Tuesday 20 January 2009

Im an Apple Mac - What are you?

I have only just seen the new adverts from Microsot starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. The latest ad campaign from Microsoft is an attempt to compete with the infamous Macguy adverts that people know and love.

I myself use a mac and I wouldn't use anything else. At work I use a pc and I can instantly tell the difference in usability and work flow. There is no comparison. Getting work done on a mac is ridiculously easier it is a joke. Why? One simple answer is that it just works and will never let you down! Nothing will ever let you down on a mac. I have had my macbook for about one year and I have never had to call up "task manager" to close a program down, I have never had to take it into the mac store and tell them something has blown up or something has gone wrong, it has been my perfect tool in designing.

Don't get me wrong I know that windows machines can be useful. However, it would completely depend where and when you are using a windows machine. It is a known fact that in a battle between Microsoft and Mac there is only one winner. At the moment, it would have to be Microsoft of course. It hurts me deeply to admit this but it is a fact. They have the market under their thumb only because of the fact they were first on the "scene" and have been for so many years. PC's are cheap, affordable and easy to chuck into a school, home, office for a few hundred pounds.

A MAC requires a bit more thought and risk. People ask themselves about spending all that cash on a machine they dont well, whether or not it is worth it or not. 'Will I be able to adapt after being so use to a Microsoft pc?' This is primarily the problem with anyone wanting to purchase a MAC. People are scared. What people don't realise is that a MAC may cost slightly more money but the benefits are un-surmountable. You buy a PC and expect it to last for a few years if your lucky! I buy my MAC and expect it to last for ten years, easily with no problems! So what is more expensive? Having to continuously buy more and more PC's over the space of ten years or just having one machine, one MAC that you know will last you.

It arguable to say that a lot of Microsoft software from the past had originally been based on Macintosh programming but that is still not confirmed. Either way, this battle between a MAC machine and a Windows machine will always rage on for many years to come! But I would personally never ever spend one penny on a Windows machine ever again.

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