Mac.  So since i started taking online classes it has become painfully obvious that my 4 year old Dell laptop isn't up to snuff for anything other screwing around on message boards and general computer use.  Given that all of my classes are online and require a good bit of multimedia type presentations i decided it was time to get a new one.

 

I have been wanting to make the transition over to Apple products and have, slowly and now in our house we have 3 iPhones, 3 ipods an ipad and in a week or so we should have a MacBook air and the Airport time capsule. 

 

It was hard to lay down that kind of coin on a laptop when i could get a top of the line <insert PC brand name here> for less money but all the reviews both online and from friends said to do it and you won't regret it...

 

I sure hope they are right....

Fly, my son made me get out of Mac's and go with Dell's. He has his IT masters and could only help me with PC's as he has no idea how a Mac operates.

 

No comparison. Mac's are far superior and easier to use.

 

My PCs are slow, archaic and they have a tendency to crash.

 

Also, many viruses will attack a PC and not a Mac, but the jerks are catching up and Mac's have to be protected like PC's.

 

One day I plan to go back to the Mac's with the understanding they are superior to the PC's but their cost is also much higher.

 

Just my two cents.

The quality of Dell's is not that good. I have been in IT since 1999, doing cyber security the past 5 1/2 years. I own no Mac's, my newest laptop is a Asus, the quality compared to the Dell's is not even close. In addition to the high cost of a Mac, I hate the fact you get to use what Apple says you can. It is my laptop I will do what I want with it, not be restricted.

Yeah i know apple has the proprietary stuff but  i haven't had an issue with the other devices and wanting to use something else.  Also i should have stated too that i have used for work many other brands as well and my Dell has actually served me pretty well over the years.

 

I also really like the portability and size of the mac as i ride my bike with mine semi-regularly and for other laptops of similar size, the price difference is nearly as much.  I am also really a big fan of solid state drives.

 

Hopefully i will be as pleased with it as i have everythign else from Apple

Fly, my son made me get out of Mac's and go with Dell's. He has his IT masters and could only help me with PC's as he has no idea how a Mac operates.

 

No comparison. Mac's are far superior and easier to use.

 

My PCs are slow, archaic and they have a tendency to crash.

 

Also, many viruses will attack a PC and not a Mac, but the jerks are catching up and Mac's have to be protected like PC's.

 

One day I plan to go back to the Mac's with the understanding they are superior to the PC's but their cost is also much higher.

 

Just my two cents.

 

For the cost of a high dollar Mac you can get a comparable or better PC. With that said, it's all about preference for the user. I build my own PCs, so for me the cost is lower and I end up being able to tailor it to my needs (wedding photography and gaming).

 

For the person with a wide variety of Apple products a Mac makes sense. I used a borrowed (friends) MacBook Pro a while back to edit photo's from a large wedding shoot I did, and the experience almost made me a Mac man. If I didn't despise Apple I probably would own one right now. 

 

As for the viruses. . .I wish the jackholes creating em would get struck by lightning or eaten by a gator or some other horrible plague would hit them. . . . 

Do yourself a favor and max out the apple care for 2 years. We have an iMac that had a power issue, repair costs would have been enormous without it!!

Welcome to the cult. Your phone, iPad, and Mac will mesh together nicely. You can do it on PC, but it's a lot easier and smoother with Apple products. By the way, on Pages (the Apple version of Word) you can export documents to Word. I'm sure your professors would enjoy the Word version.. Basic fonts and layouts are the same on Pages and Word.

Welcome to the cult. Your phone, iPad, and Mac will mesh together nicely. You can do it on PC, but it's a lot easier and smoother with Apple products. By the way, on Pages (the Apple version of Word) you can export documents to Word. I'm sure your professors would enjoy the Word version.. Basic fonts and layouts are the same on Pages and Word.

I was able to get the microsoft office version for Mac through my work for a ridiculously low price so hopefully it works as well as i have heard.

I've always heard academia uses apple and business uses pc's.  I've always used pc's and not that it's been trouble free but for the most part has worked just fine for me over the years.  At present I have an HP desktop and my wife has an Asus laptop, both have been problem free.

My kids and gr kids are pure Apple users, with 1 exception my son in law.  He owns his own law firm, real estate broker, insurance broker, stock broker,  help pay his way thru law school repairing computers and making web pages, he's a pretty bright guy.  Uses his PC quite extensivley in his law practice as well as in the court room with Power Point presentations, videos and that sort of thing, he's now learning to be a programer and has made a few programs.  He eats and sleeps computers, PC's are his choice.

Yeah it seems like computer people like PC because they can modify and do whatever they want to the systems where apple people aren't as concerned with modification.