Switch From Microsoft to Apple?
We've been using MS computers for 18 years now, but I'm thinking of switching to Apple. The reason is I get so many confusing software updates & problems. For instance, MS recently wanted to install...
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There are no right or wrong answers, it is a matter of preference and also a matter of what you want to do with it.
Microsoft Windows has been a target of far more hackers and is also the main computing OS used for business systems (as has been mentioned) and therefore has publicly been far more subject to patching and updates than Apple products. As also mentioned, Apple is not immune from these attacks and patching cycles. Their success with the iPhone and iPad has brought far more publicity of the bad kind and now there are more malicious attacks against Apple products than ever before.
I work in IT and support a 30,000+ seat Microsoft environment. At home, I have MacBook Pro, an iMac and a few Windows 7 laptops (along with iPads and iPhones.) I like the simplicity and user interfaces of the Mac (and I am also a graphics designer and photographer too) and I can tell everyone from years of experience that my Macs are much easier to give to the kids to use to do school projects, etc. With the Windows laptops/PCs they have always had to go download software and other utilities, and almost always ended up getting bogged down with unknown junk and I had to annually go in and slick them and start over. Other than doing the security updates on the Macs, I never have to do anything of the sort for them.
It's bad enough that I am the IT guy at work, I don't want or need to be that guy at home! I tend to lean towards Mac if you want easy, but there is a premium to pay for it as well as a learning curve.
Microsoft Windows has been a target of far more hackers and is also the main computing OS used for business systems (as has been mentioned) and therefore has publicly been far more subject to patching and updates than Apple products. As also mentioned, Apple is not immune from these attacks and patching cycles. Their success with the iPhone and iPad has brought far more publicity of the bad kind and now there are more malicious attacks against Apple products than ever before.
I work in IT and support a 30,000+ seat Microsoft environment. At home, I have MacBook Pro, an iMac and a few Windows 7 laptops (along with iPads and iPhones.) I like the simplicity and user interfaces of the Mac (and I am also a graphics designer and photographer too) and I can tell everyone from years of experience that my Macs are much easier to give to the kids to use to do school projects, etc. With the Windows laptops/PCs they have always had to go download software and other utilities, and almost always ended up getting bogged down with unknown junk and I had to annually go in and slick them and start over. Other than doing the security updates on the Macs, I never have to do anything of the sort for them.
It's bad enough that I am the IT guy at work, I don't want or need to be that guy at home! I tend to lean towards Mac if you want easy, but there is a premium to pay for it as well as a learning curve.
