Computer question

[Brandy]

My wife is a MAC user and I'm Win 10 HP. I dislike MAC products as they seem to be high maintenance. She's always having some kind of issue while I keep rolling along fine. Our son got her into the MAC world because he uses it and they converse with each other. We have 4G High Speed fiber optic cable because our son connects to JLAB for his work when he visits and has to have it.

 

[YY1]

mac has plenty of updates

...and they're just as bad with new updates not working with older apps and features.

The main difference in the popular OS's is:

mac- totally closed source code, developers pay the ghost of Steve Jobs to write programs and apps.

windows- partially open code, anyone can write apps but usually the best ones are "certified".

linux- totally open code, anyone can do anything, including modify and redistribute the OS. If you trust the people who write the apps or write them yourself- great!

I agree on market share and the likely targeting of a given OS, though.
Last I read mac had increased from 12 to 13.5 percent.
Not sure where the different versions of linux are but likely less at the consumer level.

Then there's chrome and android.....

 

[YY1]

I had an old boss that was a mac guy and every time a new version came out (back in the 5.5.1/6.5.1/7.6.5 days) he would send out an email with almost exactly the same text-

"Exciting news, apple just released mac os version x.x.x, maybe this version will solve all our problems"

...and he was totally serious. He actually thought every new release would fix everything!

 

[Slap Stick]

The problems with Macs these days is....its MicroSoft!

 

[YY1]

...and intel?

 

[Gone]

Buy a Mac. Everything else sucks.

 

[YY1]

Before I left my last job, the new supervisor bought our 8 person crew $3000 macbooks and a windows emulator along with a whole host of dongles so we could attempt to connect to some of the hardware we supported (the dongles didn't come until after we pointed out that there was no physical way we could attach).
(We had previously been using $500 Dell win7/10 machines)(remind me to tell you why I'm no longer at that job)
Our primary applications did not run on the mac OS and a previous administration had bought (threw away money on, sometimes multiple times on the same "solution") every PC emulator both soft and hard that came out in an attempt the try (see above).

So, when we got them, a few guys from the in house television production crew (mac users) came over and stood in the back of the room. The new supervisor forced us all to create an apple ID (which I found out later we didn't need) and the TV guys started "showing us how to use them".

When I noticed that OS X now had a task manager, I said "that's nice, like windows".

One of the TV guys puffed up his chest and snickered- "I think you'll find mac doesn't follow windows".

Next, I pointed out the new right mouse button and said "like windows" (with a big smile on my face).

...and then I pointed out the red circle to close the app...you guessed it "just like the "x" on windows".

That guy was pretty quiet for the rest of that meeting.

Epilogue- after nearly 5 years my old crew back at the other job tell me no one ever really used those macs and they just sit in everyone's cubicle, while they still use their 7 year old Dells to do their jobs.

 

[Slap Stick]

...and intel?

Yup.
Many of those "just like Windoze" things looked different but were called other things way back.
But, in recent years with all of the influence of MS the Mac (not MAC-its a Macintosh) is a fancy Windows unit.
I have run Windoze on Macs for years.

 

[Brandy]

I'm pretty tired of being asked to use Google Chrome....

 

[YY1]

Actually, now that I think about it, since os X, The mac "OS" has basically been a grandiose GUI front end for "X" based (Linux/Unix/AIX, etc) OS.

So blame Linus Torvalds, not the ghost of Bill Gates and whoever developed CP/M.

Everyone just assumed the "X" was for 10, since it came after 9.

What, Gates isn't dead?

 

[themechanic]

The original poster already upgraded to WIN10.

Isn't it funny that all these posts later you guys are still arguing over MAC vs Windows OS.

So, I'll just throw this into the mix. Have you looked at Linux OS variants lately?

 

[69Bee]

Just an fyi, anyone using windows 10, and HATE the tile start menu screen, just "right click" on the start (windows) icon, and the old Windows 7 start menu pops up instead...