Happytraveler wrote:
For me I actually saved money for buying a Mac. I use to pay a tech to trouble shoot my pc. Now, if I have a problem I take my MacPro to the Apple's Genius Bar for free and it's fixed, LOL.
Last week I bought an iPad at Best Buy for my husband and I didn't want to pay $30.00 or $40.00 for them to set it up for me. So I did it, but I wanted the email in my name and messages in my husbands name. I got the thing so screwed up that I ended up taking it to the Genius Bar and had them fix it right.
IMO, that's the best reason to buy a MAC. You have physical stores that give users who are not techie inclined the support they often need. Not surprisingly, one pays for such convenience. Not to mention repair costs for issues out of warranty can be disproportionately high compared to PC.
My cousin is a devout MAC user. When I found out she wasn't backing up her files, and confided in an instance where she had an HD failure, and lost valuable photos, I recommended she not wait and buy an external backup drive. Was expecting to hear from her to assist in purchasing and setting up a backup drive. But never happened. She went to an Apple store and bought the drive, and they set it up for her on her MacBook. The difference being she spent about four times more for a comparable HD I could have ordered and setup for her.
Personally, I use both PCs and MACs daily at work. But I can tell you that MACs tend to be more problematic to troubleshoot and fix, sometimes outright frustrating, by our enterprise IT dept. And we even have a dedicated Apple tech available.
In fact, I use a 27" iMAC Core i7 as my primary design computer as it has Adobe Design Suite CS6 license, saving the annual subscription fee for Adobe Cloud Enterprise. It had a simple switch issue, so wouldn't power up, and was just about to be sent to Gov surplus. But, was able to get it working again. Should have been an inexpensive fix, at least for a typical PC, but Apple literally required buying the whole back of the iMAC to fix a simple switch problem. But was literally not needed in the end.
I also have an MacBook semi-permanently checked out from our IT dept for myself. Yet I rarely use it, only for an occasional meeting. No one else in our organization ever requests it, preferring WIN notebooks, ultrabooks, or surface tablets we have available for checkout. Needless to say, I use a performance modified DELL PC(:W) for 90% of my work.
Funny thing is my supervisor only uses a MacPro workstation and a MacBook in his office. But only uses them with Windows 7 Pro. :B
