie.net has an article named “50 Reasons to Switch From Mac to PC” you might also want to read.
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Hardware quality.
My Pc’s are much more resistant than my apple’s computer. Versus the ThinkPad R61e, the macbook may go to hell…
you know, it’s nice for people to make these kinds of “top reasons” lists, but really they need to be geared towards certain people. cause this list may not work for all kinds of people. a list title should be like “top 5 reasons to switch from mac to pc, for the elderly.” or something like that.
Last year when my Gateway crashed, I considered whether to switch to Mac. Actually, I had to use a Mac Powerbook if I didn’t want to be confined to our home office desktop.
What I don’t like about Mac is that you can’t set it up to maximize windows (actual windows not Windows) to fill up the whole screen automatically. I had to manually adjust every window. And even then, it was still easy to click out of the program I was working on.
I even asked Apple store employees and they didn’t think it was an option.
So I went with a Dell. And I love it. I can work much faster. And actually, after I got used to Vista - it’s very compatible with how I work naturally.
And i hate how people make fun of me for having a Dell. It’s like we’re in high school and I’m not cool or something. Sheesh. Can’t some people just like Macs and others like PCs? And leave it at that?
What I don’t like about Mac is that you can’t set it up to maximize windows (actual windows not Windows) to fill up the whole screen automatically. I had to manually adjust every window.
That’s because on OS X you generally wouldn’t need or want to maximize your windows. You’re used to the way Windows operates, and it’s a sort of reflex to maximize your windows. If you try and use OS X like Windows, of course it’s going to seem awkward. But if you give it a chance and try to use OS X like OS X, you might end up preferring it.
And even then, it was still easy to click out of the program I was working on.
Yes! That’s certainly a bad thing if you’re not used to it or expecting it, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself.
If you want the computer to work the way you work, rather than you having to try to work the way it works, don’t get a Mac, simple as that. They restrict what you, the user, can do for the sake of “design” (not even good design). Why can you only resize windows from the bottom right? What if that edge is off the screen and you want to make the window bigger? You can’t just drag the left side. No, you have to drag the whole window over to the left, resize on the rigth, maybe drag some more if you didn’t leave a big enough buffer, more resizing, then put it back where you want it. Too many steps!
Why do I use Linux? I have choice. If I wanted that horrid universal menubar thing OSX has, KDE could do it. Since I don’t want that, I can avoid it. If I want focus-follows-mouse (which I very much do), I can do it. OSX doesn’t have that feature at all, and Windows has it in the API, but it’s not a configurable option (an app may decide to use it at random, but only that app…the user can’t make it universal). If I want to have my stuff “minimize” to invisibility, I can (and do). If I want to change every last pixel of the theme, I can. If I want to eliminate taskbars/panels with menus and just right click my desktop for a menu, I can. Anything I want to do, I can do. The OS isn’t trying to restrict the way I work and function. It lets me do what I want. OSX and Windows both fail because they take options away from the user.
While articles of this *subject* may be long overdue, for you, this particular one is built on patchy knowledge and poor reasoning. Hold out for a smarter one, because you don’t want to be associated with a misinformed and illogical CIO.
Apple computers in the corporate world just can’t really keep up. Sure, in a music studio, or graphic design firm, they work even better, but when it comes to crunching financial numbers or running a big corporate ERP, they just don’t do the job… unless they’re running something like VMWare fusion on the side
The main reason for posting this was to get people’s opinion by the way.. I’m not really associating myself with the article, I want to know what people think would be good reasons to make the opposite switch.
I’m switching from a Mac to Ubuntu because I’m fed up with Apple locking my music and files into their apps. Because when it comes to wanting to use a different application–it’s a real headache!
That’s because on OS X you generally wouldn’t need or want to maximize your windows. You’re used to the way Windows operates, and it’s a sort of reflex to maximize your windows. If you try and use OS X like Windows, of course it’s going to seem awkward. But if you give it a chance and try to use OS X like OS X, you might end up preferring it.
Why wouldn’t you want the option to maximize a window?! You’ve obviously never used a software application for word processing, drawing, music production, video production, web browsing, or any other useful purpose–at least not properly. As for the “zoom” button in OS X, well it always has a “+” on it, even when the window will be made smaller… hahaha at least Microsoft got that one right