(March 11, 2017 at 12:34 am)Sterben Wrote: They perform better over all and they don't cost a lot of money (Unlike Macs), which are way over priced and under powered. The lack of options is something that is concerning. I'll give Apple credit, they do make a nice looking product, but the OS is the major problem with them.I used to feel the exact same way. Then I needed to learn the mac OS for work so I bought a mac. Actually I take that back. I felt the same way for a while after I bought the mac and started using it. It took me a month or two to get comfortable with the OS but once I learned it was I fine with is as an OS and I realized part of the reason macs always seemed to be under spec'd was because the OS runs great and does just as much just as fast on less horsepower than would be required to achieve similar performance from a windows box. However like you, I still felt the machines were way overpriced for what you got.
It took about six years for me to change my opinion on that. Because six years later my wife handed me her 14 month old laptop and said its running like crap and won't charge. I dug in and found the power port was eff'd and needed to be replaced which is a job I could do myself if I wanted. But the time it would take to fix hers was time I would not be able to do work on paying client machines. By the time you factor in the lost client billable hours, it was more cost effective just buy her another new machine. I say another new machine because this was a recurring theme. Buy her a machine, 14 to 18 months later, its time for a new machine.
Meanwhile I was still using the macbook I'd bought 6 years earlier and it still ran just as fast then as it did when I'd bought it and I'd had to invest nearly zero hours in maintaining it over that time.
When I added up what we'd spent on my macbook vs what we'd spent on keeping my wife in working laptops over the previous six years, suddenly my macbook didn't seem so expensive anymore. In fact it actually MUCH cheaper.
The next day we went to best buy and bought her a macbook air. That was six years ago. She's still using it. We would have spent double the money in that time had we tried to keep her in working PC laptops.
