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<blockquote data-quote="joema" data-source="post: 1625076" data-attributes="member: 312925"><p>I'm a professional video editor and have three Macs and two PCs. You can accomplish your work with either type. With the advent of Intel-powered Macs in 2006, Macs are essentially PC hardware running the OS X operating system. In fact you can just boot Windows on a Mac if you wanted.</p><p></p><p>If most of your workflow is within a major app or suite of apps which exists on both Window and Mac, there is less apparent difference to the user. IOW I work with people who run Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac and PC. Their entire workday "universe" consists of working with the Premiere Pro suite -- the underlying OS is less visible.</p><p></p><p>On a quality machine Windows is very stable. In fact Windows is tested to much higher stress levels than OS X -- it is regularly tested with thousands of concurrent users and thousands of transactions per second: <a href="http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp" target="_blank">TPC-E - Top Ten Performance Results</a></p><p></p><p>The problem is Windows exists on a wide range of hardware from self-built machines, cheap cut-rate machines, up to well-engineered machines from Dell, etc. and extending upward to the high end server space. Many different manufacturers integrate, software and hardware and sell Windows systems -- at many different price points and quality levels and with varying available support levels.</p><p></p><p>By contrast only Apple makes the hardware and system software for Macs. It is better integrated vs the wide spectrum of Windows software/hardware.</p><p></p><p>A major change in the Windows vs Mac evaluation happened in 2012 with the release of Windows 8. That was a disaster for Microsoft, esp. the decision to "kick the desktop UI to the curb" and force users to run the tile-based Metro UI. Since then the key Microsoft managers involved have quit, been fired or re-assigned, and Microsoft has reversed their decisions to not update the desktop and force users to run the Metro UI. It appears that Windows 10 will fix most of the problems caused by Windows 8, but this will not be released until later in 2015.</p><p></p><p>Relative to the tiled Metro interface, there's a good argument that OS X is more familiar and (ironically) more windows-like than Windows. </p><p></p><p>On OS X you generally don't need to worry about viruses, updates are easier, reboots less common, etc. In the unlikely event of an OS X issue requiring a re-install, you can usually re-install the OS, and all your apps will be right where you left them. This is because OS X does not use a registry like Windows.</p><p></p><p>Apple is obviously much better at aesthetics and design than competing Windows manufacturers. A good example is comparing the iMac 27 to the closest competing Dell product, the XPS 27. When similarly configured they cost about the same, performance is about the same but the Dell is much heavier, acoustically a lot louder, and looks like a clunky "Herman Munster" version of the iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joema, post: 1625076, member: 312925"] I'm a professional video editor and have three Macs and two PCs. You can accomplish your work with either type. With the advent of Intel-powered Macs in 2006, Macs are essentially PC hardware running the OS X operating system. In fact you can just boot Windows on a Mac if you wanted. If most of your workflow is within a major app or suite of apps which exists on both Window and Mac, there is less apparent difference to the user. IOW I work with people who run Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac and PC. Their entire workday "universe" consists of working with the Premiere Pro suite -- the underlying OS is less visible. On a quality machine Windows is very stable. In fact Windows is tested to much higher stress levels than OS X -- it is regularly tested with thousands of concurrent users and thousands of transactions per second: [url=http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp]TPC-E - Top Ten Performance Results[/url] The problem is Windows exists on a wide range of hardware from self-built machines, cheap cut-rate machines, up to well-engineered machines from Dell, etc. and extending upward to the high end server space. Many different manufacturers integrate, software and hardware and sell Windows systems -- at many different price points and quality levels and with varying available support levels. By contrast only Apple makes the hardware and system software for Macs. It is better integrated vs the wide spectrum of Windows software/hardware. A major change in the Windows vs Mac evaluation happened in 2012 with the release of Windows 8. That was a disaster for Microsoft, esp. the decision to "kick the desktop UI to the curb" and force users to run the tile-based Metro UI. Since then the key Microsoft managers involved have quit, been fired or re-assigned, and Microsoft has reversed their decisions to not update the desktop and force users to run the Metro UI. It appears that Windows 10 will fix most of the problems caused by Windows 8, but this will not be released until later in 2015. Relative to the tiled Metro interface, there's a good argument that OS X is more familiar and (ironically) more windows-like than Windows. On OS X you generally don't need to worry about viruses, updates are easier, reboots less common, etc. In the unlikely event of an OS X issue requiring a re-install, you can usually re-install the OS, and all your apps will be right where you left them. This is because OS X does not use a registry like Windows. Apple is obviously much better at aesthetics and design than competing Windows manufacturers. A good example is comparing the iMac 27 to the closest competing Dell product, the XPS 27. When similarly configured they cost about the same, performance is about the same but the Dell is much heavier, acoustically a lot louder, and looks like a clunky "Herman Munster" version of the iMac. [/QUOTE]
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